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Thinkers and Tinkerers
- The Innovators Behind the Information Age
- By: James Surowiecki
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In recent decades, most innovation has come from a single sector (information technology) and a single place (Silicon Valley). Walter Isaacson's The Innovators and Peter Thiel's Zero to One shed light on how that happened and what drives innovation more generally.
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Thinkers and Tinkerers
- The Innovators Behind the Information Age
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 16-01-15
- Language: English
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Face with Tears of Joy
- A Natural History of Emoji
- By: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in the 2000s, and considers emoji's ever-expanding lexicon. Named for the world's most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji for the first time.
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Face with Tears of Joy
- A Natural History of Emoji
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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A Short History of the Printing Press
- And of the Improvements in Printing Machinery from the Time of Gutenberg up to the Present Day
- By: Robert Hoe
- Narrated by: Marcus Locke
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Short History of the Printing Press And of the Improvements in Printing Machinery from the Time of Gutenberg up to the Present Day, Robert Hoe explores the remarkable evolution of one of humanity’s most influential innovations: the printing press. From Gutenberg’s revolutionary early...
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A Short History of the Printing Press
- And of the Improvements in Printing Machinery from the Time of Gutenberg up to the Present Day
- Narrated by: Marcus Locke
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-05-26
- Language: English
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GPS Declassified
- From Smart Bombs to Smartphones
- By: Richard D. Easton, Eric F. Frazier
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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GPS Declassified examines the development of GPS from its secret, cold war military roots to its emergence as a worldwide consumer industry. Drawing on previously unexplored documents, the authors examine how military rivalries influenced the creation of GPS and shaped public perceptions about its origin. Told by a son of a Navy insider and a science and technology journalist, the story chronicles the research and technological advances required for the development of GPS.
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GPS Declassified
- From Smart Bombs to Smartphones
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-01-18
- Language: English
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Game Over (German Edition)
- Kuriose Videospiele-Fakten und unterhaltsame Gaming-Geschichten: Aus der Buch-Reihe Gaming Nonsense (Gaming Nonsense: Die Bücher-Serie rund um Videospiele)
- By: Sebastian Jäger
- Narrated by: Franziska Lips
- Length: 4 hrs
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Na sowas! Nintendo zeigt Super Marios Schniedel in einem Manga. Was es mit dem Gamer-Blase-Weltrekord auf sich hat. Als ein wütender Mitarbeiter die Kontrolle über ein Kinder-MMO übernahm. Niemand kann Tetris besiegen. Abnehmen mit den Angry Birds? Der Drogenrausch im Pilzkönigreich. Die Queen spielte Wii. Ein Arcade-Spiel gibt Verlierern Elektroschocks. Wenn ein Spiel Kinder beleidigt. Ein Popo-Foto sorgte für eine Release-Verschiebung.
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Game Over (German Edition)
- Kuriose Videospiele-Fakten und unterhaltsame Gaming-Geschichten: Aus der Buch-Reihe Gaming Nonsense (Gaming Nonsense: Die Bücher-Serie rund um Videospiele)
- Narrated by: Franziska Lips
- Series: Gaming Nonsense [German Edition]
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 12-02-24
- Language: German
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Cataloging the World
- Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
- By: Alex Wright
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as much about information storage and retrieval as creative genius. In Cataloging the World, Alex Wright introduces us to a figure who stands out in the long line of thinkers and idealists who devoted themselves to the task.
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Cataloging the World
- Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-10-14
- Language: English
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Cool
- How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
- By: Salvatore Basile
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The air conditioner is often hailed as one of the modern world's greatest inventions—yet nearly as often blamed for global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits; saved countless lives, and caused countless deaths. First appearing in 1902, when Willis Carrier, an engineer barely out of college, developed the "Apparatus for Treating Air," everyone assumed it would instantly change the world. But the story of air conditioning and its rise to ubiquity is far from simple.
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Cool
- How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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Energía y civilización
- By: Vaclav Smil, Alvaro Palau Arvizu
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
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En esta monumental historia, Vaclav Smil ofrece una impresionante panorámica de cómo la energía ha impulsado el progreso cultural y económico de las sociedades humanas durante los últimos diez mil años, desde los primeros grupos de cazadores-recolectores hasta la civilización fósil, pasando por las sociedades agrícolas tradicionales y la "gran transición" que lo cambió todo.
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Energía y civilización
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 20-12-22
- Language: Spanish
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Bunch of Amateurs
- A Search for the American Character
- By: Jack Hitt
- Narrated by: Peter Colburn
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS. America’s self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical...
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Bunch of Amateurs
- A Search for the American Character
- Narrated by: Peter Colburn
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 15-05-12
- Language: English
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Il Genio Quotidiano
- By: Massimo Temporelli
- Narrated by: Massimo Temporelli
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Massimo Temporelli, fisico e divulgatore scientifico, già autore del fortunato podcast Fucking Genius, racconta la nascita e la diffusione di dodici tra le invenzioni di uso quotidiano più rivoluzionarie nella storia dei sapiens. Perché l’uomo è un animale culturale e tecnologico, e quindi, per capire chi siamo e chi saremo, dobbiamo partire dalle macchine che immaginiamo, costruiamo e usiamo.
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The Vinyl Frontier
- The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
- By: Jonathan Scott
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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In 1977 a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important mixtape ever conceived. It wasn’t from one person to another - it was from Earth to the cosmos. When NASA sent Voyagers 1 and 2 on a grand tour of the outer planets, they knew the ultimate fate of these plucky probes would be to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space.
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The Vinyl Frontier
- The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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TV History
- The Most Important Technologies, People and Events That Created the History of Television
- By: Edward N. Simpson
- Narrated by: Craig Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Television is probably something we nowadays take for granted. There is a TV in almost every home, a TV in almost every public building - basically, where there is a signal, there is a TV. Found in millions of homes, it is probably difficult to imagine that the first television was created less than a century ago. In such a short time, we managed to go from silent moving images to 3D lifelike images on a flat screen.
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TV History
- The Most Important Technologies, People and Events That Created the History of Television
- Narrated by: Craig Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 02-04-21
- Language: English
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Death Underground
- The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
- By: Robert E. Hartley, David Kenney
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951. Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney explain the causes of the accidents, identify who was to blame, and detail the emotional impact the disasters had on the survivors, their families, and their communities.
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Death Underground
- The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 11-12-13
- Language: English
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
- The Legacy of the Tech Titan - The Story of a Boy Who’s Love for Tinkering with Electronics Resulted in the Invention of the First Apple Machine. And the Rest Is History (World Class Entrepreneurs, Book 4)
- By: Phil Cooper
- Narrated by: Izmi Maruf
- Length: 57 mins
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He was a genius who gave the world access to technology that is still changing the world. To this day, his greatest accomplishment is the iPhone and still is. Taken away too soon, his legacy still lives on. Countless entrepreneurs look up to him and use his advice to succeed in the business world. If it wasn't for him, we would have never been introduced to portable computers and mobile phones with touch screens.
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
- The Legacy of the Tech Titan - The Story of a Boy Who’s Love for Tinkering with Electronics Resulted in the Invention of the First Apple Machine. And the Rest Is History (World Class Entrepreneurs, Book 4)
- Narrated by: Izmi Maruf
- Length: 57 mins
- Release date: 01-05-24
- Language: English
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One Day at a Time
- 365 Innovations, Discoveries, and Triumphs in World History
- By: Bruce Wilson Jr.
- Narrated by: Brian T. Schultz
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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One Day at a Time explores 365 moments in human history, from the development of writing through the 21st century. These snapshots into the past capture the evolution of technology, the increasing connections between distant lands, and the individual triumphs that make history so fascinating.
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One Day at a Time
- 365 Innovations, Discoveries, and Triumphs in World History
- Narrated by: Brian T. Schultz
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 22-04-22
- Language: English
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Leonardo to the Internet (Third Edition)
- Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
- By: Thomas J. Misa
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
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Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. A masterful analysis of technology and culture, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects of a technology-dependent world.
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Leonardo to the Internet (Third Edition)
- Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 19-04-22
- Language: English
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The American Transportation Revolution
- A Social and Cultural History
- By: Aaron W. Marrs
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. In The American Transportation Revolution, Aaron W. Marrs explores the cultural influence of steamboats and railroads, which fascinated Americans across the country.
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The American Transportation Revolution
- A Social and Cultural History
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- By: Gregory J. Gbur
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections.
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook
- By: Daniel Alef
- Narrated by: Baron Ron Herron
- Length: 47 mins
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Separating fiction from fact, award-winning author Daniel Alef, tells the true story of Zuckerberg's meteoric rise and his indelible mark on the evolution of American culture through social networking and now advertising. The curly-haired wunderkind rubs elbows with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Graham, and other prominent players in today's business, technological, and media world and is an emerging philanthropist.
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Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook
- Narrated by: Baron Ron Herron
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 19-12-14
- Language: English
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God-like
- A 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence in Myths, Machines, Monsters
- By: Kester Brewin
- Narrated by: Kester Brewin
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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In the year 1600, a monk is burned at the stake for claiming to have built a device that will allow him to know all things. 350 years later, having witnessed 'Trinity' — the first test of the atomic bomb — America's leading scientist outlines a memory machine that will help end war on earth. 25 years in the making, an ex-soldier finally unveils this 'machine for augmenting human intellect', dazzling as he stands 'Zeus-like, dealing lightning with both hands'.
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God-like
- A 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence in Myths, Machines, Monsters
- Narrated by: Kester Brewin
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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