Books like As the Future Catches You by Juan Enriquez

Walter Isaacson chronicles the minds that forged the digital age, from Ada Lovelace to Larry Page, showing how vision, collaboration, and engineering transformed abstract ideas into the computers, Internet, and technology we use today.

Erik Brynjolfsson explores how digital technologies are reshaping work, productivity, and society—highlighting both the opportunities and the disruptions—and offers strategies for education, collaboration, and policy in the emerging economy.

Kurzweil explores the coming fusion of human minds with advanced machines, predicting that integrated intelligence will surpass current human capacity, shaping future society.

Pedro Domingos unveils the quest for a universal learning algorithm that could extract any knowledge from data, exploring how such a machine—the Master Algorithm—might reshape business, science, and society.

A nonfiction examination of how the Internet reshapes social interaction, business, and technology.

Michio Kaku charts humanity’s probable future as it expands beyond Earth, examining space‑colonization, terraforming, nanotechnology, and interstellar travel.

James Barrat’s Our Final Invention examines how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence—present in phones, cars, finance, and infrastructure—could soon outpace human intellect and threaten humanity’s future.

Francis Fukuyama examines how advances in genetics and biotechnology may reshape the foundations of liberal democracy and the notion of human equality.

This book crystallizes and extends the important work Wiebe Bijker has done in the last decade to found a full-scale theory of sociotechnical change that describes where technologies come from and how societies deal with them. Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs integrates detailed case studies with theoretical generalizations and political analyses to offer a fully rounded treatment both of the relations between technology and society and of the issues involved in sociotechnical change. The stories of the safety bicycle, the first truly synthetic plastic, and the fluorescent light bulb - each a fascinating case study in itself- reflect a cross-section of time periods, engineering and scientific disciplines, and economic, social, and political cultures. The bicycle story explores such issues as the role of changing gender relationships in shaping a technology; the Bakelite story examines the ways in which social factors intrude even in cases of seemingly pure chemistry and entrepreneurship; and the fluorescent bulb story offers insights into the ways in which political and economic relationships can affect the form of a technology. Bijker's method is to use these case studies to suggest theoretical concepts that serve as building blocks in a more and more inclusive theory, which is then tested against further case studies. His main concern is to create a basis for studies of science, technology, and social change that uncovers the social roots of technology, making it amenable to democratic politics.