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
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
2054
The Council of Animals
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
Could Should Might Don't: How We Think About the Future
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
What We Owe the Future
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
Wiek paradoksów. Czy technologia nas ocali?
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 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 Precipice
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
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

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
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
127 books — 20 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
53 books — 46 voters
I, Robot by Isaac AsimovDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Best Books on Artificial Intelligence
478 books — 704 voters


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Charles Lee Lesher
The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never been this high.
Charles Lee Lesher, Shadow on the Moon

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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