Peter Schwartz’s The Art of the Long View was the top vote-getter in the APF’s inaugural most important futures work balloting. This year 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 next year, the team plans to focus on identifying the most important works of the current year on an annual basis. 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 “top ten” in order of votes received:

 

 

All of the books that the team nominated received at least one vote, and members wrote in many others, reflecting the diversity and breadth of our field. The rest of the vote-getters, in order of votes received: