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
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
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The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
What We Owe the Future
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Quantum Supremacy
The Council of Animals
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
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
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
419 books — 656 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
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

Our Mathematical Universe by Max TegmarkPale Blue Dot by Carl SaganRelativity by Albert EinsteinThe Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Jeffrey Alan BarrettThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe
91 books — 19 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


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وجود خودم را حس می‌کنم. اما تنها بعضی چیزها وجود خودشان را حس می‌کنند و از فردیتشان آگاهند؛ چشمی که خاری در آن رفته، انگشت ملتهب و دندان چرک کرده! چشم، انگشت و دندان سالم حس نمی‌شوند، انگار که وجود ندارند. آیا خودآگاهی به وضوح چیزی جز نوعی بیماری نیست؟
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Roger Spitz
Determining whether AI is on the road to superintelligence or superstupidity may not matter as much as ensuring that humanity does not rely on AI without a solid understanding of the consequences.
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