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
2054
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
What We Owe the Future
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
The Council of Animals
Could Should Might Don't: How We Think About the Future
On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
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
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesClean Sweep by Ilona AndrewsSweep in Peace by Ilona AndrewsPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Sentient Houses
178 books — 74 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
102 books — 53 voters
Capitães da areia by Jorge AmadoGabriela, clavo y canela by Jorge AmadoLe Professeur Taranne by Arthur AdamovAlcools by Guillaume ApollinairePing Pong by Arthur Adamov
The Modernist 200 List
9 books — 3 voters

I, Robot by Isaac AsimovDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeNeuromancer by William GibsonReCOgnition by Mark Dowson
Best Books on Artificial Intelligence
487 books — 776 voters
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
130 books — 23 voters


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William Gibson
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. ...more
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

Stewart Stafford
The Industrial Revolution was the upgrading of societies and relied on the people within them to adapt and grow with it. The AI Revolution is leap-frogging over their descendants. The dinosaurs didn’t engineer their own cosmic catastrophe to hand over dominion of the Earth. Humanity stands entirely alone in actively programming its own successor.
Stewart Stafford

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