Technology forecasting VI: Where to look to look ahead: Articles outnumber books as recommended references on the complex, but intriguing, art of anticipation

A bookshelf on forecasting? Why would a skilled engineer already bombarded with trade journals, books, and extension courses relating to his or her specialty be concerned with activities long tainted by tea leaf and tarot card? After all, doesn´t current technical literature already contain the few relevant estimates and trend lines of real concern?