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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
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    • 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 Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society
    • By: Daniel Cohen, Jane Marie Todd - translator
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this revelatory book, economist Daniel Cohen describes how today's postindustrial society is transforming us all into sequences of data that can be manipulated by algorithms from anywhere on the planet....

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    • Becoming a Citizen Futurist
    • By: April Reagan
    • Narrated by: April Reagan
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 02-17-22
    • Language: English
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    • Bridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist answers an echoing call for a beginner’s guide to foresight. Drawing from decades of experience in high-tech, April Reagan presents an array of historical information, tools, and research to guide you through an educational journey....

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    • A Simple Guide to Save a Complex World
    • By: Derek Morrison, Satoshi Nakamoto
    • Narrated by: Michael Curtis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The COVID-19 pandemic was just the first of many disruptions to come. Before year 2030, ecological thresholds will be surpassed, humanity will be fully connected via the internet, social inequalities will reach critical mass, and exponential technologies will become truly “smart”....

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    • Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World
    • By: David D. Friedman
    • Narrated by: David Friedman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Future Imperfect describes and discusses technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them....

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    • Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
    • By: Sarah Ichioka, Michael Pawlyn
    • Narrated by: Nicola Burgess
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings; infrastructure; and communities.

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    • How Climate Change Will Cause Floods, Famine, War, and Disease
    • By: Andrew T. Guzman
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications....

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    • How to Grapple with Complexity, Lead with Purpose, and Cultivate Transformative Social Change
    • By: Kari Grain
    • Narrated by: Kari Grain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Hope alone can be transformational - but in moments of despair, or when you’re up against profound injustice, it isn’t enough on its own. Hope without action is, at best, naive. At its worst, it tricks you into giving up the power and agency you have....

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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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    • From Mars to the Stars
    • By: Louis Friedman
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
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    • Human Spaceflight lays out a provocative future for human space travel....

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    • Our Obsession with the Future
    • By: Hal Niedzvieki
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The future is big right now - for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now....

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    • How to Keep Hope Alive
    • By: Samuel Cohn
    • Narrated by: Jay Webb
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope....

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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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    • How Our Digital Dreams Became Societal Nightmares—and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Bill Raduchel
    • Narrated by: Alex Freeman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sixty years ago, legendary economist John Kenneth Galbraith issued a grim prophecy that the global elite would harness the potential of the burgeoning computing revolution to accumulate even more wealth and power....

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