Institute for the Future

46 Years and Counting …

The Institute for the Future has 46 years of forecasts on which to reflect. We’re based in California’s Silicon Valley—a community at the crossroads of technological innovation, social experimentation, and global interchange. Founded in 1968 by a group of former RAND Corporation researchers with a grant from the Ford Foundation to take leading-edge research methodologies into the public and business sectors, IFTF is committed to building the future by understanding it deeply.

Take a look at their web page, there are interesting reads and infographics about the future

Social Networking with a purpose

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8cVS8LoO7OeW1YV0RadXVwU0E/preview

Self-Organisation, emergence + constraint in complex natural systems

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8cVS8LoO7Oa2FRNVdYaFI0Q2M/preview

Complexity + Information –> Emergence + Self-Org

Complexity and Information: Measuring Emergence, Self-organization, and Homeostasis at Multiple Scales

Tinkering with complexity for my research! I guess in the middle of my frustration…nothing comes down to my hands all stays in my head!!

The complexity of transdisciplinary literature review

Another to read from Giorgio Bertini’s Blog:

The intelligence of complexitiy…

Another complexity to read! 

The complextity of interdisciplinarity

This is a series of posts of Giorgio Bertini’s blog. It is about complexity, a theory I am trying to make sense of. So they are all to reads for me.
Not with enough time I guess, but here they are so I can have them present!!

Interactive Complexity Time Line Map

An incredible interactive map about how the concept of complexity and related issues have evolved throughout time.

I have seen this map before and I have even made a print to study it in more detail but I did not have access to the interactive version.
Thank you to Giorgio Bertini and his incredible project of Learning Change and the overwhelming amount of excellent resources he always is putting out there! Thank you so much for your generosity!!

Here is the link to an article where Katy Börmer explains this art of map making. And if you want to know more about her project of places & spaces here is the link to the web page.
She made a short film “Humanexus” together with other people. Here is the you tube video with the making of the film which I found fascinating.
“An information scientist, an artist and a musician at Indiana University got together to create a short film about the ways humans have spread information throughout history, and now the film will be presented at the world’s most prestigious film festival, the May 14 to 25 Festival de Cannes” (Quoted from the web page)

I hope you enjoy it!

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Complexity read