Some of the
Early Classics of the Futures Field
Jim Dator
Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies
University of Hawai'i
May 1996
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W. H. G. Armytage, Yesterday's tomorrows: A historical survey of
future societies. University of Toronto Press, 1968.
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Kurt Baler and Nicholas Rescher, Values and the future: The impact
of technological change on American values. Free Press, 1969.
Edward Banfield, The
unheavenly city: The nature and future of our urban crisis.
Little, Brown, 1970.
Gregory Bateson, Steps
to an ecology of mind. New York: Ballentine Books, 1972.
Daniel Bell, The
coming of post-industrial society. A venture in social forecasting.
Basic Books, 1973.
Daniel Bell, ed., Toward
the Year 2000. Work in progress. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
Wendell Bell and James
Mau, eds., The sociology of the future. Russell Sage Foundation,
1971.
Warren Bennis, ed.,
The planning of change. Holt, Rinehardt, and Winston, 1969.
Warren Bennis and Philip
Slater, The temporary society. Harper & Row, 1968.
Peter Berger and Thomas
Luckman, The social construction of reality. Doubleday, 1966.
Clem Bezold, ed., Anticipatory
democracy. New York: Random House, 1978.
Robert Boguslaw, The
new utopians. Prentice-Hall, 1965.
Georg Borgstrom, Too
Many: A study of [sic ????]
Kenneth Boulding, The
image: Knowledge in life and society. University of Michigan
Press, 1956.
Kenneth Boulding, The
meaning of the 20th Century: The great transition. New York:
Harper, 1963.
Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Between two ages: America's role in the technetronic era.
Viking Press, 1970.
Harrison Brown, The
challenge of man's future. New York: Viking Press, 1954.
Harrison Brown, et al,
The next hundred years: Man's natural and technological resources.
New York: Viking Press, 1957.
Boris Burkov, ed., The
year 2017. Moscow, Novosti Press Agency, 1968.
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Nigel Calder, ed., The world in 1984. Penguin, 1965. Two volumes.
Rachel Carson, The
silent spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles
of the future, An inquiry into the limits of the possible. Harper
& Row, 1962.
George Chaplin and Glenn
Paige, Hawaii 2000: A continuing experiment in anticipatory democracy.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1971.
S. D. Cole, et al.,
Models of doom. Universe Books, 1973.
Edward Cornish, The
study of the future. World Future Society, 1977.
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Edward De Bono, New think: The use of lateral thinking in the generation
of new ideas. Basic Books, 1968.
P. Teilhard de Chardin,
Phenomenon of man. London: Collins, 1959.
Bertrand de Jouvenel,
The art of conjecture. Basic Books, 1967.
John Diebold, Automation,
the advent of the automatic factory. Van Nostrand, 1952.
John Diebold, Man
and the computer: Technology as an agent of social change. Praeger,
1969.
Theodosius Dobzhansky,
The biological basis of human freedom. Columbia University
Press, 1955.
Theodosius Dobzhansky,
Mankind evolving. Yale, 1962.
Rene Dubos, The dreams
of reason: Science and utopias. Columbia University Press, 1961.
Rene Dubos, Man adapting.
Yale, 1965.
Rene Dubos, The mirage
of health: Utopias, progress and biological change. Harper,
1959.
Peter Drucker, The
age of discontinuity: Guidelines to our changing society. Harper
& Row, 1969.
Peter Drucker, America's
next twenty years. Harper 1957.
Peter Drucker, The
new society. Harper, 1950.
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Paul Ehrlich, The population bomb. New York: Ballantine Books,
1968.
Jacques Ellul, The
technological society. Vintage, 1964.
Amitai Etzioni, Social
change: Sources and patterns. Basic Books, 1964.
Amitai Etzioni, The
active society. Free Press, 1968
William Ewald. Jr.,
ed., (Three volumes, each subtitled "The next 50 years"): Environment
and Change; Environment and Policy; Environment for Man. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1968.
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Don Fabun, The dynamics of change. Prentice-Hall, 1967.
George Fairweather,
Methods for experimental social innovation. Wiley, 1967.
Jerry Farber, The
student as nigger: Essays and stories. Contact Books, 1969.
Victor Ferkiss, Technological
man: The myth and the reality. George Braziller, 1969.
Ossip Flechtheim, History
and futurology. Veriag Anton Haim, 1966.
Foreign Policy Association,
ed., Toward the Year 2018. Cowles Educational Corporation,
1968.
Jib Fowles, ed., Handbook
of futures research. Greenwood, 1978.
Paolo Freire, The
pedagogy of the oppressed. Herder & Herder, 1970.
Buckminster Fuller,
Operating manual for Spaceship Earth. Pocket Books, 1970.
Buckminster Fuller,
Utopia or oblivion: The prospects for humanity. Bantam Books,
1969.
Clifford Fumas, The
next 100 years. Reynal and Hitchock, 1936.
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Dennis Gabor, Inventing the future. Knopf. 1964.
Dennis Gabor, Innovations:
Scientific, technological and social. Oxford University Press,
1970.
John Kenneth Galbraith,
The affluent society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
John Kenneth Galbraith,
The new industrial state. Houghton-Mifflin, 1967.
Eli Ginzberg, ed., Technology
and social change. Columbia University Press, 1964.
Paul Goodman, New
reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative. Random House,
1970.
Theodore Gordon, The
future. St. Martin's Press, 1965.
Martin Greenberger,
ed., Computers and the world of the future. MIT Press, 1962
Bertram Gross, The
state of the nation: Social systems accounting. Associated Book
Publishers, 1966.
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Everett Hagen, On the theory of social change: How economic growth
begins. Dorsey Press, 1962.
Daniel S. Halacy, Jr.,
Century 21: Your life in the Year 2001 and beyond. Philadelphia,
Macrae Smith, 1968.
Daniel S. Halacy, Jr.,
Computers: The machines we think with. Harper and Row, 1962.
Daniel S. Halacy, Jr.,
Cyborg: Evolution of the superman. New York: Harper & Row,
1965.
Sang Joon Hahn, ed.,
Korea in the Year 2000. Seoul: Korea Institute of Science
and Technology, 1971.
Yujiro Hayashi, ed.,
Perspectives on postindustrial society. Tokyo: University
of Tokyo Press, 1970.
Robert Heilbroner, The
future as history. Harpers, 1960.
Robert Heilbroner, An
inquiry into the human prospect.
Olaf Helmer, Social
technology. Basic Books, 1966.
Starr Roxanne Hiltz
and Murray Turoff, The Network Nation: Human Communication via
Computer. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1978.
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Ivan Illich, De-schooling society. Harper & Row, 1971.
A. G. lvakhnenko and
V. C. Lapa, Cybernetics and forecasting techniques. American
Elsevier, 1967.
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Erich Jantsch, Design for evolution: Self-organization and planning
in the life of human systems. G. Braziller, 1975.
Erich Jantsch, Technological
forecasting in perspective. Paris: Organization for Economic
Co-Operation and Development, (OECD), 1967.
Erich Jantsch and Conrad
H. Waddington, eds., Evolution and consciousness: Human systems
in transition. Addison-Wesley, 1976.
Robert Jungk & Johan
Galtung, eds., Mankind 2000. Allen & Unwin, 1969.
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Herman Kahn and Anthony Weiner, The Year 2000: A framework for
speculation on the next thirty-three years. Macmillan, 1967.
Robert Kostelanetz,
ed., Beyond left and right. Radical thought for our time.
William Morrow, 1968.
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J. C. R. Licklider, Libraries of the future. MIT Press, 1965.
Ferdinand Lundberg,
The coming world transformation. Doubleday, 1963.
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Michael Marien and Warren Ziegler, eds., The potential of educational
futures. Worthington, Ohio, Charles A. Jones Publishing, 1972.
Leo Marx, The machine
in the garden: Technology and the pastoral ideal in America.
Oxford University Press, 1964.
Eleonora Masini, ed.,
Visions of desirable societies. Pergamon, 1983.
Floyd Matson, The
broken image: Man, science and society. New York: Braziller,
1964.
Robert MacBride, The
automated state. Chilton, 1967.
James Mau, Social
change and images of the future. Schenkman, 1967.
David McClelland, The
achieving society. Van Nostrand, 1961.
John McHale, The
future of the future. G. Braziller, 1969.
Ian McHarg, Design
with nature. American Museum of History Press, 1969.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding
media. Singer, 1963.
Marshall McLuhan, The
medium is the message. Bantam, 1967.
Margaret Mead, Culture
and commitment. A study of the generation gap. New York: Natural
History Press, 1970.
Donella Meadows, et
al, The limits to growth. A report for the Club of Rome's project
on the predicament of mankind. New York: Universe books, 1972.
Emmanuel Mesthene, ed.,
Technology and social change. Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.
Emmanuel Mesthene, Technological
change. Its impact on man and society. New York: Signet Books,
1970.
Donald Michael, Cybernation.
The silent conquest. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions,
1963.
Donald Michael, The
unprepared society: Planning for a precarious future. Basic
Books, 1968.
Wilbert Moore, Social
change. Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Wilbert Moore, Order and change. Wiley 1967
Herbert Muller, The
children of Frankenstein: A primer on modern technology and human
values. Indiana University Press, 1970.
Lewis Mumford, The
myth of the machine. Technics and human development. New York:
Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
Alva Myrdal, To choose
a future: A basis for discussion and deliberations on futures studies
in Sweden. Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1974.
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William Ogburn, Social change with respect to cultural and original
nature. Dell, 1966.
Hasan Ozbekhan, Technology
and man's future. Rand, 1966.
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Aurelio Peccei, The chasm ahead. Macmillan 1969.
Robert Perrucci and
Marc Pilisuk, eds., The triple revolution. Social problems in
depth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.
Morris Philipson, ed.,
Automation: Implications for the future. Vintage, 1962.
John Platt, The step
to man. Wiley, 1966.
Fred Polak, The image
of the future. Oceana, 1961; Two Volumes.
Robert Prehoda, Designing
the future. The role of technological forecasting. Philadelphia:
Chilton Book Company, 1967.
President's Research
Committee on Social Trends, Recent social trends in the United
States. Two volumes, McGraw-Hill, 1933.
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Charles Reich, The greening of America: How the youth revolution
is trying to make America livable. Random House, 1970.
John Rosiansky, ed.,
Genetics and the future of Man. Appleton- Century-Crofts,
1966.
Walt W. Rostow, Stages
of economic growth. Cambridge, 1960.
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Carl Sagan & 1. S. Shklavskii, Intelligent life in the universe.
Holden-Day, 1966.
Donald Schon, Technology
and change: The new Heraclitus. Delacorte, 1967.
Roderick Seidenberg,
Anatomy of the future. University of North Carolina Press,
1961.
Roderick Seidenberg,
Posthistoric man. University of North Carolina Press, 1950.
Ben B. Seligman, Most
notorious victory: Man in an age of automation. Free Press,
1966.
Paul Shephard and Daniel
McKinley, The subversive science: Essays towards an ecology of
man. Houghton-Mifflin, 1969
Herbert Simon, Sciences
of the artificial.
B. F. Skinner, Walden
Two. Macmillan, 1948.
Julian Steward, Theory
of culture change: The methodology of multilinear evolution.
University of Illinois Press, 1955.
Henry Still, Will
the human race survive? Hawthorn Books, 1966.
Julius Stulman, Evolving
mankind's future. Lippincott, 1967.
Gerald Sykes, The
cool millennium. Prentice Hall, 1967.
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Gordon Rattray Taylor, The biological time bomb. New York:
The World Publishing Company, 1968.
Robert Theobald, An
alternative future for America. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1968.
Robert Theobald, The
challenge of abundance. Potter, 1961.
William Thomas, et al.,
Man's role in changing the face of the Earth. University
of Chicago Press, 1956.
George Thomson, The
foreseeable future. Harper and Row, 1955.
William Irwin Thompson, At the edge of history. Harper &
Row, 1971.
William Irwin Thompson,
Passages about Earth: an exploration of the new planetary culture.
Harper & Row, 1974.
The Institute of History
of Natural Sciences and Technology, and the Institute of Philosophy
of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and the Institute of Philosophy
and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Man--Science--Technology.
A Marxist analysis of the scientific-technological revolution.
Prague: Academia, 1973.
Alvin Toffler, Future
shock. New York: Random House 1970.
Alvin Toffler, The
third wave. Bantam Books, 1980.
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Stuart Udall, 1976: Agenda for tomorrow. Harcourt, Brace and
World, 1968.
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Warren Wagar, The city of man: Prophecies of a world civilization
in Twentieth-Century thought. Houghton-Mifflin, 1963.
Lynn White, Medieval
technology and social change. Oxford, 1962.
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics.
MIT Press, 1962.
Norbert Wiener, The
human use of human beings. Doubleday, 1954.
Henry Winthrop, Ventures
in social interpretation. Appleton- Century-Crofts, 1968.
Gordon Wolstenholme,
ed., Man and his future: A Ciba Foundation volume. Boston:
Little, Brown, 1963.
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Michael Young, Forecasting and the social sciences. Heineman
Educational Books, 1968.
Michael Young, The
rise of meritocracy, 1870-2033: An essay on education and equality.
Thames and Hudson, 1958.
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