Future Now
The IFTF Blog
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...
"Beyond Organizations: New Models for Getting Things Done" forecasts transformations in organizational...
Institute For The Future’s first ever “Magician-in-Residence” will inject even more wonder into Futures...
In early July, “Pokémon Go” burst onto the smartphone screens of people around the globe seemingly overnight. Within the first week of its release,...
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...
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...
The future of learning and working may yet be a path to a more equitable future.
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...
Working learners are people of all ages who are working their way into better jobs by continuous preskilling, upskilling, and...
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...
Around the world, the workforce is gearing up for a future of robots and artificial intelligence.
In 2007, journalist Gary Wolf launched Quantified Self, a blog and meet-up group dedicated to what was then a niche phenomenon: people meticulously...
The rumors, it turned out, were true. The Shock were wearing “Mindsets,” neuro-sensor devices that measure signals of focus, anger, and concern as...
Douglas Rushkoff, David Pescovitz, and Jake Dunagan discuss "The Biology of Disinformation: Memes, Media Viruses, and Cultural...
When the Fukushima 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear radiation disaster hit Japan in March 2011, survivors were desperate to know how...
Intelligence is a symphony of different cognitive instruments, with each instrument producing a different kind of sound, a different type of thinking....
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...
Japanese pop star Hatsune Miku has never written a song; she relies on thousands of songwriters.
Traditional approaches to activist organizing are increasingly under threat. From street protests to legally-constituted non-profits and NGOs, all...
In response to popular demand, we will host an inaugural European Foresight Practitioner Training: July 10-12,...
Over the course of nearly 300 years, we have developed a set of technologies, practices, needs, ideologies, and institutions that value, support, and...
Over the past months, IFTF researchers Quinault Quinault Childs and Toshi Hoo of the Emerging Media Lab (EML) have been involved in advising an...