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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Emerging Crisis in Europe
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk, George Friedman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 753 ratings
    • This provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints - particularly in Europe - in which imminent future conflicts are brewing....

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    • Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Amin Maalouf, George Willer - translator
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation....

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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
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
    • By: Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 775 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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    • The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
    • By: Chris Smaje
    • Narrated by: Chris Smaje
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Chris Smaje presents his defense of agroecological, small-scale farming and a robust critique of an industrialized future....

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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 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 69 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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    • The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal
    • By: Tan Le
    • Narrated by: Tan Le
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Brain science is at the dawn of a new era - and the technologies emerging as a result could forever alter what it means to be human. Welcome to what tech pioneer and inventor Tan Le calls “the NeuroGeneration.” It will blow your mind....

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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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    • Making the Future Awesome: How Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Neuralink Are Changing the World
    • By: Randy Kirk, Lars Strandridder, Brian Wang, John Gibbs
    • Narrated by: Bob Dunsworth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Self-driving electric cars! Trips to the Moon and Mars! A world where fossil fuels are no longer needed! An age where humanoid robots will do the dangerous, boring jobs! Welcome to the world that Elon Musk is creating....

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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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