Most Significant Futures Works

Given by Association of Professional Futurists

27 Works 26,107 Books 478 Reviews ½ 3.8
The Association of Professional Futurists recognizes the Most Significant Futures Works for the purpose of identifying and rewarding the work of professional futurists and others whose work show more illuminates aspects of the future.

The award also honors articles, blog posts, exhibits, games, reports, and research projects, not likely to be found in LibraryThing. show less
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All, 2020 (2), 2018 (1), 2015 (2), 2014 (4), 2013 (2), 2012 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (10)
WorkCategoryYear
Full-Spectrum Thinking: How to Escape Boxes in a Post-Categorical Future by Bob Johansen
Advance the Methodology and Practice of Foresight2020
Academia next : the futures of higher education by Bryan Alexander
Analyze a significant future issue2020
Strategic foresight : learning from the future by Patricia Lustig
Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies2018
Mutative media : communication technologies and power relations in the past, present, and futures by James A. Dator
Analyze a significant future issue2015
Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future by Ed Finn
Illuminate the future through literary or artistic works2015
Teaching about the Future by Peter C. Bishop
Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies - 1st Place2014
The Five Futures Glasses: How to See and Understand More of the Future with the Eltville Model by Pero Mićić
Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies - 2nd Place2014
Future: All That Matters by Ziauddin Sardar
Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies - 3rd Place2014
Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris
Analyze a significant future issue2014
Food for the City: A Future for the Metropolis by Peter de Rooden
Presents new images of the future2013
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers
Works that contribute to the understanding of the future of a significant area - 2nd Place2013
It's YOUR Future...: Make it a Good One! by Verne Wheelwright Ph.D.
Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies - 1st Place2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Advance the methodology and practice of foresight and futures studies - 2nd Place2012
Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet by Tim Jackson
Analyze a significant future issue - 1st Place2012
Future Savvy: Identifying Trends to Make Better Decisions, Manage Uncertainty, and Profit from Change by Adam Gordon
Honorable Mention2009
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
Honorable Mention2009
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey
Honorable Mention2009
Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era: History, Purposes, Knowledge (Human Science for a New Era, by Wendell Bell
Retrospective2008
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond
Retrospective2008
Futures Research Methodology by Jerome C. Glenn
Retrospective2008
The Art of Conjecture by Bertrand de Jouvenel
Retrospective2008
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
Retrospective2008
The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind by Donella H. Meadows
Retrospective2008
The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz
Retrospective2008
The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies: Foundations by Richard A. Slaughter
Retrospective2008
1997 State of the Future: Implications for Actions Today by Jerome C. Glenn
Retrospective Award for the series2008
State of the World 1984: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society by Lester R. Brown
Retrospective Award to the series2008

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