Foundational Bibliography
The intellectual framework of the system: from classical philosophy to cybernetics and dystopias.
I. Social Engineering and Noocracy
- Vladimir Vernadsky — Several Words about the Noosphere
- Andrey Domrachev — Noocracy: The Basis
- Andrey Domrachev — Noocracy: Part One
- Plato — The Republic
- Aristotle — Politics
- Francis Bacon — New Atlantis
- Thomas More — Utopia
- H.G. Wells — A Modern Utopia
II. Resource Economics and Algorithms (RBE)
- Jacque Fresco — The Best That Money Can't Buy
- Joseph Stalin — Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Karl Marx — Capital (Das Kapital)
- Jeremy Rifkin — The Zero Marginal Cost Society
- John Stuart Mill — Utilitarianism
- Donella Meadows — The Limits to Growth
III. Cybernetics and Control System (CS)
- Vladimir Vernadsky — Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon
- Stanislaw Lem — Summa Technologiae
- Stafford Beer — Brain of the Firm
- Norbert Wiener — Cybernetics and Society
- Nassim Taleb — Antifragile
IV. Biology, Psychology, and Meaning
- Abraham Maslow — Motivation and Personality
- Viktor Frankl — Man's Search for Meaning
- H.G. Wells — Men Like Gods
- Richard Dawkins — The Selfish Gene
- Peter Kropotkin — Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
V. Ethics of Creation and Aesthetics of the Future
- Ayn Rand — Atlas Shrugged
- Ayn Rand — The Fountainhead
- Hermann Hesse — The Glass Bead Game
- Ivan Yefremov — Andromeda Nebula
- Ivan Yefremov — The Bull's Hour
VI. Safety Protocols: Defense Against Tyranny
- George Orwell — 1984
- Yevgeny Zamyatin — We
- Aldous Huxley — Brave New World
- Ray Bradbury — Fahrenheit 451
- Hannah Arendt — The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Fritz Leiber — Gather Darkness!
- John Brunner — Stand on Zanzibar