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What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already... by Jim Al-Khalili

What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already...: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already... audiobook runs 7.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Pete Cross (about 5.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.7listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

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1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.7 hours, it is shorter than 54% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already... is an audiobook by Jim Al-Khalili: a 7.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Pete Cross, released April 17, 2018, on the Social Science and Lessons in Philosophy shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.7 hrs
Narrated by
Pete Cross
Released
April 17, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science, Lessons in Philosophy
ISBN
9781666607253

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How long is the What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already... audiobook?

What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already... runs 7.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.1 hours.

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Who narrates What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already...?

What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already... is narrated by Pete Cross.