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
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
What We Owe the Future
Quantum Supremacy
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
2054
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Council of Animals
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
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
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
Our Tribal Future by David R. SamsonHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariNeuroTribes by Steve SilbermanThe Sixth Extinction by Richard E. LeakeyChesapeake Oysters by Kate Livie
Books about the Future
125 books — 18 voters

1984 by George OrwellEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardNeuromancer by William GibsonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Great Brain Twisting Science Fiction
30 books — 5 voters
AI Doctor by Ronald M. RazmiThe Alignment Problem by Brian  ChristianThe Age of AI and Our Human Future by Henry KissingerThe Book of Why by Judea PearlUnmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini
The Future of Human and Machine
180 books — 106 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
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


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Yevgeny Zamyatin
وجود خودم را حس می‌کنم. اما تنها بعضی چیزها وجود خودشان را حس می‌کنند و از فردیتشان آگاهند؛ چشمی که خاری در آن رفته، انگشت ملتهب و دندان چرک کرده! چشم، انگشت و دندان سالم حس نمی‌شوند، انگار که وجود ندارند. آیا خودآگاهی به وضوح چیزی جز نوعی بیماری نیست؟
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William Gibson
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. ...more
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

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