Futurisme

Visionaire denkers en technologische voorspellers brengen de volgende grote sprongen van de mensheid in kaart, van kunstmatige intelligentie en robotica tot levensduurverlenging en ruimtekolonisatie. Deze gedurfde verkenningen van opkomende trends en baanbrekende innovaties onthullen hoe de exponentiële vooruitgang van vandaag onze wereld in de komende decennia ingrijpend zal hervormen.

Futurisme Boeksamenvattingen

The Second Machine Age

door 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

Immersief

The Second Machine Age

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

door Erik Brynjolfsson 2014 320 pagina's

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

The Precipice

door 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.

door Toby Ord 2020 480 pagina's

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

The Singularity Is Near

door 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.

door Ray Kurzweil 2005 652 pagina's

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

The Singularity Is Nearer

door 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.

door Ray Kurzweil 2024 432 pagina's

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

Abundance

door 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.

door Peter H. Diamandis 2012 400 pagina's

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

Art of the Long View, The

door 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.

door Peter Schwartz 1991 258 pagina's

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

The Inevitable

door 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.

door Kevin Kelly 2016

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

The Next 100 Years

door 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.

door George Friedman 2008 272 pagina's

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

The Future Is Faster Than You Think

door 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.

door Peter H. Diamandis 2020 384 pagina's

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

Machine, Platform, Crowd

door 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.

door Andrew McAfee 2018 416 pagina's

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

The Age of Spiritual Machines

door 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.

door Ray Kurzweil 1998 681 pagina's

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

Physics of the Future

door 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.

door Michio Kaku 2011 416 pagina's

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

MegaThreats

door 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.

door Nouriel Roubini 2022 320 pagina's

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

The Signals Are Talking

door 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.

door Amy Webb 2016 336 pagina's

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

Transcend

door 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.

door Ray Kurzweil 2009 480 pagina's

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

The Gray Rhino

door 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.

door Michele Wucker 2016 284 pagina's

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

Revolutionary Wealth

door 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.

door Alvin Toffler 2006 512 pagina's

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

T-Minus AI

door 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.

door Michael Kanaan 2020 304 pagina's

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

The Fourth Age

door 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.

door Byron Reese 2018 335 pagina's

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

Fantastic Voyage

door 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.

door Ray Kurzweil 2004 452 pagina's

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

Digital Transformation

door 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.

door Thomas M. Siebel 2019 253 pagina's

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

The Future of Humanity

door 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.

door Michio Kaku 2018 368 pagina's

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

The Metaverse

door 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.

door Matthew Ball 2022 352 pagina's

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

The Elephant And The Flea

door 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.

door Charles B. Handy 2001 240 pagina's

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

The Future of Work

door 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.

door Darrell M. West 2018 209 pagina's

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

Surviving AI

door 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.

door Calum Chace 2015 303 pagina's

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

The Next Decade

door 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.

door George Friedman 2011 243 pagina's

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

Visions

door 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.

door Michio Kaku 2011 418 pagina's

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

The Industries of the Future

door 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.

door Alec J. Ross 2016 320 pagina's

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

WTF?

door 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.

door Tim O'Reilly 2017 448 pagina's

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

Altered Inheritance

door 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.

door Françoise Baylis 2019 304 pagina's

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

Soonish

door 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.

door Kelly Weinersmith 2017 368 pagina's

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

The Future of Everything

door 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.

door David Orrell 2006 464 pagina's

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

How to Fix the Future

door 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.

door Andrew Keen 2017 288 pagina's

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

Could Should Might Don't

door 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.

door Nick Foster 2025 352 pagina's

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

Reality+

door 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.

door David J. Chalmers 2022 544 pagina's

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

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