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1. Paul M. Churchland |
Matter and Consciousness |
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2. Richard Dawkins |
The Selfish Gene |
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3 & 4 - Eric Drexler |
Engines of Creation
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Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation Reviews |
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5. Robert A. Freitas Jr. |
Nanomedicine Reviews |
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Nanomedicine - click here to order from Nanomedicine.com |
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6. David Friedman |
The Machinery of Freedom (2nd Ed.) |
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7. & 8. Hans Moravec |
Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence |
ROBOT |
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9. Ayn Rand |
Atlas Shrugged (fiction) |
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10. & 11. - Ed Regis |
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition |
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Nano |
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12. Julian Simon |
The Ultimate Resource 2 |
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13. Marc Stiegler |
The Gentle Seduction (fiction) |
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14. Robert Anton Wilson |
Prometheus Rising |
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15. Robert Ettinger |
Man into Superman: The Startling Potential of Human Evolution |
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Man Into Superman--FREE Online Version |
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16. & 17. Ray Kurzweil |
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence December 1999 |
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The Law of Accelerating Returns |
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18. The Harrow Technology Report |
Twice Monthly Report
You can either read it, or listen to it, OR both! |
Science Back To Top |
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Walter Truett Anderson |
Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be : The Augmented Animal and the Whole Wired World |
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Michael A. Arbib |
The Metaphorical Brain 2: Neural Networks and Beyond |
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Isaac Asimov |
Asimov's New Guide to Science |
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Howard Bloom |
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century |
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Stewart Brand |
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility |
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The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T. |
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Damien Broderick |
The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies |
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The Last Mortal Generation |
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Judas Mandala |
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The White Abacus |
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Julian Brown |
Minds, Machines and the Multiverse: The Quest for a Quantum Computer |
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The Quest for a Quantum Computer |
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Maureen Caudill |
In Our Own Image: Building An Artificial Person |
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Marvin J. Cetron & Owen Davies |
Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years |
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Arthur C. Clarke |
The Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into The Limits |
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Peter Cochrane |
Tips for Time Travelers: Visionary Insights into New Technology, Life, and the Future on the Edge of Technology |
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B. C. Crandall (Editor) |
Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance |
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Richard Dawkins |
The Blind Watchmaker |
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Jeffrey Deitch |
Post Human |
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Peter J. Denning (Editor) |
Talking Back To The Machine: Computers and Human Aspiration |
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Michael L. Dertouzos |
What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives |
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Christopher Dewdney |
Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era |
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Thomas Homer-Dixon |
The Ingenuity Gap: How Will We Solve the Problems of the Future? |
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Wesley M. Du Charme |
Becoming Immortal: Nanotechnology, You, and the Demise of Death |
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Esther Dyson |
Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age |
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Katherine Hayles |
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics |
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Stuart Kauffman |
The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution |
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Bart Kosko |
Fuzzy Thinking |
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Markus Krummenacker & James Lewis (Ed's) |
Prospects in Nanotechnology: Toward Molecular Manufacturing |
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John Lippitt (Ed.) Friedrich Nietzsche Society |
Nietzsche's Futures: Nobility, Laughter, Art, Nature and the Transhuman |
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Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger |
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual |
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James Martin |
After the Internet: Alien Intelligence
November 2000. Business and technology guru James Martin takes you on a tour of the new frontiers of computer technology. "...computers are developing an alien intelligence that is radically different from human intelligence and more powerful in its focused areas." |
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Nicholas Negroponte |
Being Digital |
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Gregory S. Paul & Earl Cox |
Beyond Humanity: Cyberevolution and Future Minds |
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Keith Ansell-Pearson |
Transhuman Condition: A Report on Machines, Technics and Evolution |
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Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition |
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Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers |
Order Out of Chaos |
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Carl Sagan |
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark |
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Gregory Stock |
Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future |
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Frank J.Tipler |
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead |
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Robert Zubrin |
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must |
Science Futurism & Speculative Fiction Back To Top |
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Brian Wilson Aldiss, Roger Penrose |
White Mars : Or, the Mind Set Free : A 21St-Century Utopia |
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Roger MacBride Allen |
The Modular Man (The Next Wave, No 4) |
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Constance Ash |
Not of Woman Born |
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Kage Baker |
Mendoza in Hollywood |
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Sky Coyote |
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In the Garden of Iden |
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The Graveyard Game |
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Wilhelmina Baird |
Chaos Come Again |
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Clipjoint |
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Crashcourse |
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Psykosis |
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Stephen Baxter & Arthur Charles Clarke |
The Light of Other Days |
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Greg Bear |
Vitals |
Slant |
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Blood Music |
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Queen Of Angels |
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Gregory Benford (as Sterling Blake) |
Chiller |
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Thomas Berger |
Vital Parts |
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Alfred Bester |
The Computer Connection |
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David Brin |
Startide Rising |
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The Uplift War |
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Sundiver |
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Brightness Reef |
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Infinity's Shore |
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Heaven's Reach |
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Stephen Bury |
Interface |
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Octavia E. Butler |
Dawn |
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Adulthood Rites |
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Imago |
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Pat Cadigan |
Synners |
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Fools |
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Mindplayers |
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Tom Clancy & Steve R. Pieczenik |
Net Force |
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Arthur C. Clarke |
Childhood's End |
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Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois (eds) |
Immortals |
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A. K. Dewdney |
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World |
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J.R. R. Dunn |
This Side of Judgment |
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Greg Egan |
Quarantine |
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Permutation City |
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Axiomatic |
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William Gibson, Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski |
The Matrix: The Shooting Script |
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James L. Halperin |
The First Immortal |
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Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky |
The Turing Option
Currently out of print--try to find a used version. Computer-aided reconstruction of the brain is plausibly described. |
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Robert Heinlen |
Revolt in 2100: Methusaleh's Children |
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Time Enough for Love |
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The Door into Summer |
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James P. Hogan |
The Giants Novels: 3-in-1 |
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Nancy Kress |
Beggars in Spain |
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Linda Nagata |
Tech Heaven |
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Limit of Vision February 2001. "...a conspiracy involving an illegal experimentation in sentient nanotech lifeforms" |
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Bart Kosko |
Nanotime |
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Michael Lewis |
Next: The Future Just Happened |
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Charles Platt |
The Silicon Man |
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Frederik Pohl |
Age of the Pussyfoot |
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Ayn Rand |
Atlas Shrugged |
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The Fountainhead |
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Eric Frank Russell |
The Great Explosion |
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Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson |
The Illuminatus Trilogy |
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Charles Sheffield |
Tomorrow & Tomorrow |
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George Edgar Slusser Gary Westfahl (Ed.) |
Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
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L. Neil Smith |
The Probability Broach |
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Neal Stephenson |
The Diamond Age |
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Bruce Sterling |
Schismatrix Plus |
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Marc Stiegler |
The Gentle Seduction |
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EarthWeb |
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Vernor Vinge |
True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier |
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Across Realtime |
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David Zindell |
Neverness |
Important Technologies Back To Top |
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Brian Wowk |
Cryonics: Reaching For Tomorrow |
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Ward Dean & John Morgenthaler |
Smart Drugs and Nutrients |
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Eric Drexler |
Engines of Creation |
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Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation |
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Robert A. Freitas Jr. |
Nanomedicine |
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Nanomedicine - click here to order from Nanomedicine.com |
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Douglas Hofstadter |
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid |
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Hans Moravec |
Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence |
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Ed Regis |
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition |
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Nano |
Philosophy Back To Top |
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William Warren Bartley III |
The Retreat to Commitment |
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Paul M. Churchland |
Matter and Consciousness |
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A Neurocomputational Perspective |
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Patricia Smith Churchland |
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain |
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Martin Gardner |
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science |
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David Gauthier |
Morals By Agreement |
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Hofstadter & Dennett |
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections of Self and Soul |
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John L. Mackie |
The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and Against the Existence of God |
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R. Michael Perry |
Forever for All: Moral Philosophy, Cryonics, and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality
September 2000. This book considers the problems of death and the hereafter and how these ages-old problems ought to be addressed in light of our continuing progress. |
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Michael Shermer |
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Supersition, and Other Confusions of Our Time |
Economics & Society Back To Top |
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David Brin |
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom |
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Ronald H. Coase |
The Firm, the Market, and the Law |
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Dinesh D'Souza |
The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence |
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David Friedman |
The Machinery of Freedom (2nd Ed.) |
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Kevin Kelly |
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World |
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Friedrich Hayek |
The Constitution of Liberty |
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Karl Popper |
The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1 |
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Julian Simon |
The Ultimate Resource 2 |
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Julian Simon & Herman Kahn (eds) |
The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000 |
Psychology Back To Top |
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Nathaniel Branden |
Honoring the Self: Self-Esteem and Personal Transformation |
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Harry Browne |
How I Found Freedom in An Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty |
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Stephen R. Covey |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change |
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Matt Ridley |
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation |
Miscellaneous Future Back To Top |
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Damien Broderick |
The Spike |
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Freeman Dyson |
Infinite in All Directions |
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Imagined Worlds |
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George B. Dyson |
Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence |
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F.M. Esfandiary |
Optimism One |
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Up-Wingers |
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FM-2030 Staff |
Are You A Transhuman? |
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Robert Ettinger |
Man into Superman: The Startling Potential of Human Evolution |
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Man Into Superman--FREE Online Version |
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Raymond Kurzweil |
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence |
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Jerry Pournelle |
A Step Farther Out |
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Hans P. Moravec |
Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind |
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Alvin Toffler |
Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century |
Life Extension & Immortality Back To Top |
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Stephen Austad |
Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey through Life |
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Ben Bova |
Immortality: How Science Is Extending Your Lifespan and Changing the World |
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Herb Bowie |
Why Die?: A Beginner's Guide to Living Forever |
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Robert Ettinger |
The Prospect of Immortality Online and Free |
Man into Superman Online and Free |
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Alan Harrington |
The Immortalist |
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Phillip D. Minton |
The Immortality Enzyme: Biomedical Breakthroughs You Can Use against Aging, Cancer and Heart Disease |
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Stuart Jay Olshansky & Bruce A. Carnes |
The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging |
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R. Michael Perry |
Forever for All: Moral Philosophy, Cryonics, and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality
September 2000. This book considers the problems of death and the hereafter and how these ages-old problems ought to be addressed in light of our continuing progress. |
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Albert Rosenfeld |
Prolongevity II: An Updated Report on the Scientific Prospects for Adding Good Years to Life |
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Frank J. Tipler |
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead |
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Roy Walford |
Maximum Life Span |
History Back To Top |
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Daniel Boorstin |
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself |
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Bruce Mazlish |
The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines |
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Natasha Vita-More |
CREATE/RECREATE: The 3rd Millennial Culture
The only book to date which tells the history of transhumans and gives a time line of events leading up to transhumanity. |
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Richard Tarnas |
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View |
