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24 alternatives to The Inevitable

The 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Inevitable launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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 →
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The Inevitable▲87
The 12 tech forces that will shape our future by Kevin Kelly
2017 · penguinrandomhouse.com · its alternatives →
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future▲3
How tech in the next 30 years will transform our lives
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Physics of the Future▲73
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Alone Together▲71
Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Industries of the Future▲60
Exploring the tech and economic trends of next 10 years
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Tools for Thought▲69
The history and future of mind-expanding technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Design of Future Things▲60
A revealing examination of smart technology
2015 · jnd.org · its alternatives →
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The Real World of Technology ▲62
The complex relationship between technology and society
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Now You See It▲59
How technology will reshape the way we think and learn
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Powering the Future▲88
How we will fuel the civilization of tomorrow
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Technotopia▲96
A book about how the future is going to be pretty awesome.
2015 · publishizer.com · 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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Predictably Irrational▲96
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Technopoly▲61
The surrender of culture to technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Second Machine Age▲66
Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant techno
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Future of the Mind▲72
The latest advancements in neuroscience and physics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Signal and the Noise▲73
Why so many predictions fail - but some don't
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Sovereign Individual▲77
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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We Need Diverse Books▲87
Advocating and supporting non-majority narratives
2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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How We Got To Now▲64
Six innovations that made the modern world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Unscientific America▲54
How scientific illiteracy threatens our future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Age of Optimists▲60
Quantitative Glimpse of Tech's Political Endgame
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Who Owns the Future?▲66
The concentration of money and power in our digital networks
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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