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In Forecasting, Mini Is Big

Posted on October 12, 2010
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Says reviewer David Pearce Snyder, Minitrends would have merited an enthusiastic review solely for having introduced a useful new term-of-art for the futurist’s toolbox. But the book offers much more than that. In Minitrends, Technology Futures Inc. chairman John Vanston (writing with TFI’s media and marketing director, Carrie Vanston) has distilled insights and techniques developed over a highly successful 40-year career in technology forecasting into a 189-page do-it-yourself guide to the early identification of those emerging developments that eventually become the “next big things.”

Paradigm-Breaking Books

Posted on September 23, 2010
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What follows is a sneak preview of Global Foresight Books (GFB). The GFB project was initiated in late 2009 by Michael Marien, founder and editor of Future Survey .

Driving Toward a New Destination

Posted on July 29, 2010
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By Patrick Tucker
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink. Riverhead. 2009. 242 pages. $26.95

The Postemployment Economy

Posted on July 29, 2010
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By Patrick Tucker
The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future by Martin Ford. Acculant Publishing. 2009. 253 pages. $15.95. Paperback.

Life Dollars: Finding Currency in Community

Posted on July 29, 2010
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By Douglas Rushkoff

The recent financial meltdown may not be punishment for our sins, but it is at least in part the result of our widespread obsession with financial value over values of any other sort.

China First

Posted on April 23, 2010
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By Patrick Tucker

China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society by John and Doris Naisbitt. Harper Business. 242 pages. $27.

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