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  • Get Technology: Be in the know. Upgrade your future

    20 thought-provoking lessons

    by Gerald Lynch ...
    Series series BUILD+BECOME
    Know technology today, to equip yourself for tomorrow.Using a unique, visual approach, Gerald Lynch explains the most important tech developments of the modern world – examining their impact on society and how, ultimately, we can use technology to achieve our full potential.From the driverless transport systems hitting our roads to the nanobots and artificial intelligence pushing human ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Physics of the Future

    How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

    by Michio Kaku ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next century.“Mind-bending…. [An] alternately fascinating and frightening book.” —San Francisco Chronicle**Space elevators. Internet-enabled ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Max Tegmark ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Our Final Invention

    Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

    by James Barrat ...
    Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of five books everyone should read about the future—a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013.Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Skeptics' Guide to the Future

    What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow

    by Dr. Steven Novella ...
    From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human.Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • What the Future Looks Like

    Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World

    by Jim Al-Khalili ...
    Get the science facts, not science fiction, on the cutting-edge developments that are already changing the course of our future.Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award–winning author Jim Al–Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking ... Read more

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  • Elon Musk: The Unauthorized Autobiography

    by J.T. Owens X ...
    Elon Musk: entrepreneur, visionary, and the most disruptive businessman of the 21st century. This unauthorized autobiography tells his story in his own words — from a bullied child in South Africa to the co-founder of PayPal, and the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and the Boring Company.What drives a man to bet everything — repeatedly — on the impossible?Musk speaks candidly a... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fourth Age

    Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity

    by Byron Reese ...
    “The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers to challenge their preconceptions. And it manages to do all this in a way that is both entertaining and engaging.” —The New York TimesAs we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Future: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know

    by Richard Watson ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    A dynamic insight into how science will shape human destiny over the coming century.What will the world look like in 2020, 2030 or even 2100? How will progress in scientific research affect human life in the areas of health and lifestyle, energy and the environment, politics and conflict, space exploration and even the ultimate questions of existence? This book offers an electrifying trip through ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • I'm Working on That

    A Trek From Science Fiction to Science Fact

    by William Shatner, Chip Walter ...
    Series series Star Trek
    "Beam me up, Scotty."®During the 1960s, in an age when the height of technology was a crackly AM transistor radio, Star Trek envisioned a time when communication devices worked without wires."Working"Computers of the decade took up entire climate-controlled rooms and belonged only to the government and a few very large corporations. Yet Captain Kirk had one small enough to sit on the top of his ... Read more

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  • Ancient Aliens on Mars

    by Mike Bara ...
    New York Times best-selling author and Secret Space Program researcher Mike Bara brings us this lavishly illustrated volume on alien structures on Mars. Was there once a vast, technologically advanced civilization on Mars, and did it leave evidence of its existence behind for humans to find eons later? Did these advanced extraterrestrials vanish in a solar system-wide cataclysm of their own making ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Is There Time?

    by D. R. Prescott ...
    Is there time to avoid humanity's extinction? Practically everything that has ever lived is extinct; we will be no exception unless we work very hard to be an exception. Wrestling with that problem led to a chilling, undeniable conclusion: the human species is ultimately doomed on Earth and we have no plan.The Earth will eventually become uninhabitable and moving people off Earth is the only ... Read more

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