Monday, December 12, 2005
Institute for the Future | Recent Research Reports:
Ten-Year Forecast
"a collection of ten forecasts that collectively try to answer this question: can human sociability provide the survival fitness we need to make peace with the limitations of our planet? It does this by focusing on three zones of disruption and innovation--economic experimentation, social intelligence, and extreme environments...."
RFID
"In this first in a series of five memos, we review the history of RFID to understand the possible futures for the technology."
Top Ten Impediments to Better Health & Health Care in the United States
"looks not directly at the futures of health and health care, but rather at impediments to those futures. By better understanding these economic, scientific, and cultural barriers, we hope to shed light on ways to bypass or overcome them to improve health and health care in the United States in both the short and long run."
The Future of Nutrigenomics
"personalized nutrition" "this report considers four key activities: advances in nutrition science, the personalization of nutritional recommendations, getting the products to market, and likely consumer responses."
Infrastructure for the New Geography Infrastructure for the New Geography
"This memo describes the emerging ecology--what it is, why it's important, who the key players are, and what future developments to expect."
Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation in Business: Managing Dilemmas in the 21st Century
" we explore the emerging field of cooperation studies, looking for ways to think about to two key questions: How can new insights about the dynamics of cooperation help us identify new and lucrative models for organizing production and wealth creation that leverage win-win dynamics? How can organizations enhance their creativity and grow potential innovation with cooperation-based strategic models?"
Ten-Year Forecast
"a collection of ten forecasts that collectively try to answer this question: can human sociability provide the survival fitness we need to make peace with the limitations of our planet? It does this by focusing on three zones of disruption and innovation--economic experimentation, social intelligence, and extreme environments...."
RFID
"In this first in a series of five memos, we review the history of RFID to understand the possible futures for the technology."
Top Ten Impediments to Better Health & Health Care in the United States
"looks not directly at the futures of health and health care, but rather at impediments to those futures. By better understanding these economic, scientific, and cultural barriers, we hope to shed light on ways to bypass or overcome them to improve health and health care in the United States in both the short and long run."
The Future of Nutrigenomics
"personalized nutrition" "this report considers four key activities: advances in nutrition science, the personalization of nutritional recommendations, getting the products to market, and likely consumer responses."
Infrastructure for the New Geography Infrastructure for the New Geography
"This memo describes the emerging ecology--what it is, why it's important, who the key players are, and what future developments to expect."
Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation in Business: Managing Dilemmas in the 21st Century
" we explore the emerging field of cooperation studies, looking for ways to think about to two key questions: How can new insights about the dynamics of cooperation help us identify new and lucrative models for organizing production and wealth creation that leverage win-win dynamics? How can organizations enhance their creativity and grow potential innovation with cooperation-based strategic models?"
