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
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
Texas 2077 by Carlos MiralejosA People's Future of the United States by Victor LaValleBrújula Moral by Bryant JohnsonDialogue Prompt; No Estamos Solos En El Universo by Bryant JohnsonAltermundos by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson
Latinx Futurism/Science Fiction
31 books — 3 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
184 books — 109 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

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
53 books — 46 voters


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John Brunner
... maybe it's a sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines. I don't want to be hung out to dry on a dead branch of the evolutionary tree. ...more
John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

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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