Institute For The Future

YBCA 100: IFTF thought leaders make list of celebrated innovators and provocateurs

Executive Director Marina Gorbis, Mike Zuckerman, Matt Mitchell, and Ashara Ekundayo's Omi Gallery honored alongside other notables! Yerba Buena...

Evolving Nanoscale Communication

Mike Liebhold spoke with Dr. Ian Akyildiz, a preeminent researcher in nanoscale networks. A professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and founder...

Delicious Innovation at FoodInno 2017

When we look at the long-term opportunities for food innovation, we can see an opportunity to grow markets, design meaningful food experiences,...

Code:ART will transform Downtown Palo Alto into a Laboratory for Urban Experimentation

On Thursday, June 1, Code:ART will launch a three day public art event featuring eight new media installations that will reimagine downtown Palo...

IFTF Launches Work + Learn Futures Initiative

Learn and Work Futures initiative is being launched at IFTF’s Ten-Year Forecast event; aims to ensure integrated learn and work options are available...

IFTF Announces 2017 ‘Future for Good’ Fellows

Fellows from a broad range of disciplines will work on projects designed to strengthen democracy, which is facing unprecedented challenges ranging...

Apr 27 at IFTF: Actionable Matter - CCA Student Showcase

Join us April 27 from 1:30-3pm for this design showcase highlighting projects inspired by a set of forces ushering in a world of Actionable Matter....

Survey Finds Majority of Americans Don’t Think about the Future

Most Americans think about the very near future—one month from the present—every day, but thinking five, 10 and 30 years out drops off significantly,...

There Could Be a Real Solution to Our Broken Economy. It’s Called ‘Universal Basic Assets.’

[Reposted from Medium] In a healthy society, every person has the right to resources to safely live, learn, heal, and grow into the best version of...

For Future Reference Podcast Series

For Future Reference is a new podcast series from IFTF exploring the expanding horizons of science, technology, and culture over the next decade. In...

The New Body Language Collection

In the next decade, as computational power and connectivity get built into virtually everything, reconfiguring our experiences of personal...

Before Body Area Networks

Twenty years ago in a lab at MIT, an engineer and inventor with an interest in rock guitar was exploring ways to bring computers, people, and musical...

High Fashion Meets Maker Manufacturing

Fashion has always been a form of communication and self-expression, a quick visual signal of one’s tastes, allegiances, and socioeconomic position....

FUTURE NOW—The Inaugural Issue

In this inaugural issue of IFTF's new print magazine, FUTURE NOW, we explore how technology in, on, and around our bodies will help us express...

Geographies of Transition: Notes on Demonetization in India

Demonetization in India one of the most interesting social experiments of our time. Its is driving innovation in unexpected way across...

IFTF awards Fellowships worldwide to help create a Positive Gig Economy

Teams in Ireland, Italy, Spain and the U.S. were awarded fellowships to tackle challenges and seize opportunities of the on-demand economy. The...

Mar 1 | Event: Inclusion under Trump

Join us for a conversation to uncover hidden opportunities for increasing diversity in Tech under a Trump Administration, featuring Lisa Mae Brunson,...

Podcast: Beyond Wearables - Get Ready for Broadcast Hugs and Books that Punch You in the Stomach

A discussion with Miriam Lueck Avery, research director at IFTF for the New Body Language research....

Join us! Howard Rheingold Art Exhibition

Join IFTF and Howard Rheingold in exploring the art that has been the crucible of Howard's thinking and writing for decades. Distinguished fellow,...

It Doesn’t Have to Happen Here: Saving Our Democracy

We can and should take responsibility for shaping the future that we want. Marina Gorbis told this to over one hundred journalists, publishers,...

New Report Sheds Light on Economic, Technological, and Cultural Trends

New Report Sheds Light on Economic, Technological and Cultural Trends Poised to Impact the Dallas-Fort Worth Region Over the Next Decade...

Terreform Exhibit - City of the Future

IFTF's store front on 225 Hamilton Ave currently holds the newly installed Terreform Exhibit. Check it out...

Feb 14 | Book talk: Ashton Applewhite - A Future Without Ageism

IFTF is honored to host author and activist Ashton Applewhite on Feb 14 at 10am, as she takes us through her book "This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto...

Podcast: Bob Johansen on the Future of Leadership

The emerging world needs skills in managing dilemmas, not solving problems. Bob Johansen speaks with Second City Works, the business arm of The Second...