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Framers (2021) takes a bird’s eye view of the issues facing our world today, from pandemics to political polarization, and presents a visionary solution. That solution lies with framing –⁠ the conscious or unconscious act of viewing the world through a particular lens. By recognizing and rethinking the frames we use, we can optimize our attitudes toward the world and give ourselves a leg up in the face of major social, economic, and scientific challenges.

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Kenneth Cukier is a journalist and a senior editor at the Economist. He is the coauthor of Big Data, a New York Times best seller, and hosts Babbage, a science and technology podcast.

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is a professor at Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute. He advises Angela Merkel as part of Germany’s Digital Council, and he coauthored Big Data with Kenneth Cukier.

Francis de Véricourt is a professor of management science and director of the Center for Decisions, Models, and Data at Berlin’s European School of Management and Technology.

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Noise (2021) is an exploration into the chaotic and costly role that randomness plays in human judgment. By uncovering the mechanisms behind how our minds and societies work, the authors show how noise – unwanted variability in decisions – is both inescapable and elusive. We can, however, with a few solid strategies, make our judgments less noisy and our world fairer.

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Daniel Kahneman is an economist and psychologist and the author of the groundbreaking Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman’s work earned him a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. He’s currently a professor emeritus at Princeton University.

Cass R. Sunstein is a legal scholar and the author and coauthor of several books including Nudge which he coauthored with Richard Thaler. Sunstein served as a top administrator in the Obama White House and is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Olivier Sibony is a fellow at Oxford University, a former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, and the author of You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake!

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Abundance explains why our current predicament is not as gloomy as we believe it to be and presents a compelling case for ways in which we could have a future marked by abundance and not scarcity. It takes readers on a whistle-stop tour of transformative technologies, their key players and a glimpse of how these technologies could be employed to solve many of the resource problems we face today. Above all, this book reminds readers that it’s an interesting and exciting time to exist.

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Peter H. Diamandis is an American engineer and physician and founder of the XPRIZE, an incentive prize awarded to foster innovation and creative solutions to humanity’s greatest problems. He’s also the co-founder of the Singularity University, which aims to educate people on the potential impact of cutting-edge technology from its key location in Silicon Valley.

Steven Kotler is an American author and journalist who has written articles for a wide range of magazines from The New Yorker to Wired. His work is often characterized by the clash between culture and science, and he frequently draws on his knowledge of academic work from neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary theory.

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A World Without Work (2020) is an exploration into how artificial intelligence will bring unemployment to so many industries – and why that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. The author outlines the history of technological progress and explains how new capabilities will allow for unprecedented productivity. Yes, many jobs will become irrelevant, but, as a society, we can ensure that everybody will be better off in this new world.

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Daniel Susskind is the coauthor of The Future of the Professions, named one of the best books of 2016 by the Financial Times, New Scientist, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a fellow in economics at Balliol College, Oxford. Previously, he was a policy adviser for the British Strategy Unit and a senior adviser to the UK government.

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The Reality Game (2020) sheds light on the murky world of “computational propaganda” – political manipulation using digital tools. Samuel Woolley argues that fake news, viral conspiracy theories, and Twitter bot armies don’t just sow confusion and discord; in his view, they also subvert the democratic process. That means it’s high time we fought back and reclaimed our digital space from today’s unaccountable mega-platforms.

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Samuel Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in the study of politics, persuasion, and social media. Wooley cofounded the Computational Propaganda Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative that explores digital politics. He is also the founding director of the Digital Intelligence Lab and has written about computational propaganda for Wired, the Atlantic, Motherboard, TechCrunch, Slate, and the Guardian.

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019) provides a revealing look at just how committed companies like Google and Facebook are to tracking every one of your actions and selling that data to advertisers. Over the past few years, this business practice has become one of the most prominent worldwide, and the harmful effects it has on personal liberty and democracy are becoming more apparent.

Listed on The Guardian’s Best 100 Books of the 21st Century

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Shoshana Zuboff has a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University, as well as BA in philosophy from the University of Chicago. She is currently the Charles Edward Wilson Professor emerita at Harvard Business School. Her previous books include In the Age of the Smart Machine.

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Alchemy (2018) makes a case for irrational thinking in a world enraptured by logic. Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of the advertising industry and insights from behavioral psychology, Rory Sutherland argues that the world is far too complex to be viewed through a single lens. To solve everyday problems, we must move past superficial analysis and open ourselves up to even the most seemingly nonsensical ideas – which often turn out to be very powerful. Only then can we be true alchemists.

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Rory Sutherland is best known as vice chairman of award-winning advertising agency Ogilvy, where he has worked since 1988. In addition to being one of the most influential advertising professionals in the world today, Sutherland has published a book called The Wiki Man (2011) and has spoken at Ted Global on many occasions. He is now a regular writer for the magazines, the Spectator, Market Leader, and Impact.

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Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal. He’s a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award, which is the highest honor in business journalism. As well as The Man Who Solved The Market, he is the author of The Frackers and The Greatest Trade Ever.

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