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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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    • A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century
    • By: Jacques Attali
    • Narrated by: Alan Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future....

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    • By: Patrick Wood
    • Narrated by: Patrick M. Wood
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Technocracy wants to rule the earth in a panopticon of scientific dictatorship. Transhumanists want to live forever and become omniscient. Both are mechanistic systems that see nature as something to be studied, manipulated, and conquered....

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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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    • Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self....

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    • Emergency Home Preparedness
    • By: S. Lee
    • Narrated by: Todd Eflin
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-23
    • Language: English
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    • This guide will help you make the right decision on whether to stay in your home or leave when disaster strikes by organizing your supplies with items you already have and listing the items you need....

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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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs – An Antidote for Short-Termism
    • By: Ari Wallach
    • Narrated by: Ari Wallach
    • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting manifesto for transforming our thinking from reactionary short-termism to the long-term, widening our scope beyond today, tomorrow, and to even five hundred years from now to reclaim meaning in our lives....

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    • How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity
    • By: Richard Florida
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • History teaches us that these great crises also represent opportunities to remake our economy and society....

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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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    • How to Create a More Human World
    • By: David Sax
    • Narrated by: David Sax
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The beloved author of The Revenge of Analog lays out a case for a human future—not the false technological utopia we've been living....

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    • 6 Capabilities to Prepare Us for an Unimaginable Future
    • By: Jim Selman
    • Narrated by: Shae Hadden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The rate of change is accelerating, the future is increasingly unpredictable, and we're overwhelmed with mind-boggling complexity. We have less and less time to think, less and less time to get in sync with what's happening....

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