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Adam Becker

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Adam Becker is a science writer with a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Michigan and a BA in philosophy and physics from Cornell. He has written for the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, New Scientist, and others. He has also recorded a video series with the BBC and several podcasts with the Story Collider. Adam is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Office for History of Science and Technology and lives in California. ...more

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Average rating: 4.28 · 4,646 ratings · 697 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics 4.28 avg rating — 3,713 ratings — published 2018 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity 4.26 avg rating — 933 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Adam Becker and 22 other people liked Sandra The Old Woman in a Van's review of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity: "This is one of the most important books I’ll read this year and I encourage everyone else to read it too. It does a good job diving deep into the motivations and pseudoscience around the broligarch’s futurism. It’s a dangerous situation to have a vas" Read more of this review »
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Adam Becker liked Andrew Breza's review of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity: "The definitive takedown of Effective Altruism, Longtermism, Mars colonization plans, and other escapist fantasies that allow people to pretend that they're saving the world while ignoring the real needs of real humans. A brilliant expose. I disagree " Read more of this review »
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Adam Becker and 4 other people liked Neil Griffin's review of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity: "Those of you who know me, if I were to venture probably eight of you, know that I don't use hyperbole and am generally calm and collected when reviewing books. So forgive me if I'm a bit excessive in praise for this one; it's deserved. Becker methodi" Read more of this review »
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Adam Becker and 1 other person liked Emily M.'s review of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity: "Ever thought something was kinda off with plans to go to Mars but couldn't quite put your finger on it? Feeling a little squicked out by the way people talk about AGI? This book will give you a very clear idea of why, told with clarity and deep knowl" Read more of this review »
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Adam Becker made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — [Done] Some of my books listed under the incorrect author - please move them topic " Hello! All editions of my new book "More Everything Forever" are listed on the author page for someone else with my name, rather than my author page. ...more "
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“The stories that science tells about the world filter out into the wider culture, changing the way that we look at the world around us and our place in it. The discovery that the Earth was not at the center of the universe, Darwin’s theory of evolution, the Big Bang and an expanding universe nearly 14 billion years old, containing hundreds of billions of galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars—these ideas have radically altered humanity’s conception of itself.”
― Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

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“Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than any other method we apes have found for learning about the world around us.”
― Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

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“Nonetheless, the appeal of Copenhagen makes some sense, seen in this light. Quantum physics drove much of the technological and scientific progress of the past ninety years: nuclear power, modern computers, the Internet. Quantum-driven medical imaging changed the face of health care; quantum imaging techniques at smaller scales have revolutionized biology and kicked off the entirely new field of molecular genetics. The list goes on. Make some kind of personal peace with Copenhagen, and contribute to this amazing revolution in science . . . or take quantum physics seriously, and come face-to-face with a problem that even Einstein couldn't solve. Shutting up never looked so good.”
― Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

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