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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think
- How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It
- Written by: Byron Reese
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in. Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale, and predict—and eventually master—the future.
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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think
- How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-13
- Language: English
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Black Software
- The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
- Written by: Charlton D. McIlwain
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. Beginning with the simultaneous rise of civil rights and computer revolutions in the 1960s, McIlwain, for the first time, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans, computing technology, and the Internet.
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Black Software
- The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-14
- Language: English
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Brilliant
- The Evolution of Artificial Light
- Written by: Jane Brox
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Brilliant offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history - from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. Jane Brox plumbs the class implications of light - who had it, who didn't - through the many centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. Brillant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and - only a few years before it becomes illegal to sell most incandescent light bulbs in the United States - timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light.
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Brilliant
- The Evolution of Artificial Light
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-15
- Language: English
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Heartificial Intelligence
- Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
- Written by: John Havens
- Narrated by: Eric Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today. Featuring pragmatic solutions drawing on economics, emerging technologies, and positive psychology, Heartificial Intelligence provides a road map to help listeners embrace the present and better define their future.
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Heartificial Intelligence
- Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
- Narrated by: Eric Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2016-02-02
- Language: English
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The Know-It-Alls
- The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
- Written by: Noam Cohen
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Cohen shows how smart guys like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with a radically individualistic ideal and then mainstreamed it. With these very rich men leading the way, unions, libraries, public schools, common courtesy, and even government itself have been pushed aside to make way for supposedly efficient market-based encounters via the Internet. Donald Trump's election victory was an inadvertent triumph of the "disruption" that Silicon Valley has been pushing. A society that belittles civility, empathy, and collaboration can easily be led astray.
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The Know-It-Alls
- The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-07
- Language: English
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The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City
- Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair
- Written by: Margaret Creighton
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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In 1901, Buffalo, New York, the eighth biggest city in America, wanted to launch the new century with the Pan American Exposition. It would showcase the Western hemisphere and bring millions of people to Western New York. With Niagara Falls as a drawing card, and with stunning colors and electric lights, promoters believed it would be bigger, better, and - literally - more brilliant than Chicago's White City of 1893.
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The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City
- Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2016-10-18
- Language: English
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Leading in the Digital World
- How to Foster Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity
- Written by: Amit S. Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Certain ideas about business leadership are held to be timeless, and certain characteristics of leaders - often including a square jaw, a deep voice, and extroversion - are said to be universal. In Leading in the Digital World, Amit Mukherjee argues that since digital technologies are changing everything else, how could they not change leadership ideologies and styles? Drawing on a global survey of 700 mid-tier to senior executives and interviews with C-level executives from around the world, Mukherjee explains how digital technologies are already reshaping organizations.
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Leading in the Digital World
- How to Foster Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-30
- Language: English
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Tom Paine's Iron Bridge
- Building a United States
- Written by: Edward G. Gray
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Jefferson praised Tom Paine as the greatest political writer of the age. The author of Common Sense and Rights of Man, Paine helped make revolutions in America and France. But beyond his inspiring calls to action, Paine harbored a deeper political vision for his adopted country. It was embodied in an architectural project that he spent decades planning: an iron bridge to span the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia.
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Tom Paine's Iron Bridge
- Building a United States
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-25
- Language: English
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Silicon States
- The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
- Written by: Lucie Greene
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Silicon Valley is imperializing the planet. With nearly bottomless supplies of cash and ambition, a small group of companies have been gradually seizing symbolic and practical civic leadership in America and worldwide. But Silicon Valley does not answer to the electorate; nor have they been voted into office. And the perils of their influence are only now making themselves known.
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Silicon States
- The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-31
- Language: English
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Relationships 5.0
- How AI, VR, and Robots Will Reshape Our Emotional Lives
- Written by: Elyakim Kislev
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Technology is our new life partner. No longer confined to the sidelines, new interactive technologies like AI therapists, avatar friends, and robot assistants are ready to transform technology's role from basic tools of convenience to intimate elements of our social and emotional lives.
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Relationships 5.0
- How AI, VR, and Robots Will Reshape Our Emotional Lives
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-28
- Language: English
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