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Saw a person propose a summer reading list for futures interested people and it is crap.
Futures studies people have an extreme bias about the future being desirable. The whole book list is about this idea. That's not guaranteed at all and it creates a blind spot. Consider possible negative scenarios and bad outcomes for a complete picture of the future.
Read Breaking Together by Jem Bendell and At Work In The Ruins by Dougald Hine, and also see the recent paper in Nature about planetary boundaries (posted earlier today).
These extreme positive near term scenarios are also extremely unlikely now. But if you talk to futures people they are way out in la la land and will react negatively to the idea.