Hans Rosling
description: Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund · 2 Apr 2018 · 288pp · 85,073 words
About the Author Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health, and renowned public educator. He was an adviser to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and he
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data set. gapm.io/depov. Gapminder[10]. Household per capita income—v1. gapm.io/ihhinc. Gapminder[11]. “Don’t Panic—End Poverty.” BBC documentary featuring Hans Rosling. Directed by Dan Hillman. Wingspan Productions, September 2015. Gapminder[12]. Legal slavery data—v1. gapm.io/islav. Gapminder[13]. HIV,newly infected—v2. Historic prevalence
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Fill-Up. gapm.io/mmfu. Gapminder[30]. Family size by income level. gapm.io/efinc. Gapminder[31]. Protected Nature—v1. gapm.io/protnat. Gapminder[32]. Hans Rosling. “Swine flu alert! News/Death ratio: 8176.” Video. May 8, 2009. gapm.io/sftbn. Gapminder[33]. Average age at first marriage. gapm.io/fmarr. Gapminder
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stats you’ve ever seen.” Filmed February 2006 in Monterey, CA. TED video, 19:50. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen gapm.io/xtedros. . “Hans Rosling at World Bank: Open Data.” Filmed May 22, 2010, in Washington, DC. World Bank video, 41:54. https://www
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?v=5OWhcrjxP-E.gapm.io/xwbros. . “The magic washing machine.” Filmed December 2010 in Washington, DC. TEDWomen video, 9:15. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine gapm.io/tedrosWa. Rosling, Hans, Yngve Hofvander, and Ulla-Britt Lithell. “Children’s death and population growth.” Lancet 339 (February
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Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, World Tourism Organization, 2017. gapm.io/xwb1713. World Bank[14]. “Beyond Open Data: A New Challenge from Hans Rosling.” Live GMT, June 8, 2015. gapm.io/xwb1714. World Bank[15]. Khokhar, Tariq. “Should we continue to use the term ‘developing world’?” The Data blog
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Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. . The Post-American World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Hans Rosling Hans was born in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1948. He studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University and public health at St. John’s Medical College
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
to many discussions in part II, the section on progress. I am grateful as well to Marian Tupy of HumanProgress and to Ola Rosling and Hans Rosling of Gapminder, two other invaluable resources for understanding the state of humanity. Hans was an inspiration, and his death in 2017 a tragedy for those
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not entombed in dry reports but are displayed in gorgeous Web sites, particularly Max Roser’s Our World in Data, Marian Tupy’s HumanProgress, and Hans Rosling’s Gapminder. (Rosling learned that not even swallowing a sword during a 2007 TED talk was enough to get the world’s attention.) The case
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of zeroes into the average. The answer for 2015 is 71.4 years.1 How close is that to your guess? In a recent survey Hans Rosling found that less than one in four Swedes guessed that it was that high, a finding consistent with the results of other multinational surveys of
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’t reduce population growth for long. They disproportionately kill children and the elderly, and when conditions improve, the survivors quickly replenish the population.13 As Hans Rosling put it, “You can’t stop population growth by letting poor children die.”14 Looking at the second curve, we discover that the food supply
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spent on laundry alone fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to 1.5 in 2014.14 For returning “washday” to our lives, Hans Rosling suggests, the washing machine deserves to be called the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution.15 Figure 17-3: Utilities, appliances, and housework, US, 1900
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worse. Kelly offers “protopia,” the pro- from progress and process. Others have suggested “pessimistic hopefulness,” “opti-realism,” and “radical incrementalism.”54 My favorite comes from Hans Rosling, who, when asked whether he was an optimist, replied, “I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist.”55 PART III REASON, SCIENCE
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the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 15. Not to be missed: H. Rosling, “The Magic Washing Machine,” TED talk, Dec. 2010, https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine. 16. Good Housekeeping, vol. 55, no. 4, Oct. 1912, p. 436, quoted in Greenwood, Seshadri, & Yorukoglu 2005. 17. From The
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
$80 a day, which is to say two and a half times the present world average, and twenty-six times the world average in 1800. Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor of public health, calls $80 “the Washing Line,” because at that level a household can have an electric washing machine, freeing women
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in real GDP per person New Zealand and Italy, in 2010, were nearly identical, at $88.20 and $86.80 a day, a little above Hans Rosling’s Washing Line. One could argue that there is anyway an international correlation between income and governance. But the causation is in part the other
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, in other words, overcome poverty and long arduous labor.” 13. Ehrlich 1968 (1975), p. xi. 14. If you disbelieve it, you need to listen to Hans Rosling’s astonishing video for the BBC, I say again: “Don’t Panic—The Facts about Population,” http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
by Vaclav Smil · 2 Mar 2021 · 1,324pp · 159,290 words
all of that would be taking place with ever lower impact on the environment. This is the message of the two much acclaimed publications by Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker (Rosling et al. 2018; Pinker 2018). The authors have followed the same basic precept that I did in this book and in
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variety of depressing problems and the writings about imminent peaks, downturns, and catastrophes—how so much has gone steadily and impressively better. In his Factfulness Hans Rosling (2018) argued that even well-informed people are getting “the basic facts about the world wrong,” that “the world is getting worse” is “the mega
The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides
by Garr Reynolds · 29 Jan 2010
program, demo a web site, and so on. However, you should also move away from that lectern when you do not have to be there. Hans Rosling, a doctor, researcher, and presenter, is extraordinary at doing this. When he needs to pull up some data or start the Gapminder program, he will
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is able to engage his audiences with the visualizations of data in part because he removes the barriers by often moving away from the lectern. Hans Rosling removes the barriers and gets involved with the data, making things clear for the audience. (Photo: Stefan Nilsson.) Performing demos If you are performing a
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answer. 152 The Naked Presenter Wow! eBook <WoweBook.Com> It’s Not the Numbers, It’s What They Mean I’m a huge fan of Hans Rosling, the public health professor from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and one of the cofounders of Gapminder (www.gapminder.org). Rosling is the Zen master
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Rosling shows that it is not enough just to show data—what matters is the meaning of the data. Statistics tell a story. Photo of Hans Rosling by Stefan Nilsson. The way the Gapminder software displays data is compelling and clarifies the data while bringing the viewer in for a closer look
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
by Tim Harford · 2 Feb 2021 · 428pp · 103,544 words
cultural differences turn out to be differences in income. “Numbers will never tell the full story of what life on Earth is all about,” wrote Hans Rosling, despite being the world’s most famous statistical guru. (Hans was Anna Rosling Rönnlund’s father-in-law.) Hans was right, of course. Numbers will
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few hours previously. Some media critics believe there is another reason media outlets don’t emphasize context and perspective: people are drawn to bad news. Hans Rosling, coauthor of Factfulness and a wonderful campaigner for more realistic views of the world based on good data, calls this “the negativity instinct.” And it
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Moy, Terry Murray, Sylvia Nasar, Cathy O’Neil, Onora O’Neill, Caroline Criado Perez, Robert Proctor, Jason Reifler, Alex Reinhart, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Max Roser, Hans Rosling, Benjamin Scheibehenne, Janelle Shane, Hugh Small, Lucy Smith, Philip Tetlock, Edward Tufte, Patrick Wolfe, David Wootton, Frank Wynne, Ed Yong, and Jason Zweig. At Little
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. 23. Samantha Vanderslott, Bernadeta Dadonaite, and Max Roser, “Vaccination,” published online at OurWorldInData.org (2020), retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination. 24. Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling, Factfulness (New York: Flatiron, 2018). 25. Gillian Tett, “Silos and Silences,” Derivatives: Financial Innovation and Stability, Banque de France Financial Stability Review
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for Granted 1. This is a translation of a Danish TV interview, discussed in Peter Vinthagen Simpson, “Hans Rosling: ‘You Can’t Trust the Media,’” The Local, September 5, 2015, https://www.thelocal.se/20150905/hans-rosling-you-cant-trust-the-media. 2. Laura Smith, “In 1974, a Stripper Known as the ‘Tidal Basin
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Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. 9: Translation of a Danish TV interview, discussed in Peter Vinthagen Simpson, “Hans Rosling: ‘You Can’t Trust the Media,’” The Local, September 5, 2015, https://www.thelocal.se/20150905/hans-rosling-you-cant-trust-the-media. 10: Michael Blastland, personal correspondence, May 13, 2013. 11: Leon Festinger, Henry
Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
by Garr Reynolds · 14 Aug 2010
to see the areas of poor performance more quickly? The Future of Data Presentation One of the masters of displaying data during live presentations is Hans Rosling, a public health professor from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. With his amazing ability to unveil the beauty of statistics, Rosling has become a
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to understand how beautiful it is. But often that’s how we present statistics: we just show the notes, we don’t play the music. Hans Rosling gets involved with the data at TED 09 in Long Beach, California. Let your data speak As a presenter, what sets Rosling apart is his
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, we need people who make the instruments, and we need those who play.” Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling in early 2005. Trendalyzer, the Gapminder software, makes it possible to unveil the beauty of a statistical time series by converting “boring numbers” into engaging
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates · 2 May 2022 · 406pp · 88,977 words
preparation seriously. The world responded to COVID faster and more effectively than to any other disease in history. But as the late educator and physician Hans Rosling put it, “Things can be better and bad.” In the Better column, for example, I’d put the fact that the world developed safe, effective
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in low-income countries who have a high risk of getting severely sick. The distribution of COVID vaccines in 2020 and 2021 was, to quote Hans Rosling again, both bad and better. Vaccines reached more people faster than any other vaccination effort ever. They also reached many people in poor countries faster
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doubt, no—lower rates of child mortality do not lead to overpopulation. The best explanation of why this is true was given by my friend Hans Rosling. I first became aware of Hans when he gave an unforgettable TED talk in 2006 called “The Best Stats You’ve Ever Seen.”[*3] Hans
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Vaccine Market Dashboard,” https://www.unicef.org; and data provided by Linksbridge. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT But as the late educator and physician: Hans Rosling, Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Flatiron Books, 2018). GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT
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and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019), World Population Prospectus 2019, Special Aggregates, Online Edition, Rev. 1. GO TO FIGURE IN TEXT I admired the clever: Hans Rosling, “Will Saving Poor Children Lead to Overpopulation?,” https://www.gapminder.org; Our World in Data, “Where in the World Are Children Dying?,” https://ourworldindata.org
Not the End of the World
by Hannah Ritchie · 9 Jan 2024 · 335pp · 101,992 words
excitement made it hard to pin down his accent but I thought he might be Swedish. ‘And here Africa comes!’ he shouted. The man was Hans Rosling. If you know of him already, you can probably remember the first time you were introduced. If you don’t, I’m a bit jealous
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the first time. Rosling was a Swedish physician, statistician and public speaker. A review of his work in Nature captures him well: ‘Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world.’6 It changed mine. You see, my understanding of the world was wrong. Not just slightly wrong. I
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altered beyond recognition. The only way to really see these changes is to step back and look at the long-run data. This is what Hans Rosling did for social problems. The same is true for our environmental ones. I’ve been researching, writing and shouting about these trends for almost a
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it to people: in articles, on the radio, on TV, and in government offices so they can use it to move us forward. Just as Hans Rosling showed that news headlines don’t teach us much about global poverty, education or health, I’ve found that trying to build an environmental world
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been a better time to be alive. If someone had told me that eight years ago, I would have scoffed. In fact, when I heard Hans Rosling say it on-screen for the first time, I nearly stopped watching. What planet was he living on? But it’s true. And I hope
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adults in the world could read than couldn’t. Today, we’re closing in on 90%. In his 2014 TED Talk, one question that had Hans Rosling’s audience stumped was ‘In all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school?’ Most people thought the answer was
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no idea what was happening. Were disasters getting worse? Were there more this year than last? Were there more people dying than ever before? After Hans Rosling taught me that extreme poverty and child mortality were falling and education and life expectancy were rising, I went looking for other areas where my
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, only one person was hanging on. ‘Three and a half thousand?’ The last hand went down. The game was over. I grinned. This was my Hans Rosling moment. ‘If we split the world’s food production equally between everyone we could each have at least 5,000 calories a day. More than
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. Lockwood, N. Powdthavee & O. Andrew, Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?, IZA Institute of Labor Economics (2022). 6 A. Maxmen, ‘Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world’, Nature 540, 330–3 (2016). 7 E. Klein, ‘Your Kids Are Not Doomed’, New York Times (2022). 8
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regularly in the New York Times, Economist, Financial Times, BBC, WIRED, New Scientist, and Vox, and in bestselling books including Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, Hans Rosling’s Factfulness and Bill Gates’s How to Prevent a Climate Disaster. In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland’s Youth Climate Champion and New Scientist
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
by Philip Coggan · 6 Feb 2020 · 524pp · 155,947 words
close to it. But things have in general been getting better. In the book he wrote with his son and daughter-in-law, the late Hans Rosling described 13 questions he often asked at global conferences.12 Most people were too pessimistic in their answers, not realising, for example, that 60% of
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.tudorsociety.com/childbirth-in-medieval-and-tudor-times-by-sarah-bryson 9. Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress 10. Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think 11. Ibid
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Ronson, Jon So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Picador, 2015 Rosenberg, Nathan Exploring the Black Box: Technology, Economics, and History, Cambridge University Press, 1994 Rosling, Hans, Rosling, Ola, and Rosling Rönnlund, Anna Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Sceptre, 2018 Russell
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
by David Pilling · 30 Jan 2018 · 264pp · 76,643 words
Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
by Barbara Tversky · 20 May 2019 · 426pp · 117,027 words
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
Presentation Zen
by Garr Reynolds · 15 Jan 2012
You Are What You Read
by Jodie Jackson · 3 Apr 2019 · 145pp · 41,453 words
Beautiful Visualization
by Julie Steele · 20 Apr 2010
More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next
by Andrew McAfee · 30 Sep 2019 · 372pp · 94,153 words
Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
by Meredith. Angwin · 18 Oct 2020 · 376pp · 101,759 words
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
by Mark Stevenson · 4 Dec 2010 · 379pp · 108,129 words
Growth: A Reckoning
by Daniel Susskind · 16 Apr 2024 · 358pp · 109,930 words
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
by Rebecca Henderson · 27 Apr 2020 · 330pp · 99,044 words
The Art of Statistics: Learning From Data
by David Spiegelhalter · 14 Oct 2019 · 442pp · 94,734 words
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From Data
by David Spiegelhalter · 2 Sep 2019 · 404pp · 92,713 words
Abundance
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson · 18 Mar 2025 · 227pp · 84,566 words
The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters
by Diane Coyle · 15 Apr 2025 · 321pp · 112,477 words
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future
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MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
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Keeping Up With the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
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A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth
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The Norm Chronicles
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The Data Journalism Handbook
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Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
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Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
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Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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Do Improvise: Less push. More pause. Better results. A new approach to work (and life) (Do Books)
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Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
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On Time and Water
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The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions
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Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old
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Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
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The Capitalist Manifesto
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Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
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Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
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The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
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The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
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Architects of Intelligence
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The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated
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Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
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There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
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