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HourLife Collection · 10 books · 58 insights

Digital Literacy

Think clearly in the age of AI, algorithms, and information overload.

Collection Index

A shelf with an argument.

Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.

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Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan

AI 2041

The future of AI is neither automatic utopia nor automatic collapse. It is institutional design under pressure.

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Kai-Fu Lee

AI Superpowers

AI will automate many jobs, but it cannot automate what it means to be human. Our task is to double down on our humanity.

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Everybody Lies

The truth is not always what people say in public. It is often what they search for in private.

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Max Tegmark

Life 3.0

Core idea: The 20s are not a throwaway decade — they are the decade of formation.

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George Gilder

Life After Google

The post-Google future begins when trust stops being rented from platforms and starts being verified at the edges.

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James Bridle

New Dark Age

The new dark age begins when we mistake prediction for knowledge and convenience for freedom.

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Adam Greenfield

Radical Technologies

The real question is not whether technology is radical. It is whether ordinary people still get to contest the world it makes ordinary.

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Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

The Future Is Faster Than You Think

The future feels sudden only when you miss the compounding signals that made it inevitable.

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Michio Kaku

The Future of the Mind

The future of the mind is not a gadget story. It is the story of private experience becoming a public technology.

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Alec Ross

The Industries of the Future

The future is not something to predict from a distance. It is something to read in the industries already rearranging power.

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