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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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    • By: Perttu Pölönen
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What will humanity look like in 20 years...in 50? Which skills should we be cultivating in an age of ceaseless technological progress? Finnish inventor, composer, and futurist Perttu Pölönen argues that the next revolution is a human revolution.

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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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    • By: Patrick Henz
    • Narrated by: Candace Roman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Similar to Artificial Intelligence, there is no official universal definition what is, or what is not, the Metaverse. The Metaverse is not the mirror of an already existing physical world, but something completely new....

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    • By: Andrew Keen
    • Narrated by: Tom Pile
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution....

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    • Why We Should Be Optimistic
    • By: John Hands
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultimate destiny....

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    • By: Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Simson L. Garfinkel
    • Narrated by: Camille La'akea Wong
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Simson L. Garfinkel explain the genesis of quantum information science (QIS) and the resulting quantum technologies that are most exciting: quantum sensing, computing, and communication....

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    • By: Rolf Jensen, Mika Aaltonen
    • Narrated by: Eli Woods
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
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    • Jensen and Aaltonen's razor-sharp predictions offer a much-needed heads up - and a major head-start - for your future success. You'll explore revolutionary ways in which the individual's role will shift from consumer to creator....

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    • Anticipating and Managing Cataclysmically Disruptive Technologies
    • By: David Wood
    • Narrated by: David W. Wood
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book is dedicated to what may be the most important concept in human history, namely, the singularity—what it is, what it is not, the steps by which we may reach it, and crucially, how to make it more likely that we’ll experience a positive singularity....

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    • 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years
    • By: Dr Ian Goldin, Dr Robert Muggah
    • Narrated by: Al Weaver
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From the global impact of the coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bush fires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years....

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    • The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • How will we live well in a super-networked, information-soaked, yet predictably irrational world? The only way to know is to understand how the way we think is changing....

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    • The Blueprint for Breakthrough Success in the Digital Era
    • By: Alex Holt
    • Narrated by: Alex Holt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Over the past decade, a small number of companies have changed every aspect of how we live, work and play. These Outpacers have become enormous global businesses....

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    • Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short
    • By: David Archibald
    • Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: 50 years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate. The party is over....

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    • A Tough Love Letter on Taming the Machines That Rule Our Jobs, Lives, and Future
    • By: Paul Roehrig, Ben Pring
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Monster explains how we can responsibly engage with technology, and avoid its darker tendencies, while accepting its necessary gifts....

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    • Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
    • By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Meat Planet explores the quest to generate meat in the lab-a substance sometimes called "cultured meat" - and asks what it means to imagine that this is the future of food....

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    • How AI, the Home Office, and the Gig Economy Are Disrupting the Status Quo
    • By: Gerard Szatvanyi
    • Narrated by: Alan Adelberg
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • What’s coming next for today’s workforce, and the companies behind them? For those eager and willing to adapt, the possibilities are nearly endless, says author Gerard Szatvanyi. Recent advances in technology have led to new trends, and this global transformation holds tremendous potential....

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    • Roadmap to Abundance, Flourishing, and Transcendence by 2035
    • By: David Wood
    • Narrated by: Craig Bowles
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The 15 years from 2020 to 2035 could be the most turbulent of human history. Revolutions are gathering pace in four overlapping fields of technology: nano, bio, info, and cogno, or NBIC for short....

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    • A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End
    • By: Lawrence E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Don't look up. It won't help. You can't get out of the way; you can't dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there's nothing you can do about it....

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    • How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life
    • By: Stephen Leeb, Gregory Dorsey
    • Narrated by: Brian Bascle
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare....

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    • Averting Environmental Crisis with a New Economic System
    • By: Paddy Le Flufy
    • Narrated by: Patrick Le Flufy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • In Building Tomorrow, Paddy Le Flufy brings together six organizational technologies being developed and implemented by pioneering experts. Each of them fundamentally redesigns a key element of our economic system....

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