My Top 5 Books about the "Future

… none are about the future

---“The future equals history plus x to the nth.”

• Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

xis an unknown variable greater than 0

nis exponential growth (now the case)

My Top 5 Books about the Future

None are about the future. All about the past.

History is the known in the above equation when trying to solve for x.

1. “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, Bill Bryson
2. “Cosmos”, Carl Sagan
3. “A Short History of the World”, J.M. Roberts
4. “Sapiens”, Yuval Noah Harari
5. “A Brief History of Time”, Stephen Hawking

… See the historical data (information).

… See the patterns in the information.

… See the sequences, speed, and evolution of the patterns in the information.

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  title  = {My Top 5 Books about the "Future},
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Anderson, J. (2021). My Top 5 Books about the "Future. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/my-top-5-books-about-the-future

Anderson, Jed. "My Top 5 Books about the "Future." Jed Anderson, November 15, 2021, https://jedanderson.org/posts/my-top-5-books-about-the-future.