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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
    • By: Margaret J. Wheatley
    • Narrated by: Margaret J. Wheatley
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Margaret Wheatley proposes that citizens band together with their colleagues and friends to create the solutions for social change....

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    • The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
    • By: John Elkington, Paul Polman - foreword
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Green Swans is a manifesto for system change designed to serve people, planet, and prosperity. In his 20th book, John Elkington - dubbed the "Godfather of Sustainability" - explores new forms of capitalism fit for the 21st century....

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    • Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already...
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award-winning author Jim Al-Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking discoveries....

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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 776 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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    • A Hopeful View of the Human Future
    • By: Gerard K. O'Neill
    • Narrated by: Lawrence Tobias
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The long-awaited audio version of the seminal book by legendary space pioneer, Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill, credited with inspiring the likes of Jeff Bezos, Peter Diamandis, and Dylan Taylor....

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    • Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things
    • By: David Rose
    • Narrated by: Corey Brill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • In the tradition of Who Owns the Future? and The Second Machine Age, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs and improve our lives....

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    • Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?
    • By: Yorick Wilks
    • Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
    • Series: Hot Science Series
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies, and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works....

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    • Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
    • By: Madeline Ostrander
    • Narrated by: Madeline Ostrander
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live....

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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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    • 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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    • Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?
    • By: Duane Elgin
    • Narrated by: Robin Haynes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The author of the classic best seller shows how an exciting, new understanding of the nature of the universe has far-reaching implications....

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    • A Natural History of Foresight
    • By: Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, Adam Bulley
    • Narrated by: Philip Battley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • How the Most Innovative Species Became the Most Dangerous
    • By: Peter Russell
    • Narrated by: Peter Russell
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • We are the most innovative species in the universe. We have created amazing things, from the wheel to the internet. But our innovation has also made us dangerous....

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    • A Futurist’s Insights into the Potential of Our World as Technology and Humanity Collide
    • By: Dr. Catherine Ball
    • Narrated by: Dr. Catherine Ball
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Multi-award-winning scientific futurist Dr. Catherine Ball presents insights into how technology and science are providing answers to many of the challenges the world is facing today....

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    • Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate
    • By: Newt Gingrich
    • Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Best-selling author Newt Gingrich proposes a bold vision ofthe future: America is on the cusp of a renaissance....

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    • The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
    • By: Herman Narula
    • Narrated by: Herman Narula
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • “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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