Further Reading

Books

Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet---Better, Faster, Easier by Mark Frauenfelder. This is essentially an instruction manual for the web. It will greatly increase your ability to make use of the abundance of the web.

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams.

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson

Web Sites

The Law of Accelerating Returns by Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil shows that due to technology advancing exponentially, humans will see 20,000 years of progress being made during the 21st century.

TED = Technology, Entertainment, Design Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.

The World Question Center answers the question What Are You Optimistic About? Why?

The Long Now Foundation is concerned with the long term future measured in thousands of years and what these trends mean to us now.

The Institute for the Future deals with emerging technologies and their implications for the future.

The Electronic Freedom Foundation has the motto "Defending Freedom in the Digital World".