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Kahn, Herman and Wiener, Anthony J. (1967).
The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years. New York: Macmillan
Overview: This volume summarizes the thinking of Herman Kahn and his Hudson Institute colleagues concerning the world of the future. Contributor: Jeff Cornish, WFS, and Tom Karwoski AACC Date submitted: 5-03-05.
Kaku, Michio (1997)
Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century. Oxford University Press (ISBN: 198500866)
Overview: Based on scores of interviews with leading scientists, technologists, theoreticians and researchers, Kaku speculates about how scientific revolutions during the 20th C. in quantum physics, biogenetics, & computers position us for a transformational future. Contributor: Robin Potter, AACC, Date submitted: 5-03-06.
Moral Courage Taking Action When Your Values are Put to the Test. New York New York: William Morrow Harper Collins (ISBN: 0-06-059154-4)
Overview: Changing times challenges moral frameworks Contributor: Steele, AACC, Date Submitted: 5-03-04 (click on author for review). Chapter one online…
Kurzweil, Ray (2000).
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Viking Adult (ISBN: 670882178)
Overview: A startling set of proposals of what our future may include as the supposed distinction between human and technological intelligence blurs. Visionary. Contributor: Robin Potter, Date submitted: 5-03-06.
Lombardo, Thomas (2006)
The Evolution of Future Consciousness: The Nature and Historical Development of the Human Capacity to Think about the Future Authorhouse (ISBN: 1425944469).
"In The Evolution of Future Consciousness, psychologist and futurist Tom Lombardo examines the human ability to be conscious of the future, to create ideas, images, goals, and plans about the future, to think about these mental creations and use them in directing one’s actions and one’s life" (Contributor: Steele, 2006)
Lombardo, Thomas (2006)
Contemporary Futurist Thought: Science Fiction, Future Studies, and Theories and Visions of the Future in the Last Century. Authorhouse (ISBN: 1425945775).
"Contemporary Futurist Thought describes recent thinking about the future, dealing with both the hopes and the fears expressed in modern times concerning what potentially lies ahead." (Contributor: Steele, 2006)
Laszlo, Ervin (1996).
The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences). Hampton Press, Incorporated (ISBN: 1572730536)
Overview: Probably the most approachable and elegant introduction to the essential discoveries of systems science, an essential literacy for futures thinking -- written by one of the grandfather's of systems theory. Contributor: Robin Potter, AACC, Date Submitted: 5-03-06.
Loeb, Paul Rogat (1999)
Soul of A Citizen, Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time New York: St. Martin's Press
Overview: Great inspirational book. Contributor: Lawrie Gardner Date Submitted: 2005

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