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Top Foresight Audio and Audio Sites



Science, Evolution, and Development Audio and Audio Sites



Technology (Engineering, Infotech, Sociotech, Cognotech, Biomedtech) Audio and Audio Sites

Singularity Summit 2007 Podcasts - Artificial Intelligence

The Long Now Foundation: Seminars on long term thinking
Dozens of talks, in MP3 format, about cutting-edge futurist topics - Pajamas


Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Audio and Audio Sites



Economics, Capitalism, Finance, Globalization, and Innovation Infrastructure Audio and Audio Sites

China, Inc.: How the Next Superpower Challenges America & the World, Ted Fishman, 2005
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, Thomas Friedman, 2006



Politics, Security, Democracy, Rights, Health Care, and Sustainability Infrastructure Audio and Audio Sites

The Assault on Reason: The Challenge to American Democracy, Al Gore, 2007



Society (Big): Culture: Society, Ethics, Media, Art, Design, Education, Religion Audio and Audio Sites

Lies My Teacher Told Me: What Your History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen, 2003
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell, 2007
The Wisdom of Crowds: Collective Wisdom in Business and Societies, James Suroweicki, 2004



Society (Med): Org: Mgmt, Org. Innov. & Entrep, Org. Sustainability & Social Responsibility, Org. Dev. Audio and Audio Sites

What If 2?: Top Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, Rob Crowley, 2002 (Unabridged)



Society (Small): Personal: Family, Relationships, Careers, and Lifestyle Audio and Audio Sites

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, Laurence Gonzales, 2004



Multidisciplinary Audios and Audio Sites

Pandora A website that streams music based on which songs you've previously indicated liking. Another step in the automated customization of our internet experience. - Pajamas


Realistic Future Fiction (RFF) Audio and Audio Sites
[Realistic future fiction has major parts which feel like they actually could happen in the future, under the right circumstances. Almost all fantasy stories and most science fiction stories really don't count as realistic--there are exceptions however, and if you think that some particular aspect of a fantasy or SF book feels realistic, include it here and explain why. Realistic future fiction is a subgenre of general or science fiction that feels realistic (it could actually happen) most of the way through, even to critical readers. Well-crafted and highly realistic realistic future fiction is rare, as you can imagine.]

Realistic Singularity Fiction (RSF).
By far the most obvious monumental sci-tech advance looming ahead of us is the arrival of greater than human intelligence, likely within this 21st century. Judith Berman, in "Science Fiction Without the Future," 2001, noted that writing about the coming AI is so difficult (emotionally and intellectually) that most sci-fi writers, and their readers in collusion, have simply abandoned reading or thinking about realistic science fiction, turning to comfortable fantasy instead (e.g., Star Trek and other such impossible but comforting 'space operas'). Nevertheless, there are a handful of efforts that attempt to realistically describe the likely coming emergence of AI, and the implications of an AI world on human beings, in at least a partially plausibile way. We call such fiction RSF.
Here are a few RSF favorites:

Society of the Mind, Eric L. Harry, 1996
Good cyberthriller about increasingly intelligent robots emerging in the decades ahead. Discusses the fascinating question of whether AIs could have mental illness, and one scenario for how that issue might play out. Take it along for your next drive!

Other Realistic Future Fiction
(Student-Submitted, Alpha Order by Title).



Unclassified Audio and Audio Sites
Put below anyaudios, podcasts, or audio sites you recommend but can't easily classify above. We'll classify them later.






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