Books
Books, reports & linksÂ
Books, articles, research papers, and websites about future tech, and science – including material about climate change.
BOOKS
Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (USA)
Foresight, Non fiction
Various reports on the future
Association of Professional Futurists
Foresight, Non fiction
The Vanishing Face of Gaia
James Lovelock
Climate change
Future Shock
Alvin Tofler
Futures thinking, Foresight
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Alan Weisman
Optimisim, Models
The Singularity is Near
Ray Kurzweil
Futurism, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Humans and machines
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
Climate change
Physics of the Future
Michio Kaku
Futures thinking, Foresight, Phyics, Science
Storms of my Grandchildren
James Hansen
Climate change
The Next 100 Years
George Friedman
Geopolitics, Futures Thinking, Forecast
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivette-Carnac
Climate change
Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick,
Humanoids, Human and machines, Uploaded brains
Patrick Dixon
Futurism, Future forces, Futures thinking
Postformal Education: A Philosophy for Complex Futures
Jennifer M. GidleyÂ
Education, Futures thinking
Clive Hamilton
Climate change, Climate engineering
N. Katherine Hayles
Posthuman, Cybernetics
Michio Kaku
Climate change, Climate engineering
Philea, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
Philanthrophy
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
Michio Kaku
Education, Futures thinking
You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future
Jonathon Keats
Biography, Futurism, Architecture, Buildings
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin Kelly
Technology
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
Thich Nhat Nanh, True Dedication
Mindfulness, Mental Health, Climate change, Activism
The Age of Intelligent Machines
Ray Kurtzweil
Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Singularity
AI Super-powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee
Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics
Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2
Mark Nelson
Biosphere, Future of living environments
The Relativistic Brain: How it works and why it cannot be simulated by a Turing machine
Dr. Miguel A. Nicolelis,. Ronald M. Cicurel
Technology, Robots, Singularity
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
P.W.Singer
Warfare
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
Existential risk
A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control
Wendell Wallach
Exponential technology, Existential risk
Cybernetics: Second Edition: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Norbert Wiener
Cybernetics
Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises
Jonathan S. Blake, Nils GilmanÂ
Exponential technology, Existential risk, Systematic crisis and change
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own
Verity Harding
Artificial Intelligence
Organisations & journals
Futures Thinking
The Institute for the Future (IFTF)
The Association of Professional Futurists
Accelerating Change
The Futures Centre
Pew Research Centre
The UN Summit of the Future
Anthropocene Magazine
The Journal of Future Studies
BBC Future
FEMA Strategic Foresight Toolkit
Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
UK Government Futures Toolkit
Climate & Environment
The International Panel on Climate ChangeÂ
The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
HELIX
The British Antarctic Survey
The Climate Data Guide
Nature – Climate Change
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
NASA – Climate Change
ND-GAIN Country Index University of Notre Dam ranks countries ability to survive climate change
Carbon Majors Database