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A visionary, intellectually electric manifesto that dares to imagine a world where technology liberates humanity from the drudgery of wage labor. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Inventing the Future.
- intellectually stimulating
- hopeful
- forward-looking
- radical
- 01
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Aaron Bastani
A provocative, techno-optimistic manifesto that dares to imagine a post-scarcity future of boundless abundance and leisure.
- 02
PostCapitalism
Paul Mason
An urgent, visionary roadmap for building a more just society from the ashes of a failing economic system.
- 03
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
A visionary roadmap to the next three decades of technological evolution and societal transformation.
- 04
Chokepoint Capitalism
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
A righteous, eye-opening dismantling of how tech monopolies squeeze creators, paired with a battle plan for taking the power back.
- 05
Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
A shot of intellectual espresso that makes a radically better world feel entirely within our grasp.
- 06
Abolish Silicon Valley
Wendy Liu
A heartfelt memoir meets a radical manifesto that dismantles the myth of the tech industry's growth-at-all-costs ethos.
- 07
Rise of the Robots
Martin Ford
A sobering, data-driven look into the encroaching obsolescence of human labor and the urgent need to rethink our economic future.
- 08
What technology wants
Kevin Kelly
A sweeping, optimistic reframing of technology as a living, evolving force deeply intertwined with human destiny.
- 09
23 things they don't tell you about capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang
A sharp, accessible myth-busting journey that pulls back the curtain on the invisible rules governing our economic lives.
- 10
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
A quiet, radical invitation to step off the treadmill of the attention economy and root yourself in the physical world.
- 11
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
A dizzying, urgent roadmap to the exponential technological shifts about to reinvent our daily lives.
- 12
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
A monumental, dread-inducing masterclass that provides the exact vocabulary needed to understand how the digital world is strip-mining human autonomy.
