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    • How We Became a Victim of Our Own Success
    • By: Ross Douthat
    • Narrated by: Ross Douthat
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 601 ratings
    • From the New York Times columnist and best-selling author of Bad Religion comes a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure, and private despair.

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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 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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    • 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 58 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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    • Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Michael Dowd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • The future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion....

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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 Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
    • By: Michael R. Drew, Roy H. Williams
    • Narrated by: Roy H. Williams, Michael R. Drew
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable....

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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 211 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 131 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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    • 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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    • By: Alvin Toffler
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today's despair...a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials....

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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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    • The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
    • By: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation....

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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 412 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 View from the Future
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
    • Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature....

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    • A Universal Transhumanist Invitation (Transpolitica, Book 4)
    • By: David Wood
    • Narrated by: David W. Wood
    • Series: Transpolitica, Book 4
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Beyond the fear and chaos of contemporary life, there is good news to share. A new era is at hand: the era of sustainable superabundance. In this era, the positive potential of humanity can develop in truly profound ways....

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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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