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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
- Unabridged
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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: 14-10-2014
- Language: English
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Technocreep
- The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
- By: Thomas P. Keenan
- Narrated by: Thomas P. Keenan
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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With security scares like the Heartbleed bug (which compromised even supposedly safe internet behemoths like Google and Yahoo!) becoming more commonplace, this book is a must-listen for anybody who values their privacy in a wired world.
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Technocreep
- The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
- Narrated by: Thomas P. Keenan
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-10-2014
- Language: English
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Breve historia del condón y de los métodos anticonceptivos
- By: Ana Martos Rubio
- Narrated by: Gladys Barriga
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Ana Martos, en Breve Historia del condón y los métodos anticonceptivos, nos descubre, en un estilo ágil pero con absoluto rigor científico, no sólo la historia de los distintos medios para el control de la natalidad, sino las distintas posiciones que, desde la filosofía y la religión principalmente, se han opuesto a dichos medios.
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Breve historia del condón y de los métodos anticonceptivos
- Narrated by: Gladys Barriga
- Series: Breve Historia de
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2014
- Language: Spanish
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Computerised You
- How Wearable Technology Will Turn Us into Computers
- 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: 16-07-2014
- Language: English
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Connected
- The Power of Modern Community
- By: Marc Thomas, Hannah Waldram, Ed Walker
- Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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In Connected, Hannah Waldram, Ed Walker and Marc Thomas explore examples from across the world which demonstrate that social media is a hugely powerful tool, but it is when it combines with physical communities - spurring action, amplifying a message, organizing movements - that it becomes truly transformative. It is a fascinating insight into how communities can be so much greater than the sum of their parts, and how the power of the internet has become seamlessly woven into community action.
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Connected
- The Power of Modern Community
- Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 19-08-2014
- Language: English
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- By: Chris Impey, Holly Henry
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it
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Dreams of Other Worlds
- The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2014
- Language: English
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The Parent App
- Understanding Families in the Digital Age
- By: Lynn Schofield Clark
- Narrated by: Jean Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations never faced: Is my 13-year-old responsible enough for a Facebook page? What will happen if I give my nine-year-old a cell phone?
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The Parent App
- Understanding Families in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Jean Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2014
- Language: English
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Our Own Devices
- How Technology Remakes Humanity
- By: Edward Tenner
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Once we step on the treadmill of progress, it's hard to step off. Yet Edward Tenner shows that human ingenuity can be applied in self-preservation as well, and he sheds light on the ways in which the users of commonplace technology surprise designers and engineers, as when early typists developed the touch method still employed on today's keyboards. And he offers concrete advice for reaping benefits from the devices that we no longer seem able to live without. Although dependent on these objects, we can also use them to liberate ourselves.
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Our Own Devices
- How Technology Remakes Humanity
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-11-2013
- Language: English
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Edison's Concrete Piano
- Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
- By: Judy Wearing
- Narrated by: Barbara Dellenback
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Highlighting the careers of well-known inventors, this exploration of failure amid greatness reveals the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and their big flops alongside great successes. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead.
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Edison's Concrete Piano
- Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
- Narrated by: Barbara Dellenback
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2013
- Language: English
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Rewire
- Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
- By: Ethan Zuckerman
- Narrated by: Ethan Zuckerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online grows, it inevitably leads to a smaller, more cosmopolitan world. We’ll understand more, we think. We’ll know more. We’ll engage more and share more with people from other cultures. In reality, it is easier to ship bottles of water from Fiji to Atlanta than it is to get news from Tokyo to New York.
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Rewire
- Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
- Narrated by: Ethan Zuckerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-10-2013
- Language: English
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Delete
- The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
- By: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when.
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Delete
- The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2009
- Language: English
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The App Generation
- How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
- 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: 22-10-2013
- Language: English
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The Laws of Disruption
- Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business
- By: Larry Downes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Walker
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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While digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Business strategists, lawyers, judges, regulators, and consumers have all been left behind, scratching their heads, frantically trying to figure out what they can and can't do. Some want to bring innovation to a standstill (or at least to slow it down) through lawsuits and regulation so they can catch their breath. Larry Downes provides an invaluable guide for these confusing times, exploring nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life.
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The Laws of Disruption
- Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business
- Narrated by: Jonathan Walker
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2009
- Language: English
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Virtually You
- The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality
- By: Elias Aboujaoude
- Narrated by: Teddy Canez
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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A penetrating examination of the insidious effects of the Internet on our personalities - online and off. Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it.
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Virtually You
- The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality
- Narrated by: Teddy Canez
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-02-2011
- Language: English
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Autophobia
- Love and Hate in the Automotive Age
- By: Brian Ladd
- Narrated by: Susan Bennet
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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From the Model T to the SUV, Autophobia reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new. In fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century now, ever since the automobile was invented. According to Brian Ladd, this love and hate relationship we share with our cars is the defining quality of the automotive age.
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Autophobia
- Love and Hate in the Automotive Age
- Narrated by: Susan Bennet
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2010
- Language: English
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Always On
- How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future - and Locked Us In
- By: Brian Chen
- Narrated by: Brian Chen
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became capable of serving a rapidly growing number of functions--now more than 350,000 and counting. But the iPhone has implications far beyond the phone or gadget market.
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Always On
- How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future - and Locked Us In
- Narrated by: Brian Chen
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2011
- Language: English
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Empty Pleasures
- The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
- By: Carolyn de la Pena
- Narrated by: Navida Stein
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in America, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda.
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Empty Pleasures
- The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
- Narrated by: Navida Stein
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-12-2010
- Language: English
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The Info Mesa
- Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau
- By: Ed Regis
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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How did a small southwest town transform itself into a hotbed of research science, advanced technology, and money? Tracking key figures in Santa Fe's emerging industries, Ed Regis explains how entrepreneurial scientists are using complexity theory and powerful, experimental computer programs to create practical - and profitable - applications. Their efforts to convert vast, diverse data, whether chemical or biological or computational, into useful information is leading to new drugs and medical therapies, ultimately revolutionizing our understanding of effective business strategies.
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The Info Mesa
- Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2013
- Language: English
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Le grandi idee che hanno cambiato il mondo
- By: Elena Sciotti
- Narrated by: Carlotta Viscovo
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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La minigonna o il latte in polvere? La pillola anticoncezionale o la lavatrice? Lo smartphone o il fast food? La Divina Commedia o lo sbarco sulla Luna? Omero o il velinismo? Che cosa ha rivoluzionato davvero la vita degli uomini e delle donne di oggi? Muovendosi tra scoperte tecnologiche, piccole e grandi invenzioni, colpi di genio o fortuna, questo libro racconta la storia di 101 idee che hanno cambiato il mondo, attingendo a studi, ricerche, notizie di cronaca.
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Le grandi idee che hanno cambiato il mondo
- Narrated by: Carlotta Viscovo
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2020
- Language: Italian
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Behind the Screen
- Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media
- By: Sarah T. Roberts
- Narrated by: Laura Darrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content moderators evaluate posts on mainstream social media platforms: enforcing internal policies, training artificial intelligence systems, and actively screening and removing offensive material. Roberts, an award-winning social media scholar, offers the first extensive ethnographic study of the commercial content moderation industry.
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Behind the Screen
- Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media
- Narrated by: Laura Darrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2019
- Language: English
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