Future Studies

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    • Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 70 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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    • Life After Capitalism
    • By: Peter Frase
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down....

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    • How We Became a Victim of Our Own Success
    • By: Ross Douthat
    • Narrated by: Ross Douthat
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 601 ratings
    • From the New York Times columnist and best-selling author of Bad Religion comes a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure, and private despair.

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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 116 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 Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
    • By: Ian Bremmer
    • Narrated by: Willis Sparks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade....

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    • A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
    • By: Jeremy Lent, Fritjof Capra - foreword
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world....

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    • How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society
    • By: Azeem Azhar
    • Narrated by: Azeem Azhar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • From Azeem Azhar, renowned technology analyst and host of the global tech podcast Exponential View, comes a bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data - and our ability to deal with its effects....

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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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    • By: Kevin Kelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 507 ratings
    • This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • By: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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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 204 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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    • The Emerging Crisis in Europe
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk, George Friedman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 753 ratings
    • This provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints - particularly in Europe - in which imminent future conflicts are brewing....

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    • Reflections on the End of a Civilization
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world....

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    • The End of the World as We Know It
    • By: Mark Steyn
    • Narrated by: Brian Emerson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 775 ratings
    • The Supreme Court deciding that sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state"? The Hollywood Left embracing polygamy? It's the end of the world as we know it....

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    • A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century
    • By: Jacques Attali
    • Narrated by: Alan Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future....

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    • Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Explored
    • By: Bernard Marr
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Best-selling author, strategic business advisor, and respected futurist Bernard Marr explains the role of XR in providing innovative businesses solutions for companies of varying sizes and across different industries....

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    • Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
    • By: Alan Weisman
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the best seller The World Without Us....

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    • The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
    • By: Michiko Kakutani
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth Michiko Kakutani examines how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril....

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    • Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • The author of the acclaimed New York Times best seller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world....

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