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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.
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Substandard book: may be AI will write ine better than this one!
- By S on 22-05-25
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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AI Ethics
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Written by: Mark Coeckelbergh
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues.
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AI Ethics
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- Written by: Joy Lisi Rankin
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-18
- Language: English
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Understanding Beliefs
- Written by: Nils J. Nilsson
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to entertain. Some of our beliefs we call theories, and we are extraordinarily creative at constructing them. Theories of quantum mechanics, evolution, and relativity are examples.
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Understanding Beliefs
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 25-08-15
- Language: English
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Regenesis
- How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
- Written by: George M. Church, Ed Regis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying substantial portions of their genomes, allows for the creation of entirely new species of organisms. These technologies - far from the out-of-control nightmare depicted in science fiction - have the power to improve human and animal health, increase our intelligence, enhance our memory, and even extend our life span.
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Regenesis
- How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 16-06-20
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- Written by: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Bill DeWees
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
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This scientific writing, which was considered to be the groundwork of evolutionary biology, presented the theory that species developed over a line of originations through a method of natural selection. It imparted evidence that the variety of life resulted from a common descent via a branching model of evolution.
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Bill DeWees
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 14-10-10
- Language: English
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Leibniz, Newton und die Erfindung der Zeit
- Written by: Thomas de Padova
- Narrated by: Mathias Grimm
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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Zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts entfesseln Isaac Newton und Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz eine heftige Debatte, die bis heute von Mathematikern und Philosophen geführt wird: Was ist das, was wir »Zeit« nennen? Thomas de Padova zeichnet das lebendige Bild einer Epoche, in der die Zeit zum heiß diskutierten Gegenstand der Naturwissenschaften wird und Uhren anfangen, unseren Alltag zu bestimmen. Eine fesselnde Entdeckungsreise in die beschleunigte Welt der Moderne.
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Leibniz, Newton und die Erfindung der Zeit
- Narrated by: Mathias Grimm
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 26-11-25
- Language: german
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Artificial You
- AI and the Future of Your Mind
- Written by: Susan Schneider
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with "tools" they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness.
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Artificial You
- AI and the Future of Your Mind
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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Life at the Speed of Light
- From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
- Written by: J. Craig Venter
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create "synthetic life" - putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological research, one that will enable us to actually write the genetic code for designing new species to help us adapt and evolve for long-term survival. The science of synthetic genomics will have a profound impact on human existence, including chemical and energy generation, health, clean water and food production, environmental control, and possibly even our evolution.
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Life at the Speed of Light
- From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-13
- Language: English
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- Written by: Stephen Cave - editor, Kanta Dihal - editor, Sarah Dillon - editor
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed, and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. Part II focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology.
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AI Narratives
- A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Die Welt der Technik in 100 Objekten
- Written by: Wolfgang M. Heckl
- Narrated by: Peter Veit
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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Von der Sonnenuhr zum Fischer-Dübel: Die Welt der Technik in 100 Objekten. Von einem Cembalo aus dem Venedig des 16. Jahrhunderts über den Benz-Patent-Motorwagen Nr. 1 und die Aufnahme Röntgens von der Hand seiner Frau bis zu einer Recyclingtasche und dem mRNA-Impfstoff gegen COVID-19 von BioNTech – jedes dieser 100 Objekte erzählt seine Geschichte auf mehreren Ebenen.
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Die Welt der Technik in 100 Objekten
- Narrated by: Peter Veit
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 12-05-22
- Language: german
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- Written by: Chris Impey, Holly Henry
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 06-03-14
- Language: English
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Wish I Were Here
- Boredom and the Interface
- Written by: Mark Kingwell
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in technology, also known as the Interface, Wish I Were Here draws on philosophical analysis of boredom and happiness to examine the pressing issues such as screen addiction....
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Wish I Were Here
- Boredom and the Interface
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release Date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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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: 13-09-22
- Language: English
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Consciousness and Science Fiction
- Written by: Damien Broderick
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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This audiobook’s content and entertaining style will appeal equally to science-fiction enthusiasts and scholars, including cognitive and neuroscientists, as well as philosophers of mind. It is a refreshing romp through the science and science fiction of consciousness.
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Consciousness and Science Fiction
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Series: The Science and Fiction Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- Written by: Sheila Jasanoff
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Sheila Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights.
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The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 25-10-16
- Language: English
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Bioethics
- A Primer for Christians
- Written by: Gilbert Meilaender
- Narrated by: Ken Myers
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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In the face of rapid medical advances in our world, bioethics is a serious concern for many in our society - Christians and non-Christians alike. Here, Gilbert Meilaender, professor of theological ethics at Valparaiso University in Indiana, contends that it is imperative for Christians to think consciously about bioethical issues as Christians if they are not to risk losing their Christian identity.
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