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    • How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same way as cancer does in a body, and like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economics....

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    • Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
    • By: Johan Norberg
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • 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 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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    • Envisioning a Post-Peak World
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Tony Craine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • The industrial age made possible by fossil fuels will surely decline as these fuels run out....

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    • Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
    • By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest....

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    • Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Michael Dowd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • The future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion....

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    • What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will
    • By: Robert J. Marks
    • Narrated by: Larry Nobles
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? Under the author’s steady and winsome guidance, learn about the exciting possibilities for artificial intelligence, but also hear how many of the heady claims for AI are provably overblown....

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    • By: Charles Handy
    • Narrated by: Charles Handy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Britain's leading guru looks to the future. Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought....

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    • Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
    • By: Frank Pasquale
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them - but only through wise regulation....

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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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    • Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
    • By: Alan Weisman
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the best seller The World Without Us....

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    • 11 Ideas to Change the World
    • By: Helen Lewis
    • Narrated by: Helen Lewis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From politics to economics, from tech to the study of how we live, things are changing fast. Old certainties are crumbling, and we need new solutions to shake up the status quo and shape the future....

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    • Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
    • By: Nick Bilton
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 09-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? Listen to find out more....

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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 509 ratings
    • This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology....

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    • How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology
    • By: Sonia Contera
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • 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 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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    • A Universal Transhumanist Invitation (Transpolitica, Book 4)
    • By: David Wood
    • Narrated by: David W. Wood
    • Series: Transpolitica, Book 4
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Beyond the fear and chaos of contemporary life, there is good news to share. A new era is at hand: the era of sustainable superabundance. In this era, the positive potential of humanity can develop in truly profound ways....

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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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