A tightly written prescription for smart thinking... A bold call to reinject pluralism and progressive human values into a decision-making process dominated by algorithms or gut instinct - Financial Times -- 2021 Summer Books List

A simply wonderful reimagining of human ingenuity. It will teach you to see around corners - Tim Harford, bestselling author of How To Make The World Add Up

Reveals how you can recognize the lenses that you're applying ... an important read -- a steady hand for our turbulent times - Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN

A fascinating look at what makes humans special and how people can improve the way they think to stay ahead of the machines - Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder of DeepMind, Vice-President of Google

A paean to cognitive agility and the elasticity of the imagination - The Economist

Packed with big ideas, great stories, values and verve that make it a delight to read. It will certainly change how you think-and might just change the world too - Annie Duke, best-selling author of THINKING IN BETS and former poker champion

A great book filled with fresh perspectives to help us out during the rise of AI so we can usher in the Age of Humanity - will.i.am, musician and entrepreneur

A captivating read... Framers will transform the way you think - Marissa King, Professor at Yale School of Management

Brilliantly shows that mental models are at the heart of creativity, critical thinking and innovation, and how we can get better at it to solve our toughest business and social challenges - Aaron Levie, CEO of Box

Provides insight into how we can all nurture more of a beginner's mind and manifest breakthrough ideas for building a better future - Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, Salesforce

An appealing pop-science guide to creativity [and] an astute analysis of problem-solving - Kirkus Reviews

Humans today live a much easier, more comfortable, and more pleasant existence than ever before, but we also face our greatest existential challenges as a species, and in order to survive we will need not only cooperation, but a new and diverse set of cognitive frames ... [this book] teaches us how to better frame things for ourselves as individuals - Porchlight BOOK TO WATCH

Kenneth Cukier is a Senior Editor at The Economist, and host of its weekly tech podcast. He is also an associate fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, researching artificial intelligence. His TED Talk on AI and society has over 2 million views. Kenn was a foreign correspondent for two decades in Europe, Asia and America and a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He serves on the board of Chatham House and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Viktor and his work have been featured in (among others) the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Economist, Nature, Science, BBC and Wired Magazine. He is also on the boards of foundations, think tanks and organizations focused on studying the information economy, and advises governments, businesses and NGOs on new economy and information society issues.

Francis de Véricourt is Professor of Management Science at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin. His current research explores how machine learning affects the way individuals frame their decisions and give rise to incentive problems. He has lived and worked in France, USA, Germany and Singapore. He has given talks at Yale University, Wharton School of Business, London Business School, Cambridge University, Tsinghua University, Singapore National University and many others, and has been the recipient of multiple teaching awards.