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Moving to the frontiers of the future:

Albert H. Teich, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, brings us  TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE

This 8th Edition, Published in September of 1999 by Bedford/St. Martin's Press, is already a classic. It is geared to be a collection of readings intended for use in college courses on technology and society. A function it does well with essays covering a wide range of points of view.  In this era where out-of-the-box thinking is mandatory for what Alferd Lotka called orthogenesis, this book serves as fixed points for head swirling thoughts and possibilities.

For credentials: "Albert H. Teich is director of Science and Policy Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a position he has held since 1990. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and a B.S. in physics, both from MIT and has taught at George Washington University, the State University of New York at Albany and Binghamton, and Syracuse University".  With this extensive background, few are better suited to put together such a reading collection.    So before getting swallowed by a particular approach and perspective, take a panoramic look at the wide vistas of  TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE.

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Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future. Do they aim to control it, as many conservative reactionaries and liberal planners want to do? Or do they embrace it, even though they can't know what lies ahead? Postrel (editor of Reason magazine) firmly places herself in this latter category--the dynamists, she calls her happy tribe--and urges the rest of us to sign up. The future of economic prosperity, technological progress, and cultural innovation depends upon embracing principles of choice and competition. The downside of this philosophy, Postrel readily notes, is that it doesn't allow us to manage tomorrow by acting today.

1. The Future and Its Enemies : The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel, Virgia Postrel 2. What Will Be : How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives by Michael L. Dertouzos, Bill Gates 3. Trends 2000 : How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century by Gerald Celente 4. Conscious Evolution : Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential by Barbara Marx Hubbard 5. Gray Dawn : How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America-And the World by Peter G. Peterson 6. The Sovereign Individual : How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State by James Dale Davidson, et al 7. What Will Be : How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives by Michael L. Dertouzos, et al 8. The Transparent Society : Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? by David Brin 9. The Fourth Turning : An American Prophecy by William Strauss, Neil Howe (Contributor) 10. The Future in Plain Sight : Nine Clues to the Coming Instability by Eugene Linden 11. World Boom Ahead : Why Business and Consumers Will Prosper by Knight Kiplinger 12. The 500-Year Delta : What Happens After What Comes Next by Jim Taylor, et al 13. Third Wave by Alvin Toffler 14. The Quickening : Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World by Art Bell, Jennifer L. Osborne 15. The Community of the Future (Drucker Foundation Future Series) by Frances Hesselbein(Editor), et al 16. Reworking Success : New Communities at the Millennium by Robert A. Theobald 17. Megatrends 2000 by John Naisbitt, et al 18. Imagined Worlds (Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Freeman J. Dyson 19. Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan, Carol Sagan 20. Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet Horowitz Murray, Janet Horowitz-Murray 21. Future Shock by Alvin Toffler 22. Powershift : Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century by Alvin Toffler 23. The New Renaissance : Computers and the Next Level of Civilization by Douglas S. Robertson 24. Tips for Time Travelers by Peter Cochrane 25. Probable Tomorrows : How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years by Marvin Cetron, Owen Davies (Contributor) 26. The Fourth Turning; An American Prophecy by William Strauss, Neil Howe (Contributor) 27. Which World? : Scenarios for the 21st Century by Allen L. Hammond(Preface), Hammond Allen 28. Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing by Peter J. Denning(Editor), Robert M. Metcalfe (Editor) 29. Preparing for the Twenty-First Century by Paul Kennedy 30. Imagined Worlds (Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Freeman Dyson 31. War and Anti-War by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler (Contributor) 32. Deep Time : How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia by Gregory Benford 33. Digital Delirium (Culturetexts) by Arthur Kroker(Editor), Marilouise Kroker (Editor) 34. Failing the Future : A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century by Annette Kolodny 35. Life Without Disease : The Pursuit of Medical Utopia by William B. Schwartz 36. Beyond Humanity : Cyberevolution and Future Minds by Gregory S. Paul, Earl Cox 37. The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook by Dorothy R. Bates, Albert K. Bates 38. Bold New World: The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-First Century by William Knoke, et al 39. Is Progress Speeding Up? : Our Multiplying Multitudes of Blessings by John M. Templeton 40. Privacy in the Information Age by Fred H. Cate 41. Beyond Calculation : The Next Fifty Years of Computing by Peter J. Denning(Editor), et al 42. Future Talk: Conversations about Tomorrow with Today's Most Provocative People by Larry King, Pat Piper 43. The State of Humanity by Julian Lincoln Simon(Editor) 44. Bold New World : The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-First Century by William Knoke 45. Owning the Future by Seth Shulman 46. Quickening : Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World by Art Bell 47. Reality Check by Brad Wieners(Editor), David Pescovitz (Editor) 48. Predicting the Future : An Introduction to the Theory of Forecasting by Nicholas Rescher 49. Russia 2010 : And What It Means for the World by Daniel Yergin, Thane Gustafson (Contributor) 50. Utopistics : Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein 51. Predictions for the Next Millennium : Thoughts on the 1,000 Years Ahead from Today's Celebrities by David Kristof(Compiler), Todd W. Nickerson (Compiler) 52. Cyberpolitics : Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet (People, Passions, and Power) by Kevin A. Hill, John E. Hughes 53. Fabric of the Future : Women Visionaries of Today Illuminate the Path to Tomorrow by M. J. Ryan(Editor), Patrice Wynne 54. The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet : Tools of Scientific Revolutions (Nypl/Oup Lectures) by Freeman J. Dyson 55. Predicting the Future : From Jules Verne to Bill Gates by John Williams Malone 56. Visions of the Future : The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Oxford American Lectures) by Robert Heilbroner 57. A Short History of the Future by W. Warren Wagar, W. Warren Wager 58. Cheating Death : The Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever by Marvin Cetron, Owen Davies 59. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future [ABRIDGED] by Riane Eisler(Narrator) 60. The Next 500 Years : Life in the Coming Millennium by Adrian Berry 61. Turning Away from Technology : A New Vision for the 21st Century by Stephanie Mills(Editor), Theodore Roszak (Introduction) 62. Class Warfare in the Information Age by Michael Perelman 63. Knowledge Value Revolution : Or a History of the Future by Taichi Sakaiya, et al 64. The Soft Edge : A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution by Paul Levinson 65. Looking Forward : The Next Forty Years by John Marks Templeton(Editor) 66. Build, Operate, Transfer : Paving the Way for Tomorrow's Infrastructure by Sidney M. Levy 67. Dreams of Millennium : Report from a Culture on the Brink by Mark Kingwell 68. Today Then : America's Best Minds Look 100 Years into the Future on the Occasion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition by Dave Walter 69. Post-Work : The Wages of Cybernation by Stanley Aronowitz(Editor), Jonathan Cutler (Editor) 70. The Next 20 Years of Your Life : A Personal Guide into the Year 2017 by Richard Worzel 71. Prophecies : 2000 : Predictions, Revelations, and Visions for the New Millennium by Matthew Bunson 72. Toward the Year 2000 : Work in Progress by Daniel Bell(Editor), et al 73. Tomorrow's Global Community : How the Information Deluge Is Transforming Business & Government by Jim Mann 74. The End of the World : The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie