📚 Social Prediction

Books with social prediction on their catalogue record, first published between 1902 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social prediction in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,818 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	21 Lessons for the 21st Century	Yuval Noah Harari	2018	33
	Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought	H. G. Wells	1902	32
	Factfulness	Hans Rosling	2018	25
	Utopia for Realists	Rutger Bregman	2016	18
	What Are You Optimistic About?	John Brockman	2007	11
	Megatrends	John Naisbitt	1982	10
	The Empty Raincoat	Charles Brian Handy	1993	10
	The Good Life in a Technological Age	Philip Brey	2012	8
	Predictive analytics	Eric Siegel	2013	8
	2030 Spike	Colin Mason	2013	8
	Megatrends 2000	John Naisbitt	1990	7
	Safeguarding Children and Young People	Stella Coleman	2013	7
	Utopia or oblivion: the prospects for humanity	R. Buckminster Fuller	1969	6
	Population Projections	Government Actuary Staff Great Britain	1972	6
	The coming of post-industrial society	Daniel Bell	1973	6
	The World in 2020	Hamish McRae	1994	6
	The future factor	Michael G. Zey	2000	6
	Futures Beyond Dystopia	Richard A. Slaughter	2003	6
	The Next 100 Years	George Friedman	2008	6
	Future perfect	Steven Johnson	2012	6
	Social indicators of well-being	Frank M. Andrews	1976	5
	Tomorrow Now	Bruce Sterling	2002	5
	Abundance	Peter H. Diamandis	2012	5
	Connectography	Parag Khanna	2016	5
	Europe's Population To 2050	Philip Rees	2016	5
	The way the world is going	H. G. Wells	1928	4
	The Future Dictionary of America	Dave Eggers	2004	4
	The Extreme Future	James Canton	2006	4
	2011	Richard Laermer	2008	4
	The Second Curve	Charles Brian Handy	2015	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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