The blueprint to a desirable future.

Gawdat ran Google X as Chief Business Officer and left in 2018 with a warning. His case: AI learns from how we treat it, so the safe path is to raise it well, the way you would raise a kid. He ends with three things any user can do starting today.

The LinkedIn co-founder walks through every big technology that got the same panic, from the printing press to the car, and shows what each one did for a normal person. You get a way to read AI news without flinching, and a list of what to steer toward.

Written before ChatGPT and it holds up. Ten principles for leading when the machine is better than you at the task. You rethink what your job actually is once the analysis is automated.

Kissinger's last book, finished with Google's former CEO. It takes the biggest questions seriously: power, judgment, faith, what stays human. Read it when you want the long view instead of the news cycle.

Ten short stories set twenty years out, each followed by the former head of Google China explaining the tech that makes the story possible. The most concrete picture of daily life with AI you will find, and none of it is dystopian by default.

An Oxford mathematician takes the transhumanist promises apart one at a time and asks what it means to be human. Argued from faith, clearly. Worth it even if you do not share the faith, because he asks the questions the builders skip.

Harari on the present: work, truth, attention, meaning. His first line: “In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.” That sentence is the reason this page exists.

A decade of change mapped industry by industry: transport, retail, health, food, money. You see how technologies stack on each other, and why the pace keeps surprising people who only watch one at a time.

Their newest. The premise: we already have god-level tools, so the only question left is whether we get good at using them. A survival guide for the healthy-soil side of the forest fire.