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West and East Africa

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

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

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

[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

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

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...

Food Innovation Recipes: SCALABLE BIODIVERSITY

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

Mind Meld

Telepathy. ESP. Mentalism. Whatever you call it, the ability to communicate thoughts, feelings, or experiences without using our known sensory...

Watch CBC News Interview with Marina Gorbis on Future of Work

CBC News' On The Money talks with IFTF's Marina Gorbis about automation, human-machine partnerships, and the future of work....

Designing new mortgages & student loans to engender economic equitability

Private income adjusted mortgage & student loan products: engineering a system for engendering economic equitability...

New ‘Does College Matter?’ Podcast Discusses Value of a College Degree and Future of Work

New ‘Does College Matter?’ Podcast Discusses Value of a College Degree and Future of Work: The third season of the Federal Reserve Bank of San...

The Electrospit

(From Future Now, Issue I) Music has always been a huge part of wearable technology—but most of the innovation has been devices for listening, not...

Bodies that Buy

Could bio-based purchasing bring us closer to our better selves? Efforts to automate our personal lives are nothing new. We use alarm clocks to...

IFTF's Food Futures Lab and Real Food Real Stories host picnic with Navina Khanna

On Tuesday, August 15th, the Institute for the Future’s Food Futures Lab will be hosting Navina Khanna of the HEAL Food Alliance as part of the...

Designing Technologies For Our Radical, Adaptive Human Bodies

When talking about the future of wearable computing, many people assert that it presents huge opportunities for assistive technology. But what is...

Realizing 2030: Dell Technologies Research Explores the Next Era of Human-Machine Partnerships

In 2030 every organization will be a technology organization and as such businesses need to start thinking today about how to future-proof their...

Automation Insurance: Designing a product that pays out if your job gets automated

Have you ever wondered if your job will exist in 2 years, or if it'll be automated by then? What if you could purchase an insurance product that pays...

Some Thoughts on a Philosophy of Virtual Reality

At Institute for the Future we have been experimenting deeply in the frontiers of virtual reality journalism and immersive research environments....

New IFTF Report Charting New Paths to the Future

A new Institute for the Future report finds that California Community Colleges’ Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy initiative is reorienting...

A Bold Experiment in Uganda

Today is World Refugee Day, and IFTF Fellow Mike Zuckerman has been on the ground in the world’s oldest refugee settlement—the Nakivale settlement in...

Charting New Paths to the Future

How do you ensure that your organization is not only prepared for the future but also shaping it? To start, you need a deep understanding of the big...

Altered Anatomies

[Co-authored with Alessandro Voto] Unless it’s part of a prescribed medical procedure, it often involves breaking the law and always involves breaking...

New IFTF Report Forecasts a World of Ambient Communications

IFTF forecasts a future where network, artificial intelligence, and media technologies converge to envelop us in a cloud of data and...

Podcast: What's the meaning of 'When Everything is Media'?

A discussion with Bradley Kreit, research director at IFTF for the When Everything is Media  research...