Institute For The Future

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...

Loconomics Strikes Partnership with California Community College

Positive Platforms Design Jam Fellowship Winner Helps Prepare Students for the Future of Work

Get Fit for Tomorrow's Work + Learn Economy

IFTF Launches Future Skills Initiative ... The work + learn economy is transforming before our eyes. Machines are doing jobs no one expected they'd be...

The Future of Computational Propaganda

On January 24, she suddenly got busy, posting an average of 1,289 tweets a day...

Virtual Reality and Storytelling for More than Entertainment

...I was, of course, not stuck in a real fire, but in virtual reality.

PODCAST: A conversation with Drew Sullivan of OCCRP

On Jan 4, IFTF Future for Good Fellow Drew Sullivan, director and editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, spoke with IFTF...

Artifact from the Future: INCENTIVIZED RECEIPT

Incentivized Receipt is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...

Artifact from the Future: SURFACE HACKERS

Surface Hackers is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...

Artifact from the Future: CHURCHILL'S CARNERY: ESCAPE THE ABSURDITY

Churchill's Carnery: Escape the Absurdity is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...

Artifact from the Future: LUNCHABIOS

Lunchabios is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...

Artifact from the Future: GOTTA EAT 'EM ALL

Gotta Eat 'Em All is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...

Artifact from the Future: CLEVER KITCHEN AGENTS

Clever Kitchen Agents is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...

Our Future History: The origins of modern forecasting

In the late 1950s Olaf Helmer, who co-founded Institute for the Future in 1968, developed a forecasting technique while he was at the Rand...

IFTF Researcher Earns Grammy Nod for Voyager Golden Record Project

Nov. 29, 2017, Palo Alto, Calif. — The Institute for the Future is celebrating the Grammy nomination of the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary...

Leaders: Are you radiating positive energy?

If leaders are going to thrive in a future of extreme disruption, they must not only manage their own energy, they must encourage, model, and reward...

Leaders: How to be there when you are not there

Most leaders I know today are at their best when they are there physically, in person as we say. When they are not present physically, however, there...

Leaders: Do you know how to lead Shape-Shifting Organizations?

When I first came to Institute for the Future, I got introduced to Paul Baran, one of several people who is credited with inventing packet switching,...

Leaders: Do you fear the future?

If you don’t have some fear about the future, you’re not paying attention. Fear is not a bad thing. It’s what you do with your fear that can turn bad....

Three Strategies for Building Kitchens of the Future

Rebecca Chesney shares three strategies for designing kitchens of the future to help you think beyond smart kitchens to kitchens of...

From the Archives: World Climatic Change + Variability

In 1978, IFTF published a paper titled World Climatic Change and Variability, 1977—1990: Five Scenarios, which explored the consequences of five...

Leaders: Learn by looking backward from the Future

The reason you look backward from the future is to develop the perspective necessary to come up with a good plan of action in the present, a way...

Working While Learning: Does the Past Signal the Future?

Do studies of today's students make a case for braiding together working and learning?

Augmented Reality: Empowering the Future of Museums

For the past year, building on a long-term partnership, my team in the IFTF EML and The Tech Museum of Innovation team set out to create one of the...