Do We Have Mathematical Instincts?
At our Health Horizons conference earlier this week, we spent some time discussing the challenges of communicating future risks to every day people and noted that one of the key challenges in the coming decade will be to understand how to explain fuzzy genetic probabilities to people in ways that help improve their health. Health Horizons

IFTF Comments on Senate Bill for Science Park Grants and Loans
Respectfully submitted by Anthony Townsend Research Director Institute for the Future Science In Action

REMINDER: Join us for our first FutureCast
Guest expert: Arthur Brock on the future of alternative currency and open money Date & time: Friday, November 20 at 11:00 am, Pacific Time Two ways to join the call: 1) If you're Skype-savvy, friend Jerry Michalski at "sociate" anytime between now and the call. Tell him you want to join the call and then he'll call your Skype address a few minutes before the call. (Please "get there early." 2) If you're more comfortable with land lines, call the conference call line: Toll free: 1-800-868-1837 Direct dial: 1-404-920-6440 Participant code: 548723# IFTF Staff Posts

IFTF announces new FutureCast series...starting November 20
IFTF is happy to announce that we will be introducing a new FutureCast podcast series, starting Friday, November 20, at 11 am Pacific Time. Our first podcast will be hosted by Jerry Michalski, and our guest expert will be Arthur Brock of The Metacurrency Project. IFTF Staff Posts read more

Betting on Risky Genes
A provocative feature in this month's Atlantic on a new way to think about genetic variations: Not as switches that confer or protect against disease risks, but as something closer to behavioral investment strategies that might offer more risk and more reward through greater sensitivity to the environment, or instead might offer more conservative strategies. Health Horizons read more