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• Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, ed. by H. David Banta
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Risk and Decision Making: Perspectives and Research, by National Research Council Committee on Risk and Decision Making (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Annual Report to the Congress, by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (partial serial archives)

• The OTA Legacy (full set of OTA reports, 1974-1996), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• OTA Priorities 1979, With Brief Descriptions of Priorities and of Assessments in Progress (OTA-P-81; 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Development of Medical Technology: Opportunities for Assessment (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Advanced Materials by Design (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Upgrading the Space Shuttle, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies, ed. by Marielena Lara and Clifford Goodman (page images with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (webbed edition, 2008), by David D. Friedman (HTML at daviddfriedman.com)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• The Future of Austria: Opportunities and Dangers in the Age of Nanotechnology (2006), ed. by Ernst Eugen Veselsky, trans. by Hedwig D. Thimig, contrib. by Robert B. Textor (PDF at Stanford)

• The Next Step: Exponential Life (Madrid: BBVA, ca. 2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Aubrey D. N. J. De Grey, Jonathan Rossiter, Joseph A. Paradiso, Kevin Warwick, Huma Shah, Ramon López de Mántaras, Helen Papagiannis, J. David Bolter, Maria Engberg, Robin Hanson, Stuart J. Russell, Darrell M. West, Chris Skinner, Steven Monroe Lipkin, S. Matthew Liao, James J. Giordano, Luciano Floridi, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, and Martin J. Rees (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications, ed. by Harold A. Linstone and Murray Turoff (PDF files and partial HTML at njit.edu)

• Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2014), ed. by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet M Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• A Passion for Ideas: How Innovators Create the New and Shape Our World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2002), ed. by Heinrich von Pierer and Bolko von Oetinger (PDF at Purdue)
• Product Liability and Innovation: Managing Risk in an Uncertain Environment (1994), ed. by Janet R. Hunziker and Trevor O. Jones (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by William Bonvillian, Robert E. Van Atta, and Patrick Windham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age (Madrid: BBVA, c2014), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Philip Evans, Kenneth Cukier, Geoffrey A. Moore, Haim Mendelson, George S. Day, Esteban García-Canal, Mauro F. Guillén, Joan E. Ricart i Costa, Christopher Warhurst, Sally Wright, Celia de Anca, Salvador Aragón, Alison Maitland, Stewart D. Friedman, Peter Thomson, Herzog & de Meuron, BBVA New Headquarters Team, William M. Klepper, John P. Kotter, Henry William Chesbrough, and Carol A. Adams (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Against Intellectual Monopoly (electronic edition, 2008), by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (PDF with commentary at dklevine.com)
• How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets, by Andy Kessler (PDF at andykessler.com)
• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Tomorrow's World: The Australian Initiative (HTML in Australia)

• The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by William Bonvillian, Robert E. Van Atta, and Patrick Windham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Science, Technology, and Innovation in Chile, by James Mullin, Robert M. Adam, Janet E. Halliwell, and Larry P. Milligan (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion: Making Technologies Work for the Poor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Nir Kshetri (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Free Innovation (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Eric von Hippel (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014), by Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia, Sarah Chung, Juan Jimenez, Alexander Simoes, and Muhammed A. Yildirim (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2009), by Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan David Aronson, contrib. by Donald Abelson (PDF with commentary at globalinfoandtelecom.org)
• Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2005), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• The Sources of Innovation (New York: Oxford University Press, c1988), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• Mastering the Global Transition on Our Way to Society 3.0 (2014), by Ronald van den Hoff (PDF with commentary at society30.com)
• Innovation: Perspectives for the 21st Century (Madrid: BBVA, c2010), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Alex Pentland, Sander Ernst van der Leeuw, Nathan Rosenberg, Hiroyuki Itami, Alfonso Gambardella, Francisco Louçã, David C. Mowery, Edward H. Lorenz, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Alice Lam, Eric von Hippel, Frank Moss, Curtis Ray Carlson, Harry West, Pascal Sobol, Joaquim Vila, Manuel Mira Godinho, Ian Miles, Robert E. Litan, Xavier Vives, Edward S. Rubin, Takanori Shibata, Hugh Herr, Ernesto Martinez-Villalpando, Carlo Ratti, Nashid Nabian, and Tod Machover (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• The Age of Perplexity: Rethinking the World We Knew (Madrid: BBVA, c2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Jannis Kallinikos, Robin Mansell, Jan-Werner Müller, José Luis Pardo, Diana Marie Owen, Evgeny Morozov, Simon Springer, Marysia Zalewski, John Andrews, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Ian Storey, Miguel Angel Centeno, Andrés Lajous, Douglas R. Nelson, Zia Qureshi, Adam Saunders, Andrew Gamble, Richard J. White, Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek, Adriana Conconi, and Mariana Viollaz (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (with related documents; 2011), by Ian Hargreaves (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment (1997), ed. by Jesse H. Ausubel and H. Dale Langford (page images at NAP)
• Innovation: Perspectives for the 21st Century (Madrid: BBVA, c2010), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Alex Pentland, Sander Ernst van der Leeuw, Nathan Rosenberg, Hiroyuki Itami, Alfonso Gambardella, Francisco Louçã, David C. Mowery, Edward H. Lorenz, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Alice Lam, Eric von Hippel, Frank Moss, Curtis Ray Carlson, Harry West, Pascal Sobol, Joaquim Vila, Manuel Mira Godinho, Ian Miles, Robert E. Litan, Xavier Vives, Edward S. Rubin, Takanori Shibata, Hugh Herr, Ernesto Martinez-Villalpando, Carlo Ratti, Nashid Nabian, and Tod Machover (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 (New York: F. Fell, c1950), by Hugo Gernsback, contrib. by Lee De Forest and Fletcher Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kun Nukkuja Herää (When the Sleeper Wakes in Finnish; 1907), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Jalmari Finne (Gutenberg text)
• Rx for Chaos (included on a Baen CD image), by Christopher Anvil, ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of "When the Sleeper Wakes", by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of "When the Sleeper Wakes" (London: T. Nelson and Sons, ca. 1910), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• When the Sleeper Wakes, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• When the Sleeper Wakes (London and New York: Harper and Bros., 1899), by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Smoke Signals: Selected Writing (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2016), by Simon Chapman (PDF with commentary in Australia)

• Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization, by Kevin Kelly (HTML and PDF with commentary at kk.org)

• New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, c2018), ed. by Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson, contrib. by Lea Bishop Shaver, Dalindyebo Shabalala, Thérèse Murphy, Laura A. Dickinson, Mark Latonero, John Emerson, Margaret L. Satterthwaite, Anshul Vikram Pandey, Ella McPherson, Lisl Brunner, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, G. Alex Sinha, and Enrique Piraces (HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Planning and Managing Scientific Research: A Guide for the Beginning Researcher (c2014), by B. L. N. Kennett (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Mastering the Global Transition on Our Way to Society 3.0 (2014), by Ronald van den Hoff (PDF with commentary at society30.com)
• Innovation: Perspectives for the 21st Century (Madrid: BBVA, c2010), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Alex Pentland, Sander Ernst van der Leeuw, Nathan Rosenberg, Hiroyuki Itami, Alfonso Gambardella, Francisco Louçã, David C. Mowery, Edward H. Lorenz, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Alice Lam, Eric von Hippel, Frank Moss, Curtis Ray Carlson, Harry West, Pascal Sobol, Joaquim Vila, Manuel Mira Godinho, Ian Miles, Robert E. Litan, Xavier Vives, Edward S. Rubin, Takanori Shibata, Hugh Herr, Ernesto Martinez-Villalpando, Carlo Ratti, Nashid Nabian, and Tod Machover (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• The Next Step: Exponential Life (Madrid: BBVA, ca. 2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Aubrey D. N. J. De Grey, Jonathan Rossiter, Joseph A. Paradiso, Kevin Warwick, Huma Shah, Ramon López de Mántaras, Helen Papagiannis, J. David Bolter, Maria Engberg, Robin Hanson, Stuart J. Russell, Darrell M. West, Chris Skinner, Steven Monroe Lipkin, S. Matthew Liao, James J. Giordano, Luciano Floridi, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, and Martin J. Rees (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• The Social Media Reader (New York and London: New York University Press, c2012), ed. by Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by John Carey and M. C. J. Elton (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• The Geek's Chihuahua: Living With Apple (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2015), by Ian Bogost (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)
• Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies (c2012), ed. by Diana Oblinger (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise: An Advisory Panel Report to the Office of Technology Assessment (1978), by United States Office of Technology Assessment Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise Advisory Panel
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

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