Hard Sci-fi, possible futures, speculative fiction, some non-fiction, the things that got us where we are today. Starting with Huxley's Brave New World we can see a theme of sci-fi predicting the future. This list has no order
Brave New World and Beyond Public
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One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is …
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In the not-so-distant future, economic inequality and persistent surveillance push Oakland to the brink of civil war. Lilly Miyamoto is …
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The Filter Bubble de Eli Pariser
"An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume. In …
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains de Nicholas G. Carr
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"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped …
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The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in …
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Shockwave Rider de John Brunner
This 1975 book pretty much nailed the contradictions inherent in global networking, long before the network was created. It's full …
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The Ministry for the Future de Kim Stanley Robinson
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Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to …
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Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of …
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Firebreak de Nicole Kornher-Stace
One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing …
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Ils sont là, parmi nous, jamais où tu regardes, à circuler dans les angles morts de la vision humaine. On …
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How to Do Nothing de Jenny Odell
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In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by …
