Essays
Foreward to E.B. White: Notes on Our Times Levenger Press 2007
The Real Climate Debate Is Yet To Come. ABCNews.com September 2007
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting Harvard Business Review, July/August 2007
Time for a Sea Change FP Foreign Policy Magazine, May/June 2007 (PDF:360K)
Capitalism's Diverging Future January 2007 (PDF:146K)
Revolution in a bowl: Ramen Inventor Fueled Valley Innovators San Jose Mercury News, January 14, 2007 (PDF:77K)
Humankind Is Particularly Good At Muddling Edge, December 2006
Farewell Information, it's a Media Age December 2005 (PDF:92K)
The Ghost Dance
Half the World is rushing toward the future and the other toward the past. Both have weapons. California Monthly, September 2005
Technology: Disinvention Institute for the Future Ten Year Forecast, May 2005 (PDF:2.93M)
Technology: Weak Signals Institute for the Future Ten Year Forecast, May 2005 (PDF:1.97M)
GBN Book Club, GBN Book Club, May 2005 (PDF:645K)
Untangling the Future, Business2.0, June 2002
Failure is the Best Medicine, Newsweek, March 2002
The Real Y2K Bug: Forget Your Computer—Worry About the Wacko Down the Street, 1999
Disinteremediation: Longer, Not Shorter Value Chains Are Coming, 1998
Lifeform Generation, 1998
Remembering Brendan Gill, 1998
Sensors: The Next Wave of Infotech Innovation, 1997
Are You Machine Wise?, 1997
The Future is Now, 1997
It's the Context, Stupid, 1994
The Place of Originality in the Information Age, 1994
Cyberpunks Anticipate a New Digital Counterculture, 1993
Hot New Medium: Text, 1993
The Future of Travel, 1993
The Manager as Mystic, 1993
The 76-Year Century, 1992
Anxiously Waiting for the Millennium, 1992
Consumers and Interactive New Media: A Hierarchy of Desires, 1992
Electronic Pinata, 1992
Farewell, PC—What's Next?, 1991
Variable Prices: An Idea That Flies, 1991
Welcome to a World of Global Villages, 1990
Why the Next Computer Is Like the DeLorean Automobile 1990
Information Surfing, 1989
Electronic Books, 1988
Photo Essays
Fighting Fire with Fire, San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, September 2001
Alang: The Realm of Lost Ships, Wired, February 2000
