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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,020 ratings — published 2015
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,893 ratings — published 2005
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,806 ratings — published 2014
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
by (shelved 23 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,720 ratings — published 2012
Future Shock (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,342 ratings — published 1970
Third Wave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,999 ratings — published 1980
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,143 ratings — published 2014
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.00 — 18,291 ratings — published 2011
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,730 ratings — published 1998
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,019 ratings — published 2018
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,626 ratings — published 2015
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,045 ratings — published 2016
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 12 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.99 — 28,240 ratings — published 2017
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,456 ratings — published 2018
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,883 ratings — published 2012
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,836 ratings — published 2014
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.66 — 11,320 ratings — published 2008
Who Owns the Future? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,680 ratings — published 2013
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,953 ratings — published 2024
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,163,531 ratings — published 1932
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,726 ratings — published 2022
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,028 ratings — published 2021
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,069 ratings — published 2017
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,982 ratings — published 2013
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,434 ratings — published 2020
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,005 ratings — published 2018
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,927 ratings — published 2017
The Industries of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,472 ratings — published 2016
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,434 ratings — published 2011
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,758 ratings — published 2015
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,800,756 ratings — published 1949
Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.06 — 778 ratings — published 2007
The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,494 ratings — published 2011
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,311 ratings — published 2020
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,136 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.11 — 459,003 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,337,100 ratings — published 2011
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,098 ratings — published 2004
Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,126 ratings — published 1990
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,878 ratings — published 2025
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,643 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,377 ratings — published 2018
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,869 ratings — published 2016
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,102 ratings — published 2016
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,562 ratings — published 2015
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,080 ratings — published 2014
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,382 ratings — published 2014
Summa technologiae (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.31 — 966 ratings — published 1964
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,252 ratings — published 2008
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as futurology)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,006 ratings — published 1994
“Hannah strived for physical catharsis, but she was trapped in an unfamiliar mind without its biological counterparts; gasping without lungs, crying without tears, forgiving without a heart.”
― The Day I Wore Purple
― The Day I Wore Purple
“We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells. Seeing me, you actually experience a disturbance in the sodium-potassium equilibrium across your neuron membranes. So all we have to
do is send a few well-chosen molecules down into those cortical mitochondria, activate the right neurohumoral-synaptic transmission effector sites, and your fondest dreams come true. But you know
all this," he concluded, subdued.”
― The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
do is send a few well-chosen molecules down into those cortical mitochondria, activate the right neurohumoral-synaptic transmission effector sites, and your fondest dreams come true. But you know
all this," he concluded, subdued.”
― The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
