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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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
    • By: Johan Norberg
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
    • By: Bill McKibben
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Bill McKibben - foreword
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 334 ratings
    • Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now, he broadens the warning: The entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out....

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    • Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
    • By: Jonathan Crary
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Refusing the digital world of late capitalism....

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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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    • 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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    • AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
    • By: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In I, Human psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic offers a guide for reclaiming ourselves in a world in which most of our decisions will be made for us. To do so, we'll need to double down on what makes us so special while relying on the lost virtues of empathy, humility, and self-control....

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    • The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
    • By: Herman Narula
    • Narrated by: Herman Narula
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • “A fascinating, provocative case that the metaverse will not merely transform our virtual experience—it may actually enrich the quality of our lives” (Adam Grant)—from the visionary co-founder of one of today’s most innovative technology companies....

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    • The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolitical landscape, and the nature of our response to it will determine much of our future trajectory....

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    • What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
    • By: Bradley Garrett
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • “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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    • Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
    • By: Rebecca D. Costa
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve? Rebecca Costa confronts - and offers a solution to - that question....

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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 22 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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    • 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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    • 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 5 ratings
    • Bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation....

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