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Supertall
- How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
- Written by: Stefan Al
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world—reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom.
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Supertall
- How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-12
- Language: English
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Overcoming Internet Addiction for Dummies
- Written by: Dr. David Greenfield
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
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There's no escaping it - we live in a digital world. We work, play, socialize, and learn online, and the internet provides many amazing opportunities. Unfortunately, because of our basic biology, we're all susceptible to overuse and addiction to screens. Video games, social media, porn, and even scrolling online, taps into that pleasurable dopamine reward system. So, when is it time to log off or put the phone down and get help?
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Overcoming Internet Addiction for Dummies
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-26
- Language: English
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Written by: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages - of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today.
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-30
- Language: English
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Magic and Loss
- The Internet as Art
- Written by: Virginia Heffernan
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Virginia Heffernan - introduction
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television, Virginia Heffernan (called one of the "best living writers of English prose") reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet. Since its inception, the Internet has morphed from merely an extension of traditional media into its own full-fledged civilization. It is among mankind's great masterpieces - a massive work of art. As an idea, it rivals monotheism.
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Magic and Loss
- The Internet as Art
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Virginia Heffernan - introduction
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-07
- Language: English
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Exploring Science Through Science Fiction, Second Edition
- Written by: Barry B. Luokkala
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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How does Einstein’s description of space and time compare with Doctor Who? Can James Bond really escape from an armor-plated railroad car by cutting through the floor with a laser concealed in a wristwatch? What would it take to create a fully intelligent android, such as Star Trek’s Commander Data? Exploring Science Through Science Fiction addresses these and other intriguing questions, using science fiction as a springboard for discussing fundamental science concepts and cutting-edge science research.
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Exploring Science Through Science Fiction, Second Edition
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Series: The Science and Fiction Series
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2021-02-25
- Language: English
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Pinpoint
- How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
- Written by: Greg Milner
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Over the last 50 years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the global positioning system. Omnipresent, free, and available to all, GPS powers everything from your phone to the Internet to the Mars Rover. Greg Milner tells the sweeping story of GPS, from its conceptual origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity.
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Pinpoint
- How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2016-05-03
- Language: English
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The AI Delusion
- Written by: Gary Smith
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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We live in an incredible period in history. The computer revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before. But our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their limitations. The AI Delusion explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, and that black boxes should be trusted.
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The AI Delusion
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-27
- Language: English
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Death Glitch
- How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
- Written by: Tamara Kneese
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.
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Death Glitch
- How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-24
- Language: English
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A era do capitalismo de vigilância
- A luta por um fronteiro humano na nova fronteira do poder [The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power]
- Written by: Shoshanna Zuboff, George Schlesinger - tradução
- Narrated by: Lilian de Lima
- Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
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Obra-prima em termos de pensamento original e pesquisa, A era do capitalismo de vigilância, de Shoshana Zuboff, apresenta ideias alarmantes sobre o fenômeno que ela nomeou capitalismo de vigilância. Os riscos não poderiam ser maiores: uma arquitetura global de modificação comportamental ameaça impactar a humanidade no século XXI de forma tão radical quanto o capitalismo industrial desfigurou o mundo natural no século XX.
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A era do capitalismo de vigilância
- A luta por um fronteiro humano na nova fronteira do poder [The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power]
- Narrated by: Lilian de Lima
- Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-02
- Language: Portuguese
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Augmenting Your Career
- How to Win at Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Written by: David L. Shrier
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. Automation was once associated with mass layoffs in heavy industry like auto and steel, but computers are getting smarter and are beginning to replace traditionally 'white collar' roles like law, consulting, banking and finance. Yet some curious findings are emerging from the world's leading research labs.
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Inapplicable anecdotal rambling
- By Lazy consumer 218 on 2021-06-07
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Augmenting Your Career
- How to Win at Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-03
- Language: English
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The Idealist
- Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
- Written by: Justin Peters
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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A smart, lively history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society - and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons - from Slate correspondent Justin Peters.
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The Idealist
- Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2016-01-12
- Language: English
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Distracted
- The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
- Written by: Maggie Jackson
- Narrated by: Christine Carroll
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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In Distracted, journalist Maggie Jackson ponders our increasingly cyber-centric world and fears we're entering a dark age of interruption that will render us unable to think critically, work creatively or cultivate meaningful relationships.
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Distracted
- The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
- Narrated by: Christine Carroll
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2010-02-16
- Language: English
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Fertility Technology
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Written by: Donna J. Drucker
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman's uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts around the world.
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Fertility Technology
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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Living in Data
- A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future
- Written by: Jer Thorp
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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In Living in Data, Thorp proves that thinking about data in a human context makes us better problem solvers and builds a healthier relationship between us and our data - one that puts our well-being front and center - and that there is a path forward beyond the extractive, impersonal nature of the “big data” era.
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Good But Sad
- By Mr, V on 2021-07-18
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Living in Data
- A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-24
- Language: English
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The Internet Police
- How Crime Went Online and the Cops Followed
- Written by: Nate Anderson
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Chaos and order clash in this riveting exploration of crime and punishment on the Internet. Once considered a borderless and chaotic virtual landscape, the Internet is now home to the forces of international law and order. It's not just computer hackers and cyber crooks who lurk in the dark corners of the Web - the cops are there, too. In The Internet Police, Ars Technica editor Nate Anderson takes readers on a behind-the-screens tour of landmark cybercrime cases, revealing how criminals continue to find digital and legal loopholes even as police hurry to cinch them closed.
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The Internet Police
- How Crime Went Online and the Cops Followed
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2013-11-05
- Language: English
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Energía y civilización [Energy and Civilization]
- Written by: Vaclav Smil, Alvaro Palau Arvizu
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
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En esta monumental historia, Vaclav Smil ofrece una impresionante panorámica de cómo la energía ha impulsado el progreso cultural y económico de las sociedades humanas durante los últimos diez mil años, desde los primeros grupos de cazadores-recolectores hasta la civilización fósil, pasando por las sociedades agrícolas tradicionales y la "gran transición" que lo cambió todo.
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Energía y civilización [Energy and Civilization]
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2022-12-20
- Language: Spanish
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- Written by: Madhumita Murgia
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience—unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. In Code Dependent, Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, from technology that marks children as future criminals, to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community.
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-18
- Language: English
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The Opt-Out Family
- How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
- Written by: Erin Loechner
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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We've all heard the mind-boggling statistics about technology and social media use. The numbers don't lie; our obsession with smartphones and social media is slowly eroding the very essence of our homes and families. We see it. We feel it. We know it. So what do we do about it? Spoiler alert: Forget parental control apps, time limits, or reward charts. This revolutionary path takes us into the heart of the beast itself: the social media algorithm.
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The Opt-Out Family
- How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-11
- Language: English
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The Coming Wave (German edition)
- Technologie, Macht und das größte Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts
- Written by: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar, Andreas Wirthensohn - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Florens Schmidt
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Künstliche Intelligenz ist die Coming Wave, der nächste technologische Sprung, der sich nicht aufhalten lässt. Wir nähern uns einem kritischen Punkt in der Menschheitsgeschichte. Die Künstliche Intelligenz steht noch am Anfang, doch die Welle baut sich auf, und wir sind darauf nicht vorbereitet. Mustafa Suleyman ist Mitbegründer von DeepMind, dem KI-Pionier, der nun Teil von Alphabet ist, dem Google-Mutterkonzern. Er ist der ultimative KI-Insider. Sein Buch zeigt, was auf dem Spiel steht, und fragt, wie wir von den neuen Technologien profitieren können, ohne die Kontrolle zu verlieren.
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The Coming Wave (German edition)
- Technologie, Macht und das größte Dilemma des 21. Jahrhunderts
- Narrated by: Florens Schmidt
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2024-03-01
- Language: German
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T-Minus AI
- Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
- Written by: Michael Kanaan
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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In T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power, author Michael Kanaan explains the realities of AI from a human-oriented perspective that's easy to comprehend. A recognized national expert and the U.S. Air Force's first Chairperson for Artificial Intelligence, Kanaan weaves a compelling new view on our history of innovation and technology to masterfully explain what each of us should know about modern computing, AI, and machine learning.
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T-Minus AI
- Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-20
- Language: English
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