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Autonomy
- The Quest to Build the Driverless Car - And How It Will Reshape Our World
- By: Lawrence Burns
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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’A fascinating hybrid. Part freewheeling history of the rise of the modern autonomous vehicle, part intimate memoir from an insider who was on the front lines for much of that history, Autonomy will more than bring readers up to speed on one of today’s most closely watched technologies’...
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Outstanding
- By "gbott28" on 03-03-20
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Autonomy
- The Quest to Build the Driverless Car - And How It Will Reshape Our World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 28-08-18
- Language: English
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Social Warming
- The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media
- By: Charles Arthur
- Narrated by: Charles Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement'. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships. Social warming has happened gradually - as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence.
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Had to quit it...
- By Eleonora on 06-03-22
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Social Warming
- The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media
- Narrated by: Charles Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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Access Rules
- Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
- By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge contend that if we disrupt monopoly power and create a level playing field, digital innovations can emerge to benefit us all.
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Access Rules
- Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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The People Vs Tech
- By: Jamie Bartlett
- Narrated by: Sandro Monetti
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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The People Vs Tech is an enthralling account of how our fragile political system is being threatened by the digital revolution. Bartlett explains that by upholding six key pillars of democracy, we can save it before it is too late. We need to become active citizens; uphold a shared democratic culture; protect free elections; promote equality; safeguard competitive and civic freedoms; and trust in a sovereign authority.
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Interesting but wrong (IMO)
- By The Vikid Truth on 29-08-18
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The People Vs Tech
- Narrated by: Sandro Monetti
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-04-18
- Language: English
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As If Human
- Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- By: Nigel Shadbolt, Roger Hampson
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Plumb
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being.
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As If Human
- Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Plumb
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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Who's Raising the Kids?
- Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
- By: Susan Linn
- Narrated by: Susan Linn
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children’s lives, despite a growing body of research detailing the harms of excessive immersion in the unregulated, powerfully seductive, profit-driven world of the “kid-tech” industry. In Who’s Raising the Kids? Linn—one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of Big Tech and big business on children—explores the roots and consequences of this monumental shift toward a digitized, commercialized childhood, focusing on kids’ values, relationships, and learning.
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Who's Raising the Kids?
- Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
- Narrated by: Susan Linn
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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Scrolling Ourselves to Death
- Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age
- By: Brett McCracken, Ivan Mesa, Collin Hansen, and others
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today's most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman's insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, listeners will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a "scrolling ourselves to death" world.
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Great book, well read
- By aeroroar on 30-04-25
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Scrolling Ourselves to Death
- Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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How Digital Technology Shapes Us
- By: Indre Viskontas, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Indre Viskontas
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Digital technology definitely shapes us. But once we learn how it does so, we can make good decisions for our ourselves and our children.
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Not the typical boring academic
- By Eva Huang on 24-12-20
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How Digital Technology Shapes Us
- Narrated by: Professor Indre Viskontas
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-09-20
- Language: English
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The Complete Guide to AI in Education
- Harness Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Student Engagement, Build AI Literacy, Face Ethical Challenges, and Achieve Greater Classroom Efficiency (The Complete AI Guides by Gloria Lembo)
- By: Gloria Lembo
- Narrated by: TJ Walser
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Complete Guide to AI in Education is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the transformative role of artificial intelligence in learning. Whether you're an educator, school administrator, student, or parent, this guide provides the knowledge and tools needed to navigate and leverage AI effectively in education. AI is reshaping education, offering powerful solutions to personalize learning, automate administrative tasks, and foster creativity. Yet it also brings challenges: concerns about academic integrity, learning gaps, and equitable access.
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The Complete Guide to AI in Education
- Harness Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Student Engagement, Build AI Literacy, Face Ethical Challenges, and Achieve Greater Classroom Efficiency (The Complete AI Guides by Gloria Lembo)
- Narrated by: TJ Walser
- Series: The Complete AI Guides
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 15-07-25
- Language: English
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Imperial China
- An Audio Guide
- By: Peter Lorge
- Narrated by: John Voce
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In 221 BCE, the Qin state conquered its neighbours and created the first unified Chinese empire in history. So began the imperial era, where dynasties claiming divine assent ruled for more than 2000 years. Borders shifted, and emperors struggled to exert control over every region of their territories. Elites held that they were inheritors of a rich, pre-imperial culture, while their society produced world-changing inventions such as the compass, printing, gunpowder and the gun. Imperial China itself was altered as it came into contact with others through trade, exploration and war.
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Imperial China
- An Audio Guide
- Narrated by: John Voce
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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8-Bit Apocalypse
- The Untold Story of Atari's Missile Command
- By: Alex Rubens, Jeff Gerstmann - foreword
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking listeners back to the days of TaB cola, dot matrix printers, and digging through the couch for just one more quarter, Alex Rubens combines his knowledge of the tech industry and experience as a gaming journalist to conjure the wild silicon frontier of the 8-bit ’80s. 8-Bit Apocalypse: The Untold Story of Atari's Missile Command offers the first in-depth, personal history of an era for which fans have a lot of nostalgia.
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Great but overdone
- By Peter on 04-09-21
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8-Bit Apocalypse
- The Untold Story of Atari's Missile Command
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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Golf's Holy War
- The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science
- By: Brett Cyrgalis
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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As Michael Lewis’s bestseller Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, this “highly entertaining, very smart book” (James Patterson) takes us inside golf’s clash between its hallowed artistic tradition and its data-driven scientific future. The world of golf is at a...
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love it
- By Amazon Customer on 18-01-21
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Golf's Holy War
- The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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Generative AI
- The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
- By: Harvard Business Review
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye, Mike Lenz
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Generative AI: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the potential of these new technologies, pick the right Gen AI projects, and reinvent your business for the new age of AI.
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Generative AI
- The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye, Mike Lenz
- Series: HBR Insights Series
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Empire of the Sum
- The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
- 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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What Makes Us Human
- An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions
- By: GPT-3, Iain Thomas, Jasmine Wang
- Narrated by: Iain Thomas, Jasmine Wang
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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A groundbreaking endeavor to explore human spirituality through the evolving technology of artificial...
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What Makes Us Human
- An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions
- Narrated by: Iain Thomas, Jasmine Wang
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- By: Paul Josephson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Nuclear Russia by Paul Josephson, read by Leighton Pugh. In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the...
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-12-22
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have...
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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Big Tech Dynasties
- Re-thinking the Power, Spectacle, and Downfall of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon
- By: Joanne E. Gray
- Length: 7 hrs
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Blending personal narrative with critical analysis, Big Tech Dynasties reckons with the place of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon in modern life. It argues that while each company may be a product of platform capitalism, each is also historically familiar; Big Tech is familiar because...
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Big Tech Dynasties
- Re-thinking the Power, Spectacle, and Downfall of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 18-02-27
- Language: English
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Generative AI for Beginners: Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Unlocking the Matrix with GPT-4, LLMs, Deep Neural Networks, and Practical Machine Learning
- By: Alex Quant
- Narrated by: Melissa LaFore
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Artificial intelligence is transforming lives and revolutionizing industries. This accessible guide to generative AI and machine learning is for tech enthusiasts and forward-thinkers alike—whether you're in IT or a professional from another field looking to stay ahead and curious about AI’s impact on the future, this book provides the essential insights you need to stay competitive and informed in the Age of AI.
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Feel the future dystopia today
- By Steve on 27-03-25
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Generative AI for Beginners: Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Unlocking the Matrix with GPT-4, LLMs, Deep Neural Networks, and Practical Machine Learning
- Narrated by: Melissa LaFore
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-12-24
- Language: English
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Infinite Reality
- Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution
- By: Jim Blascovich, Jeremy Bailenson
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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“Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn’t happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions.” —Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be...
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In depth
- By James on 02-10-19
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Infinite Reality
- Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-04-11
- Language: English
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