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Recommended Reading, Viewing List

The following is a recommended reading and viewing list.  Most books can be purchased at local book stores, on the Internet, from the World Future Society, or from the Kettering Foundation.

  Books:

  • Ariadne's Thread by Mary Clark

  • America What Went Wrong by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

  • Amusing Ourselves to Death by Niel Postman

  • Arrogant Capital by Kevin Phillips

  • Artificial Intelligence: The Search for the Perfect Machine by Lawrence Stevens

  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

  • Burning Money by J. Peter Grace

  • Century's End by Hillen Schwartz

  • Connections by James Burke

  • Controlling the Future: Managing Technology Driven Change by Stewart L. Stokes, Jr

  • Creating a New Civilization by Alvin and Heidi Toffler

  • CyberUnion by Arthur B. Shostak

  • Dealers of Lighting by Michael Hiltzik

  • Edison: Inventing the Century by Neil Baldwin

  • The Fifties by David Halberstam

  • Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

  • Future War by James Alexander

  • Good to Great by Jim Collins (About good management and leadership)

  • How Many People will the World Support by Joel E. Cohen

  • Government Racket: Washington Waste A to Z by Martin Gross

  • Introduction to the Future by Randall L. Scheel

  • Leadership for the 21st Century by Joseph C. Rost: ( Professor of leadership and administration ad University of San Diego)

  • Life after Television by George Gilder

  • Megatrends 2000 by John Naisbitt & Patricia Aburdene

  • Mega Mistakes:  Forecasting and the Myth of Rapid Technological Change by Steven Schnars

  • Moon Shot by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton

  • Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

  • Politics for People by David Mathews (Kettering Foundation)

  • The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrilich

  • Preparing for the Twenty-first Century by Paul Dennedy

  • Reinventing Government by David Osborne and Ted Gaebler

  • The Road Ahead by Bill Gates

  • Super Managing and Office Biology by Edith Weiner

  • Terrorists in the Face of God:  Why Religious Militia Kill by Jessica Stein

  • The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

  • Today Then compiled by Dave Walter

  • Triangle: The Fire that Changed America

  • The Ultimate Terrorist by Jessica Stern

  • Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution by K. Eric Drexler

  • Virtual Reality by Howard Rhengold

  • Why Americans Hate Politics by E.J. Dionne

  • When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten

  • The World of Fairs by Robert Rydell

  • The World in 2020 by Hamish McRae

  • The World of 2044 Edited by Charles Sheffield

  • Working Poor  by Barbara Ehrenreich

  • Working Without a Net:  How to Survive and Thrive in Today's High Risk Business World by Morris Schechtman

  Television Programs:

  • CNN.com -- CNN (Saturday Morning--about computers)

  • Nova -- PBS

  • Frontline -- PBS

  • Future Fantastic -- TLC

  • Modern Marvels--History Channel

  • Discovery Channel--Numerous science and technology programs.

  • Ultrascience -- TLC

  • CSPAN -- (Lots of good programming when Congress not in session)

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