Ten Year Forecast meeting

Today we're holding the Institute's annual Ten Year Forecast conference, at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose. It actually started last night, with a set of games designed by Jane McGonigal to illustrate (or embody, or get people to play out) some of the big trends we're talking about today.

This is the 32nd Ten Year Forecast meeting-- so far as we can tell, one of the oldest continually-running futures conference today.

Much of what we're talking about in this year's forecast deals, in one way or another, with responses to climate change. Perhaps not surprising an overarching theme, but it's playing out in everything from our ethnographic work and surveys, to our forecasts on the impact of 3D printing and the organization of science.

These conferences are an enormous amount of work, but our clients and friends quite like them, so they're worth it.

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