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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harold Adrian Linstone was a German-American mathematician, consultant, futurist and University Professor Emeritus of Systems Science at Portland State University and a specialist in applied mathematics.
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Published Works
- Delphi: A brief look backward and forward (2011) (400)
- Technology futures analysis: Toward integration of the field and new methods (2004) (388)
- On the Future of Technological Forecasting (2001) (217)
- National Technology Foresight Activities Around the Globe (1999) (191)
- The multiple perspective concept: With applications to technology assessment and other decision areas (1981) (136)
- Design for evolution : Erich Jantsch, George Braziller, Inc., N.Y., 1975, 322 pp., $9.95 cloth, $5.95 paper (1975) (103)
- The Delphi Technique (1985) (97)
- The growth dynamics of the Internet and the long wave theory (2005) (96)
- Three eras of technology foresight (2011) (89)
- Multiple perspectives: Concept, applications, and user guidelines (1989) (79)
- Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis: R.J. Lempert, S.W. Popper, and S.C. Bankes, Santa Monica, CA, The RAND Corporation, 2003 (2004) (70)
- A Review of: “REDESIGNING THE FUTURE: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SOCIETAL PROBLEMS”, by Russel A. Ackoff. John Wiley, New York, 1974. (1975) (56)
- The use of structural modeling for technology assessment (1979) (55)
- Notes on the Bhopal accident: Risk analysis and multiple perspectives (1987) (54)
- IV.C. Experiments in Delphi Methodology (2002) (52)
- On discounting the future (1973) (48)
- Corporate planning, forecasting, and the long wave (2001) (46)
- Multiple Perspectives: Overcoming the Weaknesses of MS/OR (1985) (39)
- Complexity science: Implications for forecasting (1999) (36)
- Skunk works: A personal memoir of my years at Lockheed (1995) (32)
- Technological innovation and the long wave theory revisited (2012) (30)
- From information age to molecular age (2004) (26)
- The 21st century: Everyman as Faust - Technology, Terrorism, and the Multiple Perspective Approach (2003) (26)
- DR .E. J AMES PRENDERGAST, Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer (2009) (25)
- TFSC: 1969–1999 (1999) (24)
- Technological slowdown or societal speedup — The price of system complexity? (1996) (21)
- Policymaking under adversity (1986) (21)
- Tradeoffs: Imperatives of choice in a high-tech world: Edward Wenk, Jr., Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1986, 231 pages, $19.95 (1988) (21)
- Science and Technology: Questions of control (2007) (20)
- Multiple perspectives redux (2010) (18)
- Towards synergy in multiperspective management: An American–Chinese case (2000) (18)
- Technology Assessment Act of 1970 (1970) (14)
- Mediacracy, mediocracy, or new democracy: Where are the information age Jeffersons and Madisons when we need them? (1989) (13)
- When is a need a need?: The problem of normative forecasting in a changing environment (1969) (13)
- Start-up nation: The story of Israel's economic miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, Council of Foreign Relations, Hachette Book Group, New York, NY., 2009 (2010) (13)
- III.C. 1. Delphi Research in the Corporate Environment (2002) (11)
- The Japanese institutional mechanisms for industrial growth: A systems perspective — Part II (1994) (11)
- Perspective of planning : Erich Jantsch (ed.), Proceedings of the OECD Working Symposium on Long-Range Forecasting and Planning, Bellagio, Italy, October 27–November 2, 1968; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1969 (1971) (10)
- VI.E. Architecting the Future: A DelphiBased Paradigm for Normative System-Building (2002) (10)
- A university for the postindustrial society (1970) (10)
- Historians and complexity: Trends vs. collapses? (2010) (10)
- New era — New challenge (1994) (10)
- I. Twenty years of TF&SC (1989) (9)
- VI.B. A Delphi Study of Factors Affecting the Quality of Life (2002) (8)
- Warfare and World Security, Kondratieff Waves, Tessaleno C. Devezas (Ed.). IOS Press, Amsterdam (2006), 337 pages (2007) (8)
- Rethinking the process of operational research and systems analysis: Rolfe Tomlinson and Istvan Kiss Oxford: Pergamon (1984) paperback, 227 pages (1987) (7)
- IV.D. Propensity to Change Responses in a Delphi Round as a Function of Dogmatism (2002) (7)
- Anticipating the environmental effects of technology: A primer and workbook (1997) (7)
- Four American futures: Reflections on the role of planning (1972) (6)
- Another development: Approaches and strategies : Nerfin M., ed., Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 1977, ISBN 91-85214-06-X, Skr 80, 265 pp. (1979) (6)
- Mankind at the turning point: The second report to the Club of Rome: Mihajlo Mesarovič and Eduard Pestel, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc./Reader's Digest Press, New York, 1974, $12.95 (1975) (6)
- GUIDE FOR REVIEWERS OF STUDIES CONTAINING COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS (1965) (5)
- VII.B. Conferencing via Computer: Cost Effective Communication for the Era of Forced Choice (2002) (5)
- Epistemology and Future Studies: How Do We Know What We Can't Know?@@@The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications@@@Social Systems Design: Normative Theory and the MAPS Design Technology@@@A Study of Future Worlds@@@Perspectives on Technology Assessment (1977) (5)
- Futures research report card—quantity: A; quality: C; and impact: F (1984) (5)
- VI.C. Multidimensional Scaling: Models, Methods, and Relations to Delphi (2002) (4)
- Surprise attack: The victim's perspective (1991) (4)
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Department Editors Editor-in-Chief (2009) (4)
- Technology and governance: An introduction (1997) (4)
- FROM MY PERSPECTIVE: Military technology and its frustrations (2002) (4)
- Yehezkel Dror, The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome (2002) (4)
- 11.B. Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Delphi (2002) (4)
- Agriculture 2000: A look at the future (1985) (4)
- A guidebook for technology assessment and impact analysis : Alan L. Porter, Frederick A. Rossini, Stanley R. Carpenter, A.T. Roper, with Ronal W. Larson and Jeffrey S. Tiller North Holland, New York, 1980, 504 pp., $28.00 (1982) (4)
- Technology forecasting: Planning: Toy or tool? Line managers frequently find little use for formal "forecasts." Here are guidelines for planners who wish to rectify that situation (1974) (3)
- On the future of technological forecasting and assessment (2004) (3)
- Environmental harrassment or technology assessment?: D. Medford, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1973, 358 pp., $15.95 (1974) (3)
- Averting catastrophe: Strategies for regulating risky technologies : Joseph G. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1986, 202 pages plus index, $17.95 (1988) (3)
- Passing the Baton: Linstone to Phillips as Editor-in-Chief (2011) (3)
- Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire, Alex Abella. Harcourt Inc. (2008), 362 pp. plus Index, $27.00 (2008) (3)
- Social forecasting for company planning: Brian C. Twiss (ed.), The Macmillan Press, Ltd., London, 1982 (1984) (3)
- TF/TA: New driving forces (2001) (2)
- Victor R. Fey and Eugene I. Rivin — The Science of Innovation: A Managerial Overview of the TRIZ Methodology (2000) (2)
- Issues for America: an agenda of problems and opportunities (1988) (2)
- Technical Resource Management: Quantitative Methods, M.J. Cetron, R. Isenson, J.N. Johnson, A.B. Nutt, H.A. Wells. The M.I.T. Press, Washington, D.C. (1969), 231 (1971) (2)
- The Scientific Temper: An Anthology of Stories on Matters of Science (2003) (2)
- Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, Amnon H. Eden, James H. Moor, Johnny H. Søraker, Eric Steinhart (Eds.). Springer Verlag (2012) (2014) (2)
- The Multiple Perspective Concept: Bridging the Gap Between Analysts and Decisionmakers (1985) (2)
- Book reviewCrazy states : Yehezkel Dror, Health Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 1971. 188pp. (1973) (2)
- Editorial Comment: 40 Years of TFSC (2009) (2)
- Toward balanced growth: Quantity with quality A report by the National Goals Research Staff The White House, Washington D.C., July 4, 1970 (1970) (2)
- Book reviewTechnological forecasting: A practical approach : Marvin J. Cetron, Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, New York, 1969 (1970) (2)
- From my perspective (2002) (2)
- The telecommunications-transportation tradeoff: Options for tomorrow : Jack M. Nilles, F. Roy Carlson, Jr., Paul Gray and Gerhard J. Hanneman, Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1976, 196 pp., $22.95. (1978) (2)
- FROM MY PERSPECTIVEA 21st century crisis: Relearning some systems lessons (2009) (2)
- War by other means: Economic espionage in America (1997) (2)
- Mindscapes in management: Use of individual differences in multicultural management: Magoroh Maruyama, Dartmouth Publishing Company, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, 1994, 145 pages, price? (1995) (2)
- The Postindustrial Society and Mental Retardation (1980) (1)
- The Raegan administration and IIASA (1983) (1)
- Beyond the limits: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and J∅rgen Randers, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Post Mills, VT, 1992, 300 pages, $19.95. (1992) (1)
- American Renaissance: Our life at the turn of the 21st century: Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies, St. Martin's Press, New York, 320 pp., 1989, $19.95 (1989) (1)
- VII.E. Computerized Conferencing in an Educational System: A Short-Range Scenario (2002) (1)
- Technological forecasting for decision making : Joseph P. Martino, 2nd ed., North Holland, Inc.,New York, 1982; $29.00 (1983) (1)
- Theodore Modis: An S-Shaped Trail to Wall Street: Survival of the Fittest Reigns at the Stock Market (2000) (1)
- Doing Things…Together: Report on an experience in communicating appropriate technology (1979) (1)
- Methods in futures studies: Problems and applications : Brita Schwarz, Uno Svedin, and Björn Wittrock Westview Replica Edition, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1982 (paperback), 175 pp. (1984) (1)
- V.B. An Elementary Cross-Impact Model # (2002) (1)
- Comments on feringer's “the idea of a future” (1983) (1)
- III.B. 2. Delphi Inquiries and Knowledge Utilization (2002) (1)
- The Sphinx and the Rainbow: Brain, mind, and future vision: David Loye, Boulder, Colo.: New Science Library, Shambhala, 1983, 225 pp (1985) (1)
- Paper 7 : New Drivers and Directions: Challenges for FTA 25 (2004) (1)
- The globalization of TFSC (2004) (1)
- Technological forecasting for decisionmaking: Joseph P. Martino, American Elsevier Publishing Company, New York, 1972, 750pp., $30.00 (1973) (1)
- Refocussing the analyst's priorities (1984) (1)
- Jay W. Forrester, World Dynamics, Wright-Allen Press, Inc., 238 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142. 142 pp., $9.75 (1971) (1)
- Redesigning the future: A systems approach to societal problems : Russell L. Ackoff, John Wiley & Sons, N.Y., 1974, 260 pp., $10.95 (1975) (1)
- Breaking Out of the Systems Quandary (1993) (1)
- Crucial questions about the future : Allen Tough, University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1991, $16.75, paper (1992) (1)
- The human future revisited: The world predicament and possible solutions : Brown, Harrison, W.W. Norton &Company, New York, 1978, 277 pp., $10.95 (1979) (1)
- Uncertain futures: Challenges for decision-makers : Robert U. Ayres, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1979 (1979) (1)
- Editorial comment : Our clientele revisited (1985) (1)
- III.B. 4. A Delphi Evaluation of Agreement between Organizations (2002) (1)
- IV.B. Toward a Theory of Group Estimation (2002) (1)
- Societal directions and alternatives: A critical guide to the literature : Marien, M. Information for Policy Design, LaFayette, N.Y. 13084, 400 pp., 1976 ($16.50). (1977) (1)
- Future shock : Alvin Toffler, Random House, New York, 1970. 505 pp., $8.95 (1971) (1)
- Technology assessment in a dynamic environment: M.J. Cetron and B. Bartocha (Eds.), Gordon and Breach, New York 1973, 1035 pp., text price $29.70, list price $49.50 (1974) (1)
- The Third World War: August 1985: Sir John Hackett and Associates, Macmillan, New York, 1979, paperback ed. Berkley Books, New York, 1980, $2.95 (1980) (0)
- The call girls: Arthur Koestler, Random House, New York, 1973, 167 pp., $5.95 (1973) (0)
- Business planning for an uncertain future : Roy Amara and Andrew J. Lipinski Pergamon Press, New York, 1983, 222 pages plus index, $25.00. (1984) (0)
- Patterns of technological innovation: Devendra Sahal, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Reading, Mass., 1981. (399 pp. $34.50) (1984) (0)
- Beginning our sixth year (1974) (0)
- The new culture shock: the manager in the evolving information society (1991) (0)
- The coming plague: Newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance: Laurie Garrett, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1994, $25.00, 750 pp (1995) (0)
- Turning the century: Personal and organizational strategies for your changed world: Robert Theobald Knowledge Systems, Inc., Indianapolis, 1993, 228 pages plus index, $18.95 (1994) (0)
- Book reviewGroping in the dark: The first decade of global modelling: Donella Meadows, John Richardson, and Gerhart Bruckman, Wiley, Chichester, 1982, 301 pp (1983) (0)
- Crazy states: Yehezkel Dror, Kraus Reprint, Millwood, N.Y., 1980, $18.00 (originally published 1971) (1980) (0)
- Wenk, Jr., Edward: The Double Helix: Technology and Democracy in the American Future: Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1999; 224 pp.; paper $24.95, cloth $39.95. (2000) (0)
- A Review of: “A STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE”, by Ervin Laszlo. George Braziller, New York, 1974. 238 pp. (1975) (0)
- The analysis of actual versus perceived risks : Vincent T. Covello, W. Gary Flamm, Joseph V. Rodricks, and Robert G. Tardiff, Eds., Plenum Press, New York, 1983, 372 pages plus index (1985) (0)
- Evil and World Order: William Irwin Thompson, Harper & Row, 1976, 116 pp., $7.95. (1976) (0)
- Strategic planning and forecasting: Political risk and economic opportunity : William Ascher and William H. Overholt, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1983 (282pp + index, $29.95) (1984) (0)
- The future of technological civilization : Victor Ferkiss, George Braziller Inc., N.Y., 1974, 369 pp., $12.50 (1975) (0)
- Issues management : Joseph F. Coates and the Staff of J.F. Coates, Inc., Lomond Publications (1986), 137 pages, $18.50. (1987) (0)
- William Irwin Thompson, At the Edge of History, Harper & Row (1971), p. 180. (1971) (0)
- Making waves: Engineering, politics, and the social management of technology: Edward Wenk, Jr., Urbana, IL, The University of Illinois Press, 1995, 253 pp., $26.95 (1996) (0)
- Naturally intelligent systems : Maureen Caudill and Charles Butler, Cambridge, MA, A Bradford Book, MIT Press, 1990, 296 pages (1991) (0)
- A strategy for the future : Ervin Laszlo, George Braziller, Inc., N.Y., 1974, 238 pp., $8.95 cloth, $3.95 paper (1975) (0)
- The human quality : Peccei, Aurelio, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977, pp. 205 and index (1978) (0)
- Technological forecasting for decisionmaking: J.P., Elsevier, New York (1972) 750 pp., Price $30.00 (1974) (0)
- Editorial comment : Our clientele (1975) (0)
- In Memoriam R. Buckminster Fuller 1895–1983 Herman Kahn 1922–1983 (1983) (0)
- Predicting the future: Leo Howe and Alan Wain, eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1993, 195 pages (1995) (0)
- Honorary Life Members: Ex Officio (With Vote) Ex Officio (No Vote) (2007) (0)
- Technology and social change in rural areas : Gene F. Summers, Ed., a Festschrift for Eugene A. Wilkening, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1983, 252 pages, $25 (1985) (0)
- Technological Forecasting and Assessment Tools: The Changing Scene (2001) (0)
- The Next Industrial Revolution: Reviving Industry through Innovation, Robert U. Ayres (Ed.). Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Mass. (1984), 304 pages (1986) (0)
- At the Edge of History, William Irwin Thompson. Harper & Row (1971), 180 (1971) (0)
- The button: The Pentagon's strategic command and control system: Daniel Ford, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1985, $8.95 (1987) (0)
- Predictions : Theodore Modis, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992, 286 pp. plus index, $21.00 (1992) (0)
- The Complexity Challenge: Technological Innovation for the 21st Century (2000) (0)
- Appendix: Delphi Bibliography (2002) (0)
- The Vari-Purpose Carrier (CVV). (1963) (0)
- TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT OF LOW ENERGY VEHICLES (1979) (0)
- The uses of history: Past and future (1980) (0)
- In memoriam Aurelio Peccei 1908–1984 (1984) (0)
- The art of the long view : Peter Schwartz, Doubleday/Currency Books, New York, 1991, 241 pages, $20.00 (1991) (0)
- Bioterrorism, Preparedness, Attack and Response, John D. Blair, Myron D. Fottler, Albert C. Zapanta (Eds.). Elsevier, Oxford, UK (2004), 366 pages, $95 (2005) (0)
- Reprint of When is a need a need? The problem of normative forecasting in a changing environment (2016) (0)
- The social consequences and challenges of new agricultural technologies : Gigi M. Berardi and Charles C. Geisler, Eds., Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1984, 376 pages, $25. No index (1985) (0)
- Forecasting technology for planning decisions : Jones, Harry and Twiss, Brian C., The Macmillan Press, Ltd., London, England, 1978, 257 pp. (1979) (0)
- Notes on IFRC '70 (1970) (0)
- Technological forecasting and corporate strategy: Gordon Wills, David Ashton, and Bernard Taylor (eds.), American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1969 (1970) (0)
- The coming boom : Herman Kahn, Simon and Schuster, 1982, $14.95 (1983) (0)
- Changing maps: Governing in a world of rapid change: Steven A. Rosell et al., Carleton University Press, Ottawa, Canada, 1995; paperback, 250 pp., $21.95 (1996) (0)
- Dams, people and development: The Aswan High Dam case : Hussein M. Fahim, Pergamon Press, New York, 1981, 186 pp., $19.50 (1981) (0)
- Book reviewLeaders: The strategies for taking charge: Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, Harper & Row, New York, 1985, 235 pages + index, $19.95. (1986) (0)
- Darkness and scattered light: Thompson, William Irwin, Anchor Books, Garden City, New York, 1978, 189 pp., paperback (1979) (0)
- An unsettling scenario for technologists (1987) (0)
- From my perspective: The glory and curse of being no. 1 (1991) (0)
- VII.D. Technology for Group Dialogue and Social Choice (2002) (0)
- On commencing our fifth year (1973) (0)
- Technology forecasting VI: Where to look to look ahead: Articles outnumber books as recommended references on the complex, but intriguing, art of anticipation (1975) (0)
- The leader's edge (1990) (0)
- Book reviewPredictions: 10 Years Later: Theodore Modis, Geneva: Growth Dynamics 2002. Available in electronic format (PDF File) from the author at tmodis@compuserve.com FAX +1-801-6506643. $15 on CD, $12 as e-mail attachment, 335 pages (2003) (0)
- Previews and premises : Alvin Toffler, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1983, 216 pp + Index, $11.95 (1985) (0)
- VIII. Eight Basic Pitfalls: A checklist (2002) (0)
- America: Melting pot or pressure cooker? (1995) (0)
- Future Facts : Rosen, Stephen, Simon & Schuster, N.Y., 1976, 522 pp, $14.95. (1976) (0)
- What is life?: Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995; 207 pp., $40.00 (1996) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWThe Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Harvard University Press (2005), 374 pages + index, $26.95 (2006) (0)
- Contrasts: Soviet and American thinkers discuss the future : Wiktor Osiatynski, (Macmillan Co., New York, NY, 1984) pp. 208, $19.95 (1987) (0)
- The next three futures : W. Warren Wagar, Praeger, New York, 1991, 157 pages, paperback (1992) (0)
- Technology assessment: J.W. Dickey, D.M. Glancy, and E.M. Jennelle, Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 1973, 194 pp., $12.50 (1974) (0)
- Models of reality: Shaping thought and action: Jacques Richardson (Ed.), Lomond Books, Mt. Airy, Md., in cooperation with UNESCO, 1984, 328 pp., index, $22.95 (1985) (0)
- Global stakes: The future of high technology in America : J. Botkin, D. Dimancescu, and R. Stata, with J. McClellan, Ballinger Publishing Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1982, $17.50, 248 pp. (1984) (0)
- Book reviewPowershift: Alvin Toffler, Bantam Books, New York, 1990, 553 pages, $22.95. (1991) (0)
- Technology assessment of low energy vehicles. Final report, Aug 1978-Sep 1979 (1979) (0)
- [V Introduction] (2019) (0)
- Encyclopedia of the future (1997) (0)
- On the certainty of uncertainty and the irrationality of rationality in complex systems (1986) (0)
- Book reviewFundamentals of forecasting: Sullivan, William G. and Claycombe, W. Wayne, Reston Publishing Company, Reston, Va., 1977, 287 pages + index ($15.95) (1978) (0)
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