Positive Futurist Reading Suggestions
John Brockman
The Next 50 Years – Science in the first half of the 21st century
Jane Buckingham
What's Next? – Predictions from 50 of America's most compelling people
Sean Carroll
The Particle at the End of the Universe – How the hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads to Edge of world
Bill Frank
Forever Young – 100 age-erasing techniques
George Friedman
The Next 100 Years – A Forecast for the 21st Century
Joel Garreau
Radical Evolution – The promise and peril of enhancing our mind and bodies
Jerome Glenn
Future Mind – Artificial Intelligence
William E. Halal
Technology's Promise – The Transformation of Business and Society
J. Storrs Hall
NanoFuture – What's next for nanotechnology?
Beyond AI – Creating the conscience of the machine
William Hanson, M.D.
The Edge of Medicine – The Technology That Will Change Our Lives
Jeff Hawkins
ON Intelligence – How understanding the brain will lead to intelligent machines
Douglas Hofstadter
I Am a Strange Loop – What do we mean when we say I?
Judith Horstman
The Scientific American Brave New Brain – Enhancing the Future of Mental Power
Michio Kaku
Parallel Worlds – Creation, higher dimensions, and the future of the cosmos
Physics of the Impossible – Phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel
Ray Kurzweil
Are We Spiritual Machines. – Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.
Fantastic Voyage – Live long enough to live forever
How to Create a Mind – The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
The Singularity is near – When humans transcend biology
Transcend – Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
Ellen J. Langer
Counter Clockwise – Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
Michael Lee
Knowing Our Future – The Startling Case for Futurology
Ramez Nam
More than Human – Embracing the promise of biological enhancement
Ted Sargent
The Dance of Molecules – How nanotechnology is changing our lives
Paul Steinhardt
The Endless Universe – Beyond the big bang
Adam Zeman
A Portrait of the Brain: From the Atom to the Mind