Positive Futurist Reading Suggestions

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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

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
     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

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