Public Thinker and Futurist Gerd Leonhard's Shared Book List

Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine (FutureScapes)

Gerd Leonhard

Read: June 16, 2024 • Rating: 10/10

The Future

Naomi Alderman

Read: December 28, 2023 • Rating: 10/10

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

James Barrat

Read: July 22, 2023 • Rating: 10/10

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

Read: July 22, 2023 • Rating: 10/10

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

Paul Collier

Read: July 22, 2023 • Rating: 10/10

Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

Buckminster Fuller

Read: July 22, 2023 • Rating: 10/10

This Spaceship Earth

David Houle

Read: July 22, 2023 • Rating: 10/10

Humankind: A Hopeful History

Rutger Bregman

Read: July 22, 2023 • Rating: 10/10

The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism

Calum Chace

Read: July 22, 2023 • Rating: 10/10

The Every

Dave Eggers

Read: February 11, 2022 • Rating: 10/10

The Oppenheimer Alternative

Robert J. Sawyer

Read: May 26, 2021 • Rating: 10/10

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

Read: January 26, 2021 • Rating: 10/10

After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley

Rob Reid

Read: January 15, 2021 • Rating: 10/10

The 2020s: The Most Disruptive Decade in History Book 1

David Houle

Read: August 22, 2020 • Rating: 10/10

Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke

Read: January 27, 2019 • Rating: 10/10

Heroes of the Frontier

Dave Eggers

Read: August 26, 2016 • Rating: 10/10

Humankind A Hopeful History / Utopia for Realists And How We Can Get There

Rutger Bregman

Rating: 10/10

The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny BeyondEarth

Michio Kaku

Rating: 10/10

Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

Brian Hare

Rating: 10/10

Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

Andrew S. Winston

Rating: 10/10

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Douglas Rushkoff

Rating: 10/10

The Quantum Economy: Saving the Mensch with Humanistic Capitalism

Anders Indset

Rating: 10/10

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Fareed Zakaria

Rating: 10/10

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

Rating: 10/10

Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine (FutureScapes)

Gerd Leonhard

Rating: 10/10

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

Jeremy Rifkin

Rating: 10/10

Apropos of Nothing

Woody Allen

Rating: 8/10

COVID-19: The Great Reset

Klaus Schwab

Rating: 8/10

Augmented: Life in The Smart Lane

Brett King

Rating: 8/10

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Exponential Technology Series)

Peter H. Diamandis

Rating: 8/10

Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets (Best of Edge Series)

John Brockman

Rating: 6/10

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Christiana Figueres

Read: July 22, 2023 • 0

Trio: A novel

William Boyd

Read: February 22, 2021 • 0

The Postman

David Brin

Read: February 18, 2021 • 0

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

Nick Bostrom

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Steven Pinker

Fifty Degrees Below (Science in the Capital Book 2)

Kim Stanley Robinson

What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

Tim Urban

Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Kevin Kelly

Glide Path (Arthur C. Clarke Collection)

Arthur C. Clarke

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies

Mariana Mazzucato

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris

No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save our Planet

D.A. Baden

Shaman

Kim Stanley Robinson

A Rough Ride to the Future

James E. Lovelock

The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth

Jeremy Rifkin

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

Brett Scott

The Last Chairlift

John Irving

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

Rebecca Giblin

Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs – An Antidote for Short-Termism

Ari Wallach

The Pursuit of Kindness: An Evolutionary History of Human Nature

Eamonn Toland

What We Owe the Future

William MacAskill

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six

Neil Clarke

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

Bill McKibben

The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

Steven Kotler

The High Sierra: A Love Story

Kim Stanley Robinson

Anna, die Schule und der liebe Gott: Der Verrat des Bildungssystems an unseren Kindern (German Edition)

Richard David Precht

The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

Oded Galor

Beyond Knowledge: How Technology Is Driving an Age of Consciousness

William E. Halal

Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

Martin Ford

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It

Richard L. Hasen

Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

Mariana Mazzucato

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Peter S. Goodman

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Ray Dalio

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

Weiwei Ai

The Rise of Technosocialism: How Inequality, AI and Climate will Usher in a New World

Brett King

Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

Thomas Piketty

Mind Set!: Eleven Ways to Change the Way You See—and Create—the Future

John Naisbitt

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Walter Isaacson

2312

Kim Stanley Robinson

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Machinehood

S.B. Divya

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Bill Gates

Constance (Constance, #1)

Matthew FitzSimmons

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

Carl Benedikt Frey

Now, Then, and Everywhen (Chronos Origins #1)

Rysa Walker

Vivid Tomorrows: On Science Fiction and Hollywood

David Brin

2034: A Novel of the Next World War

Elliot Ackerman

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Surviving in the Age of AI

Kevin Roose

Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History

Larry Brilliant

Building a Culture for Sustainability: People, Planet, and Profits in a New Green Economy

Jeana Wirtenberg

People Planet Profit: How to Embrace Sustainability for Innovation and Business Growth

Peter Fisk

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Kevin Kelly

The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming

Eric Holthaus

Three Californias: The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge

Kim Stanley Robinson

Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

P.W. Singer

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State

Barton Gellman

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

Paul Mason

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (The MIT Press)

James E. Lovelock

Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being

Paul Mason

Agency (Jackpot, #2)

William Gibson

Uncanny Valley

Anna Wiener

Quichotte

Salman Rushdie

Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

Peter Singer

An Appeal by the Dalai Lama to the World: Ethics Are More Important Than Religion

Dalai Lama XIV

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein

The City and the Stars

Arthur C. Clarke

The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)

William Gibson

Utopia Five (Panopticon, #1)

A.E. Currie

Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

Cory Doctorow

A Place for Us

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman