Futurism

Visionäärsed mõtlejad ja tehnoloogilised tulevikuennustajad kaardstavad inimkonna järgmisi suuri hüppeid – tehisintellektist ja robootikast pikaealisuse ja kosmose koloniseerimiseni. Need julged uurimused tärkavatest trendidest ja läbimurdelistest uuendustest paljastavad, kuidas tänased eksponentsiaalsed edusammud kujundavad meie maailma lähikümnenditel radikaalselt ümber.

Futurism Raamatute kokkuvõtted

The Second Machine Age

autor Erik Brynjolfsson • 2014

Kodak employed 145,000. Instagram: 15. The economics that explains both, and what comes next.

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🖥️ Digital Economy 🏭 Automation And Jobs 💼 Future Of Work 📈 Exponential Technology 🤖 AI And Society

Kaasahaaravad

The Second Machine Age

Kodak employed 145,000. Instagram: 15. The economics that explains both, and what comes next.

autor Erik Brynjolfsson 2014 320 lehekülge

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🖥️ Digital Economy 🏭 Automation And Jobs 💼 Future Of Work 📈 Exponential Technology 🤖 AI And Society

The Precipice

autor Toby Ord • 2020

The next hundred years will decide if humanity colonizes the galaxy or destroys itself trying.

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🧨 Existential Risk ⏳ Longtermism 🤖 Ai Safety ☢️ Nuclear Risk 🦠 Pandemic Preparedness

The Precipice

The next hundred years will decide if humanity colonizes the galaxy or destroys itself trying.

autor Toby Ord 2020 480 lehekülge

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🧨 Existential Risk ⏳ Longtermism 🤖 Ai Safety ☢️ Nuclear Risk 🦠 Pandemic Preparedness

The Singularity Is Near

autor Ray Kurzweil • 2005

Progress doubles, then doubles again. Sometime around 2045, human biology becomes optional.

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🔮 Futurism 📈 Exponential Technology 🤖 Artificial General Intelligence 🧠 Brain Emulation 🌅 Transhumanism

The Singularity Is Near

Progress doubles, then doubles again. Sometime around 2045, human biology becomes optional.

autor Ray Kurzweil 2005 652 lehekülge

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🔮 Futurism 📈 Exponential Technology 🤖 Artificial General Intelligence 🧠 Brain Emulation 🌅 Transhumanism

The Singularity Is Nearer

autor Ray Kurzweil • 2024

AI surpasses humans by 2029. The plan is not to compete but to merge.

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🚀 Technological Acceleration 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🔮 Futurism 🧬 Transhumanism 🧠 Brain-Computer Interface

The Singularity Is Nearer

AI surpasses humans by 2029. The plan is not to compete but to merge.

autor Ray Kurzweil 2024 432 lehekülge

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🚀 Technological Acceleration 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🔮 Futurism 🧬 Transhumanism 🧠 Brain-Computer Interface

Abundance

autor Peter H. Diamandis • 2012

Your brain scans for disasters. Technology improves exponentially. One of these is winning.

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🔭 Technological Optimism 📈 Exponential Technology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🌍 Global Development 💡 Innovation Models

Abundance

Your brain scans for disasters. Technology improves exponentially. One of these is winning.

autor Peter H. Diamandis 2012 400 lehekülge

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🔭 Technological Optimism 📈 Exponential Technology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🌍 Global Development 💡 Innovation Models

Art of the Long View, The

autor Peter Schwartz • 1991

Predicting the future is a fool's game. The smart money rehearses it instead.

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📋 Strategic Planning 🔮 Scenario Planning 🔭 Futures Thinking 🌫️ Uncertainty Management 📖 Narrative Strategy

Art of the Long View, The

Predicting the future is a fool's game. The smart money rehearses it instead.

autor Peter Schwartz 1991 258 lehekülge

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📋 Strategic Planning 🔮 Scenario Planning 🔭 Futures Thinking 🌫️ Uncertainty Management 📖 Narrative Strategy

The Inevitable

autor Kevin Kelly • 2016

Twelve forces are bending civilization in one direction, and we have just left the gate.

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🔄 Digital Economy 🔮 Technological Forecasting 📊 Information Economy 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🌐 Networked Society

The Inevitable

Twelve forces are bending civilization in one direction, and we have just left the gate.

autor Kevin Kelly 2016

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🔄 Digital Economy 🔮 Technological Forecasting 📊 Information Economy 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🌐 Networked Society

The Next 100 Years

autor George Friedman • 2008

America doesn't need to win wars, just prevent rivals from rising. The next battlefield is orbital.

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🌍 Geopolitical Forecasting ♟️ Grand Strategy 📉 Demographic Collapse 🛰️ Space Warfare 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

The Next 100 Years

America doesn't need to win wars, just prevent rivals from rising. The next battlefield is orbital.

autor George Friedman 2008 272 lehekülge

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🌍 Geopolitical Forecasting ♟️ Grand Strategy 📉 Demographic Collapse 🛰️ Space Warfare 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

The Future Is Faster Than You Think

autor Peter H. Diamandis • 2020

Breakthroughs are converging. The next decade will deliver a century's worth of change.

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🧬 Technology Convergence 🔬 Emerging Technologies 💥 Business Disruption 🚀 Disruptive Innovation 🔮 Future Forecasting

The Future Is Faster Than You Think

Breakthroughs are converging. The next decade will deliver a century's worth of change.

autor Peter H. Diamandis 2020 384 lehekülge

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🧬 Technology Convergence 🔬 Emerging Technologies 💥 Business Disruption 🚀 Disruptive Innovation 🔮 Future Forecasting

Machine, Platform, Crowd

autor Andrew McAfee • 2018

Machines outthink experts, platforms own customers, and outsiders solve what insiders cannot.

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🏢 Technology Strategy 🛒 Platform Economics 📈 Data-Driven Decisions 👥 Crowdsourcing 🤖 Automation And Jobs

Machine, Platform, Crowd

Machines outthink experts, platforms own customers, and outsiders solve what insiders cannot.

autor Andrew McAfee 2018 416 lehekülge

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🏢 Technology Strategy 🛒 Platform Economics 📈 Data-Driven Decisions 👥 Crowdsourcing 🤖 Automation And Jobs

The Age of Spiritual Machines

autor Ray Kurzweil • 1998

Exponential growth puts thinking machines in our future; the only question is what we become after.

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🤖 Technological Singularity 📈 Exponential Growth 🧬 Transhumanism ⚖️ Ai Ethics 🧠 Evolution Of Intelligence

The Age of Spiritual Machines

Exponential growth puts thinking machines in our future; the only question is what we become after.

autor Ray Kurzweil 1998 681 lehekülge

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🤖 Technological Singularity 📈 Exponential Growth 🧬 Transhumanism ⚖️ Ai Ethics 🧠 Evolution Of Intelligence

Physics of the Future

autor Michio Kaku • 2011

What a century of real physics can actually deliver: from invisible computers to fusion power.

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🔮 Future Studies 🌐 Ubiquitous Computing 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🔬 Nanotechnology

Physics of the Future

What a century of real physics can actually deliver: from invisible computers to fusion power.

autor Michio Kaku 2011 416 lehekülge

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🔮 Future Studies 🌐 Ubiquitous Computing 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🔬 Nanotechnology

MegaThreats

autor Nouriel Roubini • 2022

Ten dangers, from unsustainable debt to climate, are now locked together in one accelerating crisis.

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🌐 Global Polycrisis ⚠️ Systemic Risk 💰 Debt Crises 📉 Stagflation 👴 Demographic Decline

MegaThreats

Ten dangers, from unsustainable debt to climate, are now locked together in one accelerating crisis.

autor Nouriel Roubini 2022 320 lehekülge

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🌐 Global Polycrisis ⚠️ Systemic Risk 💰 Debt Crises 📉 Stagflation 👴 Demographic Decline

The Signals Are Talking

autor Amy Webb • 2016

Trends leave footprints at the fringe. A system for reading the future before it becomes obvious.

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🧭 Strategic Foresight 🗺️ Scenario Planning 🔍 Pattern Recognition 🌱 Fringe Innovation 📡 Technology Forecasting

The Signals Are Talking

Trends leave footprints at the fringe. A system for reading the future before it becomes obvious.

autor Amy Webb 2016 336 lehekülge

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🧭 Strategic Foresight 🗺️ Scenario Planning 🔍 Pattern Recognition 🌱 Fringe Innovation 📡 Technology Forecasting

Transcend

autor Ray Kurzweil • 2009

A blueprint for extending healthspan by decades, blending today's science with daily habits.

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🧬 Life Extension 🔍 Preventive Diagnostics 🧠 Brain Health ⚖️ Hormone Balance 🏃 Exercise Prescription

Transcend

A blueprint for extending healthspan by decades, blending today's science with daily habits.

autor Ray Kurzweil 2009 480 lehekülge

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🧬 Life Extension 🔍 Preventive Diagnostics 🧠 Brain Health ⚖️ Hormone Balance 🏃 Exercise Prescription

The Gray Rhino

autor Michele Wucker • 2016

Obvious, predictable threats destroy more than surprises do, and we ignore them anyway.

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🛡️ Risk Management 🚨 Crisis Leadership 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📊 Behavioral Economics 🔗 Systems Thinking

The Gray Rhino

Obvious, predictable threats destroy more than surprises do, and we ignore them anyway.

autor Michele Wucker 2016 284 lehekülge

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🛡️ Risk Management 🚨 Crisis Leadership 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📊 Behavioral Economics 🔗 Systems Thinking

Revolutionary Wealth

autor Alvin Toffler • 2006

New wealth is not made of things but of ideas and invisible contributions the market ignores.

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🧠 Knowledge Economy 🏛️ Postindustrial Society 👻 Hidden Economy 🌫️ Intangible Assets 🌏 Global Economic Shift

Revolutionary Wealth

New wealth is not made of things but of ideas and invisible contributions the market ignores.

autor Alvin Toffler 2006 512 lehekülge

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🧠 Knowledge Economy 🏛️ Postindustrial Society 👻 Hidden Economy 🌫️ Intangible Assets 🌏 Global Economic Shift

T-Minus AI

autor Michael Kanaan • 2020

AI will decide global power. The race has already started, and not everyone plays fair.

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🌐 Ai Geopolitics 🏁 Tech Arms Races 🇺🇸 Us China Rivalry 👁️ Digital Authoritarianism ⚔️ Ai And Warfare

T-Minus AI

AI will decide global power. The race has already started, and not everyone plays fair.

autor Michael Kanaan 2020 304 lehekülge

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🌐 Ai Geopolitics 🏁 Tech Arms Races 🇺🇸 Us China Rivalry 👁️ Digital Authoritarianism ⚔️ Ai And Warfare

The Fourth Age

autor Byron Reese • 2018

Three technologies made humanity. The fourth could unmake the boundary between human and machine.

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🎲 Free Will Debate ⚙️ History Of Technology 💼 Future Of Work

The Fourth Age

Three technologies made humanity. The fourth could unmake the boundary between human and machine.

autor Byron Reese 2018 335 lehekülge

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🎲 Free Will Debate ⚙️ History Of Technology 💼 Future Of Work

Fantastic Voyage

autor Ray Kurzweil • 2004

Stay healthy long enough for biotechnology and nanotech to make death optional.

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⏳ Longevity Science 🤖 Transhumanism 🩺 Future Of Medicine 🩸 Metabolic Health 🧪 Biohacking

Fantastic Voyage

Stay healthy long enough for biotechnology and nanotech to make death optional.

autor Ray Kurzweil 2004 452 lehekülge

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⏳ Longevity Science 🤖 Transhumanism 🩺 Future Of Medicine 🩸 Metabolic Health 🧪 Biohacking

Digital Transformation

autor Thomas M. Siebel • 2019

Corporate lifespans dropped from 60 years to 20. Four technologies determine who goes extinct.

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🏭 Digital Disruption 🔄 Organizational Change 👔 CEO Leadership 🤖 AI Strategy ⚔️ AI Arms Race

Digital Transformation

Corporate lifespans dropped from 60 years to 20. Four technologies determine who goes extinct.

autor Thomas M. Siebel 2019 253 lehekülge

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🏭 Digital Disruption 🔄 Organizational Change 👔 CEO Leadership 🤖 AI Strategy ⚔️ AI Arms Race

The Future of Humanity

autor Michio Kaku • 2018

Becoming multi-planetary isn't just about rockets. It requires redesigning the human body itself.

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🏗️ Space Colonization 🚀 Space Travel 🔮 Futurism 🪐 Planetary Science 🧬 Genetic Engineering

The Future of Humanity

Becoming multi-planetary isn't just about rockets. It requires redesigning the human body itself.

autor Michio Kaku 2018 368 lehekülge

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🏗️ Space Colonization 🚀 Space Travel 🔮 Futurism 🪐 Planetary Science 🧬 Genetic Engineering

The Metaverse

autor Matthew Ball • 2022

A trillion-dollar 3D internet is forming on technical foundations that barely exist.

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🌐 Virtual Worlds 💰 Virtual Economies 🔮 Future Of The Internet 🥽 Immersive Technology 🏗️ Tech Infrastructure

The Metaverse

A trillion-dollar 3D internet is forming on technical foundations that barely exist.

autor Matthew Ball 2022 352 lehekülge

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🌐 Virtual Worlds 💰 Virtual Economies 🔮 Future Of The Internet 🥽 Immersive Technology 🏗️ Tech Infrastructure

The Elephant And The Flea

autor Charles B. Handy • 2001

The company career is over. Build a life from projects, not promotions, and redefine wealth.

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💼 Portfolio Careers 📦 Gig Economy ✨ Meaningful Work 📚 Lifelong Learning ⚖️ Work-Life Integration

The Elephant And The Flea

The company career is over. Build a life from projects, not promotions, and redefine wealth.

autor Charles B. Handy 2001 240 lehekülge

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💼 Portfolio Careers 📦 Gig Economy ✨ Meaningful Work 📚 Lifelong Learning ⚖️ Work-Life Integration

The Future of Work

autor Darrell M. West • 2018

Automation threatens half of all jobs. Our safety nets were designed for a different economy.

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🏭 Workforce Automation 📉 Job Displacement 🚗 Gig Economy 🪪 Social Safety Net ⚖️ Technology Policy

The Future of Work

Automation threatens half of all jobs. Our safety nets were designed for a different economy.

autor Darrell M. West 2018 209 lehekülge

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🏭 Workforce Automation 📉 Job Displacement 🚗 Gig Economy 🪪 Social Safety Net ⚖️ Technology Policy

Surviving AI

autor Calum Chace • 2015

Superintelligence is coming. It could be the greatest thing or the last thing we ever build.

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🎯 Ai Alignment ☢️ Existential Risk 🧠 Superintelligence 💥 Singularity 💼 Future Of Work

Surviving AI

Superintelligence is coming. It could be the greatest thing or the last thing we ever build.

autor Calum Chace 2015 303 lehekülge

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🎯 Ai Alignment ☢️ Existential Risk 🧠 Superintelligence 💥 Singularity 💼 Future Of Work

The Next Decade

autor George Friedman • 2011

America stumbled into empire. Holding it requires a playbook its founders would have despised.

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🗺️ Grand Strategy 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🔮 Geopolitical Forecasting 🎭 Machiavellian Statecraft ⚖️ Balance Of Power

The Next Decade

America stumbled into empire. Holding it requires a playbook its founders would have despised.

autor George Friedman 2011 243 lehekülge

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🗺️ Grand Strategy 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🔮 Geopolitical Forecasting 🎭 Machiavellian Statecraft ⚖️ Balance Of Power

Visions

autor Michio Kaku • 2011

When quantum physics, computing, and genetics converge, the 21st century truly begins.

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🧬 Genetic Engineering 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🔮 Futurism 🧠 Transhumanism ⚖️ Bioethics

Visions

When quantum physics, computing, and genetics converge, the 21st century truly begins.

autor Michio Kaku 2011 418 lehekülge

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🧬 Genetic Engineering 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🔮 Futurism 🧠 Transhumanism ⚖️ Bioethics

The Industries of the Future

autor Alec J. Ross • 2016

Robotics, genomics, code, and cyberwar: the next economy's winners and losers, mapped.

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🌐 Emerging Technologies 🤖 Labor Automation 💰 Digital Currencies 🛡️ Cyberwarfare 📊 Data Ethics

The Industries of the Future

Robotics, genomics, code, and cyberwar: the next economy's winners and losers, mapped.

autor Alec J. Ross 2016 320 lehekülge

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🌐 Emerging Technologies 🤖 Labor Automation 💰 Digital Currencies 🛡️ Cyberwarfare 📊 Data Ethics

WTF?

autor Tim O'Reilly • 2017

The economy is now an algorithm, and nobody wrote human well-being into its code.

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🏗️ Platform Economy 🤖 Algorithmic Management 💼 Future Of Work 🌱 New Economics 🧠 Collective Intelligence

WTF?

The economy is now an algorithm, and nobody wrote human well-being into its code.

autor Tim O'Reilly 2017 448 lehekülge

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🏗️ Platform Economy 🤖 Algorithmic Management 💼 Future Of Work 🌱 New Economics 🧠 Collective Intelligence

Altered Inheritance

autor Françoise Baylis • 2019

We can rewrite our children's genes. The danger is letting a few people set the rules.

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🧬 Genome Editing ⚖️ Bioethics 🏛️ Science Policy 🌍 Genetic Justice 👶 Designer Babies

Altered Inheritance

We can rewrite our children's genes. The danger is letting a few people set the rules.

autor Françoise Baylis 2019 304 lehekülge

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🧬 Genome Editing ⚖️ Bioethics 🏛️ Science Policy 🌍 Genetic Justice 👶 Designer Babies

Soonish

autor Kelly Weinersmith • 2017

Ten technologies that could reshape everything, and why each one might backfire spectacularly.

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🚀 Emerging Technologies 🔮 Future Studies 😂 Science Humor 🛰️ Space Exploration ⚠️ Technological Risks

Soonish

Ten technologies that could reshape everything, and why each one might backfire spectacularly.

autor Kelly Weinersmith 2017 368 lehekülge

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🚀 Emerging Technologies 🔮 Future Studies 😂 Science Humor 🛰️ Space Exploration ⚠️ Technological Risks

The Future of Everything

autor David Orrell • 2006

Weather, markets, pandemics: the science of why forecasts fail, and what to build instead.

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🔮 Forecasting 🕸️ Complexity Science ⚠️ Limits Of Prediction 🔗 Systems Thinking 📉 Economic Forecasting

The Future of Everything

Weather, markets, pandemics: the science of why forecasts fail, and what to build instead.

autor David Orrell 2006 464 lehekülge

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🔮 Forecasting 🕸️ Complexity Science ⚠️ Limits Of Prediction 🔗 Systems Thinking 📉 Economic Forecasting

How to Fix the Future

autor Andrew Keen • 2017

The digital revolution feels unprecedented. It isn't. The fix is the same as last time.

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🌐 Digital Society ⚖️ Tech Policy 🔮 Technological Determinism ✋ Digital Humanism 🏙️ Smart Cities

How to Fix the Future

The digital revolution feels unprecedented. It isn't. The fix is the same as last time.

autor Andrew Keen 2017 288 lehekülge

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🌐 Digital Society ⚖️ Tech Policy 🔮 Technological Determinism ✋ Digital Humanism 🏙️ Smart Cities

Could Should Might Don't

autor Nick Foster • 2025

Four ways we imagine the future. Three are fantasies. One is a discipline.

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🧭 Futures Thinking 🚫 Technocritique 🛠️ Critical Design ⚠️ Forecasting Fallacies 🏠 Everyday Futures

Could Should Might Don't

Four ways we imagine the future. Three are fantasies. One is a discipline.

autor Nick Foster 2025 352 lehekülge

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🧭 Futures Thinking 🚫 Technocritique 🛠️ Critical Design ⚠️ Forecasting Fallacies 🏠 Everyday Futures

Reality+

autor David J. Chalmers • 2022

Virtual worlds are real, not illusions. A simulated life can be meaningful. Yours may be one.

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🖥️ Simulation Theory 🔧 Philosophy Of Technology 🧱 Digital Ontology 🧠 Consciousness Studies ⚛️ Digital Physics

Reality+

Virtual worlds are real, not illusions. A simulated life can be meaningful. Yours may be one.

autor David J. Chalmers 2022 544 lehekülge

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🖥️ Simulation Theory 🔧 Philosophy Of Technology 🧱 Digital Ontology 🧠 Consciousness Studies ⚛️ Digital Physics

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