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    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,720 ratings
    • Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future....

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    • Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 764 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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    • A Brief History of Tomorrow
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Sapiens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27,030 ratings
    • Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....

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    • Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
    • By: Nate Silver
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,057 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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    • What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
    • By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • 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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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 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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    • How Prosperity Evolves
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,453 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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    • Uncovering the Great Reset's Terrifying Next Phase (The Great Reset Series)
    • By: Glenn Beck, Justin Trask Haskins
    • Narrated by: Glenn Beck
    • Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • At important meetings in 2021 and 2022, powerful leaders from government, finance, media, and business who support the World Economic Forum’s plan for a Great Reset of capitalism launched a new “call to action” titled the “Great Narrative”....

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    • The Art and Science of Prediction
    • By: Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,802 ratings
    • From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions....

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    • Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
    • By: Peter Turchin
    • Narrated by: Robin McAlpine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 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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    • A Guide for Thinking Humans
    • By: Melanie Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 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 Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016 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 Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
    • By: Mo Gawdat
    • Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 365 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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    • A Forecast for the 21st Century
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,314 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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    • How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    • Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,197 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....

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    • 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 539 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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    • The Future Is Better Than You Think
    • By: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Authors Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years....

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