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  • What We Owe the Future Audiobook By William MacAskill cover art

    • What We Owe the Future

    • 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 756 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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  • Hospicing Modernity Audiobook By Vanessa Machado de Oliveira cover art

    • Hospicing Modernity

    • 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 34 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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  • The Inevitable Audiobook By Kevin Kelly cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,643 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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  • The Skeptics' Guide to the Future Audiobook By Dr. Steven Novella, Bob Novella - contributor, Jay Novella - contributor cover

    • 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
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 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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  • Our Next Reality Audiobook By Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg, Neal Stephenson - foreword cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • 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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  • Collapse Audiobook By Jared Diamond cover art

    • Collapse

    • 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 1,679 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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  • The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible Audiobook By Charles Eisenstein cover art

    • The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Paul Geiger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 547 ratings

    • 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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  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution Audiobook By Klaus Schwab cover art

    • The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    • 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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  • Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Audiobook By Fareed Zakaria cover art

    • Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

    • 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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  • The Ascent of Humanity Audiobook By Charles Eisenstein cover art

    • The Ascent of Humanity

    • 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 129 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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  • Utopia for Realists Audiobook By Rutger Bregman cover art

    • Utopia for Realists

    • How We Can Build the Ideal World
    • By: Rutger Bregman
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,730 ratings
    • 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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  • But What If We're Wrong? Audiobook By Chuck Klosterman cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,444 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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  • Future Shock Audiobook By Alvin Toffler cover art

    • Future Shock

    • 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 80 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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  • The Age of Spiritual Machines Audiobook By Ray Kurzweil cover art

    • The Age of Spiritual Machines

    • 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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  • Physics of the Future Audiobook By Michio Kaku cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 03-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,656 ratings
    • Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....

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  • What Technology Wants Audiobook By Kevin Kelly cover art

    • What Technology Wants

    • 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 505 ratings
    • This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology....

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  • Empty Planet Audiobook By Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson cover art

    • Empty Planet

    • The Shock of Global Population Decline
    • By: Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings

    • An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape....

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  • Best Things First Audiobook By Bjorn Lomborg cover art

    • Best Things First

    • 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 14 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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  • The Artificial Intelligence Contagion Audiobook By David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer cover art

    • The Artificial Intelligence Contagion

    • 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 Brief History of the Future Audiobook By Jacques Attali cover art

    • A Brief History of the Future

    • 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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