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    • How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    • Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,180 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....

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    • Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
    • By: Nate Silver
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,038 ratings
    • Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....

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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 1,655 ratings
    • Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....

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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 36 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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    • By: William MacAskill
    • Narrated by: William MacAskill
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 759 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 4,644 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,446 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Bjorn Lomborg
    • Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 1,682 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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    • 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 537 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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    • 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 717 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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    • 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 646 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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    • 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
    • By: Kevin Roose
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 256 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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    • 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 82 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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    • What's Next?
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • David Christian is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. With Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future....

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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 71 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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