By Ayça K. Güralp, Research, Project, and Community Engagement Manager At IFTF we work with stakeholders to explore the future possibilities around various topics, broad and specific, from the future of leadership to the future of pet food. To dive deep into any issue, we find a diverse group of…

By Dylan Hendricks, IFTF Director of the Ten-Year Forecast It was about 2500 years ago that the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus first declared that “the only constant is change.” And to be sure, a lot has changed since then. …

By Jeff Yang, IFTF Research Director If there’s a single phrase that we at IFTF find ourselves saying more than any other, it’s this: Futures work is not about prediction. …

By Sami Makelainen, IFTF Research Affiliate While thinking about the future may sound like a nebulous process, there is no shortage of tools available to assist. …

Worker Education that Safeguards Democracy By IFTF Executive Director, Marina Gorbis At the turn of the 20th century, in the old cigar factories in Florida, literature and political thought accompanied the strong smell of tobacco in the air. As workers engaged in the monotonous task of rolling tobacco leaves, El…

By Trinity Tran, Co-founder of the California Public Banking Alliance (CPBA), Public Bank LA (PBLA), IFTF Equitable Enterprise Initiative Fellow (@tran_scends) Public banking is on the rise, offering a transformative solution to deeply rooted issues that have long plagued the financial system. From recent banking collapses to massive fines imposed…

Chuck steps into the ONVR application and finds himself in a room with five others. In front of them they find a suspended cloud of nodes — people and their connections across a subset of employees. The system visualizes human vectors of innovation and collaboration in terms of information flows…

By Mark Frauenfelder, IFTF Editorial Director “There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.” German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) wrote these words in a journal in…

This essay is a part of a series. Read the overview “Imagining Equity: Explorations into the Future of Enterprise” here. Breaking Free from the Culture of Audit: Embracing Situated Discretion By Josh Berson, author of The Human Scaffold and The Meat Question, To bend towards equity (equitable enterprise), we need to shift into a new register, a new habit of…