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Unlocked
- The Real Science of Screen Time (and How to Spend It Better)
- By: Pete Etchells
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Most of us spend a significant part of the day in front of a screen. Our work and social lives play out through our computers, tablets and phones: on email, social media, video conference calls and gaming servers. But what is all this screen time doing to our health, our sleep, and our relationships? Professor Pete Etchells studies the way we use screens, and how they can affect us. In UNLOCKED, he delves into the real science behind the panic about our alleged device addiction and withering attention spans.
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Unlocked
- The Real Science of Screen Time (and How to Spend It Better)
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2024
- Language: English
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Taming Silicon Valley
- How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
- By: Gary Marcus
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Or it could be a disaster, leading to the downfall of democracy, or even our extinction. In Taming Silicon Valley, Gary Marcus, one of the most trusted voices in AI, explains that we still have a choice. And that the decisions we make now about AI will shape our next century.
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Taming Silicon Valley
- How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2025
- Language: English
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Transforming Reality
- 10 Technologies Redefining Our Experience
- By: Julian Vexley
- Narrated by: Bob McCoy
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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We are entering an era where the borders between the real and the virtual, the biological and the digital, the physical and the imagined are dissolving. Transforming Reality is a journey into the technologies that are not just shaping our future but rewriting the very experience of being human. From augmented and virtual realities that bend perception, to artificial intelligence that predicts and personalises our every move, to brain-computer interfaces that connect mind to machine—this book dives into the innovations that are dismantling the old rules of engagement with the world around us.
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Transforming Reality
- 10 Technologies Redefining Our Experience
- Narrated by: Bob McCoy
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2025
- Language: English
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The Future Internet
- How the Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Blockchain Will Transform Business and Society
- By: Bernard Marr
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Acclaimed futurist, author, and digital strategist Bernard Marr delivers a compelling and engaging discussion of the technologies driving the impending—and ongoing—transformation of the internet, including blockchain, augmented reality (AR), and more. In the book, you'll explore the risks and opportunities presented by these game-changing techs and how they might impact you, your organization, and community.
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The Future Internet
- How the Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Blockchain Will Transform Business and Society
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 21-08-2023
- Language: English
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The Power of Onlyness
- Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
- By: Nilofer Merchant
- Narrated by: Nilofer Merchant
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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An 800-CEO-READ Staff Pick Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award A Financial Times Business Book of the Month “For any would-be activists who hear the voice: ‘not me’ or ‘not now,’ Merchant makes the strong case for ‘yes you’ and ‘yes now’—and even shows...
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A smart and original book
- By Sara T on 02-12-2019
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The Power of Onlyness
- Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
- Narrated by: Nilofer Merchant
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2017
- Language: English
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Footprints in the Dust
- The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
- By: Richard F. Gordon Jr, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Jerry Longe
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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The flight of Apollo 11 was a triumph of human endeavor, persistence, and technology, one of the greatest achievements in human history. This book begins with the mission that sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin to the moon, then follows American spaceflight through the harrowing rescue of Apollo 13 before moving on to the successful joint Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.
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Footprints in the Dust
- The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
- Narrated by: Jerry Longe
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2014
- Language: English
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Digital Minimalism in Everyday Life: Overcome Technology Addiction, Declutter Your Mind, and Reclaim Your Freedom
- Mindfulness and Minimalism, Book 1
- By: James W. Williams, Amy White
- Narrated by: Ryan Lee Dunlap
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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Do you feel like you are wasting too much time on your smartphone? Do you feel like your digital technology use is becoming too habitual? Don’t worry. You’re not alone. If you feel like your gadgets are stealing a lot of your time, focus, and energy, then this book, Digital Minimalism in Everyday Life, may have the solution for you. If you get lost in a maze of gadgets, apps, and digital technology, then the concepts, tools, and tips you will learn from this book, Digital Minimalism in Everyday Life, will help you set things straight.
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Digital Minimalism in Everyday Life: Overcome Technology Addiction, Declutter Your Mind, and Reclaim Your Freedom
- Mindfulness and Minimalism, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ryan Lee Dunlap
- Series: Mindfulness and Minimalism, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-11-2020
- Language: English
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To Save Everything, Click Here
- The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- By: Evgeny Morozov
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such “solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?
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To Save Everything, Click Here
- The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2013
- Language: English
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The Complete Beginner's Guide to AI
- Your Easy Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Real World Applications, Ethical Issues, and Future Innovations
- By: Gloria Lembo
- Narrated by: TJ Walser
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you curious about how AI is transforming the world around you? The Complete Beginner's Guide to AI breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand language. This book is designed to make the fascinating world of AI accessible and relatable to everyone, regardless of your technical expertise. Learn what AI is and how it has evolved with terms and concepts explained in plain, everyday language. Discover the AI technologies already woven into your daily life, sometimes in unexpected places. Explore AI's profound impact on various industries.
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The Complete Beginner's Guide to AI
- Your Easy Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Real World Applications, Ethical Issues, and Future Innovations
- Narrated by: TJ Walser
- Series: The Complete AI Guides
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2025
- Language: English
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Ethical Hacking
- The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Using Penetration Testing to Audit and Improve the Cyber Security of Computer Networks, Including Tips on Social Engineering
- By: Lester Evans
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever feel like you don’t even own the hardware and software you paid dearly for? Ever get the impression that you have to ask for permission before installing or changing a program on your device? Ever feel like Facebook and Instagram are listening to your conversations to show you relevant ads? You’re not alone. Half-baked products and services that chip away at your sense of ownership, independence and privacy are a part of a global wave of corporate indifference that micromanages and spies on honest, uniformed customers.
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Interesting
- By Ben on 23-07-2019
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Ethical Hacking
- The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Using Penetration Testing to Audit and Improve the Cyber Security of Computer Networks, Including Tips on Social Engineering
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-02-2019
- Language: English
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Victorious Century
- The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
- By: David Cannadine
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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To live in 19th-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent. There were revolutions in transport, communication and work; cities grew vast; and scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognisable. This was an exhilarating time but also a horrifying one. In his new book, David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British 19th century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice.
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Victorious Century
- The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2017
- Language: English
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"You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
- How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
- By: Torie Bosch - editor, Ellen Ullman - introduction, Kelly Chudler
- Narrated by: Emily Schwing, Mack Sanderson
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” demonstrates that, far from being preordained, computer code is the result of very human decisions, ones we all live with when we use social media, take photos, drive our cars, and engage in a host of other activities.
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"You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
- How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
- Narrated by: Emily Schwing, Mack Sanderson
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2022
- Language: English
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Early True Believers
- The Untold Story of Silicon Alley
- By: Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Fisher
- Narrated by: Vanessa Grigoriadis
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Early True Believers: The Untold Story of Silicon Alley is a 1990s saga of ambition and innovation set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, a swath of downtown that served as New York City’s nerve center of tech entrepreneurship. The series features the stories of a forgotten cohort of early internet visionaries, countercultural social networks, the digital gold rush, and the lavish events that came with it, including one held in an underground Tribeca bunker that abruptly ended in a police raid—a harbinger of the upheaval to come.
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Early True Believers
- The Untold Story of Silicon Alley
- Narrated by: Vanessa Grigoriadis
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2024
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution
- A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin, Electricity, and Other Inventions
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to clothing and other finished products, has been done either solely by hand or with some help of animal power. This was the same across the eras and throughout the world, no matter how advanced or backward the various civilizations were. Yet, our lives today couldn’t be more different.
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The Industrial Revolution
- A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin, Electricity, and Other Inventions
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 02-09-2020
- Language: English
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A Biography of the Pixel
- By: Alvy Ray Smith
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would be composed of pixels. In A Biography of the Pixel, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith argues that the pixel is the organizing principle of most modern media, and he presents a few simple but profound ideas that unify the dazzling varieties of digital image making.
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Hard to follow without diagrams
- By andrew on 07-09-2022
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A Biography of the Pixel
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-04-2022
- Language: English
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The New Fire
- War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
- By: Ben Buchanan, Andrew Imbrie
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous-in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire. If we manage AI well, it will become a force for good, lighting the way to many transformative inventions. If we deploy it thoughtlessly, it will advance beyond our control. As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire, few choices are more urgent—or more fascinating—than how we harness this technology and for what purpose.
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The New Fire
- War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 29-03-2022
- Language: English
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Mindmasters (Anna Caputo version)
- The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
- By: Sandra Matz
- Narrated by: Anna Caputo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg.
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Mindmasters (Anna Caputo version)
- The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
- Narrated by: Anna Caputo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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Alan Turing
- The Enigma Man
- By: Nigel Cawthorne
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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According to Winston Churchill, Alan Turing made the single biggest contribution to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany with his code-breaking machine. The world is also indebted to Turing's genius for the modern computer. It was clear that Turing had a remarkable mind from an early age. He taught himself to read in just three weeks. At his first school, the headmistress said, "I have had clever and hardworking boys, but Alan has genius."
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Alan Turing
- The Enigma Man
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 29-12-2015
- Language: English
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Life Mode On
- How to Feel Less Stressed, More Present and Back in Control When Using Technology
- By: Dr Joanne Orlando
- Narrated by: Dr Joanne Orlando
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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Life Mode On is a revolutionary approach to living a better life with technology and our personal devices, from digital lifestyle expert Dr Joanne Orlando. These are no quick fixes; these are real, practical solutions for long-term fulfilment in our increasingly digital world. Dr Jo helps people to understand their technology use and make it better.
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Life Mode On
- How to Feel Less Stressed, More Present and Back in Control When Using Technology
- Narrated by: Dr Joanne Orlando
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2021
- Language: English
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Making a Metaverse That Matters
- From Snow Crash & Second Life to a Virtual World Worth Fighting For
- By: Wagner James Au
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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The celebrated author of The Making of Second Life and Game Design Secrets Wagner, James Au, delivers an engrossing exploration of how nascent metaverse platforms have already captured the imagination of millions. Featuring powerful stories and dozens of incisive interviews with insiders including Metaverse creator Neal Stephenson himself, the author uses his unique, grassroots-level perspective as the first reporter embedded in a metaverse platform.
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- By Sean on 09-08-2024
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Making a Metaverse That Matters
- From Snow Crash & Second Life to a Virtual World Worth Fighting For
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2023
- Language: English
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