20 Books and Articles to Get You Started in Strategic ForesightA futurist is someone who tracks signals using statistics, deep research, and creative thinking and methodically analyzes next-order…Apr 27, 2022A response icon2Apr 27, 2022A response icon2
FTI Annual Letter 2021 Signals Inventory + 2022 Look AheadNote: this is a repost of our weekly Future Today Institute Tech Trends newsletter. You can read past issues and subscribe here.Dec 8, 2021Dec 8, 2021
500 Tech Trends for 2021Diminished Reality is here: it’s like Augmented Reality in reverse. Synthetic biologists are working on biological teleportation between…Mar 18, 2021A response icon2Mar 18, 2021A response icon2
How (And Why) to Budget Now for Strategic Foresight in 2021Right now, most companies are working on their budgets for 2021. Given the soul-crushing amount of uncertainty ahead, budget planning for…Jul 15, 2020Jul 15, 2020
How Futurists Cope With UncertaintyA simple tool you can use to see plausible future states earlyMar 11, 2020Mar 11, 2020
A Better Turing Test: How to measure the strength of AIBy now you’ve heard of the Turing Test. In a paper published in the philosophy journal Mind, Alan Turing proposed a thesis and a test: If…Feb 25, 2019A response icon2Feb 25, 2019A response icon2
These Are The World’s Smartest CitiesIn the 2018 edition of the Future Today Institute’s annual emerging tech trends report, we wondered what makes smart cities “smart.”Mar 14, 2018A response icon1Mar 14, 2018A response icon1
Announcing the Future Today SummitWe must do a better job of planning for the future. Today.Sep 7, 2016A response icon1Sep 7, 2016A response icon1
The Future, TodayI’m thrilled to announce that today is the launch of The Future Today Institute. We research emerging technologies at the fringes and track…Mar 17, 2016A response icon9Mar 17, 2016A response icon9
Actually, this isn’t the golden age of Japanese whisky.This week, the World Whiskey Bible guide awarded its top prize to the Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013. Scottish brands didn’t make it…Nov 6, 2014Nov 6, 2014