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    • The End of the World as We Know It
    • By: Mark Steyn
    • Narrated by: Brian Emerson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 776 ratings
    • The Supreme Court deciding that sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state"? The Hollywood Left embracing polygamy? It's the end of the world as we know it....

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    • How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
    • By: Michael Saylor
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it....

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    • Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
    • By: Alan Weisman
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the best seller The World Without Us....

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    • How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology
    • By: Sonia Contera
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale - the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet - and introduces listeners to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies....

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    • The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal
    • By: Tan Le
    • Narrated by: Tan Le
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Brain science is at the dawn of a new era - and the technologies emerging as a result could forever alter what it means to be human. Welcome to what tech pioneer and inventor Tan Le calls “the NeuroGeneration.” It will blow your mind....

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    • Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
    • By: Jonathan Crary
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Refusing the digital world of late capitalism....

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    • The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
    • By: John Elkington, Paul Polman - foreword
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Green Swans is a manifesto for system change designed to serve people, planet, and prosperity. In his 20th book, John Elkington - dubbed the "Godfather of Sustainability" - explores new forms of capitalism fit for the 21st century....

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    • AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
    • By: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In I, Human psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic offers a guide for reclaiming ourselves in a world in which most of our decisions will be made for us. To do so, we'll need to double down on what makes us so special while relying on the lost virtues of empathy, humility, and self-control....

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    • Elon Musk's Robot and the Future of Work
    • By: Jon Binder
    • Narrated by: Christopher Garcia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Imagine a world with a robot in every home, office, and hospital. While many people may not yet be able to fully conceptualize it, this is the future that awaits us. The robot revolution will change our lives in ways we can't even yet imagine....

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    • Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
    • By: Sarah Ichioka, Michael Pawlyn
    • Narrated by: Nicola Burgess
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings; infrastructure; and communities.

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    • By: Robert Colvile
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? Find out....

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    • Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
    • By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest....

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    • The Rapid Evolution of Human Identity
    • By: Gary A. Freitas
    • Narrated by: Andrew Sykes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • As we approach 2050, it is projected that human consciousness will encounter a superior intelligence for the very first time: artificial machine intelligence....

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    • How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
    • By: Tamara Kneese
    • Narrated by: Linda Jones
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Technology scholar Tamara Kneese takes listeners on a vibrant tour of the ways that platforms and people work together to care for digital remains....

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    • Designing Our Ideal Future to Emerge from Continual Crises to a Thriving World
    • By: Justin Bean
    • Narrated by: Dylan Wheeler
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Tired of all the doom and gloom? What Could Go Right invites you to ditch cynicism about the future, and build the one you want....

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    • Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?
    • By: Yorick Wilks
    • Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
    • Series: Hot Science Series
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies, and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works....

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    • Imagining a Future Without Us
    • By: Adam Kirsch
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it....

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    • A Manifesto for a More Generous World
    • By: Yancey Strickler
    • Narrated by: Yancey Strickler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • A vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life worth living, from the cofounder of Kickstarter....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • By: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • A Hopeful View of the Human Future
    • By: Gerard K. O'Neill
    • Narrated by: Lawrence Tobias
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The long-awaited audio version of the seminal book by legendary space pioneer, Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill, credited with inspiring the likes of Jeff Bezos, Peter Diamandis, and Dylan Taylor....

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