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In a competitive job market with limited openings, futurists need to add value to what they do, beyond certificates.

Here are some recent future-related titles from the Center for Strategic International Studies, Yale, Georgetown Press and some other organizations that produce exceptional material for the futurist who insists on the best possible material. Happy reading.

To understand the city of the future, we must first understand the importance of proximity and the changing dynamic of our personal relationship with the physical community we find ourselves in.

With 17.3 percent underemployment, the only thing shrinking faster than wallets are time horizons.

The emergence of a global “She-conomy” will have a major impact on everything from education to marketing and branding to fertility levels. There are already many more women than men enrolled in and graduating from universities. Women have just overtaken men in the U.S. as the majority in the workforce.

A large, diverse audience packed Washington, D.C.’s Sidney Harman Hall this past Friday for the independently organized TED event TEDx MidAtlantic. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and over the decades, that focus has broadened to include pretty much every imaginable field.

Is there any field that has struggled more with foresight in recent times than the music industry? The compass is spinning wildly, and there is little consensus on where things are headed—much less which direction to go in. Meanwhile, the large questions just loom larger.