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    • Elon Musk

    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 406 ratings

    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh.

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    • The Coming Wave

    • Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • Written by: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

    • We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services.

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    • Genesis

    • Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
    • Written by: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson, Byron Wagner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2024-11-19
    • Language: English
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    • The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dramatically empowered people in all walks of life, from artists to business executives to policymakers. But as the technology becomes more powerful and more ubiquitous, it is giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity.

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    • Nexus

    • Une brève histoire des réseaux d'information, de l'âge de pierre à l'intelligence artificielle
    • Written by: Yuval Noah Harari, David Fauquemberg - traducteur
    • Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-26
    • Language: French
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Les histoires nous ont réunis. Les livres ont diffusé nos idées et nos mythologies. Internet nous a promis le savoir infini. Les algorithmes ont découvert nos secrets

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    • Life 3.0

    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • Written by: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

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    • Elon Musk

    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • Written by: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2015-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,825 ratings
    • Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

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    • Challenger

    • A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    • Written by: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.

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    • Digital Minimalism

    • Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    • Written by: Cal Newport
    • Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 440 ratings

    • Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....

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    • Quantum Supremacy

    • How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
    • Written by: Michio Kaku
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • The bestselling author of The God Equation takes an exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease.

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    • The Alignment Problem

    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • Written by: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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    • Everybody Lies

    • Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
    • Written by: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....

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    • The Innovators

    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2014-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • How to Invent Everything

    • A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
    • Written by: Ryan North
    • Narrated by: Ryan North
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • Best-selling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North tells you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted - from first principles....

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    • Sandy Hook

    • An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
    • Written by: Elizabeth Williamson
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2022-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson’s landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents who fought to defend themselves, and the truth of their children’s fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists.

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    • Burn Book

    • A Tech Love Story
    • Written by: Kara Swisher
    • Narrated by: Kara Swisher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....

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    • How Innovation Works

    • And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
    • Written by: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Matt Ridley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings

    • Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....

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    • The Shallows

    • What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
    • Written by: Nicholas Carr
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2010-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings

    • A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds....

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    • God, Human, Animal, Machine

    • Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
    • Written by: Meghan O'Gieblyn
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • From the author of the critically acclaimed Interior States comes a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence....

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    • How to Raise a Healthy Gamer

    • End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids
    • Written by: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
    • Narrated by: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • A former gamer and Harvard-trained psychiatrist offers a proven, tested plan to help parents define, set, and reinforce healthy boundaries around video games and help kids who have developed an addiction to gaming....

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    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

    • The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    • Written by: Shoshana Zuboff
    • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings

    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....

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