The Future Today Institute helps leaders
and their organizations prepare for deep
uncertainty and complex futures.

Launched on March 11 @ SXSW, the Future Today Institute's 11th annual Tech Trends report identifies 225 tantalizing advancements in emerging technologies--artificial intelligence, biotech, autonomous robots, green energy, smart farms, and space travel--that will begin to enter the mainstream and fundamentally disrupt business, geopolitics and everyday life around the world.

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How To Think About Time

For any given uncertainty about the future — whether that’s risk, opportunity or growth — leaders must think strategically about tactics, strategy, vision and systems-level change.

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This is our second annual industry-specific analysis of emerging technology trends, which details 108 important technology trends that everyone working within the news ecosystem should be following. It follows the same approach as our popular annual trends report, now in its 10th year with more than 7 million cumulative views.

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Curating a Scenario Planning Team

The duality dilemma is responsible for a lack of forward thinking at many organizations. Overcoming the duality dilemma — and getting full use of your creatives and logicians — in order to track emerging trends and forecast the future is possible. But counterintuitively, it’s a matter of highlighting — rather than discouraging or downplaying — the strengths of each side.

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At the start of any strategic planning or foresight work, it’s important to identify an organization’s key stakeholders. The problem is that most organizations think too narrowly, focusing on either their existing customers and partners.

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Global Survey on Media Futures

A new survey published by the Future Today Institute asked people who work within the news media ecosystem how they think about the future.

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