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24 alternatives to Critical Path

how humanity found itself in its current situation

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Critical Path launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Sapiens▲185
A brief history of humankind
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Collapse▲68
How societies choose to fail and succeed
2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →
3
The Way the World Works▲61
What troubles us, what brings us joy?
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Physics of the Future▲73
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Netocracy▲56
The new power elite and life after capitalism
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
Man V. Nature▲148
Stories that illuminate the complexity of human behavior
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Predictably Irrational▲96
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
Resilience ▲55
Why things bounce back
2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →
9
The Quest▲62
Energy, security, and the remaking of the modern world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
The Sovereign Individual▲77
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way▲78
Brings our own world into sharper view
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
The Inevitable▲66
The 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future ▲61
An optimistic road map for the future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Dark Matter of the Mind▲67
The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
The Infinite Resource▲72
How we can innovate our way to solving climate change
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
The Real World of Technology ▲62
The complex relationship between technology and society
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
Deep Simplicity▲62
Chaos, complexity and the emergence of life
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
The Road to Character▲73
The deeper values that should inform our lives
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
Making Ideas Happen▲75
Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future▲54
What's the future?
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Prosper!▲55
How to create a world worth inheriting
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
22
The Moral Landscape▲64
How science can determine human values.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
The End of Absence▲82
Reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Competing for the Future▲54
The art of planning for the future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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