Consumer Society
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
- By: J.B. MacKinnon
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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The economy says we must always consume more. The planet says we consume too much. Addressing this paradox head-on, acclaimed journalist J. B. MacKinnon asks, What would really happen if we simply stopped shopping? Is there a way to reduce our consumption to Earth-saving levels without triggering economic collapse? Drawing from experts in fields ranging from climate change to economics, MacKinnon investigates how living with less would change our planet, our society, and ourselves. Along the way, he reveals just how much we stand to gain.
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Thought Provoking
- By Tyler on 06-29-24
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-25-21
- Language: English
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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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The Unintended Consequences of Technology
- Solutions, Breakthroughs, and the Restart We Need
- By: Chris Ategeka
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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In The Unintended Consequences of Technology: Solutions, Breakthroughs and the Restart We Need, accomplished tech entrepreneur Chris Ategeka delivers an insightful and eye-opening exploration of the challenges and the opportunities at the intersection of technology, society, and our planet.
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The Unintended Consequences of Technology
- Solutions, Breakthroughs, and the Restart We Need
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-08-22
- Language: English
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In The Unintended Consequences of Technology, accomplished tech entrepreneur Chris Ategeka delivers an insightful and eye-opening exploration of the challenges and the opportunities at the intersection of technology, society, and our planet....
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The Wisdom of Crowds
- Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
- By: James Surowiecki
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant. Groups are better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
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An Excellent Read !!!
- By Roman on 06-05-04
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The Wisdom of Crowds
- Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-19-04
- Language: English
- In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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The Mobile Wave
- How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
- By: Michael Saylor
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it. Saylor explains that the current generation of mobile smart phones and tablet computers has set the stage to become the universal computing platform for the world. In the hands of billions of people and accessible anywhere and anytime, mobile computers are poised to become an appendage of the human being and an essential tool for modern life.
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Commonplace knowledge peppered with buzzwords
- By Amazon Customer on 10-22-13
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The Mobile Wave
- How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-20-13
- Language: English
- The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it....
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Who Can You Trust?
- How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
- By: Rachel Botsman
- Narrated by: Caroline Baum
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust - far from it. Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest social transformations in human history. A new world order is emerging: We might have lost faith in institutions and leaders, but millions of people rent their homes to total strangers, exchange digital currencies, or find themselves trusting a bot. This is the age of "distributed trust", a paradigm shift driven by innovative technologies that are rewriting the rules....
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Very insightful
- By David L. Jones on 12-17-17
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Who Can You Trust?
- How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
- Narrated by: Caroline Baum
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-14-17
- Language: English
- From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust - far from it. This is the age of "distributed trust"....
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The Revenge of Analog
- Real Things and Why They Matter
- By: David Sax
- Narrated by: David Sax
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top 10 books of 2016. A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once looked outdated, from film photography to brick-and-mortar retail, are now springing with new life. Notebooks, records, and stationery have become cool again.
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Late to the party and heavily padded.
- By Phil Queeg on 12-25-16
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The Revenge of Analog
- Real Things and Why They Matter
- Narrated by: David Sax
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 11-08-16
- Language: English
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One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top 10 books of 2016. A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed....
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The Wisdom of Crowds
- Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
- By: James Surowiecki
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant. Groups are better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
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great discourse on group dynamics....
- By Hamad on 08-12-04
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The Wisdom of Crowds
- Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-20-04
- Language: English
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In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go
- Stories
- By: Cleo Qian
- Narrated by: Jeena Yi, Michelle H. Lee, Mirai
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today. A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend’s abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others’ bodies after her double eyelid surgery; reunited schoolmates are drawn into the Japanese mountains to participate in an uncanny social experiment; a supernatural karaoke machine becomes a K-pop star’s channel for redemption. In every story, characters refuse dutiful, docile stereotypes.
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Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go
- Stories
- Narrated by: Jeena Yi, Michelle H. Lee, Mirai
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-15-23
- Language: English
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The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today....
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Renaissance Nation
- How the Pope's Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland
- By: David McWilliams
- Narrated by: David McWilliams
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world. Characteristically brilliant and timely, Renaissance Nation is a thrilling account of Ireland’s vertiginous rise and a timely exploration of its conflicted present, where stark decisions await the next generation of would-be revolutionaries.
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An analysis for posterity
- By Diarmuid McSweeney on 09-04-24
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Renaissance Nation
- How the Pope's Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland
- Narrated by: David McWilliams
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-21-19
- Language: English
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In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world....
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I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works
- Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
- By: Nick Bilton
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs
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Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? Both visionary and practical, I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works captures the zeitgeist of an emerging age, providing the understanding of how a radically changed media world is influencing human behavior.
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Good for Initial Reading
- By Roy on 10-10-10
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I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works
- Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 09-14-10
- Language: English
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Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? Listen to find out more....
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Data-ism
- The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
- By: Steve Lohr
- Narrated by: Steve Lohr
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution. Today data is the vital raw material of the information economy. The explosive abundance of this digital asset, more than doubling every two years, is creating a new world of opportunity and challenge. Data-ism is about this next phase, in which vast, Internet-scale data sets are used for discovery and prediction in virtually every field. It is a journey across this emerging world with people, illuminating narrative examples, and insights.
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More business case than serious analysis
- By Godfried Gubbels on 06-03-15
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Data-ism
- The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
- Narrated by: Steve Lohr
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-10-15
- Language: English
- Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times, chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies....
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- By: J.B. Mackinnon
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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The planet says we consume too much: in North America, we burn the Earth's resources at a rate five times faster than they can regenerate. And despite our efforts to "green" our consumption - by recycling, increasing energy efficiency, or using solar power - we have yet to see a decline in global carbon emissions.
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-18-21
- Language: English
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The planet says we consume too much: in North America, we burn the Earth's resources at a rate five times faster than they can regenerate. And despite our efforts to "green" our consumption, we have yet to see a decline in global carbon emissions....
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World Development Report 2015
- Mind, Society, and Behavior
- By: World Bank
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins, Helen Clapp, Lisa HammGreenawalt, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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This newly launched report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.
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World Development Report 2015
- Mind, Society, and Behavior
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins, Helen Clapp, Lisa HammGreenawalt, Michael Pearl
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-17-15
- Language: English
- This newly launched report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments....
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The Renaissance Society
- By: Rolf Jensen, Mika Aaltonen
- Narrated by: Eli Woods
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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According to futurists Rolf Jensen and Mika Aaltonen, we are currently "between dreams". We've managed to achieve many of our material goals, only to face ever-growing global competition in an ever-slowing economy. Here's the good news: With the rise of social media and online resources, consumers are growing more powerful. Individuals are exploring more options. And smart businesses are discovering more ways to appeal to this powerful new community. Welcome to The Renaissance Society.
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The Renaissance Society
- Narrated by: Eli Woods
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-21-21
- Language: English
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Jensen and Aaltonen's razor-sharp predictions offer a much-needed heads up - and a major head-start - for your future success. You'll explore revolutionary ways in which the individual's role will shift from consumer to creator....
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The Renaissance Society
- By: Rolf Jensen, Mika Aaltonen
- Narrated by: Eli Woods
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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According to futurists Rolf Jensen and Mika Aaltonen, we are currently "between dreams". We've managed to achieve many of our material goals, only to face ever-growing global competition in an ever-slowing economy. Here's the good news: With the rise of social media and online resources, consumers are growing more powerful. Individuals are exploring more options. And smart businesses are discovering more ways to appeal to this powerful new community. Welcome to The Renaissance Society.
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The Renaissance Society
- Narrated by: Eli Woods
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-21-21
- Language: English
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Jensen and Aaltonen's razor-sharp predictions offer a much-needed heads up - and a major head-start - for your future success. You'll explore revolutionary ways in which the individual's role will shift from consumer to creator....
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Inside Marketing
- Practices, Ideologies, Devices
- By: Detlev Zwick, Julien Cayla
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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The intensification of marketing in recent years has led the public to become much more aware of its role as consumers. Yet, the increased visibility of marketing materials and associated messages in everyday life is in contrast with the often little-understood inner workings of the marketing profession itself, despite the widespread recognition of marketers as key agents in shaping the face of global capitalism. Inside Marketing offers a theoretically informed critical perspective on contemporary marketing practice and its growing cultural, economic, and political influence.
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Inside Marketing
- Practices, Ideologies, Devices
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 04-23-19
- Language: English
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The increased visibility of marketing materials and associated messages in everyday life is in contrast with the often little-understood inner workings of the marketing profession itself, despite the widespread recognition of marketers as key agents in shaping global capitalism....
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Finding Quiet
- The Story of a Girl who has remained true to Herself
- By: Julyen Rose
- Narrated by: Julyen Rose
- Length: 34 mins
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Jennifer was born in 1997, when the consumer society had reached a golden age. She was born in a city that was being built on top of a valley that was a beautiful example of the gifts that Mother Nature presented to us. Jennifer's father had become addicted to heroin, while Jennifer's mother was struggling to make enough money to survive since she worked a retail job that only paid minimum wage.
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Finding Quiet
- The Story of a Girl who has remained true to Herself
- Narrated by: Julyen Rose
- Length: 34 mins
- Release date: 10-05-19
- Language: English
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Jennifer was born in 1997, when the consumer society had reached a golden age. She was born in a city that was being built on top of a...
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