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Elon Musk
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
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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. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.
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Future King of Mars, Inventor of Car Farts!
- By michael smith on 2023-09-12
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Elon Musk
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-12
- Language: English
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
- Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- Written by: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
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On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.
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Truth Lies and O-Rings
- By EntertainmentLover on 2018-08-28
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
- Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-07
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell
- Written by: Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to influence much of what’s wrong with the internet today.
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This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-06
- Language: English
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Artificial Intelligence
- A Guide for Thinking Humans
- Written by: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent - really - are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way, she introduces the dominant methods of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought that led to recent achievements.
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Excellent read
- By Ralph on 2023-03-31
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Artificial Intelligence
- A Guide for Thinking Humans
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-15
- Language: English
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Written by: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.
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Not a Neo-Luddite Manifesto
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-03-16
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-11
- Language: English
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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- Written by: Ryan North
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Bestselling author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North has the answers. In this introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, he details a number of outlandish villainous schemes that harness the potential of today’s most advanced technologies. Picking up where How to Invent Everything left off, his explanations are as fun and elucidating as they are completely absurd.
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funny and interesting pop science
- By Mark on 2022-05-23
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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-15
- Language: English
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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
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We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.
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An AI MUST READ
- By Aylan C on 2024-04-28
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The Coming Wave
- Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
- Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-05
- Language: English
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- Written by: Kara Swisher
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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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. When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order.
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Poor baby never got rich with the tech tycoons
- By James on 2024-02-28
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2024-02-27
- 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
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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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Hijacking Bitcoin
- The Hidden History of BTC
- Written by: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker - foreword
- Narrated by: Steve Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.
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Hijacking Bitcoin
- The Hidden History of BTC
- Narrated by: Steve Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-12
- Language: English
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Failure Is Not an Option
- Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
- Written by: Gene Kranz
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
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Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race.
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Wholly worthwhile...in a peripheral sort of way.
- By Morganizer on 2021-04-26
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Failure Is Not an Option
- Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2011-08-29
- Language: English
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The Four
- The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
- Written by: Scott Galloway
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions.
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the worst book I have ever read/heard
- By Gaurav on 2018-07-24
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The Four
- The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-03
- Language: English
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Console Wars
- Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
- Written by: Blake J. Harris
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
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A mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video-game industry. In 1990, Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video-game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was just a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But all that would change with the arrival of Tom Kalinske, a former Mattel executive who knew nothing about video games and everything about fighting uphill battles.
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Fantastic!
- By CORTL on 2018-09-19
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Console Wars
- Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2014-05-13
- Language: English
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The Common Rule
- Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
- Written by: Justin Whitmel Earley
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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The answer to our contemporary chaos is to practice a rule of life that aligns our habits to our beliefs. The Common Rule offers four daily and four weekly habits, designed to help us create new routines and transform frazzled days into lives of love for God and neighbor.
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Exactly what I needed
- By Morgan on 2023-03-05
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The Common Rule
- Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-19
- Language: English
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Army of None
- Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
- Written by: Paul Scharre
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death. Scharre's far-ranging investigation examines the emergence of autonomous weapons, the movement to ban them, and the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. Through interviews with defense experts, ethicists, psychologists, and activists, Scharre surveys what challenges might face "centaur warfighters" on future battlefields.
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Important and Current
- By Robert Kelham on 2019-02-07
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Army of None
- Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-08
- Language: English
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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
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In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, 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 - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers.
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Hey Elon, you hiring?
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-05
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2015-05-19
- Language: English
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- Written by: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others to work as they did in the 20th century.
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2016-01-26
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- Written by: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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Genius
- By Philip on 2019-10-09
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-22
- Language: English
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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
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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. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?
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The people who built our digital world
- By philip moss on 2021-03-20
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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-07
- 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
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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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