Adam Hanft is an American brand strategist who also writes and speaks on business and cultural trends for a variety of print, television and online media.
[2] A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University's College of Arts and Sciences, Hanft serves on the Board of Directors[3] of Scotts Miracle-Gro, the world's largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products.
[4] He is also a strategic adviser to Conduit, Israel's largest Internet company,[5] LaunchBox digital, an early stage venture capital firm;[6] to Luminoso,[7] a text analytics firm that was incubated in the MIT Media Lab; and to Keas, a provider of wellness solutions using game mechanics.
[22] Hanft writes on a variety of political and cultural subjects for media that include The Daily Beast,[23] Salon,[24] Huffington Post,[25] CNN,[26] Wired,[27] The Atlantic[28] and AOL News.
[34] Many of the concepts and predictions published in "Dictionary of the Future" went on to become culturally-relevant phenomena, including: free-range children; ego-surfing;[35] Internet sentiment research; infographic design; locouture (local fashion); crowd-sourced new products[36] combat drones; data fasts,[37] and "online learning experts" as a job of the future.