Future Studies

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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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    • Beyond the Driverless Car
    • By: Anthony M. Townsend
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A penetrating look at near-future disruption as truly autonomous vehicles arrive....

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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 New Ecology of Knowledge
    • By: Perry Zurn, Arjun Shankar
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Curiosity Studies stages an interdisciplinary conversation about what curiosity is and what resources it holds for human and ecological flourishing. These essays are integrated into four clusters: scientific inquiry, educational practice, social relations, and transformative power....

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    • A Tough Love Letter on Taming the Machines That Rule Our Jobs, Lives, and Future
    • By: Paul Roehrig, Ben Pring
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Monster explains how we can responsibly engage with technology, and avoid its darker tendencies, while accepting its necessary gifts....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Patrick Henz
    • Narrated by: Candace Roman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Similar to Artificial Intelligence, there is no official universal definition what is, or what is not, the Metaverse. The Metaverse is not the mirror of an already existing physical world, but something completely new....

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    • What Today's Trends Mean for Tomorrow's World
    • By: George Barna
    • Narrated by: Jon Gauger
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • There are three types of people when it comes to the future: those who will watch what happens, those who will make it happen, and those who will wonder what happened.

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    • How Our Digital Dreams Became Societal Nightmares—and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Bill Raduchel
    • Narrated by: Alex Freeman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sixty years ago, legendary economist John Kenneth Galbraith issued a grim prophecy that the global elite would harness the potential of the burgeoning computing revolution to accumulate even more wealth and power....

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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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    • 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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    • Understanding and Fighting Through the Coming Emergency
    • By: Thomas J. Pawlick
    • Narrated by: Ivan Sherry
    • Length: 16 hrs
    • Release date: 01-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Almost daily, scientists are sounding dire warnings about the effects of climate change. Our young will bear an unprecedented burden. They are eager to discover what can be done, as time slips away....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Richard Watson, Oliver Freeman
    • Narrated by: Glen McCready
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead....

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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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    • Political Engagement and Saving the Planet
    • By: Barry Jones
    • Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
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    • What Is to Be Done is a long-awaited work from Jones on the challenges of modernity and what must be done to meet them....

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