10 Must-Reads For Elon Musk
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :
Author: Douglas Adams's)
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Douglas Adams's A mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on
such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches … and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and
everything.
2. Structures :
Author: J.E. Gordon.
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It is an informal explanation of the basic forces that hold together the ordinary and essential things of this world--from buildings and bodies to
flying aircraft and eggshells.
3. Benjamin Franklin :
Author: Walter Isaacson
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In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father.
4. Superintelligence :
Author: Nick Rnstrom
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Superintelligence asks the question: what happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us?
Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.
5. Our Final Invention, :
Author: James Barrat
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Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs & groundbreaking Al systems, James Barrat's Our Final Invention explores the perils of the
heedless pursuit of advanced Al. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own?
6. Ignition :
Author: John Drury Clark
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Ignition! It is the story of the search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take the man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety.
7. Life 3.0 Max :
Author: Tegmark
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What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn't shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues--from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness, and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.
8. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, :
Author: Robert A. Heinlein.
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It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the
supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt's inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.
9. Merchants of Doubt, :
Author: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway.
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Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.
10. Einstein :
Author: Walter isoncson
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Einstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science. In this narrative, Walter
Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered.
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