Futurology books

Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century is the third book in a trilogy written by the futurist Alvin Toffler, following on from Future Shock and The Third Wave.

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author James Barrat.

Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology is a 1986 molecular nanotechnology book written by K.

Revolutionary Wealth is a book written by futurists Alvin Toffler and his wife Heidi Toffler, first published in 2006 by Knopf.

Eternity: Our Next Billion Years is a non-fiction book which speculates about the future of mankind written by science writer Michael Hanlon.

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom from the University of Oxford.

Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2009) is a non-fiction book by American Law Professor Richard Dooling.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2006 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R.

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think is a book by Peter H.

The Age of Spiritual Machines is a non-fiction book by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil about artificial intelligence and the future course of humanity.

Summa Technologiae (the title is in Latin, meaning "Sum of Technology" in English) is a 1964 (1967 - second edition) book by Polish author Stanisław Lem.

Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition is a non-fiction book copyright 1990 by Ed Regis, an American author and educator, that presents a lighthearted look at scientific visionaries planning for a future with "post-biological" people, space colonization, nanotechnology, and cryonics.

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Danish: Verdens sande tilstand, literal translation: The True State of the World) is a book by Danish environmentalist author Bjørn Lomborg, controversial for its claims that overpopulation, declining energy resources, deforestation, species loss, water shortages, certain aspects of global warming, and an assortment of other global environmental issues are unsupported by analysis of the relevant data.

Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932.

Global Catastrophic Risks (2011) is a non-fiction book edited by philosopher Nick Bostrom and astronomer Milan M.

The Limits to Growth is a 1972 book about the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with finite resource supplies.

The Transparent Society (1998) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author David Brin in which he forecasts social transparency and some degree of erosion of privacy, as it is overtaken by low-cost surveillance, communication and database technology, and proposes new institutions and practices that he believes would provide benefits that would more than compensate for lost privacy.

A Brief History of the Future is a speculative futurology book about the next 50 years by Jacques Attali.

The Industries of the Future is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Alec Ross.

Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact is a 2015 non-fiction book by science journalist Steven Kotler and published by Amazon Publishing.

The Age of Intelligent Machines is a non-fiction book about artificial intelligence by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

The Next 100 Years is a 2009 book by George Friedman.

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century is a 2002 collection of essays by twenty-five well-known scientists, edited by Edge Foundation founder John Brockman, who wrote the introduction.

The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 is a non-fiction book by American economist and demographer Joel Kotkin.

The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler.

Future Shock is a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970.

Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R.

Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and government responsiveness to citizen's needs, and self-regulation by the learned professions.

Democracy and the Common Wealth: Breaking the Stranglehold of the Special Interests is a 2010 book by urban designer, policy analyst and artist Michael E.

Hacking Matter is a 2003 book by Wil McCarthy.

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed is a non-fiction book about brains, both human and artificial, by the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

The World Without Us is a non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St.