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    • By: Alvin Toffler
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization and illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today....

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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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    • 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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    • Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
    • By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 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 217 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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    • 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: Byron Reese
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 404 ratings
    • As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, robotics, and their extraordinary implications for our species....

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    • By: Jaron Lanier
    • Narrated by: Pete Simoneilli
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Who Owns the Future? is a visionary reckoning with the effects network technologies have had on our economy....

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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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    • 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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    • America's Coming Demographic Disaster
    • By: Jonathan V. Last
    • Narrated by: Jonathan V. Last
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded? For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation....

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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 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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    • 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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    • Why We Should Be Optimistic
    • By: John Hands
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultimate destiny....

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    • What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will
    • By: Robert J. Marks
    • Narrated by: Larry Nobles
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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