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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Steven Levy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance31
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Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers.
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It's good background noise
- By kevin on 2022-02-06
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-10
- Language: English
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- Written by: Kara Swisher
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance32
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Now including a new afterword! An instant New York Times bestseller from award-winning journalist Kara Swisher, Burn Book is a “highly readable…bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking” (Booklist, starred review) account of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change...
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Poor baby never got rich with the tech tycoons
- By James on 2024-02-28
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2024-02-27
- Language: English
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Sandy Hook
- An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
- Written by: Elizabeth Williamson
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance18
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Slate, "25 Best Crime Books, Podcasts, and Documentaries of All Time" Vanity Fair’s “Books We Can't Stop Thinking About” Carnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist 2023 The Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Publishers Weekly Best Books 2022 Kirkus Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Slate...
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Not what I expected.
- By Kim R on 2025-07-31
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Sandy Hook
- An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-08
- Language: English
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- Written by: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrated by: Caroline Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance18
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The story of humanity is the story of textiles - as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world.
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Informative and thought provoking
- By Meera on 2025-11-30
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- Narrated by: Caroline Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-17
- Language: English
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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- Written by: Ryan North
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE “Comic book fans will fall hard for this delightfully daffy guidebook. . . . Exuberant, optimistic, and just plain fun, How to Take Over the World will both surprise and delight.” —Esquire A book this informative should be a crime! Taking...
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Not as fun as How to Invent Everything
- By Dean Johnston on 2025-04-04
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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-15
- Language: English
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The Shallows
- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- Written by: Nicholas Carr
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance40
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Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the internet is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
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Didn't need to be a book
- By Steve on 2020-09-14
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The Shallows
- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2010-06-10
- Language: English
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Rewiring Democracy
- How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
- Written by: Bruce Schneier, Nathan E. Sanders
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In this advisedly optimistic book, Rewiring Democracy, security technologist Bruce Schneier and data scientist Nathan Sanders cut through the AI hype and examine the myriad ways that AI is transforming every aspect of democracy—for both good and ill. The authors describe how the sophistication of AI will fulfill demands from lawmakers for more complex legislation, reducing deference to the executive branch and altering the balance of power between lawmakers and administrators
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Rewiring Democracy
- How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-21
- Language: English
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Written by: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-23
- Language: English
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The Breath of the Gods
- The History and Future of the Wind
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires...
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The Breath of the Gods
- The History and Future of the Wind
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-18
- Language: English
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Elon Musk
- Written by: Walter Isaacson, Walter Isaacson - introduction
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall458
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Performance358
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The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years...
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Future King of Mars, Inventor of Car Farts!
- By michael smith on 2023-09-12
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Elon Musk
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-12
- Language: English
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Console Wars
- Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
- Written by: Blake J. Harris
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall137
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Performance122
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and...
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Fantastic!
- By CORTL on 2018-09-19
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Console Wars
- Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2014-05-13
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- Written by: Joseph Menn
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Joseph Menn
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance24
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The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our freedom, “a hugely important piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping the internet age” (The New York Times Book Review) Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest...
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Hard to get into
- By Blair C. on 2019-11-06
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Joseph Menn
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-04
- Language: English
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The Coming Wave
- AI, Power, and Our Future
- Written by: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
- Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance40
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO...
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Pretty good
- By Anonymous on 2023-12-17
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The Coming Wave
- AI, Power, and Our Future
- Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-05
- Language: English
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Hello World
- Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
- Written by: Hannah Fry
- Narrated by: Hannah Fry
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance53
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Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us on a daily basis. Mathematician Hannah Fry reveals their inner workings, showing us how algorithms are written and implemented, and demonstrates the ways in which human bias can literally be written into the code. By weaving in relatable, real world stories with accessible explanations of the underlying mathematics that power algorithms, Hello World helps us to determine their power, expose their limitations, and examine whether they really are improvements.
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Really level headed book about algorithms
- By Paul R. on 2022-11-25
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Hello World
- Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
- Narrated by: Hannah Fry
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-30
- Language: English
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Future Tense
- Written by: Richard Ayoade, Warwick Davis
- Narrated by: Richard Ayoade, Warwick Davis
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4
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Technology promises to save humanity. How's that working out? In this comedy-science podcast, comedy legends Richard Ayoade (determinedly pessimistic) and Warwick Davis (inexplicably cheerful) venture beneath Audible HQ to the Future Tense lab, fully equipped to interrogate the future we're all being told to look forward to.
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Delightful
- By Tammy on 2025-06-13
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Future Tense
- Narrated by: Richard Ayoade, Warwick Davis
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-05
- Language: English
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Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- Written by: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world...
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A mixed bag
- By Mary-Anne on 2025-11-21
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Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-16
- Language: English
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When the Heavens Went on Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- Written by: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild...
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lots of interesting new information
- By TheDanzing on 2023-08-25
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When the Heavens Went on Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-09
- Language: English
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The Scaling Era
- An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025
- Written by: Dwarkesh Patel
- Narrated by: Dwarkesh Patel
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen. How did we build large language models? How do they think, if they think? What will the world look like if we have billions of AIs that are as smart as humans, or even smarter?
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The Scaling Era
- An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025
- Narrated by: Dwarkesh Patel
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-08
- Language: English
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Written by: Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance7
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An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. 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...
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The Man from the Future
- The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-22
- Language: English
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Thunderstruck
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Bob Balaban
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “irresistible” (The Washington Post) true story of love, murder, and the last moments of the “great hush” before wireless radio connected the world, from the renowned author of The Devil in the White City and The Demon of Unrest “Gripping . . . an...
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Larson's weakest, made weaker by poor narration
- By Heather on 2022-05-30
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Thunderstruck
- Narrated by: Bob Balaban
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2006-10-24
- Language: English
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