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How AI Really Thinks
- The Top 10 Secrets Powering Today’s Most Advanced Technologies
- By: Julian Vexley
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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How AI Really Thinks takes you behind the screen and uncovers the ten core secrets that make modern artificial intelligence work. You’ll discover why data acts as AI’s fuel, how algorithms function as its rulebook, and how machines learn from examples the same way people learn from experience. You’ll explore the training methods that help AI recognise pictures and understand speech, and you’ll see how neural networks—loosely inspired by the human brain—allow AI to detect patterns far too complex for us to notice.
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Quite dumbed down content
- By Matt R on 27-05-26
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How AI Really Thinks
- The Top 10 Secrets Powering Today’s Most Advanced Technologies
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 19-12-25
- Language: English
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The Extinction of Experience
- Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Extinction of Experience reveals the true cost of our digital age – and shows us how to return to the real world, while we still can. Human experiences are disappearing. Community is now found online; schools prioritise typing; and with headphones in and eyes...
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Very annoying narrator
- By Toby on 02-03-25
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The Extinction of Experience
- Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 23-01-25
- Language: English
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A Hacker's Mind
- How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
- By: Bruce Schneier
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Hacker’s Mind, Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society: from tax laws to financial markets to politics. He reveals an array of powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else.
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white man bad, blabla
- By julien on 19-01-24
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A Hacker's Mind
- How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
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How to Save the Internet
- The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict
- By: Nick Clegg
- Narrated by: Nick Clegg
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The global, open internet is fragmenting. How To Save the Internet outlines the global cooperation needed to reform Big Tech and preserve the internet as we know it. As democracies aim to control Big Tech, Silicon Valley adopts an America-first agenda, and...
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china or Zuckerberg, or options
- By Dave on 16-01-26
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How to Save the Internet
- The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict
- Narrated by: Nick Clegg
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- By: Allen Carr
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance59
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity. Including 20 practical steps to help you along your way, this wonderful guide will release you from the clutches of your smartphone and allow you to live in the moment. It truly is the easyway.
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Feeling pretty good after reading this book
- By Anonymous on 12-08-21
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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The Everything Blueprint
- The Microchip Design That Changed the World
- By: James Ashton
- Narrated by: James Ashton
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A big source of tension between the US and China at the moment is technology. And one very small component is now at the centre of this battle for global dominance: the microchip. Controlling chip manufacturing in the 21st century may well prove to be like controlling the oil supply in the 20th. The country that controls this manufacturing can throttle the military and economic power of others. At the heart of this battle is ARM Holdings. The Everything Blueprint describes the titanic power struggle for control of the microchip.
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Outstanding Business Book
- By J D A LAING on 12-10-24
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The Everything Blueprint
- The Microchip Design That Changed the World
- Narrated by: James Ashton
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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Survival of the Richest "International Edition"
- By: Douglas Rushkoff
- Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making—as long as they have enough money and the right technology.
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The perfect audio book
- By Addicted to Books on 13-04-26
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Survival of the Richest "International Edition"
- Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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Dear Future
- You Can Keep the Change
- By: Ronee Hulk
- Narrated by: Bill Lancz
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In Dear Future: You Can Keep The Change, Ronee Hulk offers a haunting and deeply human exploration of artificial intelligence and its quiet unravelling of the systems that once defined who we are. With automation racing ahead of imagination; algorithms deciding what we make, trade, and even how we are valued; Could the global economy fall apart; not through disorder but through the precision of its own design?
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Dear Future
- You Can Keep the Change
- Narrated by: Bill Lancz
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 19-12-25
- Language: English
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The Inevitable
- Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- By: Kevin Kelly
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall571
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Performance500
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A New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends...
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Unimaginative and unrelentingly tedious
- By Daft Monk on 22-08-17
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The Inevitable
- Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-06-16
- Language: English
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Screen People
- How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency
- By: Megan Garber
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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'Incisive' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation of how technology and entertainment have warped humanity ' SOPHIE GILBERT, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF GIRL ON GIRL _______ From an award-winning staff writer for the Atlantic, Screen People is an eye-opening...
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Screen People
- How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- By: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance31
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Run a Google search for “black girls” - what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls”, the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.
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Identifying weaponised classification
- By Amazon Customer on 29-11-24
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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Why Machines Learn
- The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
- By: Anil Ananthaswamy
- Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that is not slowing down. This major shift is based on simple mathematics, some of which goes back centuries: linear algebra and calculus, the stuff of eighteenth-century mathematics. Indeed by the mid-1850s, a lot of the groundwork was all done. In this enlightening book, Anil Ananthaswamy explains the fundamental maths behind AI, which suggests that the basics of natural and artificial intelligence might follow the same mathematical rules.
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Fantastic book to understand AI
- By Liviu O on 15-03-25
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Why Machines Learn
- The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
- Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 16-07-24
- Language: English
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- By: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Joseph May
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Soonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, read by Kelly Weinersmith and Joseph May. What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach...
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Author / narrator seriously grating
- By KMV on 02-03-18
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- Narrated by: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Joseph May
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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The End of Reality
- How four billionaires are selling out our future
- By: Jonathan Taplin
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns. At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our...
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Read this, understand how to Vote in November
- By Allan Paterson on 10-08-24
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The End of Reality
- How four billionaires are selling out our future
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- By: Mo Gawdat
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance354
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This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat. One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a...
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Don’t be fooled by his gospel of AI.
- By I.H. Schots on 30-10-21
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- By: Scott Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott Shapiro exposes the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators.
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Fancy bear for beginners Not Much Depth
- By Zaba on 29-05-24
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?
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An important story told very well
- By Anonymous on 24-06-24
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Series: Backfired
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- By: Richard Susskind
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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In How To Think About AI, Richard Susskind draws on his experience of working on AI since the early 1980s. For Susskind, balancing the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence is the defining challenge of our age. He explores the history of AI and possible scenarios for its future. His views on AI are not always conventional. He positions ChatGPT and generative AI as no more than the latest chapter in the ongoing story of AI and claims we are still at the foothills of developments.
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An enjoyable, thoughtful listen
- By M Nichols on 23-09-25
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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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Hacking Humanity
- Innovations for a healthier life
- By: Lara Lewington
- Narrated by: Lara Lewington
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. What if we could stop cancer in its tracks, prevent cardiovascular disease, lose weight at will and reverse the effects of ageing? With new developments in artificial intelligence, gene editing and robotics, it might all be possible sooner than you think. In Hacking...
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2025 Technology Update
- By John on 19-08-25
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Hacking Humanity
- Innovations for a healthier life
- Narrated by: Lara Lewington
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 10-07-25
- Language: English
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks...
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Very not coherent book
- By Saad Kamoona on 26-06-25
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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