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When Computing Got Personal
- A History of the Desktop Computer
- Written by: Matt Nicholson
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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This is the story of how a handful of geeks and mavericks dragged the computer out of corporate back rooms and laboratories and into our living rooms and offices. It is a tale not only of extraordinary innovation and vision but also of cunning business deals, boardroom tantrums and acrimonious lawsuits.
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When Computing Got Personal
- A History of the Desktop Computer
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-12
- Language: English
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Fire Eaters
- The People and Aircraft Combatting Wildfires over the Last Century
- Written by: Peter Pigott
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout history, when threatened by wildfires our only defense was to pray for rain and run—until aircraft changed the way we fight fires. Beginning with the Canadian "H-Boats" in 1924, aircraft have become indispensable in detecting and extinguishing wildfires. Fire Eaters tells the incredible stories of the Ontario Provincial Air Service, the first government aerial fire suppression organization in history; one of its pilots, Carl Crossley, who invented the water scoop-up and drop-off system; and the Canadair CL-215, the first purpose-built water bomber.
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Fire Eaters
- The People and Aircraft Combatting Wildfires over the Last Century
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-27
- Language: English
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Abolish Silicon Valley
- How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
- Written by: Wendy Liu
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Innovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What's not to love about Silicon Valley? These days, it's hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Theranos, and the workplace conditions of Amazon workers or Uber drivers. It's becoming clear that the tech industry's promised "innovation" is neither sustainable nor always desirable.
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Abolish Silicon Valley
- How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-28
- Language: English
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Turned On
- Science, Sex and Robots
- Written by: Kate Devlin
- Narrated by: Kate Devlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. With advances in technology come machines that may one day think independently. What will happen to us when we form close relationships with these intelligent systems? Sex robots are here and here to stay, and more are coming. This audiobook explores how the emerging and future development of sexual companion robots might affect us and the society in which we live. It explores the social changes arising from emerging technologies and our relationships with the machines that may someday care for us and about us.
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great book!
- By Sarah on 2018-11-02
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Turned On
- Science, Sex and Robots
- Narrated by: Kate Devlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-18
- Language: English
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AIQ
- How People and Machines Are Smarter Together
- Written by: Nick Polson, James Scott
- Narrated by: Nick Polson, Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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"There comes a time in the life of a subject when someone steps up and writes the book about it. AIQ explores the fascinating history of the ideas that drive this technology of the future and demystifies the core concepts behind it; the result is a positive and entertaining look at the great...
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AIQ
- How People and Machines Are Smarter Together
- Narrated by: Nick Polson, Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- Written by: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
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America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-05
- Language: English
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Measuring America
- Written by: Andro Linklater
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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How we ultimately gained the American Customary System, the last traditional system in the world, and how Gunter's chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. Sagely argued and beautifully written, Measuring America offers readers nothing less than the opportunity to see America's history, and our democracy, in a brilliant new light.
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Measuring America
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2004-02-26
- Language: English
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Hardcore Inventing
- Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Ideas
- Written by: Robert Yanover, Ellie Crowe
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Based on the author’s experience in the world of inventing and promotion, Hardcore Inventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience: how to developing an idea into an invention, how to build a prototype for show, how to safeguard intellectual property, how to market both strategically and in “guerilla" mode, how find investors, and much more. And all of that is based on his IP 3 Tacitical Method which breaks everything down to Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit.
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Dated and lacking modern day relevance
- By JBM on 2023-11-17
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Hardcore Inventing
- Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Ideas
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-23
- Language: English
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Eye of the Beholder
- Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
- Written by: Laura Snyder
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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"See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the scientific revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses and created paintings filled with realistic effects of light and shadow. The hub of this optical innovation was the small Dutch city of Delft.
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Way beyond art
- By RW on 2024-11-03
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Eye of the Beholder
- Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-16
- Language: English
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Roadkill
- Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars
- Written by: Henrietta L. Moore, Arthur Kay
- Narrated by: Beth Parry
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, by Professor Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, explores the philosophical implications of car culture, as well as the practical impacts it has on your money, your taxes, your neighborhood, your planet, your health, and your happiness.
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Roadkill
- Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars
- Narrated by: Beth Parry
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-01
- Language: English
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Growing Up Social
- Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
- Written by: Gary Chapman, Arlene Pellicane
- Narrated by: Chris Fabry
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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In Growing Up Social, Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the necessary tools to make positive changes starting today. Through stories, wit, and wisdom, you’ll discover how to take back your home from an overdependence on screens. Plus, you'll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every healthy child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention.
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Growing Up Social
- Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
- Narrated by: Chris Fabry
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-01
- Language: English
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How to Make Money Online with Microsoft Copilot AI
- A Comprehensive Updated Manual to Elevate Your Productivity with Microsoft 365, Azure AI, Designer, Teams, Power Platform, and Other Tools
- Written by: Brian Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: Tom Brooks
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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Transform your financial future with "How to Make Money Online with Microsoft Copilot AI." This ultimate guide harnesses the power of Microsoft's AI tools to help you generate passive income and thrive in the online business world.
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How to Make Money Online with Microsoft Copilot AI
- A Comprehensive Updated Manual to Elevate Your Productivity with Microsoft 365, Azure AI, Designer, Teams, Power Platform, and Other Tools
- Narrated by: Tom Brooks
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-13
- Language: English
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Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models
- Master Prompt Engineering and Monetize the Power of Language Processing
- Written by: Russell Dawson
- Narrated by: Dan Hamel
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Curious about AI, but unsure how it works? Want to tap into the lucrative potential of this rapidly advancing technology? Unlock the immense potential of AI with this transformative book! Welcome to Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models, the second in a series of books crafted to help you join a movement toward a more financially fruitful future.
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Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models
- Master Prompt Engineering and Monetize the Power of Language Processing
- Narrated by: Dan Hamel
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2025-03-20
- Language: English
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Face with Tears of Joy
- A Natural History of Emoji
- Written by: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in the 2000s, and considers emoji's ever-expanding lexicon. Named for the world's most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji for the first time.
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Face with Tears of Joy
- A Natural History of Emoji
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2025-07-01
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
- Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- Written by: Anthony Townsend
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.
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Smart Cities
- Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2013-12-17
- Language: English
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Robotics
- What Beginners Need to Know about Robotic Process Automation, Mobile Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Speech Recognition, Drones, and Our Future
- Written by: Neil Wilkins
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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Robotics is slowly creeping into our lives, and soon, robots will be everywhere. Do you know everything there is to know about robotics? Do you want to know more about robotics? Do you want to discover the advantages of robotics? If so, then you've come to the right place.
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Robotics
- What Beginners Need to Know about Robotic Process Automation, Mobile Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Speech Recognition, Drones, and Our Future
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-22
- Language: English
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Riddle of the Compass
- Written by: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed...
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Riddle of the Compass
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2001-10-02
- Language: English
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Being Digital
- Written by: Nicholas Negroponte
- Narrated by: Penn Jillette
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and...
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Reading this in 2022 is interesting
- By Carl Amouzou on 2022-03-03
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Being Digital
- Narrated by: Penn Jillette
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 2009-06-23
- Language: English
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Plurality
- The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
- Written by: E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, ⿻ Community
- Narrated by: E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, JJ Reynolds-Strange, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Taiwan achieved inclusive, technology-fueled growth, overcame the pandemic without lockdowns and the infodemic without takedowns, entrusted its people to tackle shared challenges like environmental protection while capitalizing on a culture of innovation to hack the government. Here, the architects of Taiwan's internationally acclaimed digital democracy share the secret of their success. Plurality harnesses digital tools not to replace humans or trust, but to channel the potential energy in social diversity that can erupt in conflict instead for progress, growth and beauty.
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Plurality
- The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
- Narrated by: E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, JJ Reynolds-Strange, Kaliya Young, Matt Prewitt, Divya Siddarth, Gisele Chou
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2024-07-11
- Language: English
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The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making
- Written by: Alex Caldwell
- Narrated by: Alex Pike
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making is the guide you need. Backed by cognitive science and grounded in real-life examples, this hands-on workbook helps you outthink bias, avoid manipulation, and make better choices in every area of life.
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The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making
- Narrated by: Alex Pike
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-01
- Language: English
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