Bard has written three books on the Internet revolution, collectively known as "The Futurica Trilogy", together with media theorist Jan Söderqvist. Their first collaboration "The Netocrats" was originally released in Swedish in 2000, became available in English in 2003, and has since been translated to a further 16 languages with total worldwide sales exceeding 340,000 copies. The book presents a reading of history as the progression of different information technological paradigms, each with a dominant information technology and corresponding elite power triad. Where the printing press era created the power triad of academics, politicians and capitalists, the internet era will create a new power triad, known collectively as the Netocracy.