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24 alternatives to Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

How will humanity survive?

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

1
Deep Survival▲62
Science + storytelling to explain the mysteries of survival
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Physics of the Future▲73
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Life 3.0▲92
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
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 →
5
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth▲91
About ingenuity, determination & being prepared for anything
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
Red Mars▲74
A future history of Martian colonization
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember▲2
How will humanity survive mass extinction
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
The Age of Earthquakes▲66
A Guide to the Extreme Present (Book)
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
Earth and Space▲56
Photographs from the Archives of NASA
2015 · chroniclebooks.com · its alternatives →
10
Powering the Future▲88
How we will fuel the civilization of tomorrow
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
Sapiens▲185
A brief history of humankind
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
Collapse▲68
How societies choose to fail and succeed
2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →
13
The Inevitable▲66
The 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Kobold's Guide to Worldbuilding▲56
Essays on the creation of worlds, from geology to politics
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Homo Deus▲105
A Brief History of Tomorrow
2017 · ynharari.com · its alternatives →
16
Surviving AI▲59
The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
Bushcraft 101▲54
A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
Critical Path▲60
how humanity found itself in its current situation
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
Presence▲81
Science fiction novel about the future of Virtual Reality
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
Be the Change▲53
Saving the world with citizen science
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Earth: A Primer▲76
A science book/app for playful people
2015 · earthprimer.com · its alternatives →
22
Technotopia▲96
A book about how the future is going to be pretty awesome.
2015 · publishizer.com · its alternatives →
23
Nomad by Matthew Mather▲61
Something massive is coming... And it's heading for Earth.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Infinite Resource▲72
How we can innovate our way to solving climate change
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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