Steve Jurvetson Recommended Books

The Fabric of Reality

The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications

by David Deutsch

"Realized that a quantum computer would be fundamentally unlike anything we have in this world today." - Steve Jurvetson (Source)

Out Of Control

The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World

by Kevin Kelly

"The single book that’s had the most influence on me my entire life. [...] It started my life long fascination of the biological metaphors in technology." - Steve Jurvetson (Source)

The Scientist in the Crib

What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

by Alison Gopnik

"The only thing I did to prepare for being a parent was to read [this book]." - Steve Jurvetson (Source)

The Age of Spiritual Machines

When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

by Ray Kurzweil

"I have been maintaining [a graph from this book] ever since I read [this book], and I show it in every presentation I give. [...] I would go further and assert that this is the most important graph ever conceived." - Steve Jurvetson (Source)

Gödel, Escher, Bach

An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Steve Jurvetson mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. (Source)

A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram

"A series of epiphanies from [the author] and others that the world is really interesting when you look at iterative algorithms applied millions and billions of times." - Steve Jurvetson (Source)

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

"A gift to all of my Apple II programming buddies from high school and Dungeons & Dragons comrades." - Steve Jurvetson (Source)

Abundance

The Future Is Better Than You Think

by Peter Diamandis

"Writes about [how] everything is great because physical things are so inexpensive that even the poorest of the poor could live like kings of just a few years prior." - Steve Jurvetson (Source)