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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
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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.
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Waiting for the American Khrushchev:

Waiting for the American Khrushchev:

Who will deliver the “Cult of Personality” speech to Americans?
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Post-Pandemic Transformation: Building a Mutualist Future

Post-Pandemic Transformation: Building a Mutualist Future

By Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future
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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.
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The Deeper, Longer Disease

The Deeper, Longer Disease

By Kathi Vian, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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Mark Frauenfelder
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…
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Max Elder
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…
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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…
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Mark Frauenfelder
Hacking the Future of Work

Hacking the Future of Work

Institute for the Future Fellows prototype Positive Platforms for tomorrow’s on-demand economy
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Marina Gorbis
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
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