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Submitting your Most Important Futures Works Nominations PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andy Hines   
Wednesday, 06 February 2008

We encourage all members to submit Futures Works that are important in their view. If you come across a futures work that you feel is worth the attention of your APF colleagues, please submit it to the Most Important Futures Work. All you have to do is click on "submit content" and type in your recommendation.(title and citation, and why you think it is an important futures work) At the top, you'll see a drop down box that asks you to "please choose a category." Simply select "Most Important Futures Works" and then click on the save icon in the upper right, and voila. If you have trouble, feel free to email me, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
Introducing Most Important Futures Works for 2008 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andy Hines   
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
the 2008 nomination period the last calendar quarter of 2007 and then all of calendar 2008 and announce the winner or winners in early 2009. Each year afterward, the awards would be on a calendar year basis.
In 2007, Peter Schwartz’s The Art of the Long View was the top vote-getter in the balloting. For this first activity, members voted for books in the recent past as well as “classics.” They had 10 votes, either choosing from a list of 20 nominated by the “Most Important Futures Works team, or writing in up to five personal choices. Starting in 2008, we are looking for nominations for just the current year. These may go beyond books to include futures works in other media as well. The team was led by Ken Harris, and consisted of Andy Hines, Amy Oberg, Cindy Frewen Wuellner, Gitte Larsen, and Oliver Markley.
The retrospective “top ten” in order of votes received:
  • Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz
  • Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era by Wendell Bell
  • The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies, Richard Slaughter (ed.)
  • Limits to Growth by Donnella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jergen L. Randers and William H. Behrens
  • The State of the World (series) by The Worldwatch Institute
  • The State of the Future by Jerome Glenn and Ted Gordon
  • The Art of Conjecture by Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Futures Research Methodology by Jerome Glenn and Ted Gordon
  • The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond