Future Philosophy

John Brockman, editor of This Will Make You Smarter, presents his latest thought-provoking audiobook, featuring insights from leading thinkers such as Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley, and Daniel C. Dennett. Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about - and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. Encompassing neuroscience, economics, philosophy, physics, psychology, biology, and more - here are 150 ideas that will revolutionize your understanding of the world.

Epiphany Z is futurist Thomas Frey’s dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light. Distilling decades of research, experience, and proven success in correctly identifying and accurately extrapolating today’s trends and innovations into tomorrow’s realities, Thomas Frey gives you an advance ticket to the most explosive period of change in all of human history.

The "Starship" we need to transport humanity from primitives to the stars is a society that supports our physical nature—one that promotes reality, reason, and individualism. Technology will follow. JJ Kelly, the former CEO of US Telecom and a recognized founder of the Telecommunications Revolution, points out that humanity rose above animals by evolving the faculty of reason and creating technology.

This is an audiobook about AI and AI risk. But it's also more importantly about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence, and the places that these thoughts are taking them, and what insight they can and can't give us about the future of the human race over the next few years. It explains why these people are worried, why they might be right and why they might be wrong.

The third book in Charles Bowden’s “accidental trilogy” that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death? As humanity moves further into the 21st century, Bowden continues to interrogate our roles in creating the ravaged landscapes and accumulated death that still surround us, as well as his own childhood isolation, his lust for alcohol and women, and his waning hope for a future.

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When Joselin Linder was in her 20s, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of - her father's.

In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These modern utopians predicted that their technologies could transform society as humans mastered the ability to create new worlds, undertook atomic-scale engineering, and, if truly successful, overcame their own biological limits.

Cosa accadrà domani? E nel resto dei nostri giorni? Saremo felici o infelici? Vivremo a lungo oppure no? Da un lato gli esseri umani guardano all'avvenire come a qualcosa di reale, credono che esistano risposte alle loro domande e vogliono conoscerle, magari interpellando indovini, oracoli, profeti. Dall'altro sono convinti di poter modificare con le loro scelte il corso degli eventi: il futuro - si dice - non è scritto! La riflessione sul futuro, che accompagna da sempre la storia dell'umanità, è segnata da questo dilemma.

Com'è cominciata la vita? Come si è evoluta per arrivare fino a noi? Come e perché è stata ricreata in laboratorio? La si può rendere immortale? Sono domande che non possiamo non farci. E a cui la scienza continua a dare risposte nuove e sorprendenti. Nel giro di pochi anni è cambiato tutto; oggi non solo il Dna si può estrarre e sequenziare con risultati assai affidabili ma questi studi aprono prospettive inimmaginabili.

Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research to paint a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education.

Wie schaffen wir es, in einer immer stärker digitalisierten Welt alle Menschen mitzunehmen und für die Herausforderungen der Gegenwart und der Zukunft fit zu machen? Die Expertin für digitale Bildung—Yasmin Weiß—macht deutlich, warum wir dafür lebenslanges Lernen brauchen und wie sich dieses erreichen lässt. Wie es gelingt, diese Berührungsängste abzubauen und eine lernende Gesellschaft zu werden, um wirtschaftlich zukunftsfähig zu bleiben, zeigt dieses Buch.

Explore the ancient art of numerology! This insightful guide explains the basics of this rich and powerful tradition. You’ll learn the history, origins, and types of numerology - and how modern people use them to navigate their lives. With the amazing knowledge in this insightful audiobook, you’ll find out what’s in store for you in the near and far future. With the enjoyable divination practice of numerology, you’ll discover how to create your Numerology Profile and fulfill your life goals!

Whether this is the first or last business audiobook you listen to, you will gain new insights and experience a few epiphanies by the time you finish. I have made the contents of this work to shock you more than the title does, introducing you to an entirely new paradigm.

The Fascism This Time elucidates a psychosocial model of fascism which predicted that Trump’s election would lead to immigrant concentration camps, an assault on democratic institutions, a global increase in authoritarianism, a massive rise in crimes against humanity, and the starvation of Yemen. It is an original and perceptive account tying the fascism this time to the overwhelming challenges with which the world is now faced.

This audiobook explains based on science and facts how you can be the solution to the big crises we will face to cover our basic needs (food, water, health). It’s just a question of time before the next economic crisis. In the coming years, we will all directly suffer from climate change in one way or another including our kids and grandkids. The rich get richer, banks steal from us, while so many don’t even have decent food or health care.... There is an alternative system in which you can lead toward a solution to these crises.

They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military's brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century.

This audiobook puts a future into perspective using texts found in our history's ancient artifacts describing extraterrestrial intervention.

Dennoch ist und bleibt er optimistisch. Herausforderungen haben die Menschen immer wieder gezwungen, zu wachsen und sich in die nächste Phase ihrer Entwicklung zu begeben, indem sie die Paradigmenwechsel, mit denen sie konfrontiert waren, auf mustergültige Weise bewältigten. Wir befinden uns jetzt in einem Abschnitt, in dem wir in eine neue Phase unserer Entwicklung eintreten müssen, und dieses Mal müssen wir gleichzeitig drei kritische Paradigmenwechsel bewältigen:

We are about to enter a new era when the combination of human and artificial intelligence will bring about a paradigm with a potential unseen before. This book is an invitation to delve into the labyrinth of the mind, to challenge preconceived notions, and to embrace the mysticism of awareness in all of its forms.