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
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

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
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
125 books — 18 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
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
421 books — 659 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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