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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 93,338 ratings — published 1995
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 14,205 ratings — published 2003
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,580 ratings — published 2015
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,073 ratings — published 2014
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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avg rating 4.28 — 80,948 ratings — published 1988
Walkaway (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.76 — 9,124 ratings — published 2017
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
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avg rating 4.16 — 52,772 ratings — published 1990
Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
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avg rating 4.23 — 29,482 ratings — published 2000
Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Working Classics)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,219 ratings — published 1971
Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
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avg rating 4.26 — 30,374 ratings — published 2010
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 9,258 ratings — published 2023
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 40,446 ratings — published 2009
Automation and the Future of Work (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 681 ratings — published 2020
Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 1,362 ratings — published 1908
Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 86 ratings — published 2015
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,919 ratings — published 2015
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 935 ratings — published 2009
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 100,913 ratings — published 1987
Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World: Consumption, Demand, and the Poverty Penalty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2010
Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 311 ratings — published 1972
Economic Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 1920
The Right to Be Lazy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 6,727 ratings — published 1880
The Engineers and the Price System (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 81 ratings — published 1921
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 4,030 ratings — published 1899
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 27,016 ratings — published 2011
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 24,639 ratings — published 1988
Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 384 ratings — published 2013
Corinth 2642 AD (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.49 — 59 ratings — published
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Critical Path (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,132 ratings — published 1981
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 4,503 ratings — published 2025
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,505 ratings — published 2025
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 21,054 ratings — published 2014
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 23,527 ratings — published 1967
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 810 ratings — published
Abundance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 41,581 ratings — published 2025
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,682 ratings — published 2020
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,299 ratings — published 2020
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 2,717 ratings — published 2018
Platform Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,426 ratings — published 2016
![Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Bookchin, Murray [AK Press, 2004] (Paperback) [Paperback]](https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-1b903c9eac1b2ba789662c08a0ae41e6.png)
Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Bookchin, Murray [AK Press, 2004] (Paperback) [Paperback]
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Excession (Culture, #5)
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avg rating 4.20 — 34,250 ratings — published 1996
The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 232 ratings — published 1990
Coherence: A Hard Sci-Fi Thriller (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.00 — 27,527 ratings — published 2017
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 34,479 ratings — published 2018
January Fifteenth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 705 ratings — published 2022
The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation (Bertrand Russell Paperbacks)
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avg rating 3.93 — 30 ratings — published 1923
Inversions (Culture, #6)
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avg rating 3.96 — 20,278 ratings — published 1998
Nightwings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,596 ratings — published 1969
“If they advanced too much further technologically, those advances would inevitably intrude on their humanity. People wanted to walk. They wanted to take the bus that smelled like cigarettes. They wanted those precious three minutes between asking a question and knowing the answer.”
― 17776: What football will look like in the future
― 17776: What football will look like in the future
“So what," the Chelgrian asked, "is the point of me or anybody else writing a symphony, or anything else?"
The avatar raised its brows in surprise. "Well, for one thing, you do it, it's you who gets the feeling of achievement."
"Ignoring the subjective. What would be the point for those listening to it?"
"They'd know it was one of their own species, not a Mind, who created it."
"Ignoring that, too; suppose they weren't told it was by an AI, or didn't care."
"If they hadn't been told then the comparison isn't complete; information is being concealed. If they don't care, then they're unlike any group of humans I've ever encountered."
"But if you can—"
"Ziller, are concerned that Minds—AIs, if you like—can create, or even just appear to create, original works of art?"
"Frankly, when they're the sort of original works of art that I create, yes."
"Ziller, it doesn't matter. You have to think like a mountain climber."
"Oh, do I?"
"Yes. Some people take days, sweat buckets, endure pain and cold and risk injury and—in some cases—permanent death to achieve the summit of a mountain only to discover there a party of their peers freshly arrived by aircraft and enjoying a light picnic."
"If I was one of those climbers I'd be pretty damned annoyed."
"Well, it is considered rather impolite to land an aircraft on a summit which people are at that moment struggling up to the hard way, but it can and does happen. Good manners indicate that the picnic ought to be shared and that those who arrived by aircraft express awe and respect for the accomplishment of the climbers.
"The point, of course, is that the people who spent days and sweated buckets could also have taken an aircraft to the summit if all they'd wanted was to absorb the view. It is the struggle that they crave. The sense of achievement is produced by the route to and from the peak, not by the peak itself. It is just the fold between the pages." The avatar hesitated. It put its head a little to one side and narrowed its eyes. "How far do I have to take this analogy, Cr. Ziller?”
― Look to Windward
The avatar raised its brows in surprise. "Well, for one thing, you do it, it's you who gets the feeling of achievement."
"Ignoring the subjective. What would be the point for those listening to it?"
"They'd know it was one of their own species, not a Mind, who created it."
"Ignoring that, too; suppose they weren't told it was by an AI, or didn't care."
"If they hadn't been told then the comparison isn't complete; information is being concealed. If they don't care, then they're unlike any group of humans I've ever encountered."
"But if you can—"
"Ziller, are concerned that Minds—AIs, if you like—can create, or even just appear to create, original works of art?"
"Frankly, when they're the sort of original works of art that I create, yes."
"Ziller, it doesn't matter. You have to think like a mountain climber."
"Oh, do I?"
"Yes. Some people take days, sweat buckets, endure pain and cold and risk injury and—in some cases—permanent death to achieve the summit of a mountain only to discover there a party of their peers freshly arrived by aircraft and enjoying a light picnic."
"If I was one of those climbers I'd be pretty damned annoyed."
"Well, it is considered rather impolite to land an aircraft on a summit which people are at that moment struggling up to the hard way, but it can and does happen. Good manners indicate that the picnic ought to be shared and that those who arrived by aircraft express awe and respect for the accomplishment of the climbers.
"The point, of course, is that the people who spent days and sweated buckets could also have taken an aircraft to the summit if all they'd wanted was to absorb the view. It is the struggle that they crave. The sense of achievement is produced by the route to and from the peak, not by the peak itself. It is just the fold between the pages." The avatar hesitated. It put its head a little to one side and narrowed its eyes. "How far do I have to take this analogy, Cr. Ziller?”
― Look to Windward
