Institute For The Future

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...

Working and learning toward a more equitable future—from the ground up

The future of learning and working may yet be a path to a more equitable future.

Algorithms for Intimacy

Brian Christian is the author of “The Most Human Human” and, most recently, co-author of “Algorithms to Live By”. For his latest book, Christian...

Befriend the Machines to Get #futurefit—The Experts Weigh In

Working learners are people of all ages who are working their way into better jobs by continuous preskilling, upskilling, and...

Daddy Cam

Before my father fell ill and was admitted to a long-term care facility, checking in on him used to be as simple as a quick phone call or...

What are the Least Essential Skills in the AI Future?

Around the world, the workforce is gearing up for a future of robots and artificial intelligence.

The Evolution of the Quantified Self

In 2007, journalist Gary Wolf launched Quantified Self, a blog and meet-up group dedicated to what was then a niche phenomenon: people meticulously...

eSports Gets a "New Mindset" for 2026

The rumors, it turned out, were true. The Shock were wearing “Mindsets,” neuro-sensor devices that measure signals of focus, anger, and concern as...

Thoughts from the Authors

Douglas Rushkoff, David Pescovitz, and Jake Dunagan discuss "The Biology of Disinformation: Memes, Media Viruses, and Cultural...

Citizen Sensing

When the Fukushima 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear radiation disaster hit Japan in March 2011, survivors were desperate to know how...

The Centaur Revolution

Intelligence is a symphony of different cognitive instruments, with each instrument producing a different kind of sound, a different type of thinking....

Designing a 21st Century Community College for Working Learners

Community college has always been about being open and accessible. It's meant to be a place where anyone can go to get the skills they need to move up...

Making Miku

Japanese pop star Hatsune Miku has never written a song; she relies on thousands of songwriters.

News From the Future #2

An issue from the Archives: November 17, 2017.

Take to the Cyber Streets!

Traditional approaches to activist organizing are increasingly under threat. From street protests to legally-constituted non-profits and NGOs, all...

Foresight Studio goes on the road to Bern, Switzerland!

In response to popular demand, we will host an inaugural European Foresight Practitioner Training: July 10-12,...

Back to the Future?

Over the course of nearly 300 years, we have developed a set of technologies, practices, needs, ideologies, and institutions that value, support, and...

Legends In VR

Over the past months, IFTF researchers Quinault Quinault Childs and Toshi Hoo of the Emerging Media Lab (EML) have been involved in advising an...

News From the Future #1

News from the Future is a monthly newsletter about the latest research at Institute for the Future and beyond. This October 2017 issue includes "How...

“The current form of inequality has not existed for one hundred years"

Changes in the concept of work will radically change the whole society, says future researcher Marina...

Better Than Being There

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality will provide new opportunities to communicate more effectively, productively, and...

FUTURE NOW - When Everything is Media

During this 50th Anniversary year for IFTF, we look ahead to the next decade, we are on the verge of a new set of technological advances that will...

The Promise and Problems of Chat Apps in Journalism

IFTF's latest research for Google News Lab reveals the increasing reliance on chat apps for sharing information means journalists have new challenges...