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    • A Forecast for the 21st Century
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,299 ratings
    • Grounded in Friedman's unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary trends, The Next 100 Years is a compelling, realistic, and eye-opening portrait of the future....

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    • By: William MacAskill
    • Narrated by: William MacAskill
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 756 ratings
    • The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more—or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering....

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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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    • How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World
    • By: Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg, Neal Stephenson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can....

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    • Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
    • By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Narrated by: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of....

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    • Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
    • By: Chuck Klosterman
    • Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,444 ratings
    • But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past....

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,680 ratings
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

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    • By: Klaus Schwab
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
    • World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution....

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    • How We Can Build the Ideal World
    • By: Rutger Bregman
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,733 ratings
    • Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today....

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    • By: Bjorn Lomborg
    • Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they are failing. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are supposed to be delivered by 2030....

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    • How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
    • By: Michio Kaku
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,655 ratings
    • Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....

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    • How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
    • By: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 374 ratings
    • The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....

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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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    • By: Alvin Toffler
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization and illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today....

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    • How We Became a Victim of Our Own Success
    • By: Ross Douthat
    • Narrated by: Ross Douthat
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 601 ratings
    • From the New York Times columnist and best-selling author of Bad Religion comes a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure, and private despair.

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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 69 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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    • Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 717 ratings
    • From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death....

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    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Paul Geiger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 547 ratings
    • In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling....

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    • What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
    • By: Bradley Garrett
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • “A kind of apocalyptic Super Size Me” (The Guardian) that is both “page turning and thoughtful” (Financial Times) about “prepper” communities around the world that are building fortresses against an array of threats....

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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 12 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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