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The Top 18 Books About The Future
1. The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 – Taylor Pearson 2. The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives – Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler 3.
- The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 – Taylor Pearson
- The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives – Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology – Ray Kurzweil
- The Road Ahead – Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, and Peter Rinearson
- The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism – Jeremy Rifkin
- The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think – Marcus du Sautoy
- Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age – Paul Graham
- Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future – Paul Mason
- Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix – Glenn Yeffeth
- The End of Work – Jeremy Rifkin
- The Matrixand Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real – William Irwin (Editor), Gerald J. Erion, Barry Smith, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jonathan J. Sanford, Jason Holt, Theodore Schick Jr., Gregory Bassham, James Lawler, David Mitsuo Nixon
- How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time – Matt Ridley
- Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better – Kenneth Clive Thompson
- The Inevitable – Kevin Kelly
- Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence – Hans Moravec
- Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind – Hans Moravec
- The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays – Martin Heidegger
- The Society of Mind – Marvin Minsky The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business – Erin Meyer
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