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24 alternatives to WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up To Us

From the WTF? economy to the Next Economy

WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up To Us" is a book combining memoir, business strategy, and advocacy. Drawing on four decades of technology industry experience, it examines lessons about technology platforms and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up To Us launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future▲54
What's the future?
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
The Industries of the Future▲60
Exploring the tech and economic trends of next 10 years
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Who Owns the Future?▲66
The concentration of money and power in our digital networks
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Future▲292
By and for the people building the future, from a16z
2021 · future.com · its alternatives →
5
The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism▲67
A 360 degree look on the topic of Future of Work.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
Technotopia▲96
A book about how the future is going to be pretty awesome.
2015 · publishizer.com · its alternatives →
7
How to Build the Future: Mark Zuckerberg▲460
The first episode in Y Combinator's new podcast series
2016 · themacro.com · its alternatives →
8
Who Owns the Future▲68
Dare to rethink how we reward people on the internet
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
Business Beyond 2030▲89
The podcast to understand what comes next for business.
2020 · its alternatives →
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Competing for the Future▲54
The art of planning for the future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
Future Is Podcast▲104
A podcast discussing the future of tech, a subject at a time
2015 · its alternatives →
12
The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream▲66
How to predict the future of technology.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
When To Rob a Bank▲165
New book from the authors of Freakonomics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future▲67
Information technology will transform capitalism
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Business @ the Speed of Thought▲66
Succeeding in the digital economy by Bill Gates
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
Fuck it, ship it (Upcoming book)▲7
A book on technology in business (for your boss)
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
17
The Third Wave▲82
An entrepreneur's vision of the future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
Modern Monopolies▲77
How to dominate the 21st century economy with tech platforms
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It▲74
What's the secret to a company's growth and prosperity?
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
Rise of the Robots▲67
Technology and the threat of a jobless future
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Innovator's Dilemma▲202
The seminal business book
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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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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Business Sidekick #16 "Business and technology - how it's changing the world we're living in"▲67
"We build faster computers to build faster computers."
2016 · livechat.com · its alternatives →
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think▲74
The blueprint of an abundant future
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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