More Everything Forever

AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

De: Adam Becker

Narrado por: Greg Tremblay

How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—pervert public discourse and distract us from real social problems

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, science journalist Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Nevertheless, these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason—for example, that a rogue AI will exterminate humanity—at the expense of essential work on solving crucial problems like climate change. What’s more, these futuristic visions cloak a hunger for power under dreams of space colonies and digital immortality. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the reality is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience.

More Everything Forever exposes the powerful and sinister ideas that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are.

©2025 Adam Becker (P)2025 Basic Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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

JUST READ IT

This was a magnificent book that I think anyone with a remote interest in tech should read

Unveiling the Delusions of Grandeur behind Techbro Philosphy

Was going to rate 4 stars but the last chapter hit the nail on the head.

Devastating takedown of the silicon valley billionaire distopian future

As a physicist, Adam Becker uses his scientific background to take on the cultish ideas and obsessions of the tech billionaires. One of the author’s insights that drives all this madness home to me is the idea that the tech billionaires mis-read golden age sci-fi as a blueprint for the future, not understanding they were reading fiction set in the future in order to examine and comment on the present. The book really opened my eyes to the danger of nice sounding ideas like Effective Altruism, and why the tech elite are focused on AGI and space colonization instead of taking their wealth and intelligence and attempting to solve the existential problems facing us today.

Reality Check

A necessary overview of the ridiculousness of people like Musk, who himself has the "vision" of a 1950's 4th grader* (I want to make a rocket; I want to make an electric car; I want to live on Mars; etc.).

These individuals are shallow and insulated from reality by their lofty positions and star chambers. They think they really know stuff, and possess wisdom you and I cannot possibly have.

Well, turn that table. There's an adage worth remembering: "Those who say they know, don't know. Those who know they don't know, know." Humility trumps braggadocio. Pun intended. Fantasy and science fiction are fun and can be inspiring but, in worldly affairs, common sense is usually more important.

Read this book along with a fantastic article called "The rise of end times fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor in The Guardian, and you'll have the whole story and understand why all of this hogwash is real to them--while (as the sales blurb here states) distracting us from the really real and challenging issues we face.

*Nothing against 4th graders, of course.

Excellent review of the philosophy that got us here

I like the easy read of the book. It made complex ideologies and philosophies approachable. Alternative view of the future!

Puts words to thoughts that have been haunting me

Adam Becker nails it: clarifying mindsets that have felt unknowable and impossible to understand, revealing consistencies across different movements that might feel disconnected (until you look deeper), and substantiating major areas of concern that too often I felt were "just me." And he does it with colorful, accessible, fact-backed storytelling that brings some big pictures into focus. I'm recommending this book widely and hope you will too.

Deeply Informaive and Great Narration

The narration was outstanding. I already knew a lot about the TESCREAL movement but this deepened my knowledge. This is a must read to gain an understanding how insane the tech bros are. The Silicon Valley religion is a supreme danger to all of us here on Earth One.

Well written, great chapter on Mars.

This is a refreshing book in a world full of podcasts, YouTube videos and blogs form people giving opinions on things they just don't know anything about. It's like nobody wants to do the work of actually understanding something before they throw their opinion out there. Adam Becker knows his stuff and knows how to tell a story. The chapter on Mars is just perfect. The part on AI has already been told my many others, but it's still worth the listening time. The narration is really good too. Just an enjoyable listen.