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• How Many Doctors Do We Need? A Policy Agenda for The United States in the 1990s, Based on the Tenth Private Sector Conference, 1985 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986), ed. by Duncan Yaggy and Patricia Hodgson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Canadian Distinctiveness Into the XXIst Century; La Distinction Canadienne au Tournant du XXIe Siècle (with articles in English and French; Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2003), ed. by Chad Gaffield and Karen Gould
  • PDF with commentary at Ottawa
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future (1996), ed. by Polly F. Harrison and Allan Rosenfeld (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Engineering and Environmental Challenges: Technical Symposium on Earth Systems Engineering (2002), by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s (1989), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Development and the Information Age: Four Global Scenarios for the Future of Information and Communication Technology (1997), ed. by John Howkins and Robert Valantin (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of A Workshop, ed. by Deborah Carr, Anu Pemmarazu, and Dorothy P. Rice (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of A Workshop, ed. by Deborah Carr, Anu Pemmarazu, and Dorothy P. Rice (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Development and the Information Age: Four Global Scenarios for the Future of Information and Communication Technology (1997), ed. by John Howkins and Robert Valantin (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

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

• There's a Future: Visions for a Better World (Madrid: BBVA, c2012), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Sohail Inayatullah, Jerome C. Glenn, José M. Sánchez Ron, Kevin Warwick, Sandip Tiwari, José M. Mato, Paul Raskin, Wallace S. Broecker, Mitchell Joachim, Melanie Fessel, Joaquín Vial, Clara Barrabés, Carola Moreno, Daniel Altman, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Claus Leggewie, Amitai Etzioni, Jennifer Gidley, Anne Lise Kjaer, and Beatriz A. Lara Bartolomé (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Futuros Imaginários: Das Máquinas Pensantes à Aldeia Global (Portuguese translation of Imaginary Futures; c2009), by Richard Barbrook (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village (prepublication drafts, to 2006), by Richard Barbrook (PDF files with commentary at imaginaryfutures.net)
• The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (second edition, 2009), by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and J. H. Friedman (PDF with commentary at Stanford)
• Spengler's Future, by John J. Reilly (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• From Abundance to Scarcity: Implications for the American Tradition (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Kenneth E. Boulding, Michael G. Kammen, and Seymour Martin Lipset (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Discovery of the Future (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1913), by H. G. Wells
  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Discovery of the Future: A Discourse Delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902 (London: T. F. Unwin, 1902), by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reworking Success (electronic edition), by Robert Theobald (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (2010), ed. by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki ! (PDF files with commentary at machineofdeath.net)

• Futurist Fifteen: An Old Moore or Less Accurate Forecast of Certain Events in the Year 1915 (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1915), by Barry Pain, contrib. by Alfred Leete (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Elements of Forecasting (fourth edition, c2007; with supplementary materials and other textbooks), by Francis X. Diebold (PDF files here at Penn)

• Elements of Forecasting (fourth edition, c2007; with supplementary materials and other textbooks), by Francis X. Diebold (PDF files here at Penn)

• New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (c1998), by Kevin Kelly (HTML and PDF with commentray at kk.org)
• Astro-Economic Interpretation: A Mundane Astrology Notebook (Kansas City, MO: G. E. Liggett and Associates, c1936), by L. J. Jensen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do?, by Gerald O. Barney, contrib. by Jane Blewett and Kristen R. Barney (HTML and PDF at millenniuminstitute.net)

• A World 2010: A New Order of Nations (Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 1992), by Charles W. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security (2003; released 2004), by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall (PDF at dtic.mil)

• A Solemn Warning to All the Dwellers Upon Earth, Given Forth in Obedience to the Express Command of the Lord God, As Communicated By Him, in Several Extraordinary Visions and Miraculous Revelations, Confirmed by Sundry Plain but Wonderful Signs, Unto Nimrod Hughes, of the County of Washington, in Virginia (New York: Largin and Thompson, 1812), by Nimrod Hughes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Development of Seership: The Science of Knowing the Future (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications. n.d.), by Bhakta Vishita (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Development of Seership: The Science of Knowing the Future (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, c1915), by Bhakta Vishita (page images at HaThitrust)
• Ordo Saeclorum: A Treatise on the Chronology of the Holy Scriptures, and the Indications Therein Contained of a Divine Plan of Times and Seasons; Together With an Appendix (London: J. W. Parker, 1844), by Henry Browne
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1902), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of Her Departure From the University of Michigan, ed. by Patricia Hodges, Mark Sandler, Maria Bonn, and W. John Price-Wilkin (HTML at Michigan)

• African Futures 2050: The Next Forty Years (2011), by Jakkie Cilliers, Barry B. Hughes, and Jonathan Moyer (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• Future War: An Assessment of Aerospace Campaigns in 2010 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1996), by Jeffery R. Barnett (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• 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)
• Austria 2005: Projected Sociocultural Effects of the Microelectronic Revolution (c1983), by Robert B. Textor (PDF at Stanford)

• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (1999), by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins (PDF files and partial HTML with commentary at natcap.org)

• Chinese Views of Future Warfare, ed. by Michael Pillsbury (HTML at af.mil)

• Teilhard and the Future of Humanity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), ed. by Thierry Meynard (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security (2003; released 2004), by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (1996), by National Research Council Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (page images with commentary at NAP)
• GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) for Predicting Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate (1994), by National Research Council Climate Research Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Class of 2014: Preserving Access to California Higher Education, by George S. Park and Robert J. Lempert (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of "English as a Foreign Language" (c2006), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
• The Future of English? A Guide to Forecasting the Popularity of the English Language in the 21st Century (c2000), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)

• The Future of the Corporation (Washington: AEI Press, 1996), by Michael Novak (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age (2008), by D. Paul Schafer (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

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