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  • Community and Social Networks: Strategic Implications for Enhanced Business Use of ICT
    A December 15, 2008 keynote presentation to the Emerging Industrial Technology Strategy Review Board (SRB) in Taipei, Taiwan, by Bill Gillis (2008).
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  • Abundant Broadband: Will We Create Our Desired Future?
    A position paper by Bill Gillis (2008) dealing with the question of "how we can achieve America’s desired broadband future?"
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  • Designing Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures With MobileWeb Technology Advancing Social Development
    A paper presented on June 3, 2008 at the W3C Workshop on Mobile Web for Social Development, Sao Paulo, Brazil, by Bill Gillis (2008).
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  • Austria 2005: Projected Sociocultural Effects of the Microelectronic Revolution
    By Robert B. Textor, et al. 1983.
    Download this book at http://www.stanford.edu/~rbtextor/.  The German language version of this book is also available at that website.
  • The Future of Austria: Opportunities and Dangers in the Age of Nanotechnology
    By Ernst Eugen Veselsky, Editor, with Robert B. Textor and 22 Austrian national leaders. 2006.
    Download this book at http://www.stanford.edu/~rbtextor/.  Print copies of the German version of this book, ISBN 3-218-00762-3, are available for purchase at Buchverlage Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna, Austria, http://www.kremayr-scheriau.at.
  • The Future of Austria: A Twenty-Year Dialog: A Short Summary of the English Version of “Die Zukunft Österreichs: Chancen und Risiken im nanotechnischen Zeitalter.”
    By Ernst Eugen Veselsky and Robert B. Textor. Futures Research Quarterly, World Future Society, 2008, in press.
  • Perceptions of Extension's Desirable Future and the Role of IT
    By Matt Mitchell and Bill Gillis. Journal of Extension 44(3). 2006.
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  • Exploring the Future of the Digital Divide through Ethnographic
    Futures Research
    By Matt Mitchell. First Monday 7(11). 2002.
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  • The Middle Path for the Future of Thailand
    By Sippanondha Ketudat, with the methodological and editorial collaboration of Robert B. Textor, and the consultation of William J. Klausner, M.L. Bhansoon Ladavalya, and Sidhinat Prabudhanitisarn. Honolulu: East-West Center, 1990.
    Download this book     at http://www.stanford.edu/~rbtextor.  Print copies of the English and Thai language versions of this book are available for purchase at the East-West Center Publication Sales Office, Honolulu, HI, ewcbooks@ewc.hawaii.edu.
  • Margaret Mead and the World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future. A compendium of 25 selected writings and lectures by Margaret Mead in which she engages in anticipatory anthropology, 376 pages, 20 photos. Edited, with a 37-page introduction, as well as commentaries on each of Mead’s writings, by Robert B. Textor. Volume Six of a seven-volume series for the Margaret Mead Centennial, under the overall editorship of William O. Beeman. Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford. 2005.