Predicting specifics
about the future is difficult, but the general outlines can be determined
with varying degrees of confidence. Books on the future range
from the doom-and-gloom to the overly optimistic. Dip into
a few of the following to get a sense of the types of trends which
may influence your own thinging. Click any hyperlinked title
to read a full book review.
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| Daniel
Burrus, Technotrends: How to Use Technology to Go Beyond
Your Competition, Harper
Business, New York (1993).
Despite the title, stronger on social
trends than on technology.
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| Arthur
C. Clarke, How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village,
Bantam, New York (1992).
A highly personal look at telecommunications
by one of the great futurists.
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| Joseph
F. Coates & Jennifer Jarratt, What Futurists Believe,
World Future Society, Bethesda,
Maryland (1989).
Thumbnail sketches of the approaches,
beliefs, and foci of seventeen prominent futurists.
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| Milton
Friedman & Rose D. Friedman, Two
Lucky People: Memoirs,
University of Chicago
Press, Chicago & London (1998).
Few people are
lucky in love, careers, friends, and influence. This
is the story of two economists who were - Nobel Laureate
Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman.
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Thomas L. Friedman, The
Lexus and the Olive Tree,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (1999).
Globalization, with its attendant rapid
change, is a fact of life. This book tells how it
occurred and what it means - for individuals, for organization,
and for governments.
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| Paul
Kennedy, Preparing for the Twenty-first Century,
Random House, New York (1993).
A comprehensive, engaging guide to the
interactions of population growth, new technologies, economics,
and political/societal impacts and reactions.
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Hamish McRae, The World in 2020:
Power, Culture & Prosperity,
Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, MA (1994).
Examines major trends with region-specific
prognostications.
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| Ian
Morrison & Greg Schmidt, Future Tense: The Business
Realities in the Next Ten Years,
William Morrow, New York (1994).
Applies decades long trends in many
areas to the future of business.
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| Ian
Morrison, The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change,
Ballantine, New York (1996).
Introduces another paradigm for reacting
to change within organizations driven from without.
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| John
Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdene, Megatrends 2000: Ten
New Directions for the 1990's,
William Morrow, New York (1990).
Updates the original for a new decade.
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| John
Naisbitt, Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our
Lives, Warner, New York
(1982).
Looks at ten big directions likely to
transform society.
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| John
Naisbitt, Megatrends Asia: Eight Asian Megatrends That
Are Reshaping Our World,
Simon & Schuster, New York (1996).
Looks at eight big Asian trends likely
to reshape the world.
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Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership
Creating a Compelling Sense of Direction for Your Organization,
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (1992).
First-rate guide from an acknowledged
master.
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| Gerard
Piel, Only One World: Our Own to Make and to Keep,
W. H. Freeman, New York (1992).
A wide-ranging overview of the human
condition from the long-time publisher of Scientific
American.
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| Peter
Schwartz, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future
in an Uncertain World, Doubleday
Currency, New York (1991).
Encourages flexible planning through
scenario building.
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| Julian
L. Simon, The State of Humanity,
Blackwell, Oxford UK and Cambridge USA (1995).
58 chapters by several dozen writers
on every trend imaginable, all backed up with hard data.
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| John
M. Templeton, Looking Forward: The Next Forty Years,
K. S. Giniger (Harper Business), New York (1994).
Provocative, generally optimistic thoughts
of ten eminent leaders on social issues as they will unfold
in the next half century.
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| Robert
B. Tucker, Managing the Future,
Putnam, New York (1993).
Ten driving forces for the 90’s, with
lots of brief company-based examples.
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| Dave
Walter (Ed.), Today Then: America's Best Minds Look 100
Years into the Future on the Occasion of the 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition, American
& World Geographic, Helena, Montana (1992).
Reprints the 74 essays about what the
next century would look. Written in preparation for the
1893 Columbian World’s Exposition.
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| Walter
B. Wriston, The Twilight of Sovereignty,
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1992).
Putting a revolution into historical
context during the revolution is a pretty neat trick.
This book does it for the information revolution we have
been living through these last couple decades.
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| Daniel
Yergin & Thane Gustafson, Russia 2010 and What It Means
for the World, Random House,
New York (1993).
Scenario planning on a large scale on
a vitally important topic.
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