The FutureWorld Store

We keep being asked to recommend books regarding the future of business, technology and the world. We have found that the most effective way to help you is to keep a list of our current and all-time favorites here and to provide you with a direct link to enable you to purchase these books simply and securely on-line - directly from our favorite bookseller!

Books written by FutureWorld Gurus

Ten Lessons from the Future by Wolfgang Grulke
	Ten Lessons from the Future: Your future is a matter of choice (International Edition) by Wolfgang Grulke Ten Lessons from the Future: 21st century impact on business, individuals and investors (South African Edition) by Wolfgang Grulke with Gus Silber PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SOUTH AFRICAN EDITION IS SOLD OUT – the international edition can be ordered above. Find out what reviewers are saying about "Ten Lessons of the Future"
Lessons in Radical Innovation by Wolfgang Grulke
	To buy in South Africa: Lessons in Radical Innovation: Out-of-the-box, straight to the bottom line (International Edition) by Wolfgang Grulke with Gus Silber Or, buy this book online. Lessons in Radical Innovation: South Africans Leading the World (South African Edition) by Wolfgang Grulke with Gus Silber Find out what reviewers are saying about "Radical Innovation"

The Future of the Corporation

• The Web of Life: A New Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra
  
• Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
  
• Future Perfect - The 10th Anniversary Edition by Stanley M. Davis
  
• Lessons from the Future: Making sense of a blurred world by Stan Davis
  
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
  
• Future Wealth by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
  
• The World According to Peter Drucker by Jack Beatty (Highly recommended!)
  
• Mind Grenades: Manifestos from the future edited by Plunkett and Rossetto
  
• Ackoff's Best : His Classic Writings on Management by Russell Lincoln Ackoff
  

Innovation

• Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts by Richard Leifer, et al
  
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When new technologies cause great firms to fail by Clayton Christensen
  
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
  
• What we believe but cannot prove: today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty by John Brockman
  
• What is your dangerous idea?: Today's leading thinkers on the unthinkable by John Brockman
  

Business and the Environment: Climate change, your future in the balance

• Cradle to Cradle: remaking the way we make things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
  
• Heat: how the stop the planet burning by George Monbiot
  
• Scorched: South Africa's changing climate by Leonie S. Joubert
  
• Gaia: a new look at life on earth by James Lovelock
  
• The Revenge of Gaia: Why the earth is fighting back and how we can still save humanity by James Lovelock
  
• The Swarm, a novel by Frank Schatzing
  

The Fractal World, the Fractal Individual and the Fractal Corporation

• The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex by Harold J. Morowitz
  
• The New Science of Networks by Albert-László Barabási
• Managing Generation X: How to bring out the best in young talent by Bruce Talgan
  
• The Web of Life: A new understanding of living systems by Fritjof Capra
  
• Life at the Edge of Chaos: Creating the Quantum Organization by Mark D. Youngblood, John Renesch
  
• Living on the Fault Line: Managing for shareholder value in the age of the Internet by Geoffrey Moore
  
• The Hacker Ethic : A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business by Pekka Himanen, Manuel Castells
  
• Leadership and the New Science Revised: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World by Margaret Wheatley
  
• The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
  
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
  
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and principles by Peter Drucker (1985)
  
• The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market by Michael Treacy, Frederik D. Wiersema (1997)
  

Life 2.0: The future of work, health and wealth beyond the new technologies

• Prey: a novel that captures some of the darker sides of nanotechnology's future by Michael Crichton
  
• Bionomics: Economics as an ecosystem by Michael Rothschild
  
• Nano: Remaking the world atom by atom by Ed Regis
  
• The Engines of Creation: The coming era of nanotechnology by K. Eric Drexler
  
• Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World by Douglas Mulhall
  

Life 3.0: Business minds, relationships and a radical spirit

• Radical Nature: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter by Christian De Quincey
  
• Physics of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation and Immortality by Amit, Ph.D. Goswami
  

Management, organizations, technology and the future

• Global Paradox by John Naisbitt
  
• World Class: Thriving locally in a global economy by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  
• Searching for the Spirit of Enterprise by Larry C. Farrell
  
• Company Man: The rise and fall of corporate life by Anthony Sampson
  
• Beyond Certainty:The changing world of organizations by Charles Handy
  
• The Gods of Management: The changing work of organizations by Charles Handy
  
• Workplace 2000: The revolution reshaping American business by Joseph Boyett and Henry Conn
  
• Digital Harmony: Business, technology and life after paperwork by Arno Penzias
  
• The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin
  
• Corporation on a Tightrope: Balancing leadership, governance and technology by John Sifonis and Beverly Goldberg
  
• Reality Check: WIRED asked the experts - here's the real future by Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz
  
• Being Digital: A roadmap for survival on the Information Superhighway by Nicholas Negroponte
  
• Virtual Community: Finding connection in a computerized world by Howard Rheingold
  
• Chaos Marketing: How to win in a turbulent world by Torsten Nilson
  
• Managing the Unknowable: Strategic boundaries between order and chaos in organizations by Ralph Stacey
  
• Cyberia: Life in the trenches of hyperspace by Douglas Rushkoff
  
• Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
  
• Mind Grenades: Manifestos from the future edited by Plunkett and Rossetto
  
• The Digital Economy by Don Tapscott
  
• The World is flat: a brief history of the 21st Century by Thomas L. Friedman
  
• The Fish Rots from the Head: The Crisis in Our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director by Bob Garratt
  

Electronic Commerce

• Net Ready: Strategies for success in the e-conomy by Amir Hartman, John Sifonis, John Kador
  
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When new technologies cause great firms to fail by Clayton Christensen
  
• Real Time: Preparing for the Age of the Never-Satisfied Customer by Regis McKenna
  
• Net Gain: Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities by John Hagel and Arthur Armstrong
  
• Webonomics: Nine Essential Principles for Growing your Business on the WWW by Evan Schwartz
  
• Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy by Christopher Meyer, Stan Davis
  
• Opening Digital Markets: Battle plans and business strategies for Internet commerce by Walid Mougayar
  
• Readings in Electronic Commerce edited by Ravi Kalakota et al.
  
• Understanding Digital Signatures: Establishing trust over the Internet and other networks by Gail L. Grant
  
• Understanding Electronic Commerce (Strategic Technology Series) by David R. Kosiur
  
• The Economics of Electronic Commerce by Andrew B. Whinston, Dale O. Stahl, Soon-Yong Choi

The Global Economy

• The Fourth Wave : Business in the 21st Century by Herman Bryant Maynard and Susan E. Mehrtens
  
• Rethinking the Future : Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control and Complexity, Leadership, Markets and the World by Rowan Gibson (Editor), Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
  
• One World, Ready or Not: The manic logic of global capitalism by William Greider
  
• Company Man: The rise and fall of corporate life by Anthony Sampson
  
• The Digital Economy by Don Tapscott
  
• The Death of Competition: Leadership and strategy in a world of business ecosystems by James Moore
  
• The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives by Frances Cairncross
  
• The Death of Economics by Paul Ormerod
  
• The Death of Inflation by Roger Bootle
  
• The Death of the Banker: The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor by Ron Chernow
  

Science and Technology

• Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold
  
• Nano: Remaking the world atom by atom by Ed Regis
  
• Genius: Richard Feynman and modern physics by James Gleick
  
• The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the simple and complex by Murray Gell-Mann
  
• A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
  

Essential Golden Oldies

• The Corporation of the 1990s: Information technology and organizational transformation edited by Michael Scott Morton
  
• The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
  
• The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the evolution of human intelligence by Carl Sagan
  
• The Engines of Creation: The coming era of nanotechnology by K. Eric Drexler
  
• 2020 Vision by Stan Davis and Bill Davidson
  
• Future Perfect by Stanley M. Davis
  
• Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
  
• Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
  
• The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky

...and here's the music!

• In the air tonight by Phil Collins
  
• Move on up by M-People
  
• Boy in the Bubble by Paul Simon from the album ‘Graceland’
  
• You gotta be by Des’ree from the album ‘I ain't movin'’
  
• Shine by Aswad, from the album 'Rise and shine again!'
  
• Proud by Heather Small from the album 'Proud'
  
• Search for the Hero by M People from the album 'Best of...'