Business Week
1979 "The End of Industrial Society" Business Week # 2601:2-212, September 3.
Bowen, William
1979 "The Decade Ahead: Not So Bad If We Do Things Right" Fortune __(_):83-104.
Cetron, Marvin & Owen Davies
1991 Crystal Globe: The Haves and the Have-nots of the New World Order. New York: St. Martin's Press.
A set of global prognostications from Cetron's Forecasting International, Inc. foci - Europe, North America, The Pacific Rim, the Have Nots: The Middle East, Africa, Latin America, The Other Asia, and The New World Order. Appendixes: 90 Major Trends, Profiles 37 Countries That Point to the Future.
Cetron, Marvin and Thomas O'Toole
1982 Encounters with the Future: A Forecast of Life into the 21st Century. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Ellul, Jacques
1964 "A Look at the Future" Chapt 6, 428-436, in Jacques Ellul The Technological Society New York: Vintage Books.
Gallup, George Jr.
1984 Forecast 2000. New York: Wm. Morrow & Co., Inc.
Sociological survey method applied to the issue of the future; elicits some of the typical American view as of 1983/4. Findings seem to be written from frequency analyses only; no evidence of any more sophisticated multi-variate analysis of the data base, if such was conducted, is reported here.
Garreau, Joel
1981 The Nine Nations of North America. New York: Avon Books.
Not strictly a forecast, but a perceptive description of the nine regional cultures of North American and the geographic lines along whicvh they might cleave.
Hawken, Paul, James Ogilvy, Peter Schwartz
1982 Seven Tomorrows: Toward A Voluntary History. New York:Bantam Books.
A family of scenarios developed from variations in a set of forecast variables; one of the best models of scenario construction.
Heppenheimer, T. A.
1977 Colonies in Space. New York: Warner Books.
Kedutat, Sippanondah
1990 The Middle Path for the Future of Thailand: Technology in Harmony with Culture and Environment. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. (see also: Textor et al.)
Lamm, Governor Richard D.
1985 Megataumas: America at the Year 2000. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
McHale, John
1971 (1969) The Future of the Future. New York: Ballentine Books.
Moorecroft, Sheila
1993 Visions for the 21st Century. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Collection of 21 descriptive and prescriptive forecasts generally with sociopolitical emphasis.
Naisbitt, John
1982 Megatrends. New York: Warner Books, Inc.
Ten grass roots, wholey optimistic trends into the 21st century; all inferable from cultural evolutionary theory. Proports to be the product of content analysis of 6,000 local and regional periodicals over several years.
O'Neill, Gerard K.
1981 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future. New York: Simon and Schuster.
1997 The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
1974 "The Colonization of Space" Physics Today __(__):32-40.
Riner, Reed D.
1989 "The Future of Garbage" Proceedings, National Solid Waste Management Symposium. Flagstaff: Cocopai Resource Conservation & Development Area, Inc.
Riner, Reed D. and Melvin K. Neville
1991 "Futures of Higher education: Past, Present & Future" Futurics, A Quarterly Journal of Futures Research 15(3&4):57-67.
Stine, G. Harry
1980 "The Space Enterprise. New York: Ace Books.
1975 "The Third Industrial Revolution" New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons.
Textor, Robert B. and Kurt Steiner et al.
1983 Projected Sociocultural Effects of the Microelectronic Revolution. Standord, CA: Stanford University Press.
TIME Magazine
1992 Beyond the Year 2000: What to Expect in The New Millennium. Special Issue. 140(20), Fall.
Toffler, Alvin
1990 Power Shift. New York: Bantam Books.
1980 The Third Wave. New York: Bantam Books.
1975 Ecospasm. New York: Bantam Books.
1970 Future Shock. New York: Bantam Books.
The author and books which, more than any others, have shaped the reading public's current image of the future.
Veselsky, Ernst Eugen, Editor
1976 Oesterreich 1985: 100 Fachleute analysieren unsere Zukunft. Wien: Verlag Orac.
Findings of ethnographic futures research method applied in Austria. (See also Textor & Steiner 1983 above).
Wager, W. Warren
1991 The Next Three Futures: Paradigms of Things to Come. NewYork: Praeger Publishers.
Historian of the future appraises futures studies from H. G. Wells to present, then developes three alternative futures: technoliberal, radiacal, and countercultural ideologies expressed in areans of "Earth", Wealth and Power, War and Peace, and Living.
Wallerstein, Immanuel
1980 "The future of the world-econonmy" pp 167-180 in T.K.Hopkins and I.Wallerstein, Eds. Processes of the World-System. Beverly Hills: Sage.
Carson, Rachel
1962 Silent Spring. New York: Houghten Mifflin Company.
Cole, H.S.D., Christopher Freeman, Marie Jahoda, and K.L.R.Pavitt
1973 Models of Doom: A Critique of 'The Limits to Growth'. New York: UNiverse Books.
Cole, Sam
1987 "Global Models: A review of recent developments" Futures __(_):403-430, August.
Commoner, Barry
1971 The Closing Circle: Nature, Man & Technology. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Ehrlich, Paul R.
1968 The Population Bomb. New York: Ballentine Bookos, INc.
Ehrlich, Paul R, and Anne H. Erlich
1974 The End of Affluence: A Blueprint for Your Future. New York: Ballentine Books, Inc.
Heilbroner, Robert L.
19__ >The Human Prospect" (citation needed>
Laszlo, Ervin, et al.
1977 Goals for Mankind: A Report to The Club of Rome on the New Horizons of Global Community. New York: E.P.Dutton.
Meadows, Donella H., Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III
1972 The Limits to Growth: A Report to The Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. New York: Universe Books.
Mesarovic, Mihajlo & Eduard Pestel
1974 Mankind at the Turning Point: The Second Report to The Club of Rome. New York: E.P.Dutton and Company, Inc.
Odum, Howard T.
1971 Environment, Power, and Society. New York: Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Odum, Howard T, and Elizabeth C. Odum
1976 Eneryg Basis for Man and nature. New York: McGraw-Hill, Book Company.
Polgar, Steven
1978 "The Possible and the Desirable: Population and Environmental Problems" 63-70 in Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur Harkins, editors, Cultures of the Future. The Hague: Mouton/ Aldine.
Schell, Jonathan
1982 The Fate of The Earth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Strobaugh, Robert and Daniel Yergin, eds
1979 Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School. New York: Random Houes.
Wilden, Anthony
1978 "Ecosystems and Economic Systems" 101-124 in Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur Harkins, editors, Cultures of the Future. The Hague: Mouton/ Aldine.
Bergeson, Albert
1983 "Modeling Long Waves of Crisis in the World-System" Chapt 4, 73-91 in A. Bergeson, Editor, Crises in the World System. Vol 6 Political Economy of the World-System Annuals. Beverly Hills: Sage.
1981 "Long Economic Cycles and the Size of Industrial Enterprise" Chapt 9, 179-189, Ricahrd Rubinson, Editor, Dynamics of World Development. Vol 4 Political Economy of the World-System Annuals. Beverly Hills: Sage.
1980 "Cycles of Formal Colonial Rule" Chapt 5, 231-277 in A. Bergeson, Ed., Studies of the Modern World-System. New York: Academic Press.
Bergesen, A. and R. Schoenberg
1980 "Long waves of colonial expansion and contraction, 1415-1969" pp 231-277 in A. bergeson, Ed. Studies in the Modern World-System. New York: Academic Press.
Bottomore, T.B.
1966 "From the Ruling Class to the Power Elite" pp 28-47 in T.B.Bottomore Elites and Society ___: Penguin (1964 ___: Watts.)
Boulding, Kenneth
1972 "Towards a twenty-first century politics" The Colorado Quarterly 20(3):309-319, Winter.
1966 "The economics of the Coming Spaceship earth" 3-14 in Henry Jarrett, ed. Environmental Quality In A Growing Economy. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press.
1962 "After Civilization, What?" 3-14 in Richard Kostelanetz Ed. Beyond Right and left: Radical Thouyght for Our Times. New York: William Marrow and Company, Inc. (reprinted from Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 1962)
Dator, James A. "Beyond the Nation-State? Images of the Future of the International Political System" World Future Society Bulletin XV(6):5-14, Nov/Dec.
Gilpin, Robert
1987 The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Lewellen, Ted C.
1983 "Telectronics in the Wallersteinina World Capitalist System" Cultural Futures Research VIII(1):9-19; American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting Nov 16-20, Chicago, IL.
Maruyama, Magoroh
New Economic Thinking: Morphogenetic causal loops and product adaptation strategy" Futures __(_):437-441(?), August.
Riner, Reed D.
1981 "The Supranational Network of Boards of Directors" Current Anrthropology 22(2):167-172.
Wolf, Alvin W.
1982 "Sociocultural Integration Above the Level of the State" Cultural Futures Research, VII(1):9-16.
1977 "The supranational organization of production: An evolutionalry perspective. Current Anthropology 18(_):615-35.
Didsbury, Howard F. Jr, Ed.
1979 Student Handbook for 'Study of the Future'. Bethesda, MD: World Future Society.
Dustan, Maryjane and Patricia W. Garlan
1970 Worlds in the Making: probes for students of the future. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Fitch, Robert M. and Cordell M. Svengalis
Futures Unlimited: Teaching About Worlds to Come. Washington, DC: National Council for Social Studies.
Kauffman, Draper L. Jr.
1976 Teaching the Future: A Guide to Future-Oriented Education. Palm Springs, CA: ETC Publications.
Riner, Reed D.
1975 "Science Fiction and Anthropology: Fomr Contact to Colloquium" Science Fiction Research Association, Regional Meeting, Denver, CO.
Toffler, Alvin, Ed.
1974 Learning For Tomorrow: The Role of the Future in Education. New York: Random House - Vintage Books.
Sixteen essays review as many aspects of integration of the future into curricula in public schools, colleges and universities. Two+ decades later, it still the best book on teaching futures.
Tyzzer, Robert N. III
19__ "Science Fiction in the Anthropology Classroom" ____
Valero, Gloria
1992 "Annotations on Time and the Future" Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University.
Term paper for Ant547, provides annotations on extensive bibliography to Rifkin's Time Wars; 43pp.
Weiss, P.
1994 FUTURESCO: A UNESCO bibliographical bulletin of future-oriented literature; Culture. UNESCO.
Fleising, Usher
1986 "Nature, Culture and the Domestication of DNA" Cultural Futures Research __(_):__-__.
Gifford, James C.
1978 "The Prehistory of Homo sapiens: Touchstone for the Future" 71-100 in Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur Harkins, editors, Cultures of the Future. The Hague: Mouton/ Aldine.
Tax, Sol
1977 "Anthropology for the World of the Future: Thirteen Professions and Three Proposals" Human Organization 36(3):225-233, Fall.
Thompson, Stephen I.
1973 "Pioneer Colonization: a Cross-Cultural View. Addison-Wesley Module in Anthropology No. 33. Reading, MASS: Addison-Wesley Publiching Company, Inc.
Reed D. Riner, Professor, Department of Anthropology
email: Reed.Riner@NAU.edu
last updated on 10 August 1997