The Future Today Institute helps leaders
and their organizations prepare for deep
uncertainty and complex futures.
Founded in 2006, the Future Today Institute researches, models and prototypes future risk and opportunity. As the leading advisory to executive leadership teams worldwide, FTI's data-driven applied research reveals trends and calculates how they will disrupt business, government and society. Together with our clients and partners, FTI is helping leaders achieve their preferred futures. Learn more about how we can help your organization →
Latest Research
Now Available
2019 Emerging Tech Trends Report
The Future Today Institute's 12th annual Tech Trends report identifies 315 emerging trends across 26 industries that will begin to enter the mainstream and fundamentally disrupt business, geopolitics and everyday life around the world.
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.
108 Tech Trends For Journalism and Media
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.
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.
Key Stakeholders Exercise
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.
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.
The Future Today Institute: Staff and Research In The News
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, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm