Learn to create experiential scenarios, artifacts from the future & new policies to shape the coming decade. ...

Artifacts from the Future Ongoing. Artifacts from the Future is an ongoing installation of IFTFs original artwork that brings ... Microbe Mart is a physical Artifact from the Future in the form of a future retail space created as part of IFTFs 2015 Ten- ... Artifacts from the Future give us a tangible experience of the future. They make the details of a scenario concrete, helping us ... Artifacts from the Future provide a rich starting point for strategic discussions, whether for a new products team in a ...

2030: Artifacts from the Future of Americas Cities, Civic Io. *JAKE DUNAGAN: THE BIOLOGY OF DISINFORMATION, WEAPONIZED MEMES ...

In others, we will be key players, interacting in digital space with virtual artifacts, phenomena, and each other. Some ...

Also accompanying some maps are Artifacts from the Future, which help us translate todays trends and signals into intimate ...

These artifacts-an imagined object used in everyday life in the future that helps us envision the world in which they would ... and in imagining artifacts from their cities decades in the future. ...

As part of this work, we created a set of four forecast perspectives with companion Artifacts from the Future that depict how ... Over the next several weeks, well be releasing these perspectives and their accompanying artifacts, starting today with ... the artifacts depict the broad range of ways that health management will happen over the next decade. ... Measurement: The Creative Search for Metrics that Matter (PDF) and featuring the Artifact from the Future, Patient Sense. ...

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, simple platforms for real-time video will become an essential part of the way we communicate with each other, and will spawn the next generation of consumer behavior, business practice, media culture and economics, and innovation policy. As Michael Wesch (@mwesch), a cultural and media anthropologist noted, When media changes-human relationships change. Since video communications are at the core of what Skype does, they were more than a little curious about the technological and social future of video. This forecast report was designed as a conversation starter about the likely changes in how we ...

IFTFs Annual Ten-Year Forecast Summit is our flagship event, when we gather our network of thought leaders and futurists to share in-depth research on the ways a critical theme will frame changes throughout the social, environmental, economic, technological and political aspects of our world, over the next decade. Explore now-public IFTF research shared at our previous summits below, then learn how to partner with IFTF, attend our next Ten-Year Forecast Summit, and receive exclusive access to brand new research. ...

On June 1-2, the inaugural National Day of Civic Hacking will take place in cities across the United States, bringing together governments, organizations, and citizens to create new solutions for 21st century governance challenges. Participants will have access to experts, government datasets, and open-source code to take on a curated challenge or pursue their own projects. The Institute for the Future believes this type of self-organized, collaborative initiative can lead to the most creative and innovative forms of civic participation. But how can we ensure that the outcomes of the over 95 civic hacking events are impactful today and robust enough to make the future?. ...

These are very exciting ideas that are fundamental to IFTFs Workable Futures Initiative, which aims to help create platforms that not only maximize profits for their owners but also provide dignified and sustainable livelihoods for those who work on them," said Marina Gorbis, IFTFs executive director. "We are proud to support these creative people as they work toward making a real difference in this emerging way of working." Each fellowship includes a $9,000 stipend to help the winners develop their ideas over three months. At the end of the fellowship, the fellows will deliver reports and prototypes to IFTF for next steps. ...

One critical mistake made by rookie practitioners is what I call the show me the numbers syndrome, or seeking out definitive quantitative data.. Historical trends, quantitatively measured, are critical to forecasting the future. The growth of metric tons of carbon in the atmosphere warns us of accelerating risks from climate change. A global drop in government transparency scores presages a growth in political corruption. But such quantitative trends tell us only half of the future story. They dont anticipate the impacts of right-now innovation, of fundamental shifts in the way people are just now, today, beginning to think and act. We have two main strategies for uncovering these innovations and forecasting their impact over the next decade: signal scanning and ethnographic foresight. Both of these methods reveal small, early shifts that are difficult to quantify-even as our policy makers and foresight clients demand that we show them the numbers.. The response to these demands is to point ...

Institute for the Future values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages people of color, LGBT individuals, women, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. IFTF is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.. Institute for the Future is the worlds leading futures thinking organization. For over 50 years, businesses, governments, and social impact organizations have depended upon IFTF global forecasts, custom research, and foresight training to navigate complex change and develop worldready strategies. IFTF methodologies and toolsets yield uncommonly coherent views of transformative possibilities across all sectors that ...

New technologies are bringing about significant shifts in entertainment media that will alter the way businesses interact with consumers. Daily practices learned by consumers from new entertainment experiences will spill over into other domains of daily life-work, shopping, home management, and others. In many ways, the new entertainment media enable ways to play out future forms of daily practice in a safe context. For this reason it is important to examine how technologies may bring about change in the entertainment domain. The new entertainment media in 2012 will be oriented around personal media that are generated by consumers rather than packaged and distributed by providers. This new entertainment media will also provide persistent experiences that do not disappear with a switch of a button but linger over the course of daily life. Touch points in the physical environment will embody entertainment and set forth a new relationship among consumers, entertainment, and their broader daily life ...

Maybe theyre busy learning coding skills. Or signing up for AI programming classes. Or figuring out how to do repairs on unruly robots. But according to two dozen AI experts who met at Institute for the Future this month to anticipate future skills for the AI era, coding, programming, and mechanical repairs may be the least important skills. Because intelligent machines are going to do those tasks. Usually, when we think about future skills, we want to know the most essential skills. But thinking about least essential skills can be a more provocative way to see the shift from todays landscape to the future horizon. What disappears from our list-and our classes and careers-when we take the time to think about what will be least essential? Heres are a few of the skills our experts dont expect to see in our futures:. ...

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Over the next decades, our global society will face continual disruption at massive scales. Disruption of the way we deliver goods and manage information, but also of the centuries-old institutions that define our society: education, health, work, government. As we pull the stuffing out of these systems and replace it with something else-pull learning out of schools and put it in the cloud, or pull diagnostics out of the doctors office and put them into consumer devices-were not always changing what these systems do, but were certainly changing what they mean to us, how they fit into our personal and shared narratives of what the world is, and how our society works. Were also building new systems-such as global networks and autonomous drone fleets-that have never existed before. We dont have centuries of shared culture to tell us how these things fit into our lives. We need new stories, new mythologies, to address these transformations in the bedrock of our society. And we need new design ...

In this report, Expanding Meanings of Health, we consider the business implications of key changes in the consumer health landscape. This landscape comprises the information, technologies, products, and services within and outside the health care delivery system, as well as the strategies and practices consumers use to manage their health, interact with the health care delivery system, and make decisions. ...

Rebecca Shamash is a Research Director at IFTF, where she helps lead the Equitable Futures Initiative, addressing issues such as economic inequality, corporate responsibility, higher education, philanthropy, and inequities of race and gender. Before joining IFTF, Rebecca was Associate Director of Research at Stanford Universitys Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Shes also a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University, teaching courses including Race and Inequality, Culture and Ideas, Sociology of Family, and Social Problems. She has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Minnesota and a bachelors degree in International Relations and Italian from the University of Southern California.. Expertise: inequalities of race, gender and class; qualitative research methods; social theory; higher education and business education; philanthropy ...

On November 13-14, 2016 Facing History invited students and classrooms around the world join a massive open online game and digital community conversation called Face the Future: A Game About the Future of Empathy. Lasting 30 hours, the game took players outside the bounds of daily modes of thinking and asked them to consider the choices they will be making ten years from today. Conversation on the platform centered around a video scenario, which was designed as a provocation for robust conversation. The four short stories in the video take place in an imaginary future world ten years from now in which a new product and social network has emerged: the FeelThat Network. FeelThat, the video reveals, tracks and shares information about our state of mind and body. Its like any other social network-but instead of sharing words, photos, or videos, youre sharing your physical sensations and emotions. ...

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On April 3-5, IFTF and the Rockefeller Foundation invited people all over the world to join the Catalysts for Change Foresight Engine game and imagine thousands of paths out of poverty. More than 1,600 people from 79 countries responded, and after 48 hours they had imagined 18,160 ideas for ways to catalyze change in poor, vulnerable, or marginalized communities. You can check out an archive of the game site and read the game summary report for more information. ...

Over the past 20 years, we have made tremendous advances in health and health care through scientific discovery, technological innovation, and reorganization of health services. During this time, rising health consumerism has driven a focus on engaging consumers. Yet costs and chronic conditions continue to rise across all middle- to high-income countries, and disparities persist. Pressure for economically sustainable health and health care is increasing. Continuing down the same path, we can foresee a robust global health economy ten years from now with more offerings delivering health care, but not necessarily producing health. What if we put producing health front and center instead? The aim would be a global health economy in 2026 in which we produce not just an expanding array of health goods and services for the few, but health itself for the many. In this economy, financial and social wealth would be built on the foundation of health. It would be understood that the cost of producing ...

Marina Gorbis is Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a 50-year old non-profit research and consulting organization based in Silicon Valley. She has brought a futures perspective to hundreds of organizations in business, education, government, philanthropy, and civic society. Marinas current research focuses on transformations in the world of work and new forms of value creation. She launched the Workable Futures Initiative at IFTF with the aim of developing a deeper understanding of new work patterns and to prototype a generation of Positive Platforms for work. She has introduced the concept of Universal Basic Assets (UBA) as a framework for thinking about different types of assets and the role they play in economic security. The UBA framework also highlights at a variety of approaches and tools we can use to achieve wider asset distribution and greater equity. ...

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Mike is a self-described culture hacker and true pioneer at the intersection of the sharing economy, innovation ecosystems and urban revitalization. Although Mike has been working with IFTF as an affiliate since 2014, he recently accepted a fellowship to help uncover and study new paradigms for restoring vulnerable places and spaces, such as post-disaster sites, informal refugee settlements, and decaying urban neighborhoods. With particular interests in sustainability and urban tactical development, Mike has experience in challenging communities to rethink, redeploy, and redistribute underutilized resources where they are needed most. Inspired after a trip to the White House for the 2013 National Day of Civic Hacking, Mike founded [Freespace]-a temporary space for lasting change in San Francisco. [Freespace] has become a template for cities around the world to redeploy resources to effect real change in communities. Mike has recently returned from Idomeni, Greece, where he spent the last four ...

Institute for the Future is the worlds leading futures organization. Its signature program, IFTF Vantage, is a unique partnership of innovative global leaders that harnesses over 50 years of IFTF global forecasts and pioneering research to navigate volatility, identify emerging imperatives and opportunities, and develop world-ready strategies. IFTF Vantage partners represent businesses, governments, and social impact organizations from around the world that require the most comprehensive view of future forces directly affecting their organizations. IFTF Vantage generates organizational readiness for a world in flux. ...

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. -James Beard We all eat. Its not just that we all eat, but everything we do leads back to food. Food systems are integral to our society and the feedback-laden changes we see building on one another will shape our collective future. Over the past 60 years, we have seen radical transformations in our food system that have leveraged more specialized roles-more complex and connected relationships-to dramatically increase productive capacities. In the next decade, forces from environmental constraints to increased capacities of small-scale actors and communities will push toward more hybridized systems incorporating different values, practices, and demands. This food web is emerging in a world fraught with dilemmas, beginning with the enormous challenge of meeting world food demand under worsening environmental conditions. These dilemmas provide the context for our Food Web 2020 map, which provides an inter-connected view of the next decade in ...

Long a mantra at the Institute for the Future, this principle is particularly important in times that serve up more than the usual quantum of surprises and uncertainty. Indeed, this decade has so preoccupied us with surprises that nearly halfway into it, it is the first decade in a century to have no name. Perhaps it is because events are still too new to allow a label to settle in. Or perhaps the name-defining event has yet to occur. Until a name emerges, however, the very namelessness of the decade is itself a compelling indicator of the challenge of making sense of the next ten years. In the face of this uncertainty, long looks-back can reveal much about what the future is likely to hold. As Mark Twain observed, history doesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes: cycles thus revealed can put a trajectory on current events and leach the surprise out of possibilities on the horizon. This years Ten-Year Forecast (including the 2004 Map of the Decade), our 26th edition, thus places particular ...

The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is tackling the super-wicked problem of global inequality with a new Equitable Futures Toolkit for community groups, policymakers, and futurists. The toolkit forms the centerpiece of a week-long sprint to reinvent our economic systems with new visions and anticipatory policies that can build a more livable future for everyone.. ...