24 Must-Read Books about Brain-Computer Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Laws, Ethics, and Privacy for 2024
As we approach the year 2024, the fields of brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligence, laws, ethics, and privacy are becoming increasingly significant in our society. To stay informed and gain a deeper understanding of these topics, it is essential to explore the wealth of knowledge available in books. In this article, we have curated a list of 24 must-read books that will provide valuable insights into these areas.
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1. “Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet”
If you want to understand the most powerful technology in the world and learn how use it to succeed in the future. Grab it here
2. Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World by
Why immersive eyewear and interactive AI agents could make our world a magical place or deeply compromise our humanity.
3. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma
Why AI will create immense prosperity but bring unprecedented risks and how we might contain them while we have the chance.
4. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
What it means to think and work together with smart machines, and why it’s imperative that we master that skill.
5. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
What it takes to make AI, how it centralizes power, & what is at stake as massive tech companies reshape the world.
6. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
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Why AI should be for the people and by the people, not just the privileged few.
7. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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The complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power from the Stone Age to AI.
8. Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
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Learn why the metaverse offers a new universe of ideas that offers users unprecedented opportunities to create, explore and find meaning.
9. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
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Mandatory reading for every leader.
10. Without Their Permission: The Story of Reddit and a Blueprint for How to Change the World
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A must-read if you want to build something new or change the world.
11. Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can’t Win
by Feng Zhu, Bonnie Yining Cao How to create new competitive advantages by offering product features and benefits that tech giants and other competitors cannot match.
12. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
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A path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable.
13. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create
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Learn how NFTs can be used to build highly engaged and intensely loyal communities around products and brands.
14. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
by Meghan O’Gieblyn What it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence.
15. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
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Learn why no two brains are alike, who individual differences in brain functioning are pervasive and are fundamental to defining what is “normal.”
16. The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning
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Practical tools to design a new approach to learning―leave behind the game of school and prepare your kids for the game of life.
17. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
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A timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
18. The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
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Learn how neurotechnology is forcing us to rapidly take control of our cognitive freedom and right to self-determination.
19. 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World
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Required reading for business leaders, investors, and anyone who wants to understand what our future looks like.
20. The First Generation: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity’s Relationship with the Environment
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Rethink almost everything you know and learn what we must focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations.
21. The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)
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An essential read about global power, politics, and the future of humanity.
22. A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
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Answers to every question about space you’ve ever wondered about, and many you’ve never considered.
23. 50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Joanne Baker From Schrodinger’s cat to Einstein’s theory of relativity, energy conservation to speed of light—a complete introduction to the most important quantum physics concepts in history.
24. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
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@neiltyson, Lindsey Nyx Walker
For science junkies and fans of astrophysics, an enlightening adventure into the farthest reaches of the cosmos.
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