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Ann Feeney's List of Book Reviewers |
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Written by Andy Hines
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Since it looks as though several more of us have written books in the last few months, here's an expansion of a list of book reviewers that I put together for a member a while ago. "Expansion" is the key word, since this is excruciatingly complete, from AARP's magazine with a circulation of 24 million, to ones with either no circulation figures or online readership only.
Reviewers are highlighted with the most influential reviews in terms of circulation and sales: Publishers Weekly, for book stores and libraries; Booklist for all libraries, and Choice for academic and research libraries.
Prepared by Anne Feeney |
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Nominee: Special Issue on Integral Futures |
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Written by Andy Hines
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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I would like to nominate the special issue of Futures on "Integral Futures" --Vol. 40(2) March 2008 -- as a MIFW candidate for 2008. It has been gratifying to see the spread of ideas around Integral Philosophy into the Futures field, and see how academics and practitioners are making increasing use of them in a practical and applied sense. I applaud the work of Richard Slaughter and his colleauges and students at the Australian Foresight Institute, who have certainly formed the beachhead for this thinking, but as this issue shows, it has spread beyond those shores.
While there is still a way to go, this special issue suggests we are making progress and this thinking offers useful insights to a futures practice today. I certainly value the Integral perspective in my own practice, and think spending time with this special issue would be a terrific way to get acquainted with it. |
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I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot |
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Written by Kenneth Harris
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
This article appears in the IEEE Spectrum for June 1, 2008, (http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6307).
In it Brooks gives his perspective based on years of robotics research on the Singularity. He says robots still lack 4 basic capabilities of humans, but eventually will have them. While robots are advancing to become more human-like, humans will become more robot-like. Robots will not dominate humans because they will absorb our traits and we theirs, and we will control their design. |
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Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube and the Future of American Politics |
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Written by Kenneth Harris
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
This book builds on the generational dynamics concepts developed by Neil Howe and William Strauss in their books published between 1991 and 2006.
It applies the concepts specifically to the impact of the Millennial Generation (i.e., those born between 1982 and 2003) on American politics beginning with the 2006 midterm Congressional election and continuing for the next 3-4 decades.
Although the oldest members of this generation are only in their 20's and the youngest are still in kindergarten, they are already having a major impact on American politics resulting from their command of information technology, particularly social networking technologies. They appear to be spearheading a long-term trend to make the Democratic party the more powerful of the two major American political parties.
The authors Morley Winograd and Mike Hais are Democratic political activists but they are careful to point out that a Republican party with much different policy stances could also become dominant. See my review in a forthcoming issue of Compass. Ken Harris |
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Thinking About The Future |
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Written by Andy Hines and Peter Bishop
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
 Thinking About The Future
More from Amazon |
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Submitting your Most Important Futures Works Nominations |
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Written by Andy Hines
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
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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.
The 2008 nomination period includes the last calendar quarter of 2007 and then all of calendar 2008, with the winners announced in early 2009.
If you have trouble, feel free to email me,
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