Category: FutureSource

Innovation in Austin: Risks and Rewards

By Henry Hoglund

Austin, the capital of Texas, was the third stop on the Strategic Foresight Initiative’s (SFI) research ‘road’ trip examining the future of American technological leadership, as part of a collaborative project with Qualcomm. Throughout 2016, SFI visited cities around the United States that are at the forefront of technology-based innovation that together fuel the engine […]

The San Francisco Bay Area: Innovation Capital of the World

The San Francisco Bay Area was the final stop of the Strategic Foresight Initiative’s (SFI) innovation road trip, part of its Future of American Technological Leadership project. Together with Qualcomm, SFI seeks to examine the bases of American strength in technological innovation. After visiting Madison, Wisconsin, Boulder, Colorado, and Austin, Texas, SFI’s visit to the Bay Area featured two […]

Human Enhancements: What the Public and National Security Experts Worry About

By Kevin Fulgham

As medical enhancement technology develops at an ever-increasing rate, the American public is more concerned about the future ethical implications of these new discoveries. Which medical enhancements provoke the strongest reaction, and are bioethicists prepared to respond to emerging ethical questions?

A Glimpse of the Future in One Newspaper Section

By Robert Manning

Many futurists have argued that we will see more technological change in the next twenty years than we saw during the rise of information technology and the Internet in the 1990s. But rarely have I seen so much change captured in one section of one newspaper.

Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels

By John Markoff, New York Times

As investment in social media levels off, some see artifical intelligence as Silicon Valley’s next big focus.

Cities in An Age of Insecurity

By Kevin Fulgham

On June 22, 2016, the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative hosted a discussion on “Cities in an Age of Insecurity” ahead of the United Nation’s Habitat III Conference in October 2016 and at a time when cities face increasing transnational security challenges. Dr. Nancy Stetson, special representative for Habitat III at the US Department of […]

Madison, Wisconsin: How a City Becomes an Innovation Hub

By Alex Paul and Peter Engelke

In early June, Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) staff conducted a research trip to Madison, Wisconsin, as part of The Future of American Technological Leadership, a new project with Qualcomm to investigate American innovation in the technology sector. The Madison visit was the first leg of SFI’s ‘innovation roadtrip’ to technology and innovation hubs around the […]