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Marina Gorbis
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Time to Disrupt the Global Infrastructure of Crime and Corruption
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Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Working Poverty Epidemic
Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Working Poverty Epidemic
by Marina Gorbis, Institute for the Future Executive Director
Marina Gorbis
Apr 14, 2021
Are you ready for Life After Covid-19?
Are you ready for Life After Covid-19?
It’s time to open the door to our post-pandemic lives. The Institute for the Future’s new free online course will get you ready.
Institute For The Future
Mar 22, 2021
Waiting for the American Khrushchev:
Waiting for the American Khrushchev:
Who will deliver the “Cult of Personality” speech to Americans?
Marina Gorbis
Jan 15, 2021
Post-Pandemic Transformation: Building a Mutualist Future
Post-Pandemic Transformation: Building a Mutualist Future
By Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future
Marina Gorbis
Sep 14, 2020
The first five minutes of the future
The first five minutes of the future
What will you do when the next “unthinkable” change happens? Play this game to find out.
Institute For The Future
Sep 13, 2020
The Deeper, Longer Disease
The Deeper, Longer Disease
By Kathi Vian, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future
Institute For The Future
Jun 10, 2020
Welcome to Team #Imaginable! It’s time to start the conversation.
Welcome to Team #Imaginable! It’s time to start the conversation.
The year 2020 has shown that the words “unthinkable” and “unimaginable” no longer apply. From the pandemic to the global protests…
Institute For The Future
Jun 10, 2020
Post-COVID-19 Futures: What Can We Build After the Global Pandemic?
Post-COVID-19 Futures: What Can We Build After the Global Pandemic?
by Marina Gorbis and Kathi Vian, Institute for the Future
Marina Gorbis
May 6, 2020
During a Pandemic, We All Need to Stretch Our Imagination
During a Pandemic, We All Need to Stretch Our Imagination
By Jane McGonigal, Ph.D., IFTF Director of Game Research and Development
Institute For The Future
Mar 18, 2020
Counterfactual Thinking Is the Key to Creativity — and a Vaccine against Future Shock
By Jane McGonigal, PhD. An essay from After Shock: The World’s Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock―and Look Ahead to…
Institute For The Future
Mar 10, 2020
To Protect Democracy We Need to Upgrade our Cognitive Immunity
To Protect Democracy We Need to Upgrade our Cognitive Immunity
By Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future and Nick Monaco, Director, Institute for the Future, Digital Intelligence…
Marina Gorbis
Jan 8, 2020
Lessons from Laputa
Lessons from Laputa
Whenever I call a customer service line and have to sit through a torturous series of non-human interactions — “If you are calling x…
Marina Gorbis
Sep 4, 2019
The challenge: creating a better future of work
The challenge: creating a better future of work
Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle (Aug 19, 2019), by Anmol Chaddha, Ph.D., who leads the Equitable Futures Lab…
Institute For The Future
Aug 22, 2019
The Big Tent is Burning Down
The Big Tent is Burning Down
The impulse for consumer brands to avoid politics seems increasingly like wishful thinking
Mark Frauenfelder
Jan 31, 2019
Without social organizations, social technologies will eat us alive
Without social organizations, social technologies will eat us alive
The bane of the futurist’s existence is that almost daily you see, hear, or read something and want to scream, “I told you so.” Sometimes…
Marina Gorbis
Nov 26, 2018
How to Start Mining and Using Cryptocurrency for the Complete Beginner
How to Start Mining and Using Cryptocurrency for the Complete Beginner
I learned a lot about blockchain technology by buying and using bitcoin: how to get it, track it, trade it, and make purchases with it. I…
Mark Frauenfelder
Mar 19, 2018
Imagine A Better Future Of Food Now–Or Be Shocked By What We Get
Imagine A Better Future Of Food Now–Or Be Shocked By What We Get
In 1995, the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California, had an acre-sized vacant lot filled with wild weeds and cracked…
Max Elder
Feb 28, 2018
The simple change you can make to stop wasting food
The simple change you can make to stop wasting food
Our global food system is drowning in waste. About one third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted every year, and the US…
Max Elder
Feb 5, 2018
The Future of Computational Propaganda
The Future of Computational Propaganda
On January 17, 2017, Girl 4 Trump USA joined Twitter. She was silent for a week, but on January 24, she suddenly got busy, posting an…
Mark Frauenfelder
Feb 5, 2018
Hacking the Future of Work
Hacking the Future of Work
Institute for the Future Fellows prototype Positive Platforms for tomorrow’s on-demand economy
Marina Gorbis
Aug 30, 2017
Mapping the Tides of Change for Higher Education
Mapping the Tides of Change for Higher Education
Charting new paths to the future in the California Community Colleges
Marina Gorbis
Jun 20, 2017
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