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24 alternatives to 924 Observations: An Alien's Perspective On The 21st Century

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. 924 Observations: An Alien's Perspective On The 21st Century launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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But What If We're Wrong?▲62
Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future▲54
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Tubes▲54
A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming▲69
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2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Black Swan▲80
The impact of the highly improbable
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The Misfit Economy▲81
Innovation on the fringe...
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The End of Jobs▲98
Money, meaning and freedom without the 9-to-5
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Who Owns the Future▲68
Dare to rethink how we reward people on the internet
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Dark Matter of the Mind▲67
The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Butterflies: The Strange Metamorphosis of Fact & Fiction▲58
A deep glimpse into the millennial mind
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think▲74
The blueprint of an abundant future
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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What to Think About Machines That Think: ▲74
Today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Envisioning Information▲87
A remarkable range of examples of visual thinkinking
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Millennial Reincarnations▲62
An examination of the modern millennial psyche like no other
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Idea Makers▲58
Insights into some of our greatest thinkers + makers
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Chaos Monkeys▲74
Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Chaos Monkeys▲72
An exposé of life inside the tech bubble
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Understanding Media▲70
The Extensions of Man
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Shape of Time▲62
Remarks on the history of things
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The End of Money▲84
The coming cashless society
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
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The Age of Optimists▲60
Quantitative Glimpse of Tech's Political Endgame
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If You Feel Too Much▲66
Thoughts on things found and lost and hoped for
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Idea Makers▲53
Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Notable People
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Future Crimes▲64
Inside the Digital Underground
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