Future Now

How Boomers Will Confront, Impact & Adapt to the Next 20 Years

Jeff Burgan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:59:13 -0800

Boomers in the News

How Boomers Will Confront, Impact & Adapt to the Next 20 Years, Business Wire

Celebrating 50 Years the Same Way They Started, Orange County Register

Boomers: The Next 20 Years

The Best of 2019: Superstruct Honors and Awards are Announced!

Jane McGonigal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:51:19 -0800

On November 17, 2008 the Institute for the Future announced the winners of the Superstruct Awards in a live webcast. Each winner received a personal fan letter from one of the honorary game masters, including Bruce Sterling, Warren Ellis, Tara Hunt, and Tim O'Reilly.

You can watch the complete one-hour recording of the Superstruct Celebration on Ustream, or scroll down to read the results.

Congratulations to all of the honored Super-Empowered Human Individuals!

Ten-Year Forecast

Knowledge Tools of the Future

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:02:19 -0800

It's a truism that we live in a knowledge economy. For the last decade, being competitive in the knowledge economy has required developing systems to manage information-- information like consumer data, logistics, organizational practices. But the tools of the next decade will be very different. The growing accessibility of knowledge management systems have greatly reduced the competitive advantage that companies can draw from adopting them: KM is business as usual.

Technology Horizons

Results from our Blended Reality crowd-sourcing experiment -- or, more than 300 ways we provoked the future

Jane McGonigal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:47:40 -0800

At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019.

We received over 300 micro-forecasts in less than 24 hours. Here are the massively collaborative results!

The future of SOCIETY: It is 2019. How do you share your feelings?

The future of HEALTH: It's 2019. Describe your experience with health care.

Technology Horizons

PROVOKING THE FUTURE OF FOOD: 51 micro-forecasts from the Blended Reality 2008 crowd-sourcing experiment

Jane McGonigal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:37:34 -0800

At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019. Here are the massively collaborative food results!

Question #5: It’s 2019. How do you decide what’s for dinner?

Technology Horizons

PROVOKING THE FUTURE OF SECURITY: 51 micro-forecasts from the Blended Reality 2008 crowd-sourcing experiment

Jane McGonigal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:34:41 -0800

Question #4: In 2019, who defines your identities, and who governs them?

Technology Horizons

PROVOKING THE FUTURE OF ENERGY: 19 micro-forecasts from the Blended Reality 2008 crowd-sourcing experiment

Jane McGonigal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:30:39 -0800

Question #3: What are your energy sources for your mobile, home and business life? How are they advantageous? Disadvantageous?

Technology Horizons

PROVOKING THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY: 125 micro-forecasts from the Blended Reality 2008 crowd-sourcing experiment

Jane McGonigal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:24:31 -0800

At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we
crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019. Here are the massively collaborative society results!

Question #2: It’s 2019. How do you share your feelings?

outwardly people will be even more opaque while choosing to only
display their true selves in a mediated fashion--a new generation will
grow up with multiple personality disorder enabled by having to juggle

Technology Horizons

PROVOKING THE FUTURE OF HEALTH: 48 micro-forecasts from the Blended Reality 2008 crowd-sourcing experiment

Jane McGonigal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:20:44 -0800

Technology Horizons

Talk for Swedish Incubators and Science Parks Network: "Designing Spaces for Networked Innovation"

Anthony Townsend — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:22:29 -0800

I haven't posted in the last month, but it's because I've been travelling extensively promoting the Science In Place program. On November 10, I had the pleasure of giving an invited talk for the annual conference of SiSP, the incubator and science parks asssocation of Sweden. The meeting took place in Lund, one of the oldest university towns in Scandinavia, and less than an hour's train ride across the Oresund from Copenhagen. This is in the Malmo region, home to SonyEriccson and numerous other high tech companies. Truly one of the world's great technopoles.

Science In Place