Institute For The Future

From Domestication to Amplification

Technology has transformed our relationships with animals. Horses were once the “motors” for long-distance transport, but are now mainly pets for...

Amber Case Joins IFTF as a Research Fellow

IFTF is thrilled to announce the research fellowship of internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, Amber Case—author of Calm Technology...

The Politics of Persuasion

Whether we know it or not, we are all under constant bombardment by efforts to change our beliefs about the world....

The Listening City

It’s 2026. Listening has multiplied and flourished. And who is doing most of the listening? Machines, thanks to advances in natural language...

Feeling is Believing

David Birnbaum manages Haptic User Experience Design at Immersion Corporation. During his eight years there, Birnbaum has been working to transition...

Rock or Block?

As we wade deeper into the 2020s, the lines between fun, learning, and data-mining continue to blur beyond...

Keep Out!

Young people embrace and pioneer new strategies for communicating with each other that the rest of us just don’t “get.” But we know they shape tech...

The Livestream Economy

For millions of people in China, livestreaming is becoming a new form of work. Based on the value of digital gifts their viewers send them, they can...

N2U

N2U is a revolutionary technology that allows us to help you discover who is available, and who isn’t, and how interested they really...

Empathy on Demand

Maria Konnikova is the author of two bestselling books, “The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time and “Mastermind: How To Think Like...

Empathy Bugs

Emoticons? Yep. I’m talking about augmented-reality images, overlaid onto my visual input by a synthetic encephalitis virus that I infected myself...

Without social organizations, social technologies will eat us alive.

An essay by Marina Gorbis

2018 Future for Good Fellows: Towards an Equitable Future

"To overcome poverty, we have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before, and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make...

5G & The Future of Cities

Institute for the Future and Digi.City will host public conversation (with refreshments) to explore the prospects for making cities smarter and the...

Creating Change with Food + Foresight

In January of 1969 at St. Augustine’s Church in Oakland, California, the Free Breakfast for School Children program was started by a group of...

Is Virtual Reality Better Than the Real World for Learning?

VR could be a gamechanger when it comes to learning and training.

Close It 2018: Future Meets Now

Institute for the Future and Innovate+Educate to host Close It 2018: Future Meets Now conference Oct. 16-17 in Austin, Texas; event brings experts in...

IFTF gets a new Executive in Residence

Van Ton-Quinlivan, Executive Vice Chancellor, California Community College,s is IFTF's new Executive in Residence....

A new partnership between Institute for the Future and Zebras Unite aims to work with investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design new funding...

New Models for Getting Things Done

"Beyond Organizations: New Models for Getting Things Done" forecasts transformations in organizational...

Ferdinando Buscema is IFTF's New Magician in Residence

Institute For The Future’s first ever “Magician-in-Residence” will inject even more wonder into Futures...

Power Up and Evolve: It's Not Just for "Pokémon"

In early July, “Pokémon Go” burst onto the smartphone screens of people around the globe seemingly overnight. Within the first week of its release,...

Institute for the Future to Teach Nation’s Mayors How to Envision Brighter Futures for their Cities

IFTF will join the nation’s mayors at the 86th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors June 8-10 to help city leaders better embrace...

No Exit

Ubiquity is the persuasion professional’s best friend. The more embedded a medium or message—the less like an identifiable thing it appears to be—the...