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    • How Climate Change Will Cause Floods, Famine, War, and Disease
    • By: Andrew T. Guzman
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications....

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    • Futurica Trilogy 1
    • By: Jan Söderqvist, Alexander Bard
    • Narrated by: Bert Deivert
    • Series: Futurica Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • History is always written from the perspective of the ruling or rising elite at the time of writing. Concepts like The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, et cetera, were...

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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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    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Bernadette Dunne, Mack Sanderson, John Lescault
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Science history is chock full of world-changing innovations that initially faced skepticism and ridicule for being too unconventional. We take a look at the latest out-of-the-box ideas to tackle today’s biggest challenges, including so-called sponge cities designed to combat flooding....

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    • By: Atul Jalan
    • Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Where Will Man Take Us? explores the changes technology is bringing about in us - as a society and as a species....

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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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    • What the Metaverse Is, and How You Can Become Successful by Investing in It Now
    • By: Timothy Montes
    • Narrated by: Peggy Lee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The pandemic took away many peoples' sense of security and freedom. Between the job lay-offs and confined living, it was only natural to question our tried and tested methods of obtaining financial security....

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    • How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow
    • By: Robert B. Laughlin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground....

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    • The Blueprint for Breakthrough Success in the Digital Era
    • By: Alex Holt
    • Narrated by: Alex Holt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Over the past decade, a small number of companies have changed every aspect of how we live, work and play. These Outpacers have become enormous global businesses....

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    • Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World
    • By: David D. Friedman
    • Narrated by: David Friedman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Future Imperfect describes and discusses technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them....

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    • An Essay
    • By: Julietta Singh
    • Narrated by: Julietta Singh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Breaks is a profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Nick Montfort
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series, Nick Montfort argues that the future is something to be made, not predicted. Montfort offers what he considers essential knowledge about the future, as seen in the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers....

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    • Science and Tech Advances Powering Our Future
    • By: Seeker
    • Narrated by: Olivia Pavco-Giaccia, Maren Hunsberger, Julian Huguet, Trace Dominguez
    • Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Did you know that there is a molecule that may be a key to increasing human lifespans? Learn about this interesting research and more scientific advances powering the future of technology, interstellar exploration, and the human body....

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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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    • Building the Nexus Between Humans and Intelligent Automation
    • By: Terence C.M. Tse, Mark Esposito, Danny Goh
    • Narrated by: Robert Plank
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 07-22-22
    • Language: English
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    • Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Danny Goh have not written a book for coders, but for everyone curious about a future shaped by AI. They demystify this life-changing technology and explain how we can build a shared space where humans and intelligent automation work together....

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    • Our Obsession with the Future
    • By: Hal Niedzvieki
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The future is big right now - for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now....

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