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leaders and their organizations for
deep uncertainty and complex futures.

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world's most-admired companies.

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We answer your most challenging questions using strategic foresight. The Future Today Institute tracks signals and trends to help companies understand the forces that will shape their futures. Then, we create strategic scenarios to identify growth opportunities, mitigate risk, and help leaders achieve their preferred futures. Hundreds of clients use FTI's methodology, trends, and scenarios to see around corners and plan for the longer term. See our case studies →

The Future Today Institute's

15th Anniversary Tech Trends Report

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The Future Today Institute's 2022 Tech and Science Trends Report is now available. Downloaded more than 1 million times each year, FTI's annual Tech Trends Report is a must-read for every industry. Learn the key trends impacting finance, insurance, transportation, healthcare, sports, logistics, telecom, work, government and policy, security, privacy, education, agriculture, entertainment, music, CPG, hospitality and dining, ESGs, climate, space and more. Discover critical insights. See what strategic action you can take on the futures, today.

 
 
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The Future Today Institute: Staff and Research In The News

 

How To Do Strategic Planning Like A Futurist

 


 

Think Like a Futurist to Be Prepared for the Totally Unexpected

 


 

Welcome to the (Synthetic) Meatspace

 


 

Amy Webb on multi-parent babies and synthetic meat 

 


 

Amy Webb: A Glimpse Into The Future

 


 

Embracing banking's brave new world

 


 

Amy Webb on Privacy in 2034: A corporation owns your DNA

 



 

Quantum, AI, and synthetics highlighted in FTI's Tech Trends report

 



 

The best business books to get you through the lockdown

 



 

Why NFTs are key to the metaverse's current explosion

 


 

Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it


 

Why The Government Needs a Department of the Future


 

Can Sci-Fi Writers Prepare Us For An Uncertain Future?

 



 

When Hollywood producers need to get the future right, they call a futurist


 

Meet the 'Westworld' Moderator Who Showed Comic-Con How It's Done

 


 

Our Data, Ourselves


 

Amy Webb is This Week's Mystery Guest on Ask Me Another


 

Top AI Thinkers: Human-Machine Collaboration Is Here

 


 

The Future Of A.I. Is In The Hands Of Nine Companies.

 


 

Amy Webb: debate about the future of AI is distorted by 'misplaced optimism and fear'


 

The Pentagon Needs to Woo AI Experts Away From Big Tech


 

The 11 Sources of Disruption Every Company Must Monitor.

 


 

Insider Conversations: Featuring Amy Webb


 

Quantitative Futurist: Coronavirus is our 'alien invasion' moment.

 


 

Amy Webb: Smartphones will be gone in 10 years

 

‘We are being outspent. We are being outpaced’: Is America ceding the future of AI to China?

 



 

Space Oddities: We Need A Plan To Stop Polluting Space Before It's Too Late


 

Coronavirus Pandemic: We Need To Start Modeling Alternative Futures

 



 

What Do the 2020s Hold?

 



 

Life in a Post-Pandemic World

 



 

Covid-19 Pandemic: Life After Lockdown.

 


 

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What Is A Futurist?

A futurist is someone who models next-order outcomes using a broad spectrum of weak signals, strong signals, trends, and other factors. Futurists do not make predictions. They make projections in order to create a state of readiness, to determine strategic actions, to aid in decision-making, to build long-range plans, or to simply imagine alternate future states.