Futurism

Futurists or futurologists are scientists and social scientists whose specialty is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.


If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
What We Owe the Future
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
2054
Could Should Might Don't: How We Think About the Future
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
The Council of Animals
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Future Shock
The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Brave New World
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesClean Sweep by Ilona AndrewsSweep in Peace by Ilona AndrewsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingPiranesi by Susanna Clarke
Sentient Houses
169 books — 70 voters
Between Worlds by Timothy O. BensonКонструктивизм by Aleksei GanConstructivism by Aleksei GanCentral European Avant-Gardes by Timothy O. BensonThe Realistic Manifesto by Naum Gabo
Constructivism Reading List
37 books — 2 voters

Texas 2077 by Carlos MiralejosA People's Future of the United States by Victor LaValleBrújula Moral by Bryant JohnsonDialogue Prompt; No Estamos Solos En El Universo by Bryant JohnsonAltermundos by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson
Latinx Futurism/Science Fiction
31 books — 3 voters
Space Viking by H. Beam PiperThe Last Space Viking by John F. CarrSpace Viking's Throne by John F. Carr
Space Viking Series
3 books — 1 voter

The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinThe Dark Forest by Liu CixinDeath's End by Liu Cixin仰望星空之遥远的问候 by Bryant JohnsonVagabonds by Hao Jingfang
Chinese Science Fiction Novels
19 books — 24 voters
Breakneck by Dan  WangMafarka the Futurist by Filippo Tommaso MarinettiThe Untameables by Filippo Tommaso MarinettiMan of Smoke by Aldo Palazzeschi
Futurism
4 books — 2 voters


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Yuval Noah Harari
After all, today’s debate between today’s religions, ideologies, nations and classes will in all likelihood disappear along with Homo sapiens. If our successors indeed function on a different level of consciousness (or perhaps possess something beyond consciousness that we cannot even conceive), it seems doubtful that Christianity or Islam will be of interest to them, that their social organisation could be Communist or capitalist, or that their genders could be male or female.
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Roger Spitz
Despite the unpredictability of our complex world, focusing on constants is still insightful. Relative to the variabilities of change, the unwavering direction and consistent rhythm of constants stand out.
Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

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