Back in 2004, I had to dig into the massive production of the Institute for the future (IFTF) to prepare some work intended to raise the global awareness of public leaders in french’s Aquitaine region. Then I met Anthony Townsend, a research director that had joinded the IFTF a few months earlier, during the first edition of the Cinum seminar. For many, IFTF represents the “US vision” of the future and therefore the voice of Anthony’s presentation didn’t make it easily into the Cinum “french” way of seeing things. Some prepare for the future while others prefer to dream about it while drinking red wine…
Anyway, the IFTF released recently a very straightforward but visually interesting mind “map” that tries to show how production and innovation are going to evolve. May I suggest you to have a look at it ?
