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Readings

Avent, Ryan. The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the 21st Century. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

Brand, Stewart. The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, And Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.

Carr, Nicholas. The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.

Christian, Brian and Tom Griffiths. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2016.

Ford, Martin. Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Gould, Peter and Rodney White. Mental Maps. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1974.

Gratton, Lynda and Andrew Scott. The 100-Year-Life: Living and Working in the Age of Longevity. London: Bloomsbury Information Ltd., 2016.

Kaku, Michio. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. New York: Anchor Books, 2014.

Kelly, Kevin. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. New York: Viking, 2016.

Kotkin, Joel. The New Geography. How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape. New York: Random House, 2000.

Koulopoulos, Tom and Dan Keldsen. The Gen Z Effect: The Six Forces Shaping the Future of Business. Brookline, MA: Bibliomotion, 2014.

Mau, Bruce and the Institute without Boundaries. Massive Change. New York: Phaidon, 2004.

Mokyr, Joel. A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Moretti, Enrico. The New Geography of Jobs. Boston: Mariner Books, 2013.

Morgan, Jacob. The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2014.

Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

Rifkin, Jeremy. The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004 (reprint of 1995 with new introduction).

Scott, Laurence. The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Shlain, Leonard. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image. Arkana: Penguin, 1998.

Strauss, Williams and Neil Howe. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy – What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny. New York, Broadway Books, 1997.

Strauss, William and Neil Howe. Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069. New York: William Morrow, 1991.

Taylor, Paul and the Pew Research Center. The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown. New York: PublicAffairs, 2014.

Thompson, Clive. Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better. New York: Penguin, 2014.

Turkle, Sherry. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books, 2011.

Turkle, Sherry, ed. The Inner History of Devices. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.

Webb, Amy. The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe is Tomorrow’s Mainstream. New York: PublicAffairs, 2016.

Williams, Roy H. and Michael R. Drew. Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future. 2012.