Chris Anderson's Book Recommendations

"A spectacular, life-transforming book."

"This is a spectacular, life-transforming book."

"[Shows] how it’s possible to make genuine connections that last, that we can nurture across the world for all kinds of purposes."

"Truly one of the wisest and most surprising takes on AI."

"I honestly think it was reading The Fabric of Reality that finally gave me the courage, 18 years ago, to leave my company and take over leadership of TED."

"I recommend anything by this author. He’s one of the clearest thinkers and communicators of our time."

"A remarkable argument for the power of knowledge—as not just a human capability but as a force that shapes the universe."

"@kylebrussell cc @cshirky I love that book!"

"Something important happened around 1980 to break the energy dependence trend of the economy. Digitization = dematerialization From @amcafee's fascinating new book"

"@elidourado @pmarcas_likes What broke was our risk tolerance. The "Skunkworks" book is a great insider story of that. The day that the financial auditors outnumbered the engineers was the day the innovation died:"

"This is a really important book. The core argument is that our single biggest moral obligation is to the countless billions of people we hope will be born in the future. They're invisible to us. They shouldn't be. They represent the future of consciousness."

"As a child, they exploded my imagination."

"@kevin2kelly It's a bimodal distribution between AI technicians and AI philosophers. Sort of like the alchemy phase of chemistry, before atomic theory and the periodic table. Speaking of which, this book is the best I read all year:"

"As a child, they exploded my imagination."

"@hubermanlab @edyong209 +1. Best science book of the year"

"I've now finished the book, all 700 pages of it. Grade: 8/10. Fantastic tech, timely topic, great writing. But 1/3 of the book, the whole Indian/Hamilayan thread woven throughout, was unnecessary and could have deleted, bringing it back to a manageable size"

"I really enjoyed this book, which reads like a thriller & tells the story of creating the Predator program before & after 9/11. Although the aircraft already existed, this team had to figure out how to operate it from the other side of the world & arm it"

"@AstroKatie @AleksandraFaust So you're saying I need to file my taxes? Dang. BTW, my daughter gave me your book for Christmas and I couldn't put it down. Science book of the year, hands down. Everything A Brief History of Time should have been. Bravo! (me: former Los Alamos physicist, ex Nature & Science)"

"@smc90 Love that book"