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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
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avg rating 4.05 — 11,685 ratings — published 2012
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 545 ratings — published 2020
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 204,559 ratings — published 2018
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 203 ratings — published 2011
The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 164 ratings — published 2015
The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 139 ratings — published 2015
The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A Biography of an Ingenious Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 189 ratings — published 2014
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,475 ratings — published 2013
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 159 ratings — published 2013
The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,162 ratings — published 2014
The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 33 ratings — published 2006
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 43,992 ratings — published 2014
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 574 ratings — published 2013
Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 84 ratings — published 2013
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 13,698 ratings — published 2010
The Case for Rational Optimism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 2009
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 794 ratings — published 2003
Principles of Economics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 502 ratings — published
Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.99 — 253 ratings — published 1979
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-progress)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,123 ratings — published 2014
Das Kapital (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-progress)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,527 ratings — published 1867
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 465,679 ratings — published 1997
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 4,500 ratings — published 2024
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 7,181 ratings — published 1999
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 567 ratings — published 2023
Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-progress)
avg rating 4.04 — 925 ratings — published 2018
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (Exponential Technology Series)
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avg rating 3.97 — 10,005 ratings — published 2015
Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs – An Antidote for Short-Termism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.74 — 326 ratings — published
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 4,398 ratings — published 2017
The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.58 — 371 ratings — published 2013
Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,817 ratings — published 2016
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,757 ratings — published 2020
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-progress)
avg rating 3.61 — 399 ratings — published 2006
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,061 ratings — published 1998
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 1,378 ratings — published 2007
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 14,861 ratings — published 2018
Future Shock (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 5,296 ratings — published 1970
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 89,729 ratings — published 2003
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 17,988 ratings — published 2021
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,315 ratings — published 1997
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-progress)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,223 ratings — published 1994
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 43,039 ratings — published 2004
What Do We Do About Inequality? (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-progress)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,938 ratings — published 2019
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,034 ratings — published 2017
Screw Business As Usual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-progress)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,639 ratings — published 2011
World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 187 ratings — published 2011
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 83,251 ratings — published 2019
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 409,183 ratings — published 2014
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 59,122 ratings — published 1762
“So it was not superior thinkers, inventors or businesses that made Europe rich, but the fact that European elites were less successful in obstructing them... This is somewhat similar to our era of globalization. More countries, in more places, now have access to the sum of humanity's knowledge, and are open to the best innovations from other places... If progress is blocked in one place, many others will continue humanity's journey. (217-218)”
― Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
― Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
“As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.”
― I Am The Thread: My Mission
― I Am The Thread: My Mission
