Books like Out of control by Kevin Kelly

Nate Silver, the founder of the website FiveThirtyEight.com, explores the science of prediction, emphasizing the importance of humility and statistical analysis.

Jared Diamond analyses why great civilizations collapse, linking environmental misuse, climate change, population pressures, and trade instability as common causes, and offering lessons from societies that survived.

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.

Max Tegmark explores how artificial intelligence will reshape crime, war, justice, jobs, and our sense of humanity, offering practical guidance on ensuring AI remains beneficial and resilient.

A satirical science‑fiction satire that skews on a future dystopia dominated by AI and corporate culture.

Nick Bostrom explores the risks and possibilities of future machine superintelligence, examining how human dominance could shift if artificial minds surpass us, and considering strategies for a survivable transition.

Kelly blends social insight and technological foresight to explore how modern tools shape humanity, inviting readers to see technology as a catalyst for opportunity, purpose, and a more connected future.

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.

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

Everett M. Rogers’ seminal treatise explains how new ideas and technologies spread through societies, blending history, sociology, and communication studies.

A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the nations foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previoulsy thought. Grasping a full understanding of network science, will someday allow us to design blue chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick brought the discovery of the Chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future.

Thomas Edison -- King Gilette -- Adolph Zukor -- Mary Kay Ash -- Frederick Weyerhaeuser -- Frank Purdue -- John D. Rockefeller -- De Witt Clinton -- J.P. Morgan -- Alfred P. Sloan -- Samuel Colt -- Andrew Carnegie -- Henry Ford -- P.T. Barnum -- A.T. Stewart -- Montgomery Ward -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- David Sarnoff.

Author Klaus Schwab explores how the fourth industrial revolution—a convergence of AI, biotechnology, nanotechnology and digital networks—will reshape society, economy and identity, urging a future where technology serves humanity within ethical bounds.

AI will be the defining development of the 21st century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherit human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up - both to AI’s radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it. In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and best-selling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In 10 gripping short stories, they introduce listeners to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings, such as: In San Francisco, the “job reallocation” industry emerges as deep learning AI causes widespread job displacement. In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship based on virtual reality and mixed reality. In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI’s crunching of big data gets in the way of romance. In Seoul, virtual companions with perfected natural language processing (NLP) skills offer orphaned twins new ways to connect. In Munich, a rogue scientist draws on quantum computing, computer vision, and other AI technologies in a revenge plot that imperils the world. By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future - while reminding listeners that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny. ©2021 Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan (P)2021 Random House Audio