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Jan 19
The More Equitable Future Begins in the Imagination
By Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute…
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The Future is Within Reach: How Public Banking and Employee Ownership Can Create Resilient Local…
The Future is Within Reach: How Public Banking and Employee Ownership Can Create Resilient Local…
By Alison Lingane, co-founder of Project Equity
Institute For The Future
Jul 24, 2023
“The Reader Lights the Candle”
“The Reader Lights the Candle”
Worker Education that Safeguards Democracy
Institute For The Future
Apr 25, 2023
How to use ChatGPT for Strategic Foresight
How to use ChatGPT for Strategic Foresight
Limitations, Possibilities, and Workarounds
Charles Tsai
Jan 23, 2023
Can we fix business education to build equitable enterprises?
Can we fix business education to build equitable enterprises?
By Jerry Davis, IFTF Equitable Enterprise Advisor, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration. Stephen M. Ross School…
Institute For The Future
Oct 27, 2022
Re-Working the Future:
Re-Working the Future:
Strategies for Building Enterprises in the 21st Century
Marina Gorbis
Jun 21, 2022
Looking 100 Years Into the Future: Lessons from John Maynard Keynes
Looking 100 Years Into the Future: Lessons from John Maynard Keynes
Originally published at Institute for the Future’s Future Now blog.
Charles Tsai
May 24, 2022
Time to Disrupt the Global Infrastructure of Crime and Corruption
Time to Disrupt the Global Infrastructure of Crime and Corruption
Drew Sullivan, Co-Founder and Publisher, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute…
Marina Gorbis
Mar 23, 2022
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
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