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How Will the World End?
- By: David Brin
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 44 mins
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Historians have long studied how civilizations rise and fall. But today it isn't just social collapse that makes thoughtful people fret but a potential end to everything. From nuclear war to ecological disaster to rocks from the sky all the way to luring unfriendly interest from "others" out there, science has shed light on myriad ways to fail. To tumble back down into entropy. So, want to have some fun listing and weighing all the ways (that we know) the universe could have it in for us?
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Gloom and Doom from a Science Fiction Great
- By Jeff Koeppen on 01-28-23
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How Will the World End?
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 09-07-16
- Language: English
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Three Cheers for the Surveillance Society
- By: David Brin
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 39 mins
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Surveillance. It is used by every tyranny to lock in place an uneven arrangement of power. When the mighty know all about you but common folk know little in reverse, then without accountability you can only have despotism, as shown by 6,000 years of recorded history. But new technologies do not have to lock in perpetual Big Brother. The spread of tools like cheap cameras and instant sharing might lead to the antidote against Big Brother. That is, if we learn the lessons taught by both history and science.
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An essay by the man who wrote "Earth" decades ago
- By T. Anderson on 08-05-18
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Three Cheers for the Surveillance Society
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 09-07-16
- Language: English
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Singularity and Nightmares
- By: David Brin
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 59 mins
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Technology has given average humans far more health and wealth and freedom of action than ever. New gifts spill forth at an accelerating pace as the sheer amount that we know rockets beyond our ability to process. This acceleration has some pondering a looming singularity - an approaching time of transition, spurred in part by new kinds of artificial intelligence - that could make the year 2050 as strange to us as a cave dweller would find our modern cities. Are these extrapolations well based?
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The Singularity Cometh
- By Jeff Koeppen on 03-02-23
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Singularity and Nightmares
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 09-07-16
- Language: English
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Do We Really Want Immortality?
- By: David Brin
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 35 mins
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Today, a fresh crop of true believers, including brilliant scientists, view death itself as a problem to be solved. Are they fantasizing? What are the prospects and problems and unforeseen side effects of longer life spans?
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Interesting Perspectives on Immortality
- By Jeff Koeppen on 02-10-23
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Do We Really Want Immortality?
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 35 mins
- Release date: 09-07-16
- Language: English
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Is the Web Helping Us Evolve?
- By: David Brin
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 27 mins
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Let's zoom in to the Internet, that magnificent new world for latter-day explorers, so much more vast than any realm discovered by Columbus or Magellan. Zealous enthusiasts point to how much more knowledge the average person can access, predicting better students, better workers, better minds and citizenship. Pessimists perceive a dumbing down that spread users too thin, resulting in shallowness that could be lethal to politics, to clear thinking. Is Google making us stupid? Let's weigh the evidence.
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A little more context needed
- By Gael Dalton on 01-14-18
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Is the Web Helping Us Evolve?
- Narrated by: David Brin
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 09-07-16
- Language: English
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