The Future Today Institute helps leaders
and their organizations prepare for
complex futures.
Founded in 2006, the Future Today Institute answers “What’s the future of [x]?” for leaders and organizations all around the world. We focus exclusively on how emerging technology and science will disrupt business, transform the workforce and ignite geopolitical change. Together with our clients and partners, FTI uses data-driven research to model and prototype the future.
Latest Research
Now Available For Download:
2018 Emerging Tech Trends Report
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.
75 Tech Trends For Journalism and Media
This is our first industry-specific analysis of emerging technology trends, which details 75 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 6 million cumulative views.
Spring 2018 Futures Quarterly
The spring edition of FTI's Futures Quarterly recommends dozens of new works of speculative fiction, essays on AI, podcasts by scientists and longreads that will make you take notice of weak signals from the fringe.
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.
Recommended Winter Reading/ Watching List
If you want to understand the future, read science and speculative fiction, as well as philosophy, memoir and essays on the implications of technology. The Future Today Institute curates seasonal lists based on current events and emerging trends. Below is our Fall 2017 list of recommended reading and watching. You’ll find familiar titles as well as new works.
2017 Tech Trends Report
The 2017 Tech Trends Report, now in its 10th year, focuses on mid- to late-stage emerging technologies that are on a growth trajectory. We have identified more than 150 trends for the coming year across numerous industries, and our broad scope was intentional.
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Past Events
Future Today Summit 2016
December 6, 2016 - December 7, 2016Teacher Training (free, open to the public)
July 10, 2017 @ 8:00 am - August 28, 2017 @ 12:00 pm2018 Emerging Tech Trends Launch
March 11 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm