Ashlee Vance chronicles Elon Musk's journey from a South African childhood to leading revolutions in space and sustainable energy, showing him as a modern industrial titan aiming to invent humanity's future.
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To build the future, Peter Thiel argues, you must embrace the idea that true innovation lies not in small improvements, but in creating something entirely new that avoids competition.
A young woman's dream job at a powerful tech company spirals into a terrifying loss of privacy and identity as the corporation's quest for ultimate transparency consumes everything in its path.
Yuval Noah Harari charts humanity's ambitious, potentially risky journey from overcoming famine, disease, and war to upgrading ourselves into god-like beings through technology and bioengineering.
Yuval Noah Harari offers 21 urgent lessons to help humanity navigate the present and prepare for an uncertain future marked by AI, fake news, and global upheaval.
Michio Kaku examines the fantastic technologies of science fiction, from invisibility to time travel, showing how close or far we are from making the 'impossible' real.
In the pixelated glow of 90s Microsoft, a band of code-crunching 'microserfs' escape the corporate grind to chase innovation, love, and humanity in a Silicon Valley startup, grappling with a digital coming-of-age.
Six 'J' co-workers at a Vancouver tech company navigate absurd game development, growing marijuana operations, and the chaos of 21st-century life, all while their personal worlds unravel with Coupland's signature wit and cultural commentary.
In a fractured world, an immortal assassin, a greedy financier, and a time-traveling torturer navigate the schemes of the powerful Concern, while rebels and a feigning patient plot its downfall.
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Alvin Toffler’s 'Future Shock' explores how fast technological and social change disrupts our sense of stability, making individuals and societies feel overwhelmed by newness.
Kip Thorne, the physicist behind Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar,' reveals the real science of wormholes, black holes, and interstellar travel, showing how the film's most amazing visuals are based on the universe's physical laws.
Ted Kaczynski's manifesto argues that the Industrial Revolution is a catastrophic turning point, condemning humanity to an unfulfilling, undignified existence and the natural world to ruin, all made worse by unchecked technological advancement.
Two years after averting global cyber-catastrophe, analyst Jeff Aiken and agent Daryl Haugen face an invisible, untraceable trojan that distorts reality itself, threatening to collapse the digital world and ignite a new global conflict.
