DPI-685
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2025 Visions & Information Policy:
Considering the Public Interest
SYLLABUS
Spring 2015
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Instructor: Nolan A. Bowie, J.D.
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11:40 PM-1:00 PM
Office: Littauer-233
Room T-301
(617) 496-6845
Office hours: Tu/W/Th 11:00 AM- 5:00 PM or by appointment.
Faculty Assistant: Michael Weinbeck
Office: Littauer -133
Email: michael_weinbeck@hks.harvard.edu
Office phone:(617) 496-4485
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find
themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer)
The future belongs to the hyper-adaptive. (Anon.)
Purpose and Background:
The number 2025 in the title of this course represents the working definition
of the 'long-term' target of the thinking and analysis needed to grapple with
the kinds public policy initiatives needed to serve and promote the overall
interests and needs of our future generations of citizens, consumers, workers,
students--persons who are real human beings, our children and so on. But I
was recently informed that we must think about and make long rang plans
and policies for what is expected during the future of the next 30 years –more
geopolitical uncertainty and an increasing acceleration of technological
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change due to the effects of Moore’s Law, smarter Artificial Intelligence, and
the unknown and unknowable externalities.
Initially, when I began to teach this course, it was titled "2020 Visions &
Information Policy: Considering the Public Interest. The name reflected
clarity of vision and looked to the year as he step-off into the long-term
future. I later decided to pushed the target year ahead a bit in order to insure
that students taking this course would look sufficiently far over the horizon
so that her or his vision becomes foggy and unclear at best in order to rely
upon their logical imaginations and reasoning--to speculate and to think
about policy responses to "what if" questions. One of the purposes of the
course is to get future policy leaders to think out of conventional boxes as
well as to reexamine their own current assumptions about the future but also
their assumption about our current public policy and whether any policy
making process so influenced by corporate money and an army of lobbyist
can reach desired and necessary democratic outcomes. Creative
imaginations and skepticism are welcome here.
Ideally, public policy, especially that which is developed for the long term,
ought to promote the public interest (i.e., the publics’ interest, promote the
general public welfare, fundamental fairness, human and civil rights, civil
liberties, justice, democratic and human values, etc.) for not just for the
current generation, but especially and essentially for future generations—our
children, our children’s children, and their children and so on.
Public policy is fundamentally about the choices we have, based upon our
core values and open access to public information and the opportunity to
participate in the democratic process of making public choices, that is, public
policy. Because the US and global economy is in a declining great recession or
depression, governments at all levels are readjusting spending priorities in
order to meet current demands to cut or downsize investments in the welfare
state and the notion of maintaining public safety nets for the bottom rungs of
society--the poor, racial and political minorities, women, the elderly, children,
human beings with disabilities. From a public policy point of view, what
should government do to empower local communities to further empower
themselves in the digital information society of the 21st century--as it is, and,
as it is likely to become if significant trends continue or accelerate without
political intervention (policy making)? Will any government, during the next
13 years, have the economic capacity (budget surplus) and political will to set
aside sufficient amounts of resources to fund upgrading core infrastructures
(public goods) of communication (universal access to ultra-speed broadband
connectivity), education, transportation, health, energy, defense, homeland
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and national security, art and music? Or, do we prefer a future as depicted in
the dystopian movies: Blade Runner, The Matrix, Equilibrium, Minority Report,
Elysium, Gattaca, Capitan America: The Winter Soldier, Snowpiercer, Enemy of
the State, The Purge: Anarchy, etc.?
You've probably noticed that Internet years appear shorter and faster than
analog years of old. It is because Moore’s Law (holding that computing power
doubles every 18-24 months while its price is halved) and the forces
globalization are the primary accelerators of change. Thus, while we may
sometimes see what’s on the horizon, it becomes increasingly difficult to
accurately determine or even anticipate what is on the other side of it—the
long-term future (a period of time when we'll all be dead).
This course will focus on the difficulty of long-term public policy making in an
era exemplified by dynamic, punctuated change, increasing uncertainty,
limited and decreasing energy and water resources, global warming,
asymmetrical warfare and terrorism, instant communication and awareness
via surveillance in a global knowledge-based digital economy where strategic
advantage belongs to hyper-adaptive individuals, firms and organizations,
communities, nation states and regions of the world that have ready access to
the right kinds of information, education, knowledge, competencies and skill,
infrastructures, communication appliances, content and gizmos.
Much of what public policy makers are guided by in their collective decisionmaking concerning the future is based on a mix of speculation, assumptions,
economic interests and politics--not necessarily verifiable scientific facts.
Sound public policy outcomes are based on facts and decided openly and
transparently in order to allow citizens to hold government accountable and
for government to earn legitimacy.
Since public policy makers must necessarily attempt to anticipate the future
in order to develop appropriate and necessary strategies, plans and policy
vehicles (laws and regulations) that can minimize or bypass market failure
and natural and human-made calamities, they must rely on imperfect and
incomplete information, data, and knowledge because of the very nature of
change, probability, chaos, and due to the effects of wildcards, black swans
and unanticipated consequences of their choices (externalities).
What will the world likely look like after the passage of the next 13 years or
even later? Will China, or say, "Chindia" (a merger or convergence between
China and India into a single (duopoly) economic-political bloc) rule the
world, or will China rule alone, as suggested by one of the recommended text
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(When China Rules the World)? Are we likely to be engaged in a perpetual
cyber-war that threatens our critical infrastructures, personal privacy and
lives? Will robots, bioengineering, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence,
ubiquitous surveillance, censorship, propaganda, and new informationcommunication-media technology effectively enhance, reduce or eliminate
the quality of our lives in terms of personal autonomy, human dignity,
freedom of expression (having voice), freedom to work and travel, freedom of
association and individual rights guaranteeing due process and equal
protection under law and to other fundamental human and civil rights and
liberties?
What is the future of personal privacy, of literacy and education, of
democracy and the role of citizenship/netizenship in an increasingly
interconnected, always-on matrix will be discussed and argued. Who owns
information and knowledge and for what purposes, and, for how long? Does
information really want to be free and open, or, closed and
limited/classified/censored, restricted (WikiLeaks says no to the latter.)?
What is the future role of e-government, of corporations (as persons or
political constructions), of communities (virtual and otherwise)? How can
and should communities be empowered with information, education, and
communications technology, applications (apps), useful content and eservices? Should firm deadlines be set for bridging local, national and global
digital divides? Should the Internet be regulated, and if so, how, by which
agency and under what authority?
What is the future of journalism, lifelong learning, warfare, robotics, genetic
engineering and nanotechnology, and do these technologies ultimately
threaten human extinction or longevity as enhanced cyborg-beings? Does the
Internet and computers change our minds/brains, distract and cause us to
lose our ability to focus our attention or to think abstractly or to dream,
monitor and control or unduly influence our behavior and beliefs?
The United States does not currently have an effective state-of-the-art
national communications-information-education infrastructure necessary for
the whole of the nation and all of its people to be sufficiently competitive,
skilled, or trained for productive jobs and professions of a digital future that
is increasingly global and knowledge based. Moreover, the global cultural
and economic environments now give strategic advantages to hyper-adaptive
individuals, groups, organizations, nation states and to regions of the world
that have ready access to information and knowledge. These advantages can
be shared or it can primarily further advantage only the top 1% of the
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population. Will this nation or any nation still have digital divides in the year
2025, in 2030, or forever? If so, why, especially since the barriers are not
technological but rather political? What are the likely consequences of our
policy choices?
We all know that there is no definitive single future, but instead, there are an
unlimited range of possible or probable futures. This is not to say however
that human beings cannot anticipate and influence the future or futures, but
to do so with any degree of accuracy, assumptions about future crisis, needs
and consequences must be based on a realistic assessment about human
nature and behavior, verifiable history, our present condition, the capability
and limits of science and technology and technology assessments in lieu of
merely or primarily relying upon wishful thinking, (truthiness or gutthinking), or mythologies of exceptionalism or other forms of propaganda or
technique designed to distract the public's attention away from civil society
and more toward the consumption of unnecessary stuff.
Some 17 years ago Congress eliminated its Office of Technology Assessment
(OTA). It thus gave up the possibility of being duly or fully informed in
advance regarding any meaningful possible threats and dangers of, by or from
new technology, based on scientific proof, consisting of hard, independent,
academic research and fact-finding. Perhaps, members of Congress don't
want to know about potential threats and dangers posed by emerging
technologies of the future? Perhaps lobbyists for technology companies don’t
want members of Congress to be fully informed because asking hard
questions in the public interest may delay the rollout of new profitable
products. And, moreover, since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens
Untied, the voices of corporate lobbyists now speak the loudest, but
anonymously. And we call it raional, democraic public policy making. 
Students taking this course will read excerpts and articles from science fiction
novels, view scenes from sci-fi film, and, more importantly, they will write
scenarios about their visions of both utopian and dystopian futures based
upon their assumptions about the realistic possibilities of political and
administrative public policy reform post Citizens United, the capacity and use
of new technology in communication, surveillance, policing, warfare, social
engineering and hypodermic marketing via algorithmic meta-analysis.
How likely will there be a future American Spring? Will the Millennial
generation or Generation X or future unborn generations willingly pay tax
burden passed on to them by the so-called Best generation and the BabyBoom
generation that failed to invest adequate resources for needed infrastructure
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and other public goods?
This course, 2025 Visions and Information Policy: Considering the Public
Interest, will examine these issues and will question the core values and
ethics of long term information and communication policymaking in the
United States compared with other industrial and rapidly emerging nations in
Asia, South America and Western Europe (including the so-called BRICs).
Course Requirements:
Students must stay abreast of the reading assignments and actively
participate in class discussions. Informed discussions and dialogue between
and among the students and instructor is desired and encouraged. Classes
will proceed on the assumption that everyone has done the readings and has
opinions and perspectives worth sharing. The instructor will, from time to
time, introduce new material via e-mailings or distributions of articles via a
course blog that will supplement, complement, and make current the topics
under review. An occasional guest lecturer will be invited to discuss his or
her experiences and expertise regarding relevant issues. The instructor will
also make occasional use of multimedia materials including the showing of
excerpts from films, TED Talks and YouTube videos to stimulate the
discussion of possible futures. Students will be required to write 2 or 3 short papers/scenarios about
possible futures, from utopian (utopia—an imaginary place of ideal
perfection, especially in laws, government, and social conditions) to
dystopian (dystopia—an imaginary place depressingly wretched whose
people lead a fearful existence) futures, based on different sets of
assumptions and policy goals. Students, in collaboration with one another
(Collective Genius/Wisdom of the Crowd), will consider a variety of outcomes, values and approaches regarding the worse of worlds.
Sci-fi novels and movies as well as traditional texts, the blogosphere, trend
reports, and the predictions of “experts,” think tanks, and the work of creative
speculators will be explored in order to think about how society may attain
desired outcomes and avoid dystopia or even lesser catastrophe.
There will also be one final researched public policy paper (with appropriate
citations of authorities contained in footnotes and/or endnotes) of 20-25
pages in length or an acceptable multimedia or real project that might include
the submission of formal or informal comments in an active FCC rule making
proceeding [e.g., the National Broadband Plan proposal that faces judicial and
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congressional opposition regarding whether the FCC has authority or the
means to execute its proposal]. Other possible topics include public policy
responses to an emerging panoptic surveillance society; the increasing
privatization and monetizing of information and knowledge, the future of
journalism, news, and/or entertainment as a means to inform citizens and
consumers or for the purpose of distraction and control, and the possible
consequences that real-time language translation may have on the diversity
of thought, viewpoint and the future of deep data guided propaganda,
persuasion and the hypodermic target-marketing of consumers and citizens
and the true meaning of e-democracy.
Students should plan to meet with the instructor early during the semester to
discuss research issues for their term paper. A research outline will be due in
early April. The final paper is due a week prior to the deadline for final term
grade submission.
NOTE: If you are sure you will take this course, please notify instructor
ASAP via email including your full email address in the text of the
message. I will use this email address to interact and communicate with
students regularly.
Required Readings:
“Why the future doesn't need us’, ” By Bill Joy. (Our most powerful 21st-century
technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make
humans an endangered species.),
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
“Foundations of U.S. Information Policy,“ U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIA.
(13 pages)
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, National Intelligence Council. (Indepth research, detailed modeling and a variety of analytical tools drawn from
public, private and academic sources were employed in the production of Global
Trends 2030. NIC leadership engaged with experts in nearly 20 countries—from
think tanks, banks, government offices and business groups—to solicit reviews of
the report). Download full report at:
http://www.dni.gov/index.php/about/organization/national-intelligence-councilglobal-trends
Summary at:
http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Interactive%20Le%20Menu.pdf
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“National Broadband Plan: Connecting America,” by the Federal
Communications Commission, (March 2010) and select Comments, online.
Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism, by Thomas E.
Patterson
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant
Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
@ War:The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, by Shane Harris (228 pages).
The Future, Declassified: Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take
Action , by Mathew Burrows
The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
Hardcover – March 6, 2014
by Patrick Tucker
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Note to Recommended Readings & Movies/DVDs*
(* It is not my intent to suggest that students taking this course refer to all
the suggested content sources listed. Rather, the list is provided for any
curious reader of this course syllabus who wants to be better informed about
the full range of choice we have in determining what kind of society we want
to be in the 21st century and beyond; what kind of human beings we want to
be; what kinds of values and quality of life we want to live and embrace. We
have lots of options for influencing political, social, economic outcomes only if
we are informed and actively engaged citizens in a true democracy.
If you have a better reading/viewing list that empowers citizens and
communities and enhances democratic values and principles via new
technology public policy, please send it to me. I'm still learning too.)
Recommended Readings:
“The Global Technology Revolution 2020, In-Depth Analyses
Bio/Nano/Materials/Information Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications”
by Richard Silberglitt, et.al., (315 pages)
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR303.html
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Declaration of Principles, Plan of Action,
Commitment and Agenda for the Information Society, (as background for WSIS 2015)
http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html
Fragmentation and Concentration in the New Digital Environment,
A Report of the 2013 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Institutional Innovation by
Richard Adler, (2014)
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/communications-society
Spectrum as a Resource for Enabling Innovation Policy, by William Webb
2013, http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/spectrum-resource-enabling-innovationpolicy
Rethinking Communications Regulation, by Richard Adler (2013),
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/rethinking-communications-regulation
Networks and Citizenship: Using Technology for Civic Innovation
Jeffrey Abramson, (2012) http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/networkscitizenship-using-technology-civic-innovation
Updating Rules of the Digital Road: Privacy, Security, Intellectual Property
Richard Adler (2012), http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/updating-rules-digitalroad-privacy-security-intellectual-property
Assessing Community Information Needs: A Practical Guide
Richard C. Harwood, (2011), (a guide for adopting civic innovation strategies to spur the
development of news and information environments that address real community needs.
It is the eighth in a series of white papers following up the recommendations of the
Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, a project
of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the Knight Foundation.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/Assessing_Communit
y_Information_Needs.pdf See also: http://www.knightcomm.org/wpcontent/uploads/2010/02/Informing_Communities_Sustaining_Democracy_in_the_Digita
l_Age.pdf
The Collaspe of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.
Conway (2014)
The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet, by Molly
Sauter and Ethan Zuckerman (2014)
Who Owns the Future, by Jaron Lanier (2014)
The Case for Net Neutrality (Foreign Affairs): What’s Wrong with Obama’s Internet Policy by
Marvin Ammori and Kevin Stillwell (2014)
The Illusion of Net Neutrality: Political Alarmism, Regulatory Creep and the Real Threat to
Internet Freedom, by Bob and Eva Zelnic (2013)
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Digital Crossroads: Telecommunications Law and Policy in the Internet Age, by Jonathan E.
Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser (2013)
Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library, by Kim M.
Thompson and Paul T. Jaeger (2014)
National Security and Double Government, by Michael J. Glennon (2014)
The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the
Future by Martin Ford (Sep 22, 2009)
The Map of the Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting, by Alan
Greenspan, (2014)
Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change by Robert B. Seidensticker
Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving
Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy [Kindle Edition]
Erik Brynjolfsson (Author), Andrew McAfee (Author)
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M.
Arkin (Sep 6, 2011)
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the
Eclipse of Capitalism, by Jeremy Rifkin (2014)
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse: A Novel, by Wayne Gladstone (2014)
The Evolution of Global Internet Governance: Principles and Policies in the Making, by Roxana
Radu and Jean-Marie Chenou (2014)
The Rough Guide to the Future by Jon Turney
The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy (Global Handbooks in Media and
Communication Research), by Robin Mansell and Marc Raboy (2014)
Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government, by Aneesh Chopra
((2014)
The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years by James
Canton
Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Koler (2014)
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, by Glenn Greenwald
(2014)
History of the Future: The Shape of the World to Come is Visible Today, by Max Singer
Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a SingleSuperpower World, by Tom Englehardt (2014)
Future of the Internet: Social Networks, Policy Issues and Learning Tools (Internet Theory,
Technology and Applications) by Rick D. Sullivan and Dominick P. Bartell (Jul 31, 2011)
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Emerging Wireless Technologies and the Future Mobile Internet by Dipankar Raychaudhuri and
Mario Gerla (Mar 7, 2011)
The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler (Nov 21, 2011)
Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests, by Patrick Burkart ((2014)
Hopes and Fears: The Future of the Internet, Volume 2 by Lee Rainie and Janna Anderson (Dec 28,
2008)
News on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21 st Century,by David Tewksbury and
Jason Rittenberg (2012)
Towards the Future Internet: A European Research Perspective by G. Tselentis, J. Domingue, A.
Galis and A. Gavras (May 15, 2009)
Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet I by Lee Rainie, Janna Quitney Anderson and Susannah Fox
(Jun 26, 2008)
America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and
Warfare by Joel Brenner (Sep 29, 2011)
Scenario Planning: A Field Guide to the Future by Woody Wade
Wiley; 1 edition (March 27, 2012)
Democracy’s Double-Edged Sword: How Internet Use Changes Citizens’ Views of Their
Government, by Catie Snow Bailard (2014)
Scenario Thinking: Practical Approaches to the Future by George Wright and George Cairns (Jun 7,
2011)
College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students, by Jeffery J.
Selingo (2013)
Beyond Broadband Access: Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies by Richard D.
Taylor and Amit M. Schejter (2013)
Predicting the future of information technology.(technology today): An article from: Community
College Week by Reid Goldsborough (Oct 3, 2006) - HTML
Future Minds: How the Digital Age is Changing Our Minds, Why this Matters and What We Can
Do About It, Richard Watson (Author) (2010)
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain (Mar 17, 2009)
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future by Johnny Ryan (Sep 15, 2010)
The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by Daniel J. Solove (Oct 28,
2008)
Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues (CSR Reports), by Congressional Research
Service) (2014)
Future of Television: Your Guide to Creating TV in the New World, by Pamela Douglas (2015)
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The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive
Organization, by Jacob Morgan (2014)
The Future of Television by Phil Leigh (Oct 19, 2010) - Kindle eBook
The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the Twenty-first
Century by George Friedman and Meredith Friedman (Feb 15, 1998)
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P. W. Singer (Dec 29,
2009)
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age, by Steven Johnson (2013)
Winning the Long Game: How Srategic Leaders Shape the Future, by Steven Krupp and Paul
Schoemaker (2014)
Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues, by Lennard G. Kruger (2014)
SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society, John Gillom and Torin Monahan (2012)
Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and
Autonomous Agents series) by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney and George A. Bekey (Dec 9, 2011)
Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence: The Technologies That Are Transforming Them
(The Economist) by Benjamin Sutherland (Feb 1, 2012)
Traversing Digital Babel: Information, E-Government, and Exchange (Information Policy) by
Alon Peled (2014)
Futuring: The Exploration of the Future, Edward Cornish (Author) (2005)
Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the
Future by Ian Morris (Oct 25, 2011)
The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the
21st Century by Carne Ross (Jan 19, 2012)
Scenario Planning in Organizations: How to Create, Use, and Assess Scenarios (Publication in the
Berrett-Koehler Organizational Performance)by Thomas J. Chermack (Feb 14, 2011)
Scenario Planning - Revised and Updated Edition: The Link Between Future and Strategy by Mats
Lindgren and Hans Bandhold (Apr 28, 2009)
The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz (Apr
15, 1996)
935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of Americas Moral Integrity by Charles Lewis
(2014)
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (Mar 1, 2011)
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
by Martin Jacques
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
WORM: The First Digital World War by by Mark Bowden (Sep 27, 2011
The Leaderless Revolution, Carne Ross (Author) (Sep 2011)
Civilization: The West and the Rest, Niall Ferguson (Author) (2011)
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire Niall Ferguson (Author) (2005)
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) byCathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg and
Zoë Marie Jones (Jun 5, 2009)
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come
Back
Thomas L. Friedman (Author), Michael Mandelbaum (Author)
The Post-American World: Release 2.0 Fareed Zakaria (Author)
Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: The Munk Debate on China (The Munk Debates)
[Paperback]
Henry Kissinger (Author), Niall Ferguson (Author), David Daokui Li (Author), Fareed
Zakaria (Author)
After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn (Aug 8, 2011)
7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century by Andrew
Krepinevich (Jan 27, 2009)
The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future by Laurence C. Smith (Sep
23, 2010)
The Future of Power by Joseph S. Nye (Dec 13, 2011)
Futurecast: What Today's Trends Mean for Tomorrow's World by George Barna (May 18, 2011)
Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50 Years by Richard Watson (Nov 16, 2010)
The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going by George Friedman (Jan 25,
2011)
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future (Vintage) by Robert B. Reich (Apr 5, 2011)
King Trends and the Future of Public Policy by Hugh Compston (Nov 14, 2006) by Carl E. Van Horn,
Donald C Baumer and William T Gormley (Mar 2, 2001)
Investing In The Future: A Policy For the Next President by Perry Jones (Oct 20, 2011)
Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change by David
Holmgren (Apr 14, 2009)
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Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship: Civic Participation and the Future of
Democracy (Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy) by Denise M. Horn (May 25, 2012)
Building a New World Order: Sustainable Policies for the Future (The Sustainability
Project) by Harald Müller (Nov 1, 2009)
Scenarios in Public Policy by Gill Ringland (May 15, 2002)
Ethics, Law, and Policy (The SAGE Reference Series on Disability: Key Issues and Future
Directions) by Jerome Edmund Bickenbach (Jan 3, 2012)
The Future of Sustainable Cities: Critical Reflections by John Flint and Mike Raco (Feb 15, 2012)
Global Water Futures: A Roadmap for Future U.S. Policy by Erik R. Peterson and Rachel Posner
(Sep 22, 2008)
Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future by Alyson C.
Flournoy and David M. Driesen (Feb 26, 2010)
WorldFuture 2010: sustainable Futures, Strategies, and technologies.(The Annual Conference of
the World Future Society): An article from: The Futurist by Unavailable (Jun 23, 2010) - HTML
Technology and the Future, by Albert H. Teich Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 11 edition
(October 30, 2008)
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year
2100
Michio Kaku, Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition edition (March 15, 2011)
Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives by Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong (Jul 15,
2009)
Changing Literacies for Changing Times: An Historical Perspective on the Future of Reading
Research, Public Policy, and Classroom Practices by James V. Hoffman and Yetta M. Goodman (Jul
9, 2009)
China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (Apr 16,
2010)
Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World (Communication, Society and Politics) by
Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini (Dec 5, 2011)
Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Author)
Political Polling in the Digital Age: The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public
Opinion (Media & Public Affairs) Charlie Cook (Introduction) (Author), Kirby Goidel (Author,
Editor)
Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century: A Whole New Ballgame? [Paperback]
Dennis W. Johnson (Author)
21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn (Leading Edge) by James Bellanca and Ron
Brandt (Apr 22, 2010)
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21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times by Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel (Oct 5,
2009)
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
(The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and
Learning) by Henry Jenkins, Ravi Purushotma, Margaret Weigel and Katie Clinton (Jun 5, 2009)
The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
Michael Spence (Author)
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
Dani Rodrik (Author)
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present [Deckle
Edge] Jeff Madrick (Author) (2011)
The Case for Big Government, Jeff Madrick (Author), Ruth O'Brien (Foreword) (2010)
Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris (Oct 12, 2010)
Readings in The Philosophy of Technology, edited by David M. Kaplan (2009)
The Next Decade: Where We’ve Been . . . and Where We’re Going (2011) by George Friedman
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future by Johnny Ryan (Sept, 2010)
“Future of the Internet III: How the Experts See It [in the year 2020],” by Quitney Anderson and
Lee Rainie, PEW Internet and American Life Project, 14 December 2008, _
Values and the Future: The Impact of Technological Change on American Values, Edited by Kurt
Baier and Nicholas Rescher
After Empire: The Birth of a MultiPolar World by Dilip Hiro
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken
Ledeen, and Harry Lewis
The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next, Jim Taylor, Watts Wacker
Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire by Morris Berman
Future Weapons by Kevin Dockery
Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World, by David Perkins (2014)
After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age by Paul Starobin
Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
by Chris Anderson
The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies by Peter J. Anderson and Geoff Ward
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin
Kelly
Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World by David D. Friedman
The Future of Identity in the Information Society: Challenges and Opportunities by Kai
Rannenberg, Denis Royer, and André Deuker
Digital Fortress: A Thriller by Dan Brown
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age by Paul Starobin (2009)
The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future by James Martin
(2007)
Thinking About The Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight, edited by Andy Hines and Peter
Bishop (2006)
Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media by Robert W. McChesney
(2008)
Twelve Tomorrows – 2014: Visionary Stories of the Near Future, by Lauren Beukes and
Christopher Brown (2014)
Recommended Movies/DVDs:
The Matrix, Gattaca, Minority Report, Blade Runner, Eagle Eye, The Corporation, Out Foxed, Inside Job,
Total Recall, 1984, Brazil ,Starship Troopers, V For Vendetta, Soylent Green , Farenheit 451, THX 1138,
The End of Violence, Rollerball (1975 version), Alien, The Terminator, Moon, The Ad and the Ego,
Robocop, Jurasic Park, Children of Men, WALL-E, Avatar,The Adjustment Bureau...More. There's always
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