Institute For The Future

IFTF gets a new Executive in Residence

Van Ton-Quinlivan, Executive Vice Chancellor, California Community College,s is IFTF's new Executive in Residence....

A new partnership between Institute for the Future and Zebras Unite aims to work with investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design new funding...

New Models for Getting Things Done

"Beyond Organizations: New Models for Getting Things Done" forecasts transformations in organizational...

Ferdinando Buscema is IFTF's New Magician in Residence

Institute For The Future’s first ever “Magician-in-Residence” will inject even more wonder into Futures...

Power Up and Evolve: It's Not Just for "Pokémon"

In early July, “Pokémon Go” burst onto the smartphone screens of people around the globe seemingly overnight. Within the first week of its release,...

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...