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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
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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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- 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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Wicked Problems
- How to Engineer a Better World
- Written by: Guru Madhavan
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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An homage to society's innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for listeners of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice-one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.
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Wicked Problems
- How to Engineer a Better World
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2024-03-26
- Language: English
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Against Technoableism
- Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
- Written by: Ashley Shew
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume they want—nor are they generally asked. In vibrant prose, Shew shows how we can create better narratives and more accessible futures by drawing from the insights of the cross-disability community.
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Against Technoableism
- Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2023-12-26
- Language: English
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Technically Wrong
- Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
- Written by: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.
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Changes the tech conversation
- By RI in Canada on 2018-09-16
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Technically Wrong
- Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
- Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-10
- Language: English
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How Data Happened
- A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
- Written by: Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.
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How Data Happened
- A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-21
- Language: English
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Four Battlegrounds
- Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Written by: Paul Scharre
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives—and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes listeners inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future.
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Four Battlegrounds
- Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-09
- Language: English
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Ghost Work
- How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
- Written by: Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Hidden beneath the surface of the internet, a new, stark reality is looming - one that cuts to the very heart of our endless debates about the impact of AI. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this "ghost economy".
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Ghost Work
- How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-07
- Language: English
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The Joy of Search
- A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics
- Written by: Daniel M. Russell
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: We Google it - "Japan population" or "Nobel Peace Prize" or "poison ivy" or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there's much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online.
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The Joy of Search
- A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-21
- Language: English
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A Human Algorithm
- How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
- Written by: Flynn Coleman
- Narrated by: Flynn Coleman
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are examines the immense impact intelligent technology will have on humanity. These machines, while challenging our personal beliefs and our socio-economic world order, also have the potential to transform our health and well-being, alleviate poverty and suffering, and reveal the mysteries of intelligence and consciousness. International human rights attorney Flynn Coleman deftly argues that it is critical we instill values, ethics, and morals into our robots, algorithms, and other forms of AI.
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A Human Algorithm
- How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
- Narrated by: Flynn Coleman
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-01
- Language: English
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Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- Written by: Ruth Defries
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened.
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Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-09
- Language: English
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- Written by: Matthew Brzezinski
- Narrated by: Charles Stransky
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world.
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- Narrated by: Charles Stransky
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2007-09-05
- 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
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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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Rise of the Machines
- A Cybernetic History
- Written by: Thomas Rid
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. Thomas Rid delivers a portrait of our technology-enraptured era. Springing from mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of myths about the future of machines. This vision radically transformed the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change.
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Rise of the Machines
- A Cybernetic History
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-28
- 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
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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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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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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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#HashtagActivism
- Networks of Race and Gender Justice
- Written by: Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, Brooke Foucault Welles, and others
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this book, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people.
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#HashtagActivism
- Networks of Race and Gender Justice
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-17
- Language: English
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Big Mind
- How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
- Written by: Geoff Mulgan
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind" - human and machine capabilities working together - has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results?
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Awesome treatise on critical new discipline
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Big Mind
- How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-28
- Language: English
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Thinking Machines
- The Quest for Artificial Intelligence - and Where It's Taking Us Next
- Written by: Luke Dormehl
- Narrated by: Gus Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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When most of us think about artificial intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that artificial intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways the future people dreamed of at the World's Fair in the 1960s is already here. We're teaching our machines how to think like humans, and they're learning at an incredible rate.
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Thinking Machines
- The Quest for Artificial Intelligence - and Where It's Taking Us Next
- Narrated by: Gus Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2017-03-07
- Language: English
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Big Tech Tyrants
- How Silicon Valley's Stealth Practices Addict Teens, Silence Speech and Steal Your Privacy
- Written by: Floyd Brown, Todd Cefaratti
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Big Tech Tyrants boast riches beyond emperors of old but act like juveniles who don't want to grow up. They are modern-day robber barons. Big Tech Tyrants don't know the meaning of privacy, when it comes to you. They try to make you believe they will give their products away for free as a service to society, when really, they are vacuuming your personal data. They use this data to discover your deepest secrets. Big Tech Tyrants is an eye-opening, must-listen book for anyone living in the 21st century.
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We Live in "1984"
- By Jake L.S. on 2019-09-04
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Big Tech Tyrants
- How Silicon Valley's Stealth Practices Addict Teens, Silence Speech and Steal Your Privacy
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-03
- Language: English
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The End of Big
- How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
- Written by: Nicco Mele
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs
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Radical connectivity - our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally - is altering the exercise of power with dramatic speed and reshaping our biggest institutions. Governments, corporations, centers of knowledge, and expertise are eroding before the power of the individual. In some cases this is a positive development, but as Mele reveals, the promise of the Internet comes with a troubling downside. He asks: How do we trust information when journalists are replaced by bloggers, phone videos, and tweets?
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The End of Big
- How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 2013-04-23
- Language: English
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