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Urgent Futures
Dispatches from Institute for the Future (IFTF), the world’s longest running non-profit foresight education and research organization helping people navigate complex change and develop lasting future-ready strategies.
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Institute for the Future is the world’s leading futures organization. For over 50 years, businesses, governments, and social impact organizations have depended upon IFTF global forecasts, custom research, foresight education and training to navigate complex change and develop world-ready strategies. IFTF methodologies and toolsets yield coherent views of transformative possibilities across all sectors that together support a more sustainable future. Institute for the Future is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, California.

Editors
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Maureen Kirchner
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jean.hagan
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Mark Frauenfelder
Research director at Institute for the Future. Co-founder, Boing Boing, editor-in-chief of Cool Tools. Read my newsletter, themagnet.substack.com
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David Pescovitz
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Institute For The Future
Institute for the Future | nonprofit with 53 years of foresight research #EquitableFutures #StrategicForesight #UniversalBasicAssets #FuturesThinking
Writers
Go to the profile of Mark Frauenfelder
Mark Frauenfelder
Research director at Institute for the Future. Co-founder, Boing Boing, editor-in-chief of Cool Tools. Read my newsletter, themagnet.substack.com
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Marina Gorbis
Executive Director, Institute for the Future; author, Nature of the Future. www.iftf.org
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Rod Falcon
Institute for the Future, @iftf, Technology and Health Futures, #automatedworld, #newbodylanguage, #everythingismedia #workablefutures, humans+machines, LGBTQ
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Maureen Kirchner
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jean.hagan
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Mark Frauenfelder
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Lyn Jeffery
Researcher at Institute for the Future: cultural anthropologist into social technologies, futures, China, kids, nature. Contributes to @88_bartenders
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Charles Tsai
Charles Tsai is a futurist exploring new frontiers in philanthropy, economic justice, education, and youth empowerment. Director of Philanthropy Futures, IFTF.