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
2054
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
What We Owe the Future
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Council of Animals
CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
Could Should Might Don't: How We Think About the Future
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
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Future Shock
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Brave New World
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
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
171 books — 71 voters
Capitães da areia by Jorge AmadoGabriela, clavo y canela by Jorge AmadoLe Professeur Taranne by Arthur AdamovAlcools by Guillaume ApollinairePing Pong by Arthur Adamov
The Modernist 200 List
9 books — 3 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
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

Конструктивизм by Aleksei GanBetween Worlds by Timothy O. BensonConstructivism by Aleksei GanCentral European Avant-Gardes by Timothy O. BensonThe Realistic Manifesto by Naum Gabo
Constructivism Reading List
37 books — 2 voters
Our Mathematical Universe by Max TegmarkPale Blue Dot by Carl SaganRelativity by Albert EinsteinThe Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Jeffrey Alan BarrettThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe
93 books — 25 voters


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Stewart Stafford
The Industrial Revolution was the upgrading of societies and relied on the people within them to adapt and grow with it. The AI Revolution is leap-frogging over their descendants. The dinosaurs didn’t engineer their own cosmic catastrophe to hand over dominion of the Earth. Humanity stands entirely alone in actively programming its own successor.
Stewart Stafford

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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