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A Short History of Nearly Everything PDF Print E-mail
Written by Lee Shupp   
Tuesday, 28 November 2006

A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Witty. Great science book that gives an overview of pretty much all of science, documents the conflicts and unknowns in each field, and makes you feel really lucky to be alive.

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The Wisdom of Crowds PDF Print E-mail
Written by Lisa Bodell   
Tuesday, 28 November 2006

The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds
Find out why groups are smarter than the smartest individuals. Learn what this means for your business.

New Yorker business columnist JamesSurowiecki argues that "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them," in his book, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations

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The Medici Effect PDF Print E-mail
Written by Lisa Bodell   
Tuesday, 28 November 2006

The Medici Effect
The Medici Effect
The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures provides us with an interesting 'how to' approach to creating a fertile breeding ground for innovation.

Author Frans Johansson, a former CEO of an enterprise software company, draws on case studies to demonstrate how innovations occur when people see beyond their expertise and approach situations actively, with an eye toward putting available materials together in new combinations. 

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The Hype about Hydrogen PDF Print E-mail
Written by Kenneth Harris   
Tuesday, 28 November 2006

The Hype about Hydrogen
The Hype about Hydrogen
Joseph J. Romm, a former Department of Energy official in the Clinton administration,  points out in his book The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate that hydrogen is an energy carrier, not an energy source. 

The book was published in 2004 and is a good technical analysis written non-technically of the complex issues involved in converting to a hydrogen economy. 

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The Causal Layered Analysis Reader PDF Print E-mail
Written by Cindy Frewen-Wuellner   
Tuesday, 28 November 2006

The Causal Layered Analysis Reader
The Causal Layered Analysis Reader
Sohail Inayatullah's Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) is the first major new futures theory and method since Delphi, almost forty years ago.

CLA is a very sophisticated way to categorize different views of and concerns about the futures, and then to use them to help groups think about the futures far more effectively than they could by using any one of the layers alone, as most theory/methods do.

- James Dator, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii

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How Industries Evolve PDF Print E-mail
Written by Christian Crews   
Tuesday, 28 November 2006

How Industries Evolve
How Industries Evolve
Anita McGahan's work, How Industries Evolve: Principles for Achieving and Sustaining Superior Performance is one of the best studies of how industries change over time due to how external threats impact their different internal structures.

McGahan uses a favorite futurist tool, the 2x2 matrix, to uncover how industries evolve based on threats to core assets, core activities, or both. Well-researched and inclusive of most past research, this book provides a dynamic view of industries very helpful to the creation of alternative future scenarios.

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