Future Studies
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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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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- By: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them....
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I Hope It's Not All True
- By John on 05-01-16
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-26-16
- Language: English
- This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them....
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Empty Planet
- The Shock of Global Population Decline
- By: Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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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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Spends too long proving his theory
- By Rizzo on 02-22-19
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Empty Planet
- The Shock of Global Population Decline
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
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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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The Mobile Wave
- How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
- By: Michael Saylor
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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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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Commonplace knowledge peppered with buzzwords
- By Amazon Customer on 10-22-13
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The Mobile Wave
- How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-20-13
- Language: English
- 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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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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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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Get Abundance
- Why Your Future Is Brighter Than You Think
- By: Peter Diamandis
- Narrated by: Peter Diamandis
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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How would you like to be the center of a massive outpouring of wealth, innovation, success, and prosperity....
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Some powerful and some well worn ideas
- By Nigel on 05-12-15
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Get Abundance
- Why Your Future Is Brighter Than You Think
- Narrated by: Peter Diamandis
- Series: Nightingale-Conant: Business
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-14-14
- Language: English
- How would you like to be the center of a massive outpouring of wealth, innovation, success, and prosperity....
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Warnings
- Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
- By: Richard A. Clarke, R.P. Eddy
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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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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On prediction, catastrophe and mitigation
- By S. Yates on 02-28-18
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Warnings
- Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
- 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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Falter
- 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
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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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Disappointing
- By M on 07-18-19
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Falter
- Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Bill McKibben - foreword
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-16-19
- Language: English
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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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Scorched Earth
- Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
- By: Jonathan Crary
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Refusing the digital world of late capitalism....
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Astonishing book: a scorched earth critique of how corporations are laying waste to the human life world
- By YoungerHegelian on 06-06-24
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Scorched Earth
- Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-29-22
- Language: English
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Refusing the digital world of late capitalism....
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The Artificial Intelligence Contagion
- 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
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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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Confused About Its Purpose and Premise
- By David on 10-05-20
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The Artificial Intelligence Contagion
- Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 07-16-19
- Language: English
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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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The Invention of Tomorrow
- A Natural History of Foresight
- By: Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, Adam Bulley
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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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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Underwhelming and Repetitive
- By dpwise2000 on 01-02-23
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The Invention of Tomorrow
- A Natural History of Foresight
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-15-22
- Language: English
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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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I, Human
- 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
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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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I just want more
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-23
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I, Human
- AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-28-23
- Language: English
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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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Virtual Society
- The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
- By: Herman Narula
- Narrated by: Herman Narula
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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“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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Bold and thoughtful Vision
- By jason phillip michel on 10-22-22
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Virtual Society
- The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
- Narrated by: Herman Narula
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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“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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Decline and Fall
- 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
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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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Will insist friends & family read this book
- By Paul on 05-14-16
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Decline and Fall
- The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-06-15
- Language: English
- 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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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 Watchman's Rattle
- Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
- By: Rebecca D. Costa
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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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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A Macro Perspective on Complexity and Cognition
- By Roy on 11-05-10
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The Watchman's Rattle
- Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-12-10
- Language: English
- 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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Nano Comes to Life
- How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology
- By: Sonia Contera
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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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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Loved this Book !! CUTTING EDGE SCIENCE
- By Philip Savva on 03-30-23
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Nano Comes to Life
- How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-28-19
- Language: English
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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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The Ecotechnic Future
- Envisioning a Post-Peak World
- By: John Michael Greer
- Narrated by: Tony Craine
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out....
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A possible future?
- By me on 04-08-10
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The Ecotechnic Future
- Envisioning a Post-Peak World
- Narrated by: Tony Craine
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 02-27-10
- Language: English
- The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out....
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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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