Introduction
Conferences
activities & deliverables
Brochure
library

library
In conjunction with each session, members receive recently published books, chosen to extend ideas and topics being addressed. The aggregate of this collection is an impressive library that provides members with additional perspectives on issues covered in the sessions, and serves as a jumping-off point to provoke new thinking.

2008
February: Smart(er) Data
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Arieley

April: Being everywhere

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

2007
February: Identity & Trust
Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood by Jim Harper

May: Global Threats … Global Opportunities
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (and What to Do about It) by Michael Raynor
Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet by Denise Caruso

July: New Form/New Content
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

September: The wealth of networks
The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

December: NextGens Technologies
The Design of Future Things by Donald A. Norman

2006
February: Crossover Technologies
Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever by John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade
Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling

April: Resilience, Risk & Reward
One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China by James McGregor
The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage by Yossi Sheffi

July: China's New Tech Era
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler
 
September: Time, Place & Space
Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall

December: NextGens Technologies
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, by Brian Greene and Tim Folger
The Change Function, by Pip Coburn

2005
February: All That Data
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

April: Future Networks
No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society by Robert O’Harrow

July: Evolving Systems
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

September: Extreme Interfaces
What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer by John Markoff

December: NextGens Technologies
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

2004
February: Security and Privacy
Firewalls and Internet Security (Second Edition): Repelling the Wily Hacker by William Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, and Aviel D. Rubin

April: Powering the Future
The Hype about Hydrogen by Joseph Romm

July: Harnessing Innovation
Uncommon Sense by Peter Cochrane
The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World by Bhaskar Chakravorti

September: The Challenge of Complexity
Sync by Steven Strogatz

December: NextGens Technologies
Digital People by Sidney Perkowitz

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