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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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    • Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
    • By: Marcus du Sautoy
    • Narrated by: Rich Keeble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt, enrich, and transform our understanding of what it means to be human....

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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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    • How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
    • By: J.B. MacKinnon
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping....

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    • Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
    • By: Rob Hopkins
    • Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it....

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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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    • Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
    • By: Johan Norberg
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive....

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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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    • A New Story
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 206 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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    • By: Patrick Wood
    • Narrated by: Patrick M. Wood
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Technocracy wants to rule the earth in a panopticon of scientific dictatorship. Transhumanists want to live forever and become omniscient. Both are mechanistic systems that see nature as something to be studied, manipulated, and conquered....

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    • Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?
    • By: Yorick Wilks
    • Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
    • Series: Hot Science Series
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies, and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works....

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    • Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
    • By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • The digital age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive....

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    • The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
    • By: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation....

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    • The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal
    • By: Tan Le
    • Narrated by: Tan Le
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Brain science is at the dawn of a new era - and the technologies emerging as a result could forever alter what it means to be human. Welcome to what tech pioneer and inventor Tan Le calls “the NeuroGeneration.” It will blow your mind....

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    • By: Byron Reese
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 404 ratings
    • As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, robotics, and their extraordinary implications for our species....

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