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This Machine Kills Secrets
- How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information
- Written by: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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The machine that kills secrets is a powerful cryptographic code that hides the identities of leakers and hacktivists as they spill the private files of government agencies and corporations bringing us into a new age of whistle blowing. With unrivaled access to figures like Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and Jacob Applebaum, investigative journalist Andy Greenberg unveils the group that brought the world WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, and BalkanLeaks.
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This Machine Kills Secrets
- How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-17
- 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
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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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Thrive
- Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI
- Written by: Ravi Bapna, Anindya Ghose
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that is reshaping the modern economy, but misperceptions about AI stand in the way of harnessing it for the betterment of humanity. In Thrive, Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose counter the backlash by showcasing how AI is positively influencing the aspects of our daily lives that we care about most: our health and wellness, relationships, education, the workplace, and domestic life.
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Thrive
- Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-15
- Language: English
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How Progress Ends
- Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
- Written by: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced economies—the United States and China—have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change
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How Progress Ends
- Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2025-09-16
- Language: English
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Who Ate the First Oyster?
- The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
- Written by: Cody Cassidy
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the...
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highly recommend
- By Brayden on 2025-09-24
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Who Ate the First Oyster?
- The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-05
- Language: English
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More Everything Forever
- AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
- Written by: Adam Becker
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—pervert public discourse and distract us from real social problems Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us...
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This might be funny if it wasn’t so terrible and scary.
- By J. Bird on 2025-11-24
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More Everything Forever
- AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-22
- Language: English
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- Written by: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen - introduction
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand. In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin...
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Good book but
- By Mr. C on 2018-02-27
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-14
- Language: English
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Written by: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance67
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Our attention is the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and find more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
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ROBOT VOICE narration is UNLISTENABLE!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-03-17
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-07
- Language: English
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- Written by: Allen Carr
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity. Including 20 practical steps to help you along your way, this wonderful guide will release you from the clutches of your smartphone and allow you to live in the moment. It truly is the easyway.
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Changed my relationship with technology
- By Brad S. on 2022-01-13
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-05
- Language: English
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Simply Electrifying
- The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- Written by: Craig R. Roach
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often dangerous story of electricity's historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.
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Simply Electrifying
- The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2017-08-15
- Language: English
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i-Minds - Second Edition
- How and Why Constant Connectivity Is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About It
- Written by: Mari K. Swingle
- Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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An entertaining, scientifically rigorous exploration of the social and biological effects of our wireless world. The way we use technology is affecting our health and happiness. Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, this fully revised and updated second edition of i-Minds comprehensively explores an era of screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering it as both godsend and plague. i-Minds is for anyone interested in fostering health and happiness or who is struggling with the role of screened technology in our lives.
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i-Minds - Second Edition
- How and Why Constant Connectivity Is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-27
- Language: English
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Outrage Machine
- How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It
- Written by: Tobias Rose-Stockwell
- Narrated by: Justin Price, Bolton Marsh, Tobias Rose-Stockwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attention—and keeps us coming back by filling us with rage. The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn...
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Tobias is a succinct, thought provoking human
- By Quinn Simpson on 2023-12-07
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Outrage Machine
- How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Justin Price, Bolton Marsh, Tobias Rose-Stockwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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Replay
- The History of Video Games
- Written by: Tristan Donovan, Richard Garriott
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance37
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A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past.
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Extensive but dry history of video games
- By Bruce Novakowski on 2024-02-28
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Replay
- The History of Video Games
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-06
- Language: English
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- Written by: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance88
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A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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Informative, Well Told, & Focused Account of Uber
- By michael b. on 2022-11-25
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-03
- Language: English
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Race After Technology
- Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- Written by: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era.
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Must Listen
- By Mallory on 2021-11-24
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Race After Technology
- Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-14
- Language: English
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- Written by: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall253
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Performance205
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Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors! From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven...
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All hype, no insight
- By Grétar Hannesson on 2020-03-11
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-28
- Language: English
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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- Written by: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Want to know how AT&T's Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology - and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work - and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.
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Very interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-03-19
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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-01
- Language: English
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Look out for Johnson’s new book, Wonderland, on sale November 15, 2016. From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores...
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Great info
- By J.R. Kenny on 2020-01-04
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-30
- Language: English
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- Written by: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three misfits banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the apex of motorsport: the Grand Prix. Their quest for redemption culminated in a remarkable race that is still talked about in racing circles to this day - but which, soon after it ended, Hitler attempted to completely erase from history.
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brilliant story
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-09-22
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-17
- Language: English
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- Written by: Jaron Lanier
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Performance90
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"Narrator Oliver Wyman brings his full complement of vocalizations to this polemic on social media and what it is doing to us. His cadence and delivery are spot-on..." — AudioFile Magazine Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is a timely call-to-arms from a Silicon...
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Concise and thoughtful
- By Patrick Daoust on 2019-01-07
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-29
- Language: English
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