Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash We often falsely assume that all cultures encourage or even recognize the human urge to create and innovate. Some say that America is creative and innovative despite its governments’ policies, while others say that...
What does it mean to invent something? Why is innovation important to us as individuals, to our economy, and our society overall? How should our laws, regulations, and institutions be structured so as to best encourage, support, protect, and otherwise regulate...
Project Manager: Shannon Wheatley Hartman Where’s my flying car? According to the futurists of the 1960s, we were all supposed to own flying cars by now. Perhaps the promises of bubble cars, moving sidewalks, jetpacks, and robotic contraptions are part of a future...
Editors -Dennis Boyer and Adolf Gundersen The development of this Public Discussion Report differed from the typical sanctuary project discussions that IF uses to generate its discussion reports. This project developed informally among initial online panels (one...
Project Manager –Jeff Prudhomme What if, through the use of genetic technologies, all children could be born without disabilities? What if they were required to be? Or what if these choices were only open to the wealthy? What if your entire personal genome could...
Project Manager - Mark Notturno Americans have long regarded science as a model of objective open inquiry. We have long relied upon science and scientists to 'speak truth to power'. And we have long appealed to scientists and scientific knowledge to inform public...
