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Hacking Darwin
- Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
- By: Jamie Metzl
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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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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Technology Overview - Good; Policy Discussion - No
- By sct on 05-18-19
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Hacking Darwin
- Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-23-19
- Language: English
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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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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
- 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
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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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Thin gruel from the rogues
- By James Weisner on 11-27-22
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
- What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-27-22
- Language: English
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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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The Decadent Society
- How We Became a Victim of Our Own Success
- By: Ross Douthat
- Narrated by: Ross Douthat
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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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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Another Liberal Arts Intellectual who does not rea
- By Trebla on 03-24-20
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The Decadent Society
- How We Became a Victim of Our Own Success
- Narrated by: Ross Douthat
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-27-20
- Language: English
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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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The Power of Crisis
- How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
- By: Ian Bremmer
- Narrated by: Willis Sparks
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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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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Not a Wonk
- By Linnie Toh on 06-08-22
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The Power of Crisis
- How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
- Narrated by: Willis Sparks
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-17-22
- Language: English
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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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The Creativity Code
- Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
- By: Marcus du Sautoy
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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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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One of the best books I've ever listened to
- By nonrachitect on 12-10-20
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The Creativity Code
- Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-15-19
- Language: English
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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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The Collapse of Western Civilization
- A View from the Future
- By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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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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Good but a tad pedantic
- By bill holck on 02-26-19
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The Collapse of Western Civilization
- A View from the Future
- Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-06-18
- Language: English
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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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The Perennials
- The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
- By: Mauro F. Guillén
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation....
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Paths for Marketers, Less So for Policymakers
- By Angelica Bega on 09-07-23
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The Perennials
- The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-22-23
- Language: English
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Bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation....
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Progress
- Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- By: Johan Norberg
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive....
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Global Uptrends That May Surprise You
- By Alexandra Hopkins on 09-22-17
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Progress
- Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-01-17
- Language: English
- By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive....
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Four Futures
- Life After Capitalism
- By: Peter Frase
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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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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A great read for futurists
- By Anonymous User on 06-23-17
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Four Futures
- Life After Capitalism
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-30-17
- Language: English
- 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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Non-Computable You
- What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will
- By: Robert J. Marks
- Narrated by: Larry Nobles
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? Under the author’s steady and winsome guidance, learn about the exciting possibilities for artificial intelligence, but also hear how many of the heady claims for AI are provably overblown....
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13 hours of Question-Begging
- By Em Hines on 03-21-24
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Non-Computable You
- What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will
- Narrated by: Larry Nobles
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-07-22
- Language: English
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Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? Under the author’s steady and winsome guidance, learn about the exciting possibilities for artificial intelligence, but also hear how many of the heady claims for AI are provably overblown....
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Pendulum
- 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
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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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Fascinating book
- By cbspock on 09-17-16
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Pendulum
- How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
- Narrated by: Roy H. Williams, Michael R. Drew
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-02-12
- Language: English
- 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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The Seventh Sense
- Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
- By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
- Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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The digital age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive....
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Ridiculously Relevant
- By Abhinav on 05-21-16
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The Seventh Sense
- Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
- Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-17-16
- Language: English
- The digital age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive....
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
- Reflections on the End of a Civilization
- By: Roy Scranton
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world....
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Grief Counseling for Civilization
- By Susie on 06-28-16
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
- Reflections on the End of a Civilization
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-23-16
- Language: English
- In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world....
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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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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I love this author!
- By Tamara Smith on 12-03-17
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-22-17
- Language: English
- 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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Dark Age America
- Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
- By: John Michael Greer
- Narrated by: Michael Dowd
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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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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A projection in to a future with less
- By Philomath on 03-26-17
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Dark Age America
- Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
- Narrated by: Michael Dowd
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-15-17
- Language: English
- 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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Bunker
- What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
- By: Bradley Garrett
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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“A kind of apocalyptic Super Size Me” (The Guardian) that is both “page turning and thoughtful” (Financial Times) about “prepper” communities around the world that are building fortresses against an array of threats....
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Summary had such potential but not worth the time.
- By LegoBlocksAreFun on 07-09-21
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Bunker
- What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-04-20
- Language: English
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“A kind of apocalyptic Super Size Me” (The Guardian) that is both “page turning and thoughtful” (Financial Times) about “prepper” communities around the world that are building fortresses against an array of threats....
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The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism
- By: Patrick Wood
- Narrated by: Patrick M. Wood
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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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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Sorry amateur, not professionally produced, and not well written.
- By L. Chouest on 04-25-24
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The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism
- Narrated by: Patrick M. Wood
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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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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The Great Experiment
- Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
- By: Yascha Mounk
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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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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Intellectually honest and optimistic
- By Ed W on 05-30-22
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The Great Experiment
- Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-19-22
- Language: English
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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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Building Tomorrow
- Averting Environmental Crisis with a New Economic System
- By: Paddy Le Flufy
- Narrated by: Patrick Le Flufy
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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In Building Tomorrow, Paddy Le Flufy brings together six organizational technologies being developed and implemented by pioneering experts. Each of them fundamentally redesigns a key element of our economic system....
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Building Tomorrow
- Averting Environmental Crisis with a New Economic System
- Narrated by: Patrick Le Flufy
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
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In Building Tomorrow, Paddy Le Flufy brings together six organizational technologies being developed and implemented by pioneering experts. Each of them fundamentally redesigns a key element of our economic system....
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The Next Decade
- Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
- By: George Friedman
- Narrated by: Bruce Turk
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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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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Jaw-dropping apolitical analysis
- By Amazon Customer on 01-31-11
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The Next Decade
- Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
- Narrated by: Bruce Turk
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-25-11
- Language: English
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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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