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
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
160 books — 67 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

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
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

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyDark Matters by Michael  DowNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Visions of the Future of Society
52 books — 45 voters
Gabriela, clavo y canela by Jorge AmadoCapitães da areia by Jorge AmadoLe Professeur Taranne by Arthur AdamovAlcools by Guillaume ApollinairePing Pong by Arthur Adamov
The Modernist 200 List
9 books — 3 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
While futurists imagine multiple possible futures, quantum physicists research multiple present realities.
Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

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