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You're not ready for the future, unless you've read these books:

Future 101 The Reading List: 🧵
1. Token Economy: How the Web3 reinvents the Internet by Shermin Voshmgir

The definitive web3 text.
2. Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy: The Complete Handbook to Building Wealth in the Next Digital Revolution by Jake Ryan
3. The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything by @ballmatthew

Comes out in 2022. Can't wait to read!
4. Money, going out of style: The story of money and the mystery of its decline by @zschreiber

A deep-dive into what currency means in the future.
5. Futureproof - 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
by @kevinroose

'Focus on being more human, and doing creative, inspiring, and meaningful things.'
6. 2030 How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything by @MauroFGuillen
7. The Future Is Faster Than You Think by @PeterDiamandis and @steven_kotler
8. Create the Future: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking by @jeremygutsche

'How to think disruptively, with specific steps to create innovation and change.'
9. The Future of Humanity by @michiokaku

'A compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space.'
10. Life 3.0 - Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by @tegmark
11. 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers

What you can do to ensure a better life in the increasing turmoil of the next forty years.
12. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by @davidgraebe, @davidwengrow

'A path toward imagining new forms of freedom, and new ways of organizing society.'
13. Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years by @ian_goldin @robmuggah
14. There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill
15. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by @briannawiest
16. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows

'The ice caps are melting, fresh water is disappearing, forests are being wiped out...' and how we can turn these trends around.
17. Quantum Shift in the Global Brain by @ErvinLaszlo

A step by step through the massive transformation humanity is experiencing.

Laszlo is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last 50 years.

This book will change you forever.
18. The Geometry of Energy: How to Meditate by @EthanIndigo

'The benefits of understanding the outside world are stupendous, and the benefits of understanding the inside world are limitless.'

The perfect 'how to meditate' for when all this future stuff gets overwhelming.
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WTF is e/acc, effective altruism, doomerism, safetyism, d/acc?

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Pronounced “e-ack.”

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Blockchain technology & web3 are the future.

But 99% are unaware.

Here's a list of 25 key terms so you can get up to speed:
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It's a new genre in gaming.

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But in the 1990s, many thought it would fail. HUGE MISTAKE!

Here's what you need to know:
FEB 27, 1995 - NEWSWEEK

The Internet? Bah!

"Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries, multimedia classrooms . . . virtual communities, commerce & business shifting from offices and malls to networks and modems. BALONEY." Clifford Stoll Image
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They will soon run the world (& be worth $Trillions).

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They are transforming money, finance, securities, investing, gaming, music, events, privacy, science, and more.

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THE INTERNET

5.18 billion people use the internet.

It is the backbone for the $100 trillion global economy.
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The smartest 1% never stop learning.

If you want to succeed in the future, here's everything you need:

50 worldclass resources (all free) 👇
YOUTUBE CHANNELS

1. Big Think
2. MIT OpenCourseWare
3. TED-Ed
4. Khan Academy
5. Huberman Lab
6. Smart History
7. Crash Course
8. Veritasium
9. Kurzgesagt
10. freeCodeCamp

Links 👇
AI COURSES

11. Generative AI Learning Path | @Google
12. AI for Everyone | @DeepLearningAI_
13. ChatGPT for Beginners | @Great_Learning
14. Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT | @VanderbiltU
15. Transform Your Business w/ AI | @Microsoft

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