We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
build a hopeful and compelling abundant future. Diamandis and Kotler once again offer us all reason for optimism.” —Mo Gawdat, former chief business officer of Google X and bestselling author of Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster
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was the first wave. Billed as a connection tool, it became an attention predator. Platforms built to facilitate communication became tools to supercharge addiction. Insta-Google-X-Face overrode occasional boredom with ceaseless content. Digital validation replaced real connection. Then along came AI, which tracked us with a single aim: Turn habit
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a navigable path into previously uncharted territory. We first introduced the term “moonshots” in our 2015 book BOLD, inspired by Astro Teller, whose title at Google X is “Captain of Moonshots.” Teller’s insight was that it’s often easier to achieve a 10x improvement than a 10 percent gain. Why? Because
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, no. 2 (2002): 262–70, https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.83.2.261. Teller’s insight was that it’s often: Astro Teller, “Google X Head on Moonshots: 10X Is Easier Than 10 Percent,” Wired, February 11, 2013, https://www.wired.com/2013/02/moonshots-matter-heres-how-to-make
Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
by Adam Lashinsky · 31 Mar 2017 · 190pp · 62,941 words
. It was “moonshot” technology they wanted to advance. They persuaded Thrun to leave Stanford in 2010 to help start an in-house research arm called Google X. The group would go on to develop diverse technology such as antiaging drugs and computers that could be printed on eyeglasses and contact lenses. Its
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
by Samuel Arbesman · 18 Jul 2016 · 222pp · 53,317 words
Software Construction, 2nd ed. (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2004), 583. building a self-driving vehicle: The complexity of building self-driving cars was discussed by Google[x]’s “Captain of Moonshots” in his closing keynote address at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) 2015: Astro Teller, “How to Make Moonshots,” Backchannel, March 17
The Silent Intelligence: The Internet of Things
by Daniel Kellmereit and Daniel Obodovski · 19 Sep 2013 · 138pp · 40,787 words
does it or not, reasonable people could disagree, but whether that generally is going to happen, that I feel very strongly about. In reality, the Google-X driverless car project has demonstrated that autonomous cars can already navigate traffic and follow the speed limit. And that’s just the tip of the
The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel · 3 Oct 2016 · 504pp · 126,835 words
simple reason that sales were not good enough. In the aftermath of this public mishap, Astro Teller – the head of what was then called the Google X research lab – explained that the company had failed by “not making clear to everyone else that what was out was really just a prototype of
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balloon journeys across the Pole. Instead they may have been killed by polar bears as they were trying to make it back home by foot. Google X staff fortunately did not have to worry about hungry bears and they were still around to draw the right conclusions from the failure. To Astro
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz · 8 Mar 2016 · 233pp · 58,561 words
all, they often succeeded in the real world. The sprint process spread across Google from team to team and office to office. A designer from Google X got interested in the method, so she ran a sprint for a team in Ads. The Googlers from the Ads sprint told their colleagues, and
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a hundred sprints with startups such as 23andMe, Slack, Nest, and Foundation Medicine. Previously, Jake worked at Google, leading sprints for everything from Gmail to Google X. He is among the world’s tallest designers. JOHN ZERATSKY has designed mobile apps, medical reports, and a daily newspaper (among other things). Before joining
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Forms, 121 Google Hangouts, 3 Google Search, 4 Google Ventures (GV), 4–6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 60, 85, 113, 130, 171, 176, 201, 231 Google X, 4 Grace, Merci, 130, 131, 143–44, 152, 156, 175, 216–17, 221, 222 Graco sprint, 27–28 Green, Bobby, 76, 85, 86 Grijalva, Dave
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
with my favourite restaurant was only meant to be open to employees working on Android, though other employees would occasionally sneak in for sushi. And Google X, the “moonshot” lab, kept its plans strictly under wraps. I understood why, of course: the point of secrecy was to ward off leaks and mitigate
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind · 24 Aug 2015 · 742pp · 137,937 words
our bodies, relaying images, delivering targeted drugs, and attacking particular cells with a precision that makes even the finest of surgeons’ blades look blunt. (At Google X, one of Google’s research facilities, they are said to be developing a version of this.51) Non-humans are also playing a role. Engineers
The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work
by Vishen Lakhiani · 14 Sep 2020
commitment to using business as a vehicle for good in the world. Tom is an inventor, author, speaker, and cofounder of X Development, sometimes called Google X, Google’s semi-secret skunkworks lab (now a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet). A few years back Tom ran a think tank in
Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning From It
by Brian Dumaine · 11 May 2020 · 411pp · 98,128 words
growth pace, it will need new markets to penetrate. As a first step, Bezos in 2014 hired Babak Parviz, an Iranian immigrant who previously headed Google X, a respected research facility (now a division of Alphabet called X) that worked on various moonshot projects, including kites that gather wind energy, the Google
Industrial Internet
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The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
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We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production
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A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
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Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs
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The Industries of the Future
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Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
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Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
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Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
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Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
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How to Build a Billion Dollar App: Discover the Secrets of the Most Successful Entrepreneurs of Our Time
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · 14 Apr 2018 · 286pp · 87,401 words
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words
Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead
by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman · 22 Sep 2016
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words
Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
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The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small
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I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World
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Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
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Thinking Machines: The Inside Story of Artificial Intelligence and Our Race to Build the Future
by Luke Dormehl · 10 Aug 2016 · 252pp · 74,167 words
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
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The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models
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Moon Rush: The New Space Race
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I Hate the Internet: A Novel
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
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Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
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Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner
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The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here
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Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
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