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The Precipice
- Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
- By: Toby Ord
- Narrated by: Toby Ord
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....
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The 80000hours website is better
- By Cristi on 08-06-20
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The Precipice
- Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: Toby Ord
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-24-20
- Language: English
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This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....
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Our Next Reality
- 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
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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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Worthy Prophets Explore our AI & XR Powered Future
- By Scott Pollack on 03-24-24
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Our Next Reality
- How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-05-24
- Language: English
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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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The Inevitable
- Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- By: Kevin Kelly
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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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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Predicting is hard, especially about the future
- By Michael on 02-20-17
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The Inevitable
- Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-07-16
- Language: English
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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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What We Owe the Future
- By: William MacAskill
- Narrated by: William MacAskill
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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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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Empty philosophising
- By Oleksandr on 08-25-22
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What We Owe the Future
- Narrated by: William MacAskill
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-16-22
- Language: English
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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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Imaginable
- 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
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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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Fabulous content, INSUFFERABLE narration!
- By Kelly on 05-24-22
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Imaginable
- How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything - Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
- Narrated by: Jane McGonigal
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-22-22
- Language: English
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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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The Age of Spiritual Machines
- When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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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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An optimistic map to technological transcendence
- By Ryan on 03-07-12
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
- When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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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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Utopia for Realists
- How We Can Build the Ideal World
- By: Rutger Bregman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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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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Doesn't address the real question
- By Jen on 07-06-19
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Utopia for Realists
- How We Can Build the Ideal World
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-11-17
- Language: English
- 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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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
- 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
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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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Thin gruel from the rogues
- By James Weisner on 11-27-22
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
- What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-27-22
- Language: English
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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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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
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The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- By Rob on 07-20-18
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-04-14
- Language: English
- The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- By: Klaus Schwab
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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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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Friendly reminding : On August 15th, 1971, the dec
- By steve white on 03-24-21
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-03-17
- Language: English
- 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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But What If We're Wrong?
- 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
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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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Another bad review for the narrator
- By Matty N on 06-13-16
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But What If We're Wrong?
- Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-07-16
- Language: English
- 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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What Technology Wants
- By: Kevin Kelly
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
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This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology....
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Poor Science to Back a Solid Thesis
- By Ted on 11-24-10
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What Technology Wants
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-14-10
- Language: English
- This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology....
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Architects of Intelligence
- The Truth About AI from the People Building It
- By: Martin Ford
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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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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Architects of Intelligence
- By GEORGE D RICE on 01-12-20
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Architects of Intelligence
- The Truth About AI from the People Building It
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-19-19
- Language: English
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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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Futureproof
- 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
- By: Kevin Roose
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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What does it mean to be a human in a world that is increasingly built by and for machines? Technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out a hopeful, pragmatic vision of how people can succeed in the machine age....
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Author is not an expert on the subject
- By Wesley Kotcher on 03-20-21
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Futureproof
- 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-09-21
- Language: English
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What does it mean to be a human in a world that is increasingly built by and for machines? Technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out a hopeful, pragmatic vision of how people can succeed in the machine age....
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The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Paul Geiger
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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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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Excellent concepts; narration detracts a bit
- By Christina P. on 06-03-19
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The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
- Narrated by: Paul Geiger
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-16-15
- Language: English
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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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Best Things First
- By: Bjorn Lomborg
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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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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Wonderful book but mentions constantly a PDF that
- By Georges on 11-13-23
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Best Things First
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-31-23
- Language: English
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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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Physics of the Future
- 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
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Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....
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Interesting Content, Irritating Reader
- By Dirk Turgid on 12-15-11
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Physics of the Future
- How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-15-11
- Language: English
- Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....
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Bunker
- What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
- By: Bradley Garrett
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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“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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Summary had such potential but not worth the time.
- By LegoBlocksAreFun on 07-09-21
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Bunker
- What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-04-20
- Language: English
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“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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2030
- 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
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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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Anti border wall and anti Trump
- By Jim Dupuis on 12-05-20
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2030
- How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-25-20
- Language: English
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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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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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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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I love this author!
- By Tamara Smith on 12-03-17
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-22-17
- Language: English
- 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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