Bookshelf
Here's a list of what I've been reading (or re-reading) over the last few years. I tried to put these in some kind of order but many of them were difficult to categorise.
Scenario planning, strategic foresight & futurology
- Future Vision
- by Richard Watson and Oliver Freeman
- The Future: 50 Things You Really Need to Know
- by Richard Watson
- Knowing Our Future
- by Michael Lee
- Four Futures
- by Peter Frase
- 2062
- by Toby Walsh
- 2052
- by Jorgen Sanders
- The Usborne Book of the Future
- by Kenneth W. Gatland
- Futurescaping
- by Tamar Kasriel
- The World in 2050
- by Hamish McRae
- Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation
- by Kees Van Der Heijden
- The Sixth Sense
- by Kees van der Heijden
- The Art of the Long View
- by Peter Schwartz
- Futuring
- by Edward Cornish
- 2020: Visions of the Future
- by RICS Research Foundation
- Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New methods for quantitative, long-term policy analysis
- by Steven Popper and Robert Lempert
- Envisioning the Next 50 years
- by Bruce Sterling
- The Design of Things
- by Bruce Sterling
- The 500-Year Delta
- by Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor
- Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
- by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
- The Deviants Advantage
- by Ryan Mathews and Watts Wacker
- Over the Horizon
- by Bill Hollins and Gillian Hollins
- Global Trends 2005: An Owner's manual for the next Decade
- by Michael Mazarr
- Future Think
- by Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown
- The Catalogue of Tomorrow
- by Andrew Zoli
- The Clock of the Long Now
- by Stewart Brand
- Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Change
- by Clayton Christensen
- Footprints of the Future
- by Richard Neville
- Futurecast 2020
- by Robert Shapiro
- Re-Thinking the Future
- by Rowan Gibson
- Next: A Vision of Our Lives in the Future
- by Ira Matathia and Marian Salzman
- Futurecast 2020
- by Robert Shapiro
- Lookout 2009+
- by Atos Origin
- The Rough Guide to the Future
- by Jon Turney
- Dictionary of the Future
- by Faith Popcorn and Adam Hanft
- An Optimist's Tour of the Future
- by Mark Stevenson
- The World in 2050
- by Laurence C. Smith
Scenario reports
- Tomorrow Never Knows - Scenarios for the World in the year 2040
- Scenario booklet - September 2020
- Scenarios for the Future of Public Libraries
- Shell Global Scenarios to 2025
- National Intelligence Council 2025 Project
- CIA/NIC 2020 Report
- Ministry of Defence DCDC Global Strategic Trends
- The Next 200 Years: A scenario for America and the world
- by William Brown and Herman Kahn
- The Year 2000: A framework for speculation on the next thirty years
- by William Brown and Herman Kahn (1967)
Predictions
- 2011: Living in the Future
- by Geoffrey Hoyle
- Future Babble
- by Dan Gardner
- Bad Predictions
- by Sian Griffiths
- Predictions: The future of religion
- by Felipe Fernadez-Armesto
- Your Flying Car Awaits
- by Paul Milo
Society & culture
- Digital Vs Human
- by Richard Watson (that’s me!)
- Team Human
- by Douglas Rushkoff
- The Love Makers
- by Aifric Campbell
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- by Shoshana Zuboff
- Humankind
- by Rutger Bregman
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
- by Susan Cain
- The Lonely Century
- by Noreena Hertz
- Homo Deus
- by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Future of Life
- by Edward O. Wilson
- Progress
- by Johan Norbert
- Life 3.0
- by Max Tegal
- Prisoners of Geography
- by Tim Marshall
- Digital Vertigo
- by Andrew Keen
- Who Owns the Future
- by Jaron Lanier
- Alone Together
- by Sherry Turkle
- Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
- by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
- Future Shock
- by Alvin Toffler
- Futurewise
- by Patrick Dixon
- Future Perfect
- by Robyn Williams
- The Meaning of the 21st Century
- by James Martin
- The Extreme Future
- by James Canton
- Tomorrow's People
- by Susan Greenfield
- Radical Evolution
- by Jeol Garreau
- iBrain: Surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind
- by Gary W. Small and Gigi Vorgan
- Our Post Human Future
- by Francis Fukuyama
- Faster : The acceleration of just about everything
- by James Gleick
- In Praise of Slow: How a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed
- by Carl Honore
- Mindset
- by John Nasibit
- Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years
- by Richard Watson (full disclosure - that's me)
- Horizons 2020
- by Siemens AG
- Future Minds
- by Richard Watson (disclosure - that's me again!)
Economics
- The Black Swan
- by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Geography of Genius
- by Eric Weiner
- The World is Flat: a brief history of the Twenty-First Century
- by Thomas Friedman
- Freakonomics
- by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Education
- The Dumbest Generation
- by Mark Bauerlein
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
- by Daniel Pink
Energy
- The End of Oil
- by Paul Roberts
Environment
- The Long Emergency
- by James Howard Kunsler
- The Two-Mile Time Machine
- by Richard Alley
- Silent Spring
- by Rachel Carson
- Cool It
- By Bjorn Lomborg
- Heaven and Earth: Global warming, the missing science
- by Ian Plimer
- The Real Global Warming Disaster
- By Christopher Booker
Science
- 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense
- by Michael Brooks
- Department of Mad Scientists
- by Michael Belfiore
- What Remains to be Discovered
- by John Maddox
- The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
- by John Brockman
- The Future of Life
- by Edward O.Wilson
- The Right Mind
- by Robert Ornstein
- Instability Rules
- by Charles Flowers
- Physics of the Future
- by Michio Kaku
- 2030 Technology that will Change Our World
- by Rutger Van Santen, Djan Khoe & Bram Vermeer
AI
- The Road to Conscious Machines
- by Michael Wooldridge
- Human Compatible
- by Stewart Russell
- Atlas of AI
- by Kate Crawford
- AI: Its Nature and Future
- by Margaret Boden
- AI: A Very Short Introduction
- by Margaret Boden
Technology
- Disruptive Technologies
- by Paul Armstrong
- The Revenge of Analog
- by David Sax
- Out of Control
- by Kevin Kelly
- When Things Start to Think
- by Neil Gershenfeld
- The Singularity is Near
- by Ray Kurzweil
- Future Revolutions
- by David Mercer
- The Last Mortal Generation
- by Damien Broderick
- Darwin Among the Machines
- by George Dyson
- More than Human
- by Ramez Nan
- Future Hype
- by Bob Seidensticker
- What will be
- by Michael Dertouzos
Geopolitics
- The Power of Crisis
- by Ian Bremmer
- Disorder
- by Helen Thompson
- The Storm Before the Calm
- by George Friedman
- What’s Next
- by Chris Pattern
- A Brief History of the Future
- by Jacques Attali
- Megachange: The World in 2050
- Edited by Daniel Franklin
- The Next 100 Years
- by George Friedman
Warfare
- The Future of War
- by George and Meredith Friedman
- Wired for war
- by Peter Singer
Work & business
- The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here
- by Lynda Gratton
- The Future of Work
- by Richard Donkin
- The Future of Work
- by Thomas Malone
- Fast Forward: A View to 2015
- by the Hay Group
- Competing for the Future
- by Gary Hamel and C.K.Prahalad
- The Hungry Spirit
- by Charles Handy
- The Age of Unreason
- by Charles Handy
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- by W.Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
- Strategy Safari
- by Henry Mintenberg
- Living Networks
- by Ross Dawson
- The Future of Brands
- by Rita Clifton and Esther Maughan
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- by James Surowiecki
- The Rise of the Creative Class
- by Richard Florida
- The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
- by Alain De Botton
Media, newspapers & publishing
- The Future of Media: Resistance and reform in the 21st century
- by Robert McChesney
- Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy
- by Alex Jones
- The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age
- By Philip Meyer
- The Rise of the Image and the Fall of the Word
- by Mitchell Stephens
- Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
- by John Palfrey
- The Future of the Internet
- by Jonathan Zittrain
Retail
- Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
- by Paco Underhill
- The Call of the Mall: A Walking Tour through the Shopping Mall
- by Paco Underhill
- Buyology: Truth and Lies about Why We Buy
- by Martin Lindstrom
Money
- The Future of Money
- by B. A. Lietaer
- The Future of Retail Banking: Delivering Value to a Global Customer
- by Joseph DiVanna
Healthcare
- Healthcare's Future
- by Frank and Irene Swacker
Travel
- Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel
- by James Fallows
Music
- The Future of Music
- by David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard
History & the Future
- Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
- by Joseph J. Corn
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- by Jared Diamond
- Why Most things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics
- by P. Ormoerod
- The New Century
- by Eric Hobsbawn
- A User's Guide to the New Millennium: Essays and Reviews
- by J.G.Ballard
- What If? Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
- by Robert Cowley
Trends
- Signals
- by Jeff Desjardins
- 2030
- by Mauro F. Guillen
- Global Megatrends
- by Stefan Hajkowicz
- Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes
- by Sam Hill
- Megatrends
- by John Naisbitt
- Nine Shift
- by William Draves and Julie Coates
- Microtrends
- by Mark Penn
Ideas/innovation
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- by Thomas Kuhn
- Ideas that Changed the World
- by Felipe Fernandez Armesto
- The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws and the Forerunners of Corporate Change
- by Art Kleiner
- The Innovation Killer
- by Cynthia Rabe
- Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud
- by Peter Watson
- A Terrible Beauty: The People & Ideas that Shaped the Modern World
- by Peter Watson
- Disruption
- by Jean-Marie Dru
- Eating The Big Fish
- by Adam Morgan
The future (fiction)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- by George Orwell
- Brave New World
- by Aldous Huxley
- The Road
- by Cormac McCarthy
- The War of the Worlds
- by H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine
- by H.G. Wells
- Fahrenheit 451
- by Ray Bradbury
- Neuromancer
- by William Gibson
- Snow Crash
- by Neal Stephenson
- The Shockwave Rider
- by John Bruner
- The Illustrated Man
- by Ray Bradbury
- Halting State
- by Charlie Stross
- Cell
- by Stephen King
- Rainbow's End
- by Vernor Vinge
- Anathem
- by Neil Stephenson
Data visualisation & maps
- How to Lie with Maps
- by Mark Monmonier
- The Atlas of Experience
- by Louise van Swaaji
- Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
- by Peter Turchi
Miscellaneous
- How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
- by Daniel H. Wilson
- Where's My Jetpack?
- by Daniel H. Wilson
- The Clock of the Long Now
- by Stewart Brand
- The Futurist
- by James P. Othmer
- The Art of Looking Sideways
- by Alan Fletcher
- Brave New Worlds: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
- by Jeff Prucher
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- by Jane Jacobs