About

An institute, not a consultancy

HFI studies long-running changes in how people work, govern, build and belong.

SuperShifts are the nine forces the institute tracks. Every pattern it publishes is placed against one.

HFI takes no vendor funding.

Structure

Five labs, forming

FORMING

Space settlement, the off-world economy and what humanity takes with it.

FORMING

Healthspan, biology as a platform, and the systems that must adapt to longer lives.

FORMING

How machine intelligence changes institutions, work and decisions.

FORMING

How authority, legitimacy and public decision-making evolve.

FORMING

Living systems, climate adaptation and the economics of a changing planet.