This proceedings for the IFIP 8. 2 working conference on Researching the Future is an attempt to pull together some of our research community’s best ideas about how to research the future. The choice of conference theme should be seen as a way to solicit work that can help in building the information system discipline=s futures infrastructure. Such an infrastructure is one that provides an initial and developing set of intellectual structures from which IS research can respond to the needs of our future society.