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  • The Precipice cover art

    • The Precipice

    • Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    • Written by: Toby Ord
    • Narrated by: Toby Ord
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

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    • The Coming Wave

    • Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • Written by: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

    • Co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman warns of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and tells us how we might contain them while we have the chance.

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    • How the World Really Works

    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • Written by: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings

    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • Collapse

    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • Written by: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2014-11-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 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 Fourth Turning

    • What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
    • Written by: William Strauss, Neil Howe
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2023-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....

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    • Artificial Intelligence

    • A Guide for Thinking Humans
    • Written by: Melanie Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....

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    • The Signal and the Noise

    • Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
    • Written by: Nate Silver
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2012-09-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings

    • Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....

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    • Scary Smart

    • The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
    • Written by: Mo Gawdat
    • Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • Scary Smart is an insider look at the future not only of technology and AI, but of our species, together with an accessible blueprint for what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself....

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    • The Singularity Is Near

    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • Written by: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

    • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

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    • The Rational Optimist

    • How Prosperity Evolves
    • Written by: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2010-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. The pessimists insist that we will reach a turning point and things will get worse. But they have been saying this for 200 years....

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    • The Next 100 Years

    • A Forecast for the 21st Century
    • Written by: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2009-01-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Grounded in Friedman's unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary trends, The Next 100 Years is a compelling, realistic, and eye-opening portrait of the future....

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    • But What If We're Wrong?

    • Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
    • Written by: Chuck Klosterman
    • Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2016-06-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 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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    • End Times

    • Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
    • Written by: Peter Turchin
    • Narrated by: Robin McAlpine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics Peter Turchin presents the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames....

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    • Physics of the Future

    • How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
    • Written by: Michio Kaku
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2011-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....

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    • 2030

    • How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
    • Written by: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....

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    • The Creativity Code

    • Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
    • Written by: Marcus du Sautoy
    • Narrated by: Rich Keeble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 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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    • Empty Planet

    • The Shock of Global Population Decline
    • Written by: Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 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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    • Lee Kuan Yew

    • The Grand Master’s Insights on China, United States, and the World
    • Written by: Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne
    • Narrated by: Michael McConnohie, Francis Chau
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2013-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage....

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