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  • The Coming Wave cover art

    • 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 32 ratings

    • We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services.

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 Singularity Is Near cover art

    • 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 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 50 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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    • 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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    • Architects of Intelligence

    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • Written by: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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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 89 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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    • Hospicing Modernity

    • Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
    • Written by: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Narrated by: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2022-01-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • Our Next Reality

    • How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World
    • Written by: Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg, Neal Stephenson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • The Accidental Superpower

    • Ten Years On
    • Written by: Mr. Peter Zeihan
    • Narrated by: Mr. Peter Zeihan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2023-12-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years....

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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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    • The Power of Crisis

    • How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
    • Written by: Ian Bremmer
    • Narrated by: Willis Sparks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 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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    • Flashpoints

    • The Emerging Crisis in Europe
    • Written by: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk, George Friedman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2015-01-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints - particularly in Europe - in which imminent future conflicts are brewing....

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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 55 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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    • The Age of Spiritual Machines

    • When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
    • Written by: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 1999-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil.

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