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    • How to Grapple with Complexity, Lead with Purpose, and Cultivate Transformative Social Change
    • By: Kari Grain
    • Narrated by: Kari Grain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Hope alone can be transformational - but in moments of despair, or when you’re up against profound injustice, it isn’t enough on its own. Hope without action is, at best, naive. At its worst, it tricks you into giving up the power and agency you have....

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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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    • The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine
    • By: Gerd Leonhard
    • Narrated by: Ian Anderson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Futurist Gerd Leonhard breaks new ground again by bringing together mankind’s urge to upgrade and automate everything - down to human biology itself - with our timeless quest for freedom and happiness....

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    • Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
    • By: Ian Goldin, Chris Kutarna
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Turning the spotlight on the crises of our time, Age of Discovery shows how we can all define and create a lasting legacy that the world will still celebrate 500 years from now....

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    • Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
    • By: Bill McKibben
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Bill McKibben - foreword
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 334 ratings
    • Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now, he broadens the warning: The entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out....

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    • How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World
    • By: Kate O'Neill
    • Narrated by: Kate O'Neill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Kate O’Neill, author of Tech Humanist and Pixels and Place, explores the ways we have already begun to solve human problems at scale, and makes the case for an approach that’s both hopeful and strategic as our best chance at a truly bright future....

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    • The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth
    • By: Lenore Newman, Evan D.G. Fraser
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Figuring out "what's for dinner on Mars" is far from trivial. If we can figure out how to sustain ourselves on Mars, we will know how to do it on Earth too. Dinner on Mars shows how setting the table off-planet will supercharge efforts to produce food sustainably here at home....

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    • How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War
    • By: Byron Reese
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this electrifying new book, author Byron Reese debunks the pessimistic outlook as dangerous, and shows instead how technology will soon create a dramatically better world for every person on earth, beyond anything we have dared to imagine....

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    • Religious Ethics in a New Key
    • By: Larry L. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Mark Cabus
    • Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Thoughtful observers agree that the planet faces many crises. But precisely how to change remains an open question....

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    • Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - and Other Possible Phenomena
    • By: Mike Pearl
    • Narrated by: Mike Pearl
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • From a VICE magazine columnist, "a deeply entertaining - if occasionally horrifying" (Joshua Piven, coauthor of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook) look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as nuclear war, a global internet collapse, and more....

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    • Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things
    • By: David Rose
    • Narrated by: Corey Brill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • In the tradition of Who Owns the Future? and The Second Machine Age, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs and improve our lives....

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    • How Science Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years
    • By: Marvin Cetron, Owen Davies
    • Narrated by: C.M. Herbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • What will our world be like in the year 2010? Where will we work? How will we travel? What kind of...

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    • Economic Insights to Build Wealth Amid Chaos
    • By: Bryan M. Kuderna
    • Narrated by: Kent Klineman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What Should I Do with My Money? provides a sweeping look at how economies and markets are directly affected by the way people live, work, play, love, and hate: these issues, he explains, are the same ones that determine how groups, corporations, and nations make money or lose money....

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    • Exploring Past Notions of the Future
    • By: Stephen Webb
    • Narrated by: Alex Boyles
    • Series: The Science and Fiction Series
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The intention in this audiobook is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by science fiction and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology....

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    • Fulfilling Ancient Esoteric Agendas Through The Use Of High Technology
    • By: Wayne McRoy
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Alchemical Tech Revolution explores the hidden occult agenda behind the "transhumanist" movement. It also identifies seven key "alchemical" ...

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    • How to Keep Hope Alive
    • By: Samuel Cohn
    • Narrated by: Jay Webb
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope....

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    • A Beginner's Guide to Life in the Space Age
    • By: Kellie Gerardi
    • Narrated by: Angie Kane
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Humanity is on an astronomical trajectory and according to aerospace professional and popular science communicator Kellie Gerardi, that future doesn’t rest solely on the shoulders of rocket scientists....

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    • Dispatches from the Socialstructed World
    • By: Marina Gorbis
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, feed ourselves, and go about our lives....

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    • 11 Ideas to Change the World
    • By: Helen Lewis
    • Narrated by: Helen Lewis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From politics to economics, from tech to the study of how we live, things are changing fast. Old certainties are crumbling, and we need new solutions to shake up the status quo and shape the future....

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    • How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life
    • By: Jedediah Bila
    • Narrated by: Jedediah Bila
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Jedediah Bila chronicles her chaotic, confusing, and consuming love-hate relationship with - her cell phone. Stepping back from the whirlwind of texting, social media, and apps, Bila questions how our relationships, character, and sanity have suffered from our dive into the digital abyss....

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