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    • Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • The author of the acclaimed New York Times best seller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world....

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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 538 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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    • By: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,239 ratings
    • CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold....

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    • Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
    • By: Marcus du Sautoy
    • Narrated by: Rich Keeble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt, enrich, and transform our understanding of what it means to be human....

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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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    • How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society
    • By: Azeem Azhar
    • Narrated by: Azeem Azhar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • From Azeem Azhar, renowned technology analyst and host of the global tech podcast Exponential View, comes a bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data - and our ability to deal with its effects....

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    • By: Rick Joyner
    • Narrated by: Lee Alan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In 2018, I had a dream of a coming second American Revolution/Civil War. In this dream, I saw events that are now unfolding at a rapid pace. I saw the conclusion of our present trauma, and the triumph over the evil that has been subduing our land. I saw how this victory will be accomplished....

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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 60 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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    • Envisioning a Post-Peak World
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Tony Craine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out....

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    • Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
    • By: Yascha Mounk
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • From one of our sharpest political thinkers, a brilliant big-picture vision of how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies.

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    • A Natural History of Foresight
    • By: Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, Adam Bulley
    • Narrated by: Philip Battley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the destiny of the planet in their hands....

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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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    • By: Patrick Wood
    • Narrated by: Patrick M. Wood
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Technocracy wants to rule the earth in a panopticon of scientific dictatorship. Transhumanists want to live forever and become omniscient. Both are mechanistic systems that see nature as something to be studied, manipulated, and conquered....

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    • How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
    • By: J.B. MacKinnon
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping....

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    • 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
    • By: Kevin Roose
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • What does it mean to be a human in a world that is increasingly built by and for machines? Technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out a hopeful, pragmatic vision of how people can succeed in the machine age....

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    • The Shock of Global Population Decline
    • By: Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape....

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    • Life After Capitalism
    • By: Peter Frase
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • By: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology
    • By: Sonia Contera
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale - the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet - and introduces listeners to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies....

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    • A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
    • By: Roman Krznaric
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme shortsightedness....

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