Links and hints
Here are some links to my favourite sites and some hints about good books about the futures.
Tip of the Day:
State of the Future 2009 Report by Millennium project! Remember also Futures Research Methodology 3.0 series.
(Of course they are here, Jerry!)
Other Links:
- Finland Futures Research Centre
- Suomen eduskunta, Tulevaisuusvaliokunta
- Tulevaisuuden tutkimusseura
- World Future Society
- World Futures Studies Federation
- State of the Future Report
- Millennium project
- Futures Research Methodology 3.0
- Club of Rome
- Sigma Scan (UK)
- OECD International Futures Program
- Risk Assessment and Horizontal Scanning, RAHS (Singapore)
- Shaping Tomorrow- futurist network and consulting
- Rand Corporation
- SRI International
Future Journals and Magazines:
- Journal of Future Studies
- Future Takes
- Futures
- Foresight
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Interesting Blogs
About Japan:
- CScout Japan (TrendScouting agency’s very good blog. Hint: see also other CSout countries)
- Pink Tentacle (Trends about Japan)
- Japan Marketing News
- Digital World Tokyo
- Akihabara News
About Environment:
- Treehugger (Blog about environmental issues)
About consumer and marketing:
- Consumerist
- Coolhunting (Bllog where people are hunting new cool stuff)
- Coolbusinessideas
- Springwise (Business ideas around the world)
- Ad lab
About technology (including mobile tech) and science :
- Textually.org (Blog about new issues in mobile markets)
- Biology News net
- Wired magazine blogs
- Weak signals by Elina
- Future Perfect (Jan Chipchase’s (Nokia fellow) blog)
- A thousand tommorrows
- Fringehog
- Futurismic
- PaleoFuture (a blog of the history of the future)
About gadgets:
Suomalaisia hyviä blogeja:
- Tuhat Sanaa (Tuija Aalto, YLE)
- PopuLaari (Blogi lähimenneisyydestä ja vähän kauempaakin)
Books about futures (which can be found in my bookshelf)
- Foundations of Future Studies- History, Purposes, and Knowledge (Human science for new era), VOL 1, by Wendell Bell
- Foundations of Future Studies- Values, Objectivity and Good Society, Vol 2, by Wendell Bell: these two books are the must in every futurist’s book shelf.
- The Future is Ours- Foreseeing, Managing and Creating the Future by Graham H. May : good book about besics of futures techniques- one of my favourite books!!
- Megatrends 2000 by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene: One of the classic books in the series of Naisbitts views of megatrends
- Peripherical Vision-Detecting the weak signal that will make or brake your company by George S. Day and Paul J.H. Schoemaker, 2006 : if you are interested about weak signals read this!
- the Knowing organization-How organizations use information to construct meaning, create knowledge, and make decisions by Chun Wei Choo, 2006: highly recommended!
- Microtrends- the small forces behind tomorrow’s big changes by Mark J. Penn with E. Kinney Zalesne
- Coolhunting-Chasing Down the Next Big Thing by Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper, 2007
- The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell, 2000: after reading this book about social epidemics you can understand why this book is a bestseller!
- Futuring: The Exploration of the Future by Edward Cornish, 2004: this is a good and interesting book. Easy to read and understand.
- Out of the Blue- How to Anticipate Big Future Surprises by John L. Petersen: book about wild cards, list of dozens of possible wild cards in the future
- The Black Swan- the impact of the highly improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: book about wild cards, which are renamed as black swan in this book
- Megamistakes by Steven P. Schnaars, 1989: Predicting the future is not easy and mistakes, even megamistakes are done!
- The Deviant’s Advantage- how to use fringe ideas to create mass markets, by Watts Wacker and Ryan Mathews: easy to read and interesting too!
- How hits happen-Forecasting predictability in a chaotic marketplace, by Wislow Farrell
- Fooled by Randomnless-The hidden role of chance in life and in the markets by Nassim Nicolas Taleb
- Small is the new big- and 183 other riffs, rants and remarkable business ideas
- Doorways to the Future- Methods, Theories, and Themes by Thomas Lombardo, 2001
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, 2005
- Wikinomics-How mass collaboration changes everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Suomalaisia kirjoja tulevaisuudesta:
- Tulevaisuudentutkimus-Perusteet ja sovellukset, toimittaneet: Matti Kamppinen, Osmo Kuusi ja Sari Söderlund, 2002: Se suomalainen kattava perusteos
- Jokuveli- Elämä ja vaikuttaminen ubiikkiyhteiskunnassa, Mika Mannermaa, 2008: Mikan paras kirja. Mielenkiintoisia visioita ja näkemyksiä tulevaisuudesta.
- Heikoista signaaleista vahva tulevaisuus, Mika Mannermaa, 2004
- Tulevaisuuden hallinta- skenaariot strategiatyöskentelyssä, Mika Mannermaa, 1999: peruspaketti yritysmaailmaan
- Tulevaisuuden koti, Mika Pantzar, 2001: loistava kirja siitä, miten arjen tulevaisuus on muodostunut.
- Visioiva tuotekonseptointi- Työkalu tutkimus- ja kehitystoiminnan ohjaamiseen, Kokkonen et al. , 2005: Loistava kirja erityisesti (tulevaisuussuuntautuneen) tuotekehityksen parissa toimiville henkilöille.
- Valppaus on valttia- heikot signaalit löytyvät läheltä, Sissi Silvan, 2006: vauhdikas ja käytännön läheinen opas Henkan ja Maukan entiseltä Suomen toimarilta
- Edelläkävijät, Ana Nuutinen: Anan väitöskirja Taideteolliseen korkeakouluun.
- Geenitieto kuuluu kaikille, Osmo Kuusi, 2004: viisaan miehen pohdintaa geeneistä
- Kuluttajavisiot-näköaloja kuluttajakäyttäytymisen tulevaisuuteen, Lampikoski ja Lampikoski, 2000: kirja kuluttajakäytöksen muutoksiin
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