Institute For The Future

Mapping Kenya's largest slum

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When Everything is Programmable Digital Stories

As a part of the year-long Technology Horizons Program research task, When Everything is Progammable: Life in a Conmputational Age, the research team...

Behavioral Genetics in the Court Room

A court in Italy has shortened the prison sentence of a convicted murderer due to the prisoner's heightened genetic predisposition for violence,...

Democratizing Food Science

Earlier in the week, I was trying to pass along a research article to a colleague and inadvertently sent her a recipe for home-brewed...

A fun twist on skip-stop elevators and stairs

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A trail of breadcrumbs leads to food facts

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Please Complete a Genome Scan with Your Mortgage Application

Certain genetic mutations can significantly contribute to the amount of credit card debt a person holds, according to a new study by Jan-Emmanuel...

In Defense of Generalists

The last decade has been witness to the rise of the geeks. What began as a glorification of tech entrepreneurs making it big from the rise of the IT...

Pro-Poor Foresight

Since joining IFTF I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about how forecasting can be used in development work. I have a lot of faith in the...

Musical Instruments of the Future at Swissnex

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Preparing Students to Navigate Genetic Risks

A new training program at Beth Israel Deaconness aims to teach medical students about genetics through fairly nontraditional means: Ask medical...

Self-Tracking for Activity... and Investing?

Consumer electronics company Phillips has recently released a couple new products that integrate self-tracking and biofeedback into the design in...

Would you like a lemon wedge or some nutritional advice to go with your Coke? Or a penny per ounce sales tax?

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Innovation and mental health

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Using Food to Change Your Mood

Too wired to go to sleep after downing an energy drink? There's a solution for that--anti-energy drinks--and they represent a fascinating, and...

Municipal Vaporware: Why NYC's Data Mine is A Data Dump

This morning, Mayor Mike Bloomberg unveiled New York City's long-awaited Big Apps contest. Big Apps seeks to promote the Internet industry in the Big...

Explore the Future of your Business at the Future Space Conference on Nov 16 in Vienna, Austria

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The astonishingly deep effect of primary metaphors in our lives

In 1980, cognitive linguist George Lakoff and philosopher Mark Johnson described the notion of the embodied metaphor in their landmark book, Metaphors...

Measuring the brain's response to good advertising

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Memory--Now in Handy Nasal Spray Form

A group of German researchers have developed a nasal spray that appears to improve memory. The spray, derived from a chemical from the body's immune...

Crowdsourcing health research

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"Stories of Health" makes health debate personal

Stories of Health is making the country's current debate around healthcare reform personal. The website features dozens of video interviews with...

What You Know Can Kill You

"Smoking can kill you"--it's an old message, but appears as one of several new blunt warning labels on packs of cigarettes along with other much more...