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• 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)

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• Information and Telecommunication Technologies: The Impact of Their Adoption on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (1996), by Elisabeth Lefebvre and Louis A. Lefebvre (PDF with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure (ca. 2016), by Nadia Eghbal (PDF and Epub with commentary at Ford Foundation)
• 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)
• The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), by Jamie Woodcock (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Public Access ICT Across Cultures: Diversifying Participation in the Network Society (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), ed. by Francisco J. Proenza (PDF at idrc.ca)
• Information Technology and the Networked Economy, by Patrick G. McKeown (PDF at theorangegrove.org)
• Luci e Ombre di Google (The Dark Side of Google) (originally in Italian, ca. 2007; with translations to English, French, and other languages), by Ippolita Collective (PDF files with commentary at ippolita.net)

• Digital Planet: The Global Information Economy (biennial reports (may need to scroll down page to see links), 1998-2010), by World Information Technology and Services Alliance (full serial archives)
• Informatica Economica (Bucharest: INFOREC Association, 1997-) (partial serial archives)

• Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets: Majority Staff Report and Recommendations (2020), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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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