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Here are the core research questions we'll be asking over the next five months. 1. What are the new directions of change in persuasive tech? In...
We're excited to begin collecting our thoughts--and yours, if you want to contribute--to the Future of Persuasion:Future as Persuasion project blog....
Recently a few colleagues and I organized an Augmented Reality Developers Camp - a perfect example of a "Superstruct" an idea introduced In 2008 by...
At the Institute, we've spent a fair amount of time thinking about how visualization tools can help encourage people to improve their health by...
Bob Johansen's book Leaders Make the Future is now available as an audiobook through audible.com. You can purchase the audiobook...
Miller McCune highlights a recent study suggesting that there may be some genetic basis for the intensity of a person's political...
I usually try to avoid blogging about stories from the mainstream press, but this headline—"The Virtual Visit May Expand Access to Doctors"—in the New...
Dr. Michael Merzenich, a pioneer in brain plasticity and co-founder of Posit Science, was a keynote speaker at our HC2020 Fall Conference. He...
Via the Nudge Blog, I was reminded of a computer program called Self Control that allows a user to block his own access to email, Twitter and Facebook...
At IFTF, the Health Horizons Program is spending time looking at the latter and considering how design thinking may apply to the future of health. ...
Imagine a contact lens that could continually and non-invasively monitor your biomarkers and health indicators? That is the potential of an...
IFTF will be hosting our second FutureCast on Thursday, December 17, at 11:00 am Pacific Time. Jerry Michalski will be in conversation with guests...
A couple of years ago, Atul Gawande described in the New Yorker a study designed by Dr. Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins in which he implimented a...
As my colleagues know, that I am blogging at this hour of the morning is an indication that I have had a bad night's sleep. I am not alone....
Yesterday, I traveled to Washington to testify at a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on "Research Parks and Job...
Systems Biology has begun to gain attention as one of several new life sciences aimed at fundamentally reshaping the ways we understand how humans...
One of the questions I've begun to wonder about as we continue looking into the role of neuroscience in the future of health is where we'll start to...
At our Health Horizons conference earlier this week, we spent some time discussing the challenges of communicating future risks to every day people...
Respectfully submitted by Anthony Townsend Research Director Institute for the Future
Guest expert: Arthur Brock on the future of alternative currency and open money...
IFTF is happy to announce that we will be introducing a new FutureCast podcast series, starting Friday, November 20, at 11 am Pacific Time. Our first...
A provocative feature in this month's Atlantic on a new way to think about genetic variations: Not as switches that confer or protect against disease...
IFTF is happy to announce that we will be introducing a new FutureCast podcast series, starting Friday, November 20, at 11 am Pacific Time. Our first...
I've been thinking a lot about the growth in programming and computational skills that will be required in a world in which Everything is...