IFTF's Future Now draws on research and forecasting at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto, CA think tank specializing in the future of technology, health, and organizational change. It began in September 2003.
In a recently posted article at the Social Science Research Network, University of Minnesota Mathematics Professor Andrew Odlyzko adds to the growing list of things...
My life has been shaped by stories of people who have transformed their lifestyles to embrace simplicity. They dare to do radically less and have radically less, and end up with more - happiness, well-being, peace, time, and meaning.
In light of the Health Horizons’ current research on...
In what really is not a joke (though is likely a provocation), a group of British physicians published an article in the American Journal of Cardiology last week arguing...
Suppose you manage a sales team. Of course you don't want them coming across as angry or anxious or pushy. Now suppose, instead, that you could screen the tone of your sales team's emails to make sure that they're only happy and helpful. Would you do it?
Here in Silicon Valley, the lore—and allure—of the garage model for innovation is strong. I've heard it said, "It has been successful for IT and hardware . . . let's try bio!" Last month, my colleague, Alex Carmichael, highlighted a fledgling organization called...
He's at it again. Kary Mullis, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), is on a quest. He has already revolutionized the field of molecular biology with PCR - now he wants to hack our immune systems to save us all from infectious...
Join Jerry Michalski in conversation with Cesar Harada to discuss Open_Sailing, an international community working to develop the International Ocean...
Over the last couple of years, we've been interested in the idea that health spreads—for better or worse—through our social networks, and the tremendous potential this understanding has for designing networked-based interventions for optimized health results. Nicholas Christakis and James...
This past month Jake Dunagan and I started a series of posts over on GOOD magazine's website. The posts focus on both explaining what Futures thinking is to an intellectually and...
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