Global Foresight Books – A Starter List
- A Brief History of Tomorrow, Jonathan Margolis (2012)
- A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution, Bowles and Gintis (2013)
- A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict, Ackerman and DuVall (2000)
- Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler (2012)
- Acceleration: The Forces Driving Human Progress, Ronald Havelock (2011)
- American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History, Charles Murray (2013)
- An Optimists Tour of the Future, Mark Stevenson (2011)
- Bad Predictions, Laura Lee (2000)
- Big Data: A Transformation of How We Live, Work, and Think, Mayer-Schönberger (2014)
- Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism, Michael Rothschild (1990)
- Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken (2008)
- Blown to Bits: Life Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion, Hal Abelson et. al. (2008)
- Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World, Diamandis and Kotler (2015)
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty (2014)
- Chasing the Scream: The (First and) Last Days of the War on Drugs, Johann Hari (2015)
- China’s Future?, David Shambaugh (2016)
- Codebreaking Our Future, Michael Lee (2014)
- Cognitive Computing: A Brief Guide, Peter Fingar (2015)
- Darwin Does Physics, John O. Campbell (2015)
- Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction & Fiction Drives Science, Brake and Hook (2007)
- Don’t Know Much About History: What We Need to Know But Never Learned, Kenneth Davis (2012)
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, Rachel Maddow (2013)
- Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, Hazel Henderson (2007)
- Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance (2017)
- Energy: Engine of Evolution, Frank Niele (2011)
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker (2018)
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–It’s Better than You Think, Hans Rosling (2018)
- Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, Ernst Weizsacker (1998)
- Free: Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit By Giving Some Things Away, Chris Anderson (2010)
- Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Get Richer Via Government (and Bill Us), David Johnson (2008)
- Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Vulnerable, & What We Can Do, Mark Goodman (2015)
- Future Shock, Alvin Toffler (1970/1984)
- Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age, Steven Johnson (2013)
- Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding, Charles Kenny (2012)
- Great Scientific Ideas that Changed the World (PDF, TTC), Steven Goldman (2007)
- Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture, Thomas Hughes (2005)
- Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species, Peter Nowak (2015)
- Infinite Progress: How Tech Ends Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, War, Byron Reese (2013)
- Innovation Nation, John Kao (2007)
- Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations, David Warsh (2007)
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark (2017)
- Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future, McAfee and Brynjolfsson (2017)
- Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization, Vaclav Smil (2013)
- Mega Tech: Technology in 2050, Daniel Franklin (ed.), The Economist (2017)
- Megachange: The World in 2050, The Economist (2012)
- Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken (2013)
- Networked: The New Social Operating System, Rainie & Wellman (2014)
- No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, Harry Markopolous (2010)
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright (2000)
- Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension, Samuel Arbesman (2016)
- Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Lives by 2100, Michio Kaku (2012)
- Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology, Edward A. Lee (2017)
- Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, Tom McCraw (2010)
- Reinventing Fire, Amory Lovins (2011)
- Reinventing Organizations, Frederic Laloux (2014)
- Republic, Lost, Lawrence Lessig (2011)
- Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin Toffler (2007)
- Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, Robert Reich (2016)
- Scale: Universal Laws of Growth, Innov., Sustain., & Pace in Orgs, Cities, Econ., & Co’s, Geoffrey West (2017)
- Smaller Faster Lighter Cheaper Denser: Innov Proves Catastrophists Wrong, R. Bryce (2014)
- Social and Cultural Dynamics, Pitirim Sorokin (1957/1985)
- Summa Technologiae, Stanislaw Lem (1964)
- Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (free online, like this Guide), David MacKay (2009)
- Sustainable Materials – Without the Hot Air, Julian Allwood and Jonathan Cullen (2015)
- Thank You for Being Late: A Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, Thomas Friedman (2016)
- Technolife 2035, Elina and Kari Hiltunen (2015)
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, Carlota Perez (2003)
- Technology and Society: Building our Sociotechnical Future, Johnson and Wetmore (2009)
- Technology’s Promise, William Halal (2008)
- The Acceleration of Cultural Complexity, Bentley and O’Brien (2017)
- The Acceleration of History, Gerard Piel (1972)
- The Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data, and the Future of Privacy, Scoble and Israel (2013)
- The Age of Speed: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World, Vince Poscente (2008)
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil (2000)
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson (2009)
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker (2012)
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, David Deutsch (2012)
- The Birth of Plenty: Creating the Prosperity of the Modern World, William Bernstein (2010)
- The Case for Rational Optimism, Frank Robinson (2009)
- The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, Paul Hawken (2010)
- The Eerie Silence: Renewing our Search for Alien Intelligence, Paul Davies (2011)
- The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, Shiela Jasanoff (2016)
- The Faber Book of Utopias, John Carey (Ed.) (1999)
- The Fair Society: Science of Human Nature & Pursuit of Social Justice, Peter Corning (2011)
- The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity, Byron Reese (2018)
- The Future of the Internet, Vols 1-5, Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie (2008-2013)
- The Future of the Mind, Michio Kaku (2014)
- The Idea-Driven Org: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas, Robinson & Schroeder (2014)
- The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, Ramez Naam (2013)
- The J Curve: A Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall, Ian Bremmer (2007)
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, Tom Friedman (1999)
- The Long Tail, Chris Anderson (2008)
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu (2011)
- The Nature of the Future, Marina Gorbis, 2013
- The New Killer Apps: How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Startups, Mui and Carroll (2013)
- The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Barnett (2005)
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Matt Ridley (2011)
- The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida (2014)
- The Science in Science Fiction, Robert Bly (2005)
- The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolffson and Andrew McAfee (2014)
- The Silent Intelligence: The Internet of Things, Kellmereit and Obodovski (2013)
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray Kurzweil (2005)
- The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg (2001)
- The Step to Man: On the Evolving Social and Intellectual Nature of Humanity, John R. Platt (1965)
- The Switch: How Solar, Storage, and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All, Chris Goodall (2016)
- The Technological Singularity, Murry Shanahan, 2015
- The Third Chimpanzee, Jaron Lanier (2006)
- The Transparent Society, David Brin (1998)
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Kline (2008)
- The State of Humanity, Julian Simon (1996)
- The Ultimate Resource 2, Julian Simon (1998)
- The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability – Designing for Abundance, William McDonough (2013)
- The Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler (2007)
- The World is Flat 3.0, Thomas Friedman (2007)
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella Meadows (2008)
- This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen Reinhart (2011)
- Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser (2012)
- Visions of Technology, Richard Rhodes (1999)
- Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes, Richard Clark and R.P. Eddy (2017)
- What Are You Optimistic About?, John Brockman (Ed.) (2007)
- What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly (2011)
- Who Gets What—and Why, Alvin Roth (2015)
- Who Can You Trust: How Tech Brought Us Together and Why it Might Drive Us Apart, Rachel Botsman (2017)
- Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich, 7th Ed, G. William Domhoff (1967/2015)
- Why the West Rules… For Now, Ian Morris (2010)
- Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Prosperity & Poverty, Acemoglu and Robinson (2013)
- World Futures: The Great Debate, Christopher Freeman and Marie Jahoda (1978)
- WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, Tim O’Reilly (2017)
Universal Foresight Books – A Starter List
- At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, Stuart Kauffman (1996)
- Convergence: The Deepest Idea in the Universe, Peter Watson (2016).
- Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful, George McGhee (2011)
- Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in Biology, Stan Salthe (1993)
- Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life, David Grinspoon (2003)
- Metaman: Merging of Humans & Machines into a Global Superorganism, Gregory Stock (1993)
- Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion, Stuart Kauffman (2010)
Young Adult Foresight – A Starter List
- The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon & Robert Sullivan, 1921/2013