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
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
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

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
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



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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

M.C. Humphreys
If you ask me what remains to be known in the future, I’ll say, ‘Memorize all the world’s encyclopedias.’ Once you do that, forget all that fancy junk and rake the leaves – else I’m gonna take a stick to you, boy.
M.C. Humphreys

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