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.
The Wall Street Journal has an article on After Shock.
The Institute for the Future, a think tank in Palo Alto, designed an alternative-reality computer game in which participants wend their way through a...
Los Angeles-based writer and designer Ophelia Chong (one of a handful of people who've made me think more positively about Southern California) writes about...
For anyone who's turned on MTV in the last ten years and said "I want my MTV back," there is hope. Sometime in the last few days, without a great deal of fanfare, the network and its parent company Viacom launched...
On Monday, President Bush signed into law the PRO-IP Act, passed by the House in May with an amended version approved by the Senate and House in September. PRO-IP not only "toughens criminal laws against piracy and...
At a recent conference on Science in the 21st Century, I was lucky to hear Nature.com's publishing director Timo Hannay talk about Web 2.0 and the future of science. He recently gave a talk at the British Library with the provocative title "...
The crux of the RIAA's cases against music fans is the "making available" theory, meaning that they do not need to provide proof of transfer in order to claim copyright infringement, they just need to show that someone had files available to share on a P2P network. Last October,...
What did it? Twitter. O.k., I may be late to the game, many people I know have stopped reading newspapers a long time ago. By newspapers I mean their physical incarnations. Many of my colleagues and friends have turned to online news sites, magazines, and blogs. For me, however, these...
What does the world of 2019 look like? Find out now.
The full report from the Global Extinction Awareness System is LIVE -- and you can read it here for the first time anywhere. Find out exactly why the human species may face extinction by the year...
