IFTF: Future Now

Devices 'Disappear'

Oct 18, 2017 By Mike Liebhold

Advances in computing power are largely the work of scientists and engineers ... but it’s often artists that provide us visions of how we might use...

The Tech + IFTF: Body Worlds Decoded

Oct 10, 2017 By Julie Ericsson

Institute for the Future partnered with The Tech Museum of Innovation to create a first-generation interactive, custom augmented reality (AR)...

Oct 11, 6-7pm: Bots, Disinformation, Computational Propaganda

Oct 02, 2017 By Namsah Kargbo

Join us for a conversation with Samuel Woolley, IFTF's newest Research Director, who specializes in the study of automation/AI, political...

Crashing My Own Hotel Room

Sep 20, 2017 By David Evan Harris

It was supposed to be a romantic evening. My wife’s business trip to London landed us in one of the nicest hotels of my well-traveled...

Food Innovation Recipes: EXPERIMENTAL BIODESIGN

Sep 19, 2017 By Rebecca Chesney

Some recipes are passed down from generation to generation, becoming long-standing traditions. Others such as 'Experimental Biodesign' invite us to...

Oct 10-12: Reconfiguring Reality Conference

Sep 14, 2017 By Namsah Kargbo

IFTF's Tech Futures Lab to host a hands-on exploration of the future on October 10-12 featuring leading thinkers, researchers, and technologists and...

Vint Cerf Presents, Facilitates Discussion at IFTF about Ethics + AI

Sep 14, 2017 By Susanne Forchheimer

IFTF had the privilege of inviting one of the “fathers of the internet,” Vint Cerf, to talk about the tough issues around Ethics and AI in a society...

Looking Backwards from 2025

Sep 13, 2017 By Dr. Jan English-Lueck

An Anthropologist Explores How Body Area Networks Became Family Area Networks...

IFTF Report IDs Ways to Leverage Creative + Cultural Economies for Sustainable Development

Sep 11, 2017 By Jean Hagan

Institute for the Future (IFTF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today released a report outlining 10 areas of innovation that...

Build Your Employer Work + Learn Portfolio Like Your Stock Portfolio

Sep 07, 2017 By Parminder K. Jassal & Holly Zanville

An employer work + learn portfolio is a new idea that riffs off of stock portfolios.

Leaders: Are you Future-proof?

Sep 07, 2017 By Bob Johansen

We think we are connected today, but the next ten years will be a period of explosive connectivity and asymmetric upheaval. In this future world of...

West and East Africa

Sep 07, 2017 By Jeremy Kirshbaum

While the U.S., Europe, and Asia lead in hardware and supercomputing, in Africa’s “high-delta” (or “frontier”) markets, social innovation is what’s...

Food Innovation Recipes: CLOUD INTELLIGENCE

Sep 06, 2017 By Bradley Kreit

Some recipes are passed down from generation to generation, becoming long-standing traditions. Others such as 'Cloud Intelligence' invite us to...

At The Nexus Of Science Fiction and Future Fact with Ramez Naam

Aug 31, 2017 By David Pescovitz

The single most important law of futures studies is that there are no facts about the future. Only fictions. Ramez Naam lives by that law, having...

Building Workable Futures: Prototyping Positive Platforms

Aug 30, 2017 By Marina Gorbis

[Reposted from Medium] IFTF Fellows prototype Positive Platforms for tomorrow’s on-demand economy: In less than ten years, according to some...

EASY AS 00101010

Aug 30, 2017 By Andrew Trabulsi

ToS. RATs. IP. CFAA. ECPA. AML. KYC. HIPAA. The alphabet soup of legalese and regulation surrounding technology is enough to make the most seasoned...

Bodies of Data

Aug 29, 2017 By Rod Falcon and Ben Hamamoto

Our identities have always been dynamic. We have to reconcile who we think we are with who we are in the eyes of our families and communities—and in...