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Books like Soonish
A hilarious, comic-studded joyride through the weird, wild, and highly improbable technologies of tomorrow. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Soonish.
- playful
- curious
- lighthearted
- mind-expanding
- 01
A City on Mars
Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
A hilarious, reality-checking splash of cold water on the sci-fi dream of escaping Earth's problems.
- 02
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
A visionary roadmap to the next three decades of technological evolution and societal transformation.
- 03
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
A mind-expanding journey to the very edges of technological possibility and human purpose.
- 04
How To
Randall Munroe
A delightfully overcomplicated manual that uses extreme, apocalyptic physics to solve the most mundane of daily problems.
- 05
What If?
Randall Munroe
A delightful exercise in taking the most ridiculous questions imaginable and answering them with rigorous, cheerfully apocalyptic science.
- 06
Physics of the Impossible
Michio Kaku · 2008
A mind-expanding bridge between the wild imagination of science fiction and the rigorous frontiers of theoretical physics.
- 07
The future of humanity
Michio Kaku
An exhilarating, mind-expanding leap into the cosmos that makes the impossible feel like tomorrow's news.
- 08
What technology wants
Kevin Kelly
A sweeping, optimistic reframing of technology as a living, evolving force deeply intertwined with human destiny.
- 09
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.
- 10
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
A gripping, eye-opening journey into the minds of the machines we've built and the urgent scramble to teach them human values.
- 11
Machines of loving grace
John Markoff
A sweeping, journalistic exploration of the ethical tightrope between human agency and artificial intelligence.
- 12
How we got to now
Steven Johnson
A thrilling intellectual treasure hunt that reveals the invisible threads connecting a glass of clean water to the invention of the microchip.
