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What Should My Children Do?

A Human's Guide to the Age of AI

by Daniel Susskind ...

From the author of Growth, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2024, a guide for helping the next generation through an educational world, and a job market, forever changed by AI—as well as for anyone navigating the upheaval in today’s workplaceWe live at an extraordinary technological moment. Every day, it seems, we hear about machines taking on tasks that we thought only human beings would ... Read more

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From the author of Growth, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2024, a guide for helping the next generation through an educational world, and a job market, forever changed by AI—as well as for anyone navigating the upheaval in today’s workplaceWe live at an extraordinary technological moment. Every day, it seems, we hear about machines taking on tasks that we thought only human beings would
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A World Without Work

Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

by Daniel Susskind ...

A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds ... Read more

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A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds
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The Future of the Professions

How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition

by Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind ...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions ... Read more

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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions
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Growth

A History and a Reckoning

by Daniel Susskind ...

Named One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the YearA vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence and made our lives far healthier and longer. Yet prosperity has come at a price: ... Read more

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Named One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the YearA vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence and made our lives far healthier and longer. Yet prosperity has come at a price:
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A World Without Work

Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

by Daniel Susskind ...

Narrated by Daniel Susskind ...

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9 hours 56 min

"An Oxford economics professor, Susskind has a patient delivery that benefits from his authoritative voice and scholarly view of this speculative subject...an important and eye-opening audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine**This program is read by the author.From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it.**From ... Read more

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"An Oxford economics professor, Susskind has a patient delivery that benefits from his authoritative voice and scholarly view of this speculative subject...an important and eye-opening audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine**This program is read by the author.From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it.**From
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Growth

A History and a Reckoning

by Daniel Susskind ...

Narrated by Daniel Susskind ...

Unabridged

10 hours 27 min

Economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities, and destabilizing technologies. Faced with such damage, many now claim that the only way forward is through "degrowth," deliberately shrinking our economic footprint. Instead, Daniel Susskind argues, we ... Read more

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Economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities, and destabilizing technologies. Faced with such damage, many now claim that the only way forward is through "degrowth," deliberately shrinking our economic footprint. Instead, Daniel Susskind argues, we
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What Should My Children Do?

A Human's Guide to the Age of AI

by Daniel Susskind ...

Narrated by Daniel Susskind ...

Unabridged

7 hours

From the author of Growth, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2024, a guide for helping the next generation through an educational world, and a job market, forever changed by AI—as well as for anyone navigating the upheaval in today’s workplaceWe live at an extraordinary technological moment. Every day, it seems, we hear about machines taking on tasks that we thought only human beings would ... Read more

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From the author of Growth, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2024, a guide for helping the next generation through an educational world, and a job market, forever changed by AI—as well as for anyone navigating the upheaval in today’s workplaceWe live at an extraordinary technological moment. Every day, it seems, we hear about machines taking on tasks that we thought only human beings would
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Wayfinding

The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World

by M. R. O'Connor ...

Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way makes us human.In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision―especially since our ... Read more

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At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way makes us human.In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision―especially since our
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Money

The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

by Jacob Goldstein ...

Narrated by Jacob Goldstein ...

Unabridged

5 hours 37 min

**A well-researched and entertaining look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs, from the co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money."Should be required reading." —The New York Times**Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of ... Read more

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**A well-researched and entertaining look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs, from the co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money."Should be required reading." —The New York Times**Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of
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The Scientific Attitude

Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience

by Lee McIntyre ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are ... Read more

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Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are
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The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand ...

Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

Unabridged

15 hours 49 min

A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a ... Read more

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A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a
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Radical Technologies

The Design of Everyday Life

by Adam Greenfield ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Unabridged

12 hours 14 min

Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.We're told ... Read more

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Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.We're told
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