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THE FUTURE, FROM THE PAST:
Thomas More, Utopia
Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
William Morris, News From Nowhere
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
Jules Verne, Paris in the 20th Century
H.G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come
H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Awakes
H.G. Wells, Mind at the End of its Tether
King Camp Gillette, The Human Drift
David A. Wilson, The History of the Future
Robert L. Heilbroner, The Future as History
Thomas P. Hughes, American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm
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DYSTOPIAS: THE FUTURE BEGINS
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
George Orwell, 1984
Yevgeny Zemyatin, We
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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THE FUTURE IS NOW:
Alvin Toffler, Future Shock
John Naisbitt, Megatrends
Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
David McReynolds, We Have Been Invaded By the 21st Century
Daniel Bell & Stephen R. Graubard, Toward the Year 2000: A Work in Progress
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AGAINST THE FUTURE:
Kirkpatrick Sale, Rebels Against the Future
Gerry Mander, In the Absence of the Sacred
Gerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies
Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil
Paulina Borsook, Cyberselfish
Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information
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SALESMEN:
Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View
Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden, Joel Hyatt, The Long Boom
George Gilder, Telecosm
Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community
Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital
Timothy Leary, Design for Dying
Daniel Burstein & David Kline, Road Warriors: Dreams and Nightmares along the Information Highway
William Knoke, Bold New World
Jim Taylor & Watts Wacker with Howard Means, The 500 Year Delta
Michael Dertouzos, What Will Be
Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
Don Tapscott, The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence
Don Tapscott, Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
John Naisbitt, Megatrends Asia
Esther Dyson, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age
Paul Hoffert, The Bagel Effect: A Compass to Navigate Our Wired World
William A. Sherdan, The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Buying and Selling Predictions
Faith Popcorn & Adam Hanft, Dictionary of the Future: The Words, Terms and TrendsThat Define the Way We'll Live, Work and Talk
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TESTIMONY:
John Seabrook, Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace
Matthew Friedman, Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from teh Information Revolution
Ken Auletta, The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway
Mark Dery, Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
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SECOND THOUGHTS:
Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
W.R. Clement, Quantum Jump
Thomas K. Landauer, The Trouble with Computers
Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Moths to the Flame
Paul Smith, Millenial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in the North
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HUBRIS:
David Kuo, dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath
Philip J. Kaplan, F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts
John Cassidy, Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Stephen Paternot, A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Success, Excess and Reckoning
Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened
Robert J. Schiller, Irrational Exhuberance
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BAFFLEGAB:
Arthur Kroker & Michael A. Weinstein, Data Trash: the theory of the virtual class
Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, Digital Delirium
Kevin Kelly, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb
Pierre Levy, Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age
Katherine Hayles, How We Become Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics
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PROGNOSTICATIONS:
Lester Thurow, The Future of Capitalism
Hamish McRae, The World in 2020
David Halberstam, The Next Century
Pamela McCorduck & Nancy Ramsey, The Futures of Women
Paul Kennedy, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century
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