Future Civilization

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,702 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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    • 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 27,004 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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    • 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 2,451 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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    • Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
    • By: Parag Khanna
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the 21st century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to 10 trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications....

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    • Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self....

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    • The True Story of Mysterious Ethiopia and the Future Ark of Civilization
    • By: Dean W. Arnold
    • Narrated by: Dean W. Arnold
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Unknown Empire offers the little considered thesis that Ethiopia, unknown as a majority Christian nation and the first Christian empire, could be the next epicenter of civilization....

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    • By: Marcus Lynn Dean
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Predicting the future is easy. But which future? The possibilities are endless. The modern world ended in 2051. That was ten years ago, when Tony ...

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    • A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
    • By: James Suzman
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • Leading anthropologist James Suzman presents a revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work....

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    • How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow
    • By: Robert B. Laughlin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground....

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    • A View from the Future
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
    • Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature....

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    • What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
    • By: Jonathan F. P. Rose
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050....

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    • The Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future
    • By: Ian Morris
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • With flair and authority, historian and archaeologist Ian Morris draws uniquely on 15,000 years of history to offer fresh insights on what the future will bring.

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    • Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
    • By: Amitav Acharya
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
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    • The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world.

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    • A Science Fiction Thriller
    • By: Walter J. Livingston
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Marcus has spent his entire life toiling in the shadowy depths of the Lunar mining colony, along with his companions. Their mission? To extract ...

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    • Engineering the Future of Civilization
    • By: John Browne
    • Narrated by: Kris Dyer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • John Browne argues that we need not and must not put the brakes on technological advance. Civilization is founded on engineering innovation; all progress stems from the human urge to make things and to shape the world around us, resulting in greater freedom....

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    • Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
    • By: Alan Weisman
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the best seller The World Without Us....

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    • Reflections on the End of a Civilization
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world....

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    • A Brief History of Tomorrow
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Sapiens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • From the author of the international best seller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explores the future of the human species....

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    • The History and Future of Nature in the City
    • By: Ben Wilson
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Since the beginning of civilization, humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks. In Urban Jungle Ben Wilson looks to the fraught relationship between nature and the city for clues to how the planet can survive....

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