Recent Publications
Millennia ago, young couples in Egypt prayed to fertility gods with the hope of receiving the gift of a child. Much later, Native Americans performed ceremonial dances to pray for rain and a bountiful harvest. In the middle of the 19th century, the Central European monk Gregor Mendel selectively crossbred pea plants to control the characteristics of their offspring. While the approaches differ,...
What is the future of real-time video communication and what will it feel like to live and work in a world where real-time video is ubiquitous?
Skype commissioned IFTF to research and start a conversation about this question and much more in this newly-released report.
Video technologies are improving dramatically and rapidly, supporting mobile and ubiquitous real-time video experiences. Low cost...
In the News
- Research Director Mani Pande is quoted in the Global Finance story "A wide open world"
- Marina Gorbis and David Pescovitz are quoted in the Times Online story "Hurtling to a scary future"
- Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, is quoted in the AP article "Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s"
- Research Director, Anthony Townsend, testifies before a Senate Committee on Research Parks and Transportation
- IFTF's Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, launches her new blog From Odessa to the Future
- Signtific's FreeSpace game at SigntificLab is featured in a Good Morning Silicon Valley post, "Play your cards right and you, too, can be a futurist"
