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 Precipice
Quantum Supremacy
What We Owe the Future
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
2054
The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution
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 Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
The Age of Spiritual Machines
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
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
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesClean Sweep by Ilona AndrewsSweep in Peace by Ilona AndrewsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingPiranesi by Susanna Clarke
Sentient Houses
160 books — 67 voters

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
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyDark Matters by Michael  DowNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Visions of the Future of Society
52 books — 45 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
1984 by George OrwellEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardNeuromancer by William GibsonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Great Brain Twisting Science Fiction
30 books — 5 voters


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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

Yevgeny Zamyatin
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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