Today's the day! My new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is finally out! If you want to understand why tech billionaires are so obsessed with impossible ideas about space and AI — and why that's dangerous — this book is for you. #MoreEverythingForever www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-... - ThreadSky

adambecker.bsky.social • 35 days ago

Today's the day! My new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is finally out! If you want to understand why tech billionaires are so obsessed with impossible ideas about space and AI — and why that's dangerous — this book is for you. #MoreEverythingForever https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-becker/more-everything-forever/9781541619593/?lens=basic-books

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carldownunder.bsky.social•17 days ago

Really enjoyed the interview with Arstechnical? Sounds like I (and a million others) need to read your book

adambecker.bsky.social•17 days ago

I agree, but I'm biased. 😉
Thanks!

carldownunder.bsky.social•17 days ago

Ha ha. Of course

bacigalupe.bsky.social•30 days ago

Adding to list of readings

johnmarkoff.bsky.social•32 days ago

Thanks for the copy! I’ve enjoyed it so far and I find your explanation of their distorted obsession with scaling to be fascinating

adambecker.bsky.social•32 days ago

Absolutely! I'd love to meet up and talk about it once you've finished it. I read What the Dormouse Said many years ago, long before I wrote this, but it was a big inspiration to me while I was working on it.

johnmarkoff.bsky.social•30 days ago

Will do… I’m very interested in the arc of “scaling” as it evolved from Engelbart’s original insight, in 1960 to becoming a malignant ideology…

adambecker.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yeah. Maybe we can convince Fred Turner to join us for that conversation too.

steveread.bsky.social•34 days ago

📌

kaizhen.bsky.social•24 days ago

Just got this one off of my audible wish list by clicking buy-now. Looking forward!

adambecker.bsky.social•24 days ago

Thank you!

markusbuhmann.bsky.social•16 days ago

*taps pinned skeet*

Also, yes to everything in your interview, tech bros have never consumed Sci-fi they have ever understood.

adambecker.bsky.social•16 days ago

Yuuuuuuup.

mattdmccoy.bsky.social•22 days ago

I am roughly halfway through this book. I hate that TESCREAL, longtermism, Singularity-ism, etc exists and that I have to know about it, but I DO need to know about it, so I am grateful that this book exists.

mattdmccoy.bsky.social•20 days ago

On chapter five now. This book is giving a frame of reference to understand all of this stuff, which is great, but it hasn't been great for my mental health 🫠

adambecker.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yeah welcome to my world 😆😭

mattdmccoy.bsky.social•16 days ago

Just finished the book. I agree that billionaires shouldn't be a thing. By an odd coincidence, when I tell people this, the thought experiment I use to explain it is "What if you had $500 million dollars? What couldn't you do at that point?" Other than buy an entire state legislature, etc.

realityred.bsky.social•25 days ago

What a wonderful, honest, hopeful book. Thank you.

adambecker.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thank you! I'm so glad you found that in the book - I hoped it would be taken that way.

fearisthemindklr.bsky.social•16 days ago

I just read your fascinating interview with Arstechnica. I have been extremely bothered for years how the public has been seduced by technology and Silicon Valley without even considering the damage it has done as is doing. The ISS is a space example. It is a PR tool. AI scares me to death!

walkinrobin.bsky.social•20 days ago

Thank you for writing this! Definitely connected the dots and answered a lot of my whys.

adambecker.bsky.social•19 days ago

Great to hear that - thanks for reading it!

skriver.bsky.social•23 days ago

Saw the https://arstechnica.com interview. Looking forward to reading it.

adambecker.bsky.social•23 days ago

Thanks!

pileque.bsky.social•15 days ago

Awesome interview!

williamfergie.bsky.social•35 days ago

Thanks !

hobo.rocks•31 days ago

@edzitron.com needs to read this book (and talk to you!)

adambecker.bsky.social•31 days ago

I'd love to talk with him. @edzitron.com, you interested? @hobo.rocks is right, you'd like it. But you don't have to take his word or my word for it: the NYT says it's a "smart and wonderfully readable" book that's relevant to your interests. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/books/review/more-everything-forever-adam-becker.html

tammilee.bsky.social•17 days ago

Just filled out a request for purchase form at my local public library. Even if you choose to purchase a copy, I recommend everyone do the same. This is how you get important books into your neighbor’s hands, as well as informing the library system that his is information people want.

annanicholas.bsky.social•8 days ago

Just read the @nytimes.com review and your book should be mandatory reading by any decision-maker. You apply science reasoning to something most of us have figured out without a degree in astrophysics. Nobody wants to live on Mars! So why are we spending so much money trying to get there?

p2173.bsky.social•22 days ago

I’ve been recommending it to everyone. Thank you for doing the work. My spidey sense had long assumed the connections you document and the logic leaps you lay out so clearly

adambecker.bsky.social•19 days ago

Aw, thank you! Glad I could help.

jjmukit.bsky.social•32 days ago

I'm still reading your book. It is fascinating. Thank you.

lonagil.bsky.social•24 days ago

Looking forward to a good read - the article today in The Guardian was exceptional! 👏

adambecker.bsky.social•24 days ago

Thank you! If you liked the article I can just about guarantee you'll love the book.

not-on-my-account.bsky.social•11 days ago

A must read.

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