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Behind the “The Road to Zerophoria” Scenario By Jane McGonigal, Ph.D. How can I make a future scenario feel as immersive and explorable...

By David Jonker Foresight is often conducted in private, behind an organization’s castle walls. But increasingly, that’s the wrong...

By Tony Diggle Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles focusing on the upcoming United Nations’ Summit of the Future conference....

By Tracey Follows At the start of 2020, to coincide with International Women’s Day (IWD), I published a series of interviews with female...

By Richard Hames and Patricia Lustig Language, specifically our ability to construct and communicate our reality through language, is the...

By Wendy Schultz and Tianna Brand The livestock of the past and present include pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, chicken, ducks,...

By Samista Jugwanth Persephone, the ancient Greek Goddess of Spring (and agriculture), was equally famous for her role as Hades’s Queen...

By Grace Okubo Community gardens have become ubiquitous features of urban landscapes. Initially conceived to combat food insecurity, they...

By Jeremy Nulik, Julienne DeVita and Matthew Jensen For as much as we try to move on, piece our lives together and soothe the fears of...

By Estefania Simon-Sasyk The "bottom-up approach" resonates with the ideals of participatory democracy and community empowerment....

By Quinault Childs With the explosion in accessibility of generative AI, one thing we’ve noticed at the Institute for the Future (IFTF)...

By Fisayo Oyewale As our world grapples with a growing population, economic volatility, and the looming threat of climate change, the...

By Sohail Inayatullah, Ivana Milojevic, and Hafeez Zainal Harnessing science, technology, and innovation (STI) is key to meeting the...

By Ben Holt Food fuels everything that humans do. The calories we consume energise our bodies, and eating is deeply connected to culture...

BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY: THE EMERGENCE OF IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES By Prof. (Dr.) Sanjay Rout In thе еvеr-accеlеrating landscapе...

Exploring a vision of mobility for the City of Cape Town in 2050 “The shifts in thinking, shaped by our scenarios, have been widespread...

Source: ChatGPT/Dall-E prompted by Wendy Schultz People often ask why so many catastrophe movies exist, and so few utopian/protopian...

April Reagan encourages readers to think and act like a futurist in her new book, Bridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist. It serves...

Collapse comes from the Latin verb "collabi," which means "to fall together." The prefix "col" is the root for "together," and "labi" is...

Source: MidJourney The day we buckled our seat belts in the helicopter is the date humanity 2.0 was set in motion. Six of us, crammed...