More Everything Forever, Adam Becker
More Everything Forever, Adam Becker
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More Everything Forever
AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

Author: Adam Becker

Narrator: Greg Tremblay

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 04/22/2025

Synopsis

A timely exposé of the ludicrous and cruel obsessions of Silicon Valley’s oligarchs.“In an era when billionaire space races and AI hype dominate headlines, More Everything Forever arrives as a much-needed reality check.” —The Atlantic Tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have decided that the only worthwhile future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs. In More Everything Forever, science journalist Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—and shows there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Silicon Valley giants claim their ideas are based on science, but in reality they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience, distracting us from solving crucial problems like climate change. Urgent reading in our dire political moment, More Everything Forever exposes the sinister ideas that dominate Silicon Valley and beyond, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are.

About Adam Becker

Adam Becker is a science writer with a PhD in astrophysics. He has written for the BBC and New Scientist and is a visiting scholar at University of California–Berkeley’s Office for History of Science and Technology.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Caitlin on May 12, 2025

I like when smart people explain, in very scientific but accessible terms, exactly why Elon is a dumbass.......more

Goodreads review by Logan on March 29, 2025

...or, how to con a billionaire. This is a beautiful mess of a book. It is a critique, really a polemic, of Silicon Valley. Yet it is not limited to Silicon Valley in any scope. It uses individuals, usually those associated with Silicon Valley, as a way to focus its discussion. It is about Futurism, b......more

Goodreads review by E.R. on April 05, 2025

In many ways, More Everything Forever is the angry rant that all sensible people want to hear right now. The consolidation of power that is happening in Big Tech and the AI space in particular is frightening because of the clear lack of empathy and compassion that its leaders show the world. The boo......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on May 15, 2025

Probably a 4.5 but rounding up for the uniqueness of the arguments. As a policy wonk and currently working in tech, I have read so much about the perils and opportunities of AI. This book pulls no punches and gets deep into the motivations and contradictions of some of my tech heroes. We will see ho......more

Goodreads review by John-Paul on May 04, 2025

Really, really good. I know a lot about these freaks and I still felt it was pretty informative, and Becker is refreshingly clear-eyed about just how bad and dumb the EA/singularity/AI crowd is. Bonus points for tying in Teilhard de Chardin.......more

Quotes

"This is a really important contribution to our discussion of the future and what it might hold, and what we should be trying for now. Some of these current popular ideas about the future are foolish enough to distort our current reality, and they deserve to be revealed as such. Becker's book is very entertaining as it exposes how the emperor has no clothes."—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy

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