(Mid 1993 - Soros is back in the news again for giving shitloads of money to Yugoslavian refugees and funding free radio stations in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, his Quantum mutual fund is doing as well as ever) (November 2000. He left the Quantum Fund ages ago and has been more successful in the U.S. with funding state medical marijuana initiatives thn in Eastern europe, from which he has mostly withdrawn.)

THEOBALD, ROBERT. BEYOND DESPAIR (Possibly useful book on the near future. Chapter titled "Intermission" is another attempt to grope through the information economy)

TOBIAS, ANDREW

• THE ONLY INVESTMENT GUIDE YOU'LL EVER NEED
• THE ONLY OTHER INVESTMENT GUIDE YOU'LL EVER NEED
• GETTING BY ON $100,000 A YEAR MONEY ANGLES (The first two are investment books and the others are compilations of his columns in Playboy magazine. All of these are from the '70s. Important because Tobias has a good grasp of human nature.)

• THE CULTURE CONSUMERS
• FUTURE SHOCK
• THE THIRD WAVE (The First Wave was agriculture; the Second Wave was the Industrial Revolution; the Third Wave was information technology. More or less accurate. The thinking man's John Naisbitt. Ha, ha)
• POWER SHIFT (w/wife Heidi, 1992)

ZINSSER, HANS. RATS, LICE, AND HISTORY. (Role of disease and vermin in history. Rather one-sided, but an interesting perspective)

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