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    • Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
    • By: Peter Turchin
    • Narrated by: Robin McAlpine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics Peter Turchin presents the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames....

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    • Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
    • By: Kevin Kelly
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,642 ratings
    • From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion....

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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 1,656 ratings
    • Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....

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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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    • 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 645 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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    • By: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,239 ratings
    • CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold....

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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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    • 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 1,676 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: 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 80 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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    • 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 24 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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    • 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 203 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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    • 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 Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
    • By: Dr. Steven Novella, Bob Novella - contributor, Jay Novella - contributor
    • Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human....

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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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    • 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 1,730 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 535 ratings
    • Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the 21st century....

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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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    • Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
    • By: Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it....

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