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    • A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
    • By: Jeremy Lent, Fritjof Capra - foreword
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world....

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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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    • John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlen, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
    • By: Alec Nevala-Lee
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers - John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard - who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world....

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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 97 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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    • 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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    • From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
    • By: Moises Naim
    • Narrated by: Matt Kugler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Power is shifting - from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose....

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    • The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
    • By: Michiko Kakutani
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth Michiko Kakutani examines how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril....

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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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    • By: Kevin Kelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology....

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    • How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything - Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
    • By: Jane McGonigal
    • Narrated by: Jane McGonigal
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • World-renowned future forecaster, game designer, and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jane McGonigal gives us the tools to imagine the future without fear....

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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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    • Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
    • By: Sarah Ichioka, Michael Pawlyn
    • Narrated by: Nicola Burgess
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-22
    • Language: English
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    • Spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings; infrastructure; and communities.

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    • What's Next?
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • David Christian is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. With Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future....

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    • The Science of Our Planet
    • By: Johan Rockstrom, Owen Gaffney
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this audiobook presents a vision of "planetary stewardship"—a rethinking of our relationship with our planet—and plots a new course for our future....

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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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    • Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway
    • By: Dan Gardner
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In Future Babble, award-winning journalist Dan Gardner presents landmark research debunking the whole expert prediction industry.....

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    • Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Chris Impey
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Chris Impey conducts listeners across the vast, fast-developing field of astrobiology, surveying the dizzying advances carrying us ever closer to the discovery of life beyond Earth—and the prospect of humans living on another planet....

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