Seminar 1: Book Reviews

-- a university of arizona course on methods and approaches for studying the future

This seminar covers brief content overviews of books about the future. Each section contains a series of reviews (the number is indicated below in parentheses). These are intentionally brief but may lead you to sufficient interest in the book that you will read more of it. If you only had to read one section, take the last one -- approaches learned from the experiences of others.

Another listing of futures books is by the Quinebaug Valley Community-Technical College. This is in library catalog format and the content is not available on-line. There are interesting readings posted by the Global Business Network Book Club (wide ranging titles to give context to futures topics rather than future-specific titles).

Go to Few Interesting Books

Go to Tour 3 - Futures Readings

Go to Futures Liturature

 

Popularized Visions or Images of the Future  (7)

Paradigm Shifts or Major Possible Discontinuities  (11)

Society and Organization Relative to the Future  (11)

Some Old Observations Revisited  (7)

Specific "Forecasts" About the Future  (11)

Foresight (4)

Approaches Learned from the Experiences of Others  (5)

Go to the "review of all books" large listing (all the above sections in one large file for ease of printing)