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
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
The Precipice
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
What We Owe the Future
Quantum Supremacy
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
2054
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant 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
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
1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
101 books — 52 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

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
The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea EliadeStorm of Steel by Ernst JüngerThe False Assumptions of "Democracy" by Anthony Mario LudoviciRide the Tiger by Julius EvolaThe Fall into Time by Emil M. Cioran
A guide to my personal ideology
12 books — 3 voters

Understanding China by Stefan PiechHow Democracies Die by Steven LevitskyMoney Logging by Lukas StraumannMeltdown in Tibet by Michael  BuckleyOn China by Henry Kissinger
The Future is Asian
79 books — 10 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


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Roger Spitz
Futurists imagine multiple possible futures, as quantum physicists are set on multiple present realities.
Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

Savannah Mandel
But make no-mistake— I want to go to outer space. I want to see humankind construct cities on far-off planets and moons. That doesn’t make it right, though, and it doesn’t mean that now is the time to do so.
Savannah Mandel, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

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