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Topic: Institute for the Future

  
resilience

Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Why the Future Will Be Flexible

What will a post-crash, truly 21st-century world look like? For people 
thinking about global systems (economic, environmental, and social) 
one idea stands out: resilience.
 Resilience means the capacity of an ...READ»

superstruct

Tomorrow Matters: Ignoring the Future Is Undermining the Present

When the world seems to be falling down all around us, can we afford to spend our time thinking about the future? In the midst of ongoing wars, accelerating economic collapse, and cascading environmental ruin, it's easy ...READ»

machine ethics

Machine Ethics

The conclusion of the Battlestar Galactica television series a couple of weeks ago left viewers with a decidedly mixed message: a superficial gloss of "ooh, the scary robots are coming!", coupled with a more subtle--and, ...READ»

Q <amp></amp> A - Mary O'Hara Devereaux

How to save time in the global economy.READ»

augmented reality

When 'Mad Men' Meets Augmented Reality

I have my doubts about Google's new plan to better target advertising to meet our transient interests. As yet another manifestation of the idea of only showing us the ads we want to see, when we want to see them, it will inevitably ...READ»

Social Networking and the Brain

Social Networking and the Brain: Continuous Partial Empathy?

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. It should come as no surprise, then, that social Web technologies have a complex relationship with ...READ»

Fast Cities 2007

From Chicago to Shanghai, urban centers that are shaping our future.READ»

The Manager as Mystic

For the most important management book for the 1990s, try fiction from the 1940s: Hermann Hesse's Nobel Prize-winning novel, The Glass Bead Game.READ»

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Idea Fest

The New Business Conversation Starts Here. 23 Bright Ideas for a Stellar 2003.READ»

Giving Back

Unit of OneREAD»

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What's Next for the Net?

Fast Talk: A RoundtableREAD»

State of the New Economy

VoicesREAD»