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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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    • 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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    • A History
    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • The Future of War is filled with insight and fascinating nuggets of military history and culture from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation....

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    • How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World
    • By: Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg, Neal Stephenson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can....

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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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    • What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
    • By: Dr. Steven Novella, Bob Novella - contributor, Jay Novella - contributor
    • Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human....

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    • Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 722 ratings
    • From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death....

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    • Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self....

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    • John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlen, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
    • By: Alec Nevala-Lee
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers - John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard - who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world....

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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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    • 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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    • How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
    • By: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • The Emerging Crisis in Europe
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk, George Friedman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 753 ratings
    • This provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints - particularly in Europe - in which imminent future conflicts are brewing....

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    • How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
    • By: Michael Saylor
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it....

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    • By: Kevin Kelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology....

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    • A New Story
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction....

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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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