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24 alternatives to On Paradise Drive

The Rise of the Gargantoid Exurbs

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

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   Blue Ocean Strategy▲74

   See past the red ocean and into new markets

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Google Guys▲64

   Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google's Founders

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   BoBos in Paradise▲56

   The New Upper Class and How They Got There

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Netocracy▲56

   The new power elite and life after capitalism

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Incognito▲70

   The secret lives of the brain

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Boo Hoo▲78

   A dot.com story from concept to catastrophe

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Cosmopolis▲66

   The hidden agenda of modernity

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Tubes▲54

   A Journey to the Center of the Internet

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Black Swan▲80

   The impact of the highly improbable

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    New Market Wizards▲70

    Conversations with America's top traders

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Contagious▲74

    Why things catch on

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Shock Doctrine▲62

    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    2017 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Life at Sea▲62

    Observations of a Modern Mariner

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Inventology▲72

    How we dream up things that change the world

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Kobold's Guide to Worldbuilding▲56

    Essays on the creation of worlds, from geology to politics

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    The Pluto Files▲70

    Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about Planets

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    The Evolution of Money▲94

    From the debt tablets of Mesopotamia to cryptocurrencies

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    The Misfit Economy▲81

    Innovation on the fringe...

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World▲61

    How wonder drives tech innovation

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Great Race▲60

    The global quest for the car of the future

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Valley of the Gods▲65

    A Silicon Valley story

    2017 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Princeton Bitcoin▲71

    Introduction to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency technologies

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Antifragile▲89

    Things that gain from disorder

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Future Crimes▲64

    Inside the Digital Underground

    2017 · its alternatives →

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