The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
By: Byron Reese
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“ The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers …
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1. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 652 pages, Paperback
“Startling in scope and bravado.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Artfully envisions a breatht… read more
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"Play is just another version of work"-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
"Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen over interessante punten in ons blikveld naar het brein. We…"-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
"We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies… We are at the critical stage toda…"-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
"Fredkin [...] praat over een interessant kenmerk van computerprogramma's, waaronder cellulaire automaten: er is geen kortere route mogelijk naar wat de uitkomst wordt. Dit is het wezenlijke verschil …"-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
2. Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
By: Martin Ford
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine--… read more
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3. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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4. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
By: Nick Lane
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A renowned biochemist draws on cutting-edge scientific findings to construct the mosaic of life's a… read more
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5. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
By: Rob Goodman , Jimmy Soni
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon--the … read more
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6. How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
By: David Crystal
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Cry… read more
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8. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
By: Carlos Castaneda
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more
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9. Ghost Boy
By: Megan Lloyd Davies , Martin Pistorius
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In Ja… read more
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10. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
By: Steven Johnson
3.67
Format: 542 pages,
The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where… read more
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11. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
By: Walter Isaacson
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people k… read more
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12. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
By: Steven Pinker
4.20
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more
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"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
13. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
14. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
By: Grace Blakeley
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journa… read more
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"The work of a revolutionary is more like that of a gardener than a builder. The new world will not be brought about overnight - its seeds have to be planted, nurtured, and protected."-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The US government wanted to send a message to poor and downtrodden people around the world: they could not hope to resist the power of American capitalism. Such a show of force was necessary because …"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"Ultimately, the US state took it upon itself to ensure that no part of the world could close its doors to international investment. This desire to keep the world 'open' to capital, rather than overac…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment w…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
15. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
16. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
By: Jeff Hawkins
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more
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"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
17. How We Change (And Ten Reasons Why We Don't)
By: Ross Ellenhorn
3.82
Format: 400 pages, ebook
A paradigm-shifting, instant classic in the making that challenges our assumptions about change by … read more
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18. The School of Life: An Emotional Education
By: Alain de Botton
4.25
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more
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19. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By: Cade Metz
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more
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"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
20. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
21. The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
By: Peter H. Diamandis
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for te… read more
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22. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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23. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
By: Kai-Fu Lee
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a le… read more
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"Many people think smartphones and apps already know too much about us, but XR will take things to a whole new level."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"Imagine, a $1,000 political assassin! And this is not a far-fetched danger for the future, but a clear and present danger."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"autonomous weapons are already a clear and present danger, and will become more intelligent, nimble, lethal, and accessible at an unprecedented speed."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"More data leads to better AI (artificial intelligence), more automation leads to greater efficiency, more usage leads to reduced cost, and more free time leads to greater productivity. All of these w…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
24. What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?
By: Stephen Wolfram
3.91
Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition
Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of wr… read more
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25. The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
By: Michio Kaku
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future i… read more
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"The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Thee notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Astronomers suspect that the Oort Cloud could extend as far as three light-years from our solar system. That is more than halfway to the nearest stars, the Centauri triple star system, which is sligh…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
26. How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
By: Matt Ridley
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements… read more
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27. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more
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28. How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
By: Daniel L. Everett
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how di… read more
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29. The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
By: Byron Reese
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“ The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers … read more
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30. Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
By: Martin Ford
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling author of Rise of the Robots shows what happens as AI takes over… read more
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