Futurology Bibliography
A good introduction to the institutions, individuals, and methodologies involved in futures research can be found in the article "Inside the Future" by Stephen Rosen in INNOVATION, No. 18, February 1971. For more detail and depth, the following journals and books are recommended.
JOURNALS
THE FUTURIST, c/o World Future Society, PO Box 19285, 20th Street Station, Washington, D.C. 20036, $7.50 per year (monthly).
FUTURES, Iliffe-NTP Inc., 300 E. 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017, $22.50 per year (quarterly). FUTURES is published in cooperation with the Institute for the Future, Middleton, Conn.
INNOVATION, Technology Communication, Inc., 265 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016, $35 per year (monthly).
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, American Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017, $22 per year (quarterly).
BOOKS
Ayres, Robert U., TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND LONG-RANGE PLANNING (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969).
Baier, Kurt and Nicholas Rescher (editors), VALUES AND THE FUTURE (New York: The Free Press /Division of MacMillan, 1969).
Bell, Daniel (editor), TOWARD THE YEAR 2000 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969).
Bennis and Slater, THE TEMPORARY SOCIETY (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1968).
Drucker, Peter F., THE AGE OF DISCONTINUITY (New York: Harper & Row, 1968).
Fabun, Don, THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967).
Gabor, Dennis, INNOVATIONS: SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL (London: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Jouvenel, Bertrand de, THE ART OF CONJECTURE (New York: Basic Books, 1967).
Jungk, Robert and Johan Galtung (editors), MANKIND 2000 (London: Allen and Unwin, 1969).
Kahn, Herman and Anthony Wiener, THE YEAR 2000 (New York: MacMillan, 1967).
McHale, John, THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (New York: George Brazillier, 1969).
Michael, Donald N., THE UNPREPARED SOCIETY: PLANNING FOR A PRECARIOUS FUTURE (New York: Basic Books, 1968).
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Futurology Bibliography."
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