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Empire of the Sum
- The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
- Written by: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. Keith Houston transports listeners from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, and into the technological arms race that led to the first affordable electronic pocket calculators.
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Empire of the Sum
- The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 31-10-23
- 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: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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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
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Slate, "25 Best Crime Books, Podcasts, and Documentaries of All Time" Vanity Fair’s “Books We Can't Stop Thinking About” Carnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist 2023 The Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Publishers Weekly Best Books 2022 Kirkus Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Slate...
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A scary book for these scary times
- By NMenon on 10-01-26
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Sandy Hook
- An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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Race After Technology
- Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- Written by: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era.
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Makes you think
- By Akhilesh on 04-05-23
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Race After Technology
- Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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Power to the Public
- The Promise of Public Interest Technology
- Written by: Tara Dawson McGuinness, Hana Schank
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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As the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges of our time-from pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new approach - public interest technology - that has the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world solve problems.
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Power to the Public
- The Promise of Public Interest Technology
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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The Story Behind
- The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
- Written by: Emily Prokop
- Narrated by: Emily Prokop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Many of us learn about the major inventions that shape our world. But we too often overlook the objects we use every day. In The Story Behind, Emily Prokop, creator of the Webby Award nominated podcast, explores the who, how, and huh? of everything from Band-Aids to bubble gum; hypnosis to Hula Hoops; and lullabies to lead pipes. Along the way, she demonstrates how the major events of history - from wars, plagues and revolutions to historic achievements and discoveries - have influenced some of the world’s most pervasive inventions.
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The Story Behind
- The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
- Narrated by: Emily Prokop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- Written by: Joseph Mazur
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Listeners learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a 48-hour journey on the Space Shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule and that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages.
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The Clock Mirage
- Our Myth of Measured Time
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Us
- How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
- Written by: Ainissa Ramirez
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer.
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The Alchemy of Us
- How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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What Can a Body Do?
- How We Meet the Built World
- Written by: Sara Hendren
- Narrated by: Sara Hendren
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and...
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What Can a Body Do?
- How We Meet the Built World
- Narrated by: Sara Hendren
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
- Written by: Iwan Rhys Morus
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks and visionaries in equal number.
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Keep up the nice work.
- By Kaustubh Gupta on 30-10-19
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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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Because Internet
- Understanding how language is changing
- Written by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Narrated by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Length: 8 hrs
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a...
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Because Internet
- Understanding how language is changing
- Narrated by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release Date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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Who's Afraid of AI?
- Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines
- Written by: Thomas Ramge
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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A penetrating guide to artificial intelligence: what it is, what it does, and how it will change our lives. At a breathtaking pace, artificial intelligence is getting better and faster at making complex decisions. AI can already identify malignant tumors on CT scans, give legal advice, out-bluff the best poker players in the world, and, with ever-increasing skill, drive our cars.
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Who's Afraid of AI?
- Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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GPS
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 12-03-19
- 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: 27-11-18
- Language: English
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Computerised You
- How Wearable Technology Will Turn Us into Computers
- Written by: Shane Richmond
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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From the fitness-tracking Nike Fuelband to the head-mounted computer Google Glass, wearable technology is turning our bodies into the new frontier of computing. In Computerised You, Shane Richmond considers how wearable technology could help us to lead healthier lives and make us more efficient, examines the threat to our privacy and the danger of addiction, and looks to a future of computer-augmented clothing and brain implants that challenge our notions of what it means to be human.
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Computerised You
- How Wearable Technology Will Turn Us into Computers
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release Date: 16-07-14
- 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
- Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 07-08-18
- Language: English
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Inventology
- How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
- Written by: Pagan Kennedy
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic, Pagan Kennedy
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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A businessman struggles with his luggage at an airport and pioneers the wheeled suitcase. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and dreams up the mobile phone. A printer is frustrated by his unpredictable inks and creates the Pantone colour system. Why were these particular people able to identify problems, and how did they discover the solutions that everyone else missed? Where exactly did their great ideas come from, and how did they go about making them into reality?
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Inventology
- How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic, Pagan Kennedy
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 04-03-16
- Language: English
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Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Your Child's Use of Technology
- Written by: Lucy Jo Palladino
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Are your kids unable to step away from the screens? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide that gives parents the tools to teach children, from toddlers to teens, how to gain control of their technology use.
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Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Your Child's Use of Technology
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 16-06-15
- Language: English
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Zero Day
- The Threat in Cyberspace
- Written by: Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post
- Narrated by: Tom Pile
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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For more than a year, Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow has explored the threats proliferating in our digital universe. This audiobook is a compilation of that reporting. With chapters built around real people, including hackers, security researchers, and corporate executives, this book will help regular people, lawmakers, and businesses better understand the mind-bending challenge of keeping the Internet safe from hackers and security breaches - and all-out war.
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The App Generation
- How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
- Written by: Howard Gardner, Katie Davis
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.
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The App Generation
- How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 22-10-13
- Language: English
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