Future Philosophy

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    • A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
    • By: Sallie Tisdale
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like....

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    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • By: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57,648 ratings
    • Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

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    • Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
    • By: Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors....

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    • A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,075 ratings
    • The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death, with Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears....

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    • Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Toby Ord
    • Narrated by: Toby Ord
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 653 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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    • Eight Exercises in Political Thought
    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy....

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    • A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
    • By: Marcelo Gleiser
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Award-winning astronomer and physicist Marcelo Gleiser calls for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change....

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    • The Future of Teaching and Learning
    • By: Ken Bain
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Education expert and best-selling author Ken Bain tells the fascinating story of enterprising college, graduate school, and high school teachers who are using evidence-based approaches to spark deeper levels of learning, critical thinking, and creativity....

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    • How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
    • By: Michio Kaku
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,659 ratings
    • Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100....

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    • The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    • By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

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    • The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
    • By: Andrew Maynard
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society....

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    • Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 556 ratings
    • In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and blind acceptance of Christian premises....

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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 1,014 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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    • Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
    • By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Otto Sharp
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Introducing "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche—the transformative audiobook that will challenge your perspective, ignite intellectual curiosity, and awaken the philosopher within....

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    • Prospects for Humanity
    • By: Martin Rees
    • Narrated by: Martin Rees, Samuel West
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Rich with fascinating insights into cutting-edge science and technology, On the Future is a provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and best-selling author Martin Rees....

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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 437 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 Science Behind the Headlines
    • By: Richard A. Muller
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....

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    • What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
    • By: Dr. Steven Novella, Bob Novella - contributor, Jay Novella - contributor
    • Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human....

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    • Brain Science and the Future of Education
    • By: Glenn Whitman, Ian Kelleher
    • Narrated by: Peter Coates
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Neuroteach will help solve the problem teachers and school leaders have in knowing how to bring the growing body of educational neuroscience research into the design of their schools, classrooms, and work with each individual student.

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