Future Studies

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    • Exploring Past Notions of the Future
    • By: Stephen Webb
    • Narrated by: Alex Boyles
    • Series: The Science and Fiction Series
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The intention in this audiobook is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by science fiction and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology....

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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 715 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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    • 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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    • Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World
    • By: James Canton
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A forecast of the most important game-changing trends--and how to manage and profit from them to improve your life....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 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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    • 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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    • How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives
    • By: Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
    • Narrated by: Melissa Edris
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how....

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    • The Reinvention of Spaceflight
    • By: Joe Pappalardo
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Joe Pappalardo has witnessed space rocket launches around the world. In his comprehensive work Spaceport Earth, Pappalardo describes the rise of private companies in the United States and how they are reshaping the way the world is using space for industry and science....

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    • The Science of Our Planet
    • By: Johan Rockstrom, Owen Gaffney
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this audiobook presents a vision of "planetary stewardship"—a rethinking of our relationship with our planet—and plots a new course for our future....

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    • Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
    • By: Rebecca D. Costa
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve? Rebecca Costa confronts - and offers a solution to - that question....

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    • Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • The author of the acclaimed New York Times best seller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world....

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    • A View from the Future
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
    • Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature....

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    • A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
    • By: Roman Krznaric
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme shortsightedness....

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    • Simple Ideas to Solve Our Biggest Problems
    • By: Erik Angner
    • Narrated by: Nikolas Salmon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Economics has the power to make the world a better, happier and safer place: this book shows you how....

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    • Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
    • By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • Joshua Ramo puts forth a radical new model for looking at the world, one that embraces its inherent unpredictability....

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    • A Manifesto for a More Generous World
    • By: Yancey Strickler
    • Narrated by: Yancey Strickler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • A vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life worth living, from the cofounder of Kickstarter....

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    • Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need
    • By: Johanna Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream—and build—better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone....

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    • How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives
    • By: Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
    • Narrated by: Kevin Gray, Laura Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of listeners new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing....

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    • By: Alec Ross
    • Narrated by: Alec Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,050 ratings
    • Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years....

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    • How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow
    • By: Robert B. Laughlin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground....

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