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More Everything Forever
- Author
- Adam Becker
- Narrator
- Greg Tremblay
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publish Date
- 22 April 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST
'Smart and wonderfully readable' NEW YORK TIMES
The bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise and limitless growth.
Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs.
In More Everything Forever, scientist and writer Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow to reveal why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the truth is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience. And behind these fanciful visions of space colonies and digital immortality is a cynical power grab, at the expense of essential work spent on solving real problems like the climate crisis.
More Everything Forever exposes the powerful myths that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are.
Critics Review
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An important book as well as a good one. A really significant contribution to our discussion of the future . . . Becker's book is very entertaining as it exposes how the emperor has no clothes
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
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With a wild and utterly engaging narrative, Becker gives us a refreshing reality check on the fantasies of billionaires, futurists and utilitarian philosophers who are plotting to "optimize" the future of humanity. A fascinating exposé
Melanie Mitchell, author of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A GUIDE FOR THINKING HUMANS
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I love this book. Becker has become our greatest prophet of doom
Errol Morris, documentary filmmaker and author of THE ASHTRAY
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Our world has fallen into the clutches of billionaires who mistake dystopian science-fiction stories for suggestions, rather than warnings. Speaking in my capacity as a dystopian science-fiction writer, I can confirm that this isn't merely very stupid, it's also very, very bad
Cory Doctorow, author of RED TEAM BLUES and LITTLE BROTHER
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Disconcerting . . . More Everything Forever is a disturbing and important book
New Scientist
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Smart and wonderfully readable . . . Amid [Becker's] sharp criticisms of the tech figures he writes about is a resolute call for compassion. He encourages us not to get hung up on galaxies far, far away but to pay more attention to our own fragile planet and the frail humans around us
New York Times
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Becker subjects Silicon Valley's ideology to some much-needed critical scrutiny, poking holes in - and a decent amount of fun at - the outlandish ideas that so many tech billionaires take as gospel. In so doing, he champions reality while also exposing the dangers of letting the tech billionaires push us toward a future that could never actually exist
Rolling Stone
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With admirable clarity and patience, Becker dismantles the fantasies one by one: the AI apocalypse that obscures the real and immediate problems the algorithms are causing, concerning bias, misinformation and energy consumption; the absurd notion of "mind uploading" and the transcendental Singularity that will grant us immortality in a digital nirvana ("All of humanity, running on a computer, until the end of time"); the pipe dream of creating a civilization of billions on airless, frigid, radiation-strafed Mars . . . Writing More Everything Forever took guts
TLS
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A much-needed reality check . . . A valuable meditation on the questionable stories we tell about progress, salvation, and ourselves
The Atlantic
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A compelling survey of the ideas espoused by a band of futurist thinkers who have championed - and profited from - a boundless faith in the power of artificial intelligence . . . Engaging with these tech-infused visions is necessary because they are starting to affect how society is governed
Nature
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A must-read for understanding why the visions of the future promoted by today's techno oligarchs are built on pseudoscience and far-fetched fantasies mixed with racism, eugenics and colonialism . . . Urgent and timely as billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos vie for political power
Christie Aschwanden, author of Good to Go
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Our world has fallen into the clutches of billionaires who mistake dystopian science fiction stories for suggestions, rather than warnings. Speaking in my capacity as a dystopian science fiction writer, I can confirm that this isn't merely very stupid, it's also very, very bad
Cory Doctorow, author of Red Team Blues and Little Brother
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A gripping book about the unlikely yet very real nexus of tech tycoons, eccentric philosophers, and grandiose futurists. Becker combines masterful storytelling and lucid exposition to lay out what's at stake for the future of technology and, more importantly, humanity
Arvind Narayanan, computer scientist and co-author of AI Snake Oil
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Popular science with teeth . . . a book that does a great job of showing how deluded, stupid, or in bad faith many of these billionaires' claims are, and of providing a powerful antidote to hype
New Yorker
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 4.0
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Extremely eye opening book about the ideologies of the tech industry elite. Discusses the numerous scientific and ethical problems with these ideas, and the harms they are causing our society now, where the ideas came from (it’s an old story) and how they took hold (people are quick to believe a lazy solution to a difficult or complex problem).
This book will probably make you angry.
This article persuaded me to read the book, it’s a good preview https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/Addy 2025-05-26
Details
- Author
- Adam Becker
- Narrator
- Greg Tremblay
- Duration
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 April 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399827935
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Genre
- Artificial intelligence (AI), Political control and freedoms, Digital or internet economics
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
'Book of the Year' as chosen by The Conversation'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST'Smart and wonderfully readable' NEW YORK TIMESThe bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise and limitless growth.Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs.In More Everything Forever, scientist and writer Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow to reveal why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the truth is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience. And behind these fanciful visions of space colonies and digital immortality is a cynical power grab, at the expense of essential work spent on solving real problems like the climate crisis.More Everything Forever exposes the powerful myths that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are.
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