Institute For the Future

About IFF

The mission of the Institute For the Future is to educate leaders, develop knowledge and build communities to help society prepare for a future shaped by transformative technologies.

Shaping the Future

2014 the world’s first degree programme in cryptocurrency Institute For the Future

1st university in the world to accept Bitcoin for tuition payments Institute For the Future

1st to publish academic diplomas on the blockchain Institute For the Future

145,000+ students educated in academic and professional training courses Institute For the Future

Research and Education

Focus Areas

The Institute For the Future (IFF) was founded to explore the hypothesis that exponential technologies will cause rapidly accelerating societal change. Technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence are highly disruptive, even individually. However, as they reach commercial maturity and start becoming synergistic, they are expected to have compounding effects on the economy, social structures, legal systems, income distribution, governance, education, and warfare, and raise fundamental questions on how future society is organised.

Blockchain and Crypto Assets Our research initiatives examine the evolution and impact of decentralised technologies in a rapidly advancing digital economy.

Forecasting The Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC) conducts forecasting research, provides business support and training, and runs the M Competitions.

Metaverse The UNIC Open Metaverse Initiative is focused on the academic, research and policy issues relating to the metaverse.

Partners

Partners and Funders

Together, UNIC and IFF guide innovation, serving as the academic lead for the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum (a European Commission initiative to accelerate the development of blockchain within the EU), and the IFF was selected to serve on the Technology Advisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB).