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Change: Excellent investigative journalism by a talented investigative reporter on the way the wealthiest leaders of industry use federal, state, and local governments to shift major
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Change: Explains why, constitutionally, the U.S. is no longerless thedemocratic mostthan participatoryother and competitiveleading politicalindustrial economy.nations.America (The Book) Teacher’s Ed: A Guide to Democracy Inaction, Jon Stewart, 2006Hilarious intro to American history and political democracy, warts and all. Comedy Central.Wealth
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Change: ($34 billion). Read this book to understand how technology, in well defined applications (in this case, for human consumption for medical purposes) can be entirely
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Change: (John Smart)Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons, Peter Barnes, 2006Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen, 2000Globalization and its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz, 2003Miniatlas of Global Development, World Bank, 2004Very small handbook of goals and progress
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Change: top (for time) but far less for the country as a whole (and greater rich poor divide, unlike other developed nations). Until we use government
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Change: ULI is the world's leading land development organization. A rare and fascinating, very long-range look at the changes facing metropolitan areas, illustrated with interesting facts and forward-looking charts on topics such as the impact of capital markets, climate change, sustainability, transportation and infrastructure needs, demographic trends, housing, retail, and technology.
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Change: how to accept responsibility for one's actions and manage one's own self-esteem, improving your self-awareness and ability to create and discover the kind of relationships,
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Change: A fast-reading, excellent overview of the history of foresight and prediction in human civilization, from the Oracles at Delphi 800 BCE to the modern foresight
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Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details.
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Change: If you are willing to believe a 'hard takeoff' AI could occur, in this case, sudden emergence of greater than human intelligence via 'full scale
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Change: is creating a stronger and far less American global economic network, though corporate globalization still is significantly less socially responsible and accountable than it must be in coming generations.State of the Future 2006, State of the Future / "Millennium" Project (an Annual)An annual book
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Change: Fantastic portrayal of "the rise of the rest." The most powerful global political and economic trends are not that America is slipping into ruin, but
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Change: addresses science and business in the latter half of Part 2 and Part 3. Part 4 contains advice on how to approach the world in the face of uncertainty and still enjoy life.Talebhimself, acknowledges a contradiction in the book. He uses an exact metaphor,Black Swan Ideato
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Change: was received. In the preface to the twentieth-anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that his book has been misperceived as a hodge-podge of neat things with no
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Change: bias? How would you test discovery.this?Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo, Scott Carroll, 2006Great intro to biological evo devo: how evolution and development interact in organisms.Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Simon Conway-Morris, 2003Great intro
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Change: Twenty one proven strategies for clarifying your beliefs, values, Major Life Purpose, goals, and plans, and for taking action on them every day. Excellent personal futures book for anyone who needs help improving their goalsetting routines.Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway, Susan Jeffers, 2006Excellent practical
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Change: Schumpeter is perhaps our greatest economist to date in the area of innovation studies. He understands deeply why a healthy economy needs what he calls
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Change: " through your browser. A great electronic index and research tool!Week 1 – Intro to Futures StudiesThe Pursuit of Destiny: A History of Prediction, Paul Halpern, 2000.Great book on the success and failures of “prediction science.”Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight,
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Change: ." Many kinds of assemblies "gather a public around things -- scientific laboratories, supermarkets, churches," and politics also involves disputes around natural resources like rivers, landscapes, and air. Authors examine the "technologies, interfaces, platforms, networks, and mediations that allow things to be made public." No Place for
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Change: one of the most powerful and well-funded networks of all: the global banking infrastructure and the central banks of all the leading governments. Winning that game sounds highly unlikely. It seems much more likely that the money system we see today is so entrenched that it has acquired
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