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
2054
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
What We Owe the Future
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
Could Should Might Don't: How We Think About the Future
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
The Council of Animals
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
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Our Tribal Future by David R. SamsonHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariNeuroTribes by Steve SilbermanThe Sixth Extinction by Richard E. LeakeyChesapeake Oysters by Kate Livie
Books about the Future
132 books — 25 voters
AI Doctor by Ronald M. RazmiThe Alignment Problem by Brian  ChristianThe Age of AI and Our Human Future by Henry KissingerThe Book of Why by Judea PearlUnmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini
The Future of Human and Machine
199 books — 125 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
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
96 books — 26 voters

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesClean Sweep by Ilona AndrewsSweep in Peace by Ilona AndrewsPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeChildren of the Wandering House by Lois Wickstrom
Sentient Houses
180 books — 88 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
84 books — 13 voters


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Kai-Fu Lee
“ Part of why predicting the ending to our AI [artificial intelligence] story is so difficult is because this isn’t just a story about machines. It’s also a story about human beings, people with free wills that allows them to make their own choices and to shape their own destinies. Our AI future will be created by us, and it will reflect the choices we make and the actions we take. ”
― Kai-Fu Lee (author)

Yevgeny Zamyatin
“ من فقط یکی چیز می‌خواهم و آن چیز «او»ست. می‌خواهم که او هر لحظه، هر دقیقه کنارم باشد، فقط با من. تمام چیزهایی که همین حالا درباره‌ی وحدت نوشتم همه‌اش بی‌ربط است، چیزی نیست که باید باشد، دلم می‌خواهد تمامش را خط بزنم، پاره کنم و دور بریزم. چون می‌دانم (شاید کفر باشد، اما واقعیت است): جشن فقط با او جشن می‌شود، فقط زمانی که او کنارم و شانه‌به‌شانه‌ام باشد. بدون او، خورشید فردا چیزی نیست جز دایره‌ای حلبی و آسمان، حلبی‌ای که رنگ آبی به آن زده باشند و خودم هم، چیزی نیستم جز تکه‌ای حلبی! ”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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