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    • Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
    • By: Margaret J. Wheatley
    • Narrated by: Margaret J. Wheatley
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Margaret Wheatley proposes that citizens band together with their colleagues and friends to create the solutions for social change....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
    • By: George Dyson
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution - and an unsettling vision of what comes next....

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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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    • 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 End of the World as We Know It
    • By: Mark Steyn
    • Narrated by: Brian Emerson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 776 ratings
    • The Supreme Court deciding that sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state"? The Hollywood Left embracing polygamy? It's the end of the world as we know it....

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    • How to Think About the Future
    • By: Hamish McRae
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From one of Europe’s foremost speakers on global trends in economics, business and society comes a bold and illuminating vision of the future....

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    • Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
    • By: Alan Weisman
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the best seller The World Without Us....

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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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    • 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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