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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

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming▲69

   How can design inspire us to think about our future?

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   The Misfit Economy▲81

   Innovation on the fringe...

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   The End of Jobs▲98

   Money, meaning and freedom without the 9-to-5

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

   The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

   2017 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Envisioning Information▲87

   A remarkable range of examples of visual thinkinking

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Sapiens▲185

   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Idea Makers▲58

   Insights into some of our greatest thinkers + makers

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Chaos Monkeys▲74

   Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Chaos Monkeys▲72

    An exposé of life inside the tech bubble

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Understanding Media▲70

    The Extensions of Man

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Shape of Time▲62

    Remarks on the history of things

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Innovator's Dilemma▲202

    The seminal business book

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    The Age of Optimists▲60

    Quantitative Glimpse of Tech's Political Endgame

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    If You Feel Too Much▲66

    Thoughts on things found and lost and hoped for

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Idea Makers▲53

    Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Notable People

    2016 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Future Crimes▲64

    Inside the Digital Underground

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Do The Movies Have a Future?▲62

    A call to arms to celebrate movies

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations▲63

    Critical thoughts on the internet and its effects on society

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Mind Club▲67

    Who thinks, what feels and why it matters

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Organized Mind▲65

    Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Technopoly▲61

    The surrender of culture to technology

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Deep Thoughts▲65

    Irreverent observations about life

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Take Off With Elixir▲61

    An Introduction to Elixir

    2016 · its alternatives →

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