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    • By: Alvin Toffler
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization and illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today....

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    • Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
    • By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Narrated by: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of....

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    • Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
    • By: Chuck Klosterman
    • Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,448 ratings
    • But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past....

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    • By: William MacAskill
    • Narrated by: William MacAskill
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 767 ratings
    • The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more—or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering....

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    • How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
    • By: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 374 ratings
    • The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....

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    • How We Can Build the Ideal World
    • By: Rutger Bregman
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,736 ratings
    • Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today....

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    • Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
    • By: Kevin Kelly
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,645 ratings
    • From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion....

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    • When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 537 ratings
    • Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the 21st century....

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,688 ratings
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

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    • How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything - Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
    • By: Jane McGonigal
    • Narrated by: Jane McGonigal
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • World-renowned future forecaster, game designer, and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jane McGonigal gives us the tools to imagine the future without fear....

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    • By: Klaus Schwab
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 647 ratings
    • World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution....

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    • Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
    • By: Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization....

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    • How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
    • By: Michio Kaku
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,658 ratings
    • Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....

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    • By: Bjorn Lomborg
    • Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they are failing. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are supposed to be delivered by 2030....

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    • A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
    • By: Jeremy Lent, Fritjof Capra - foreword
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world....

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    • Hot Science
    • By: Bill McGuire
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Series: Hot Science Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide acknowledges that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5°C dangerous climate change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge the arrival of a disastrous, all-pervasive climate breakdown that will come....

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    • A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century
    • By: Jacques Attali
    • Narrated by: Alan Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future....

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    • Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
    • By: Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it....

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    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Paul Geiger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 547 ratings
    • In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling....

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    • How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
    • By: Ian Bremmer
    • Narrated by: Willis Sparks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade....

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