Future Studies

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    • How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....

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    • The Probable Future of Mankind
    • By: H. G. Wells
    • Narrated by: Mark Young
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and...

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    • A Life in Code
    • By: David Auerbach
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are. Bitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer languages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach's imagination....

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    • How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe
    • By: Tobias Baumann
    • Narrated by: Adrian Nelson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Avoiding the Worst, Tobias Baumann lays out the concept of risks of future suffering (s-risks). With a focus on s-risks that are both realistic and avoidable, he argues that we have strong reasons to consider their reduction a top priority....

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    • By: Wang Xiaoping
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-08
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Second Declaration is a fascinating vision of future economies, the development trends of future cultures, and the development trends of future mankind....

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    • Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse
    • By: Theodore Richards
    • Narrated by: Ted Brooks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • These are the end times. We hear this sentiment in one way or another from various sources, from the fundamentalist preacher, to the scientist warning us of climate change. This is a time of economic uncertainty, political oppression, and cultural unraveling....

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    • Roadmap to Abundance, Flourishing, and Transcendence by 2035
    • By: David Wood
    • Narrated by: Craig Bowles
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The 15 years from 2020 to 2035 could be the most turbulent of human history. Revolutions are gathering pace in four overlapping fields of technology: nano, bio, info, and cogno, or NBIC for short....

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    • The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
    • By: William Greider
    • Narrated by: Howard McGillin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In One World, Ready Or Not, William Greider focuses his incomparable reportorial skills on the global economy, which he contends is sowing "creative destruction" everywhere....

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    • Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society
    • By: Theo Priestley, Bronwyn Williams
    • Narrated by: Graham Rowat, Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Featuring contributions from an international array of futurists, The Future Starts Now provides fascinating insights and guidance into how society and business will transform in the years to come....

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    • A Simple Guide to Save a Complex World
    • By: Derek Morrison, Satoshi Nakamoto
    • Narrated by: Michael Curtis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The COVID-19 pandemic was just the first of many disruptions to come. Before year 2030, ecological thresholds will be surpassed, humanity will be fully connected via the internet, social inequalities will reach critical mass, and exponential technologies will become truly “smart”....

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    • Britain Before and After COVID
    • By: Peter Hennessy
    • Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future? Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before corona) and AC (after corona)....

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    • By: Andrew Keen
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society....

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    • Awaking America & The Church
    • By: Paul F. Davis
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • Don't die a premature death or be caught unaware by life's circumstances. Be different and make a difference in the Earth! Guard your heart, live ...

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    • The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society
    • By: Daniel Cohen, Jane Marie Todd - translator
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this revelatory book, economist Daniel Cohen describes how today's postindustrial society is transforming us all into sequences of data that can be manipulated by algorithms from anywhere on the planet....

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    • What America Could Be in the 21st Century
    • By: various
    • Narrated by: Marianne Williamson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Essays by Sarah Ban Breathnach, Deepak Chopra, Anne Lamott, Thomas Moore, James Redfield, Gloria Steinem, Neale Donald Walsch, Gary Zukav, and many others....

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    • Chasing the Arts, Sciences, and Technology for Human Transformation
    • By: Camomile Hixon
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
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    • Imagine a better tomorrow with interstellar essays and art - drawing on the aspirational futurism that fuels Star Trek, The Martian, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, renowned contemporary artist Camomile Hixon reminds us that by reaching for the stars, we can chase....

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    • By: Aldo Schiavone
    • Narrated by: Mike Ortego
    • Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
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    • Does the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgotten....

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    • By: Philip Gardiner
    • Narrated by: Razor Keeves, Dickson Grey
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-18
    • Language: English
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    • For decades, science-fiction writers have amazed us and terrorized us with their portrayal of the world of artificial intelligence - from armies of cyborgs to legions of programmed zombies. Today, we are now living in that future age of robots and artificial intelligence....

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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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