Entries tagged with: IFTF

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Evolution

At the Institute for the Future's 2011 Ten Year Forecast event in late March, I presented a long talk on ways in which evolutionary and ecological metaphors could inform our understanding of systemic change. The head of the Ten Year...

Posted on March 29, 2011 1:00 PM

Expiration Date

Slate's Josh Levin kicks off a series of articles on the possible future dissolution of the United States today with a piece about how a few different "futurologists" see the possibility. In "How Is America Going To End?", he talks...

Posted on August 3, 2009 3:05 PM

Participatory Panopticon: The Official Version

The Institute for the Future's 2007 Ten-Year Forecast included, as one of the forecast items, the Participatory Panopticon. IFTF is now making past Ten-Year Forecast materials more readily accessible to the public, and I was pleased to see that the...

Posted on May 28, 2009 11:02 AM

Pandemonium

So, it's been quiet around here. Too quiet. I can explain. I've been sick the past four days or so, and have been keeping down. But since I had to make a one-day run down to San Diego for...

Posted on April 28, 2009 10:33 PM

Superstruct Meetup

Jane McG passes along... What will the year 2019 be like? And who will YOU be in the future? You’re invited to a SUPERSTRUCT PARTY & MEET-UP! Learn all about and try out Superstruct for yourself. It’s the world's first...

Posted on October 14, 2008 1:42 PM

Superstruct Underway

The Superstruct game is now up and running. In less than 24 hours, there are nearly a thousand people signed up, and nearly a hundred proposed "superstructures." Here's the official announcement: The Superstruct game is live, and our survival clock...

Posted on October 7, 2008 12:56 PM

Superstruct Begins

Today is the "preview" launch for Superstruct, the massively-multiplayer forecasting game. The game goes live on October 6, but there are already people out on the intertubes starting to do very cool stuff. For those of you who use Twitter,...

Posted on September 22, 2008 2:55 PM

Heads Down, Thumbs Up

Sorry that OtF has been so quiet lately; I've been focusing on getting the scenario narratives built for Superstruct. I should have something more substantive to post this weekend. In the meantime, here's a newly-posted article at Discover magazine's website...

Posted on September 5, 2008 5:15 PM

Needed: Game Masters/Community Leaders for Superstruct (Updated)

UPDATE: We're no longer accepting applications for this position. But we do still need collaborators! If you'd like to be involved in Superstruct as more than a player -- for instance, if you'd like to throw a Superstruct party or...

Posted on July 18, 2008 1:21 PM

Phraseology

Neologisms coming to mind during the Institute for the Future Ten-Year Forecast event (Updated): "Mesh-to-Mesh" -- social network applications, like Twitter, structured as overlapping peer networks. Living in the space between one-to-one and many-to-many, mesh-to-mesh networks serve as a medium...

Posted on April 9, 2008 3:02 PM

Yeats Signals

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;...

Posted on April 1, 2008 8:55 AM

Tuesday Topsight, May 22, 2007

Plowing through interesting links accumulated during my travel. • Lucky to be Alive: All of us are. Lucky to be alive, I mean. It turns out that, about 13,000 years ago, humankind came very close to extinction, courtesy of a...

Posted on May 22, 2007 6:33 PM

Mr. Cascio Goes To Washington

I will be heading to Washington, DC, in a couple of weeks, ostensibly to take part in a short workshop for the Institute for the Future. I'll be coming in a few days early, however, in order to hit a...

Posted on November 22, 2006 1:33 PM

Tomorrow Makers

If scenario creation was the poster-boy for futurism in the mid-1990s, artifact creation looks to play that role for mid-2000s futurism. Combining strategic foresight with what amounts to concept-car design, efforts such as the Institute for the Future's "Artifacts from...

Posted on July 12, 2006 3:15 PM

My Big New Project

This was a quiet week on the blog, but not for my work load. On Tuesday, I signed a contract with the Institute for the Future to serve as the guest editor of the 2007 Ten Year Forecast project. This...

Posted on June 30, 2006 6:09 PM

Monday Topsight, June 26, 2006

Light blogging week (of course, the week when I get a hat tip from BoingBoing). I'm spending the next few days at the Institute for the Future's Health Horizons conference (PDF), including serving as the keynote speaker tomorrow. I'll be...

Posted on June 26, 2006 4:57 PM

Upcoming Events

I'll be attending the Jimmy Wales talk for the Long Now Foundation tomorrow night in San Francisco. I'll be in Princeton, New Jersey, from the evening of April 25 through the afternoon of April 27, working on a project for...

Posted on April 13, 2006 12:36 PM

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