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Books
Bishop, P. C., & Hines, A. (2012). Teaching about the future.
Clarke, R. A., & Eddy, R. P. (2017). Warnings: Finding Cassandras to stop catastrophes.
Ralston, B., & Wilson, I. (2006). The scenario-planning handbook: A practitioner's guide to developing and using scenarios to direct strategy in today's uncertain times.
Silver, Nate. (2012). The signal and the noise: Why so many predictions fail - but some don't.
Tetlock, P. E., & Gardner, D. (2015). Superforecasting: The art and science of prediction.
Recommendations from Center for the Future of Libraries.
Agencies / Groups
TOpics
AR/VR
ambient communication
Autonomous Vehicles
Demographics
Education
experiential Retail
Forecasting (general)
Forecasting (general)
FUture (General)
Retail
SUBSCRIPTION ECONOMY
Travel
Presentations
How Will Driverless Cars Impact My Audiobook Circ?” And Other Questions You’ll Ask Once You Start Forecasting Illinois Library Association Annual Conference, 2017
Libraries in the Subscription Economy Symposium on the Future of Libraries , ALA Midwinter, 2019