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When The Heavens Went On Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. *An instant New York Times Bestseller* A momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race, from the 3-million copy, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk In 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a...
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Excellent well researched and well paced book
- By Trevor on 19-09-2025
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When The Heavens Went On Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2023
- Language: English
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Numbers Don't Lie
- 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance70
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Brought to you by Penguin. Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet...
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Each chapter ends just as it's getting interesting
- By Jack Heath on 06-01-2023
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Numbers Don't Lie
- 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2020
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance31
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades. What will it mean to live free from the limits of our bodies? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and...
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Interesting predictions-well written
- By Peter N. Ayscough on 19-08-2024
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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: 27-06-2024
- Language: English
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors! From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven...
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2020
- Language: English
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Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- By: Clarence L "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith, Brig Gen Leo P. Geary USAF (ret.) - Foreword
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance34
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Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
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Great
- By Michael on 15-01-2022
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Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2019
- Language: English
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- By: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall122
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Performance108
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Story108
A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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Great story - very prescient
- By Adam Webb on 03-01-2020
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2019
- Language: English
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IBM
- The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
- By: James W. Cortada
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
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IBM
- The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-06-2024
- Language: English
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
- By: Andrew Hodges
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
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Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications.
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2024
- Language: English
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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
- (and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis)
- By: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Naomi Alderman
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life? In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all: how do we...
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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
- (and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis)
- Narrated by: Naomi Alderman
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2025
- Language: English
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Our Final Invention
- Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
- By: James Barrat
- Narrated by: Gary Dana
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance63
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Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail - human-level intelligence.
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Great read - poor narration
- By Richard barrett on 29-10-2017
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Our Final Invention
- Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
- Narrated by: Gary Dana
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2014
- Language: English
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The Art of the Digital Detox
- How to Reclaim Your Brain, Focus, and Free Time
- By: Marcus Waverly
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Stockton
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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You wake up and reach for your phone. Before your day even begins, your focus is already gone. In a world of endless notifications, social media, and constant digital noise, The Art of the Digital Detox offers a practical, realistic guide to reclaiming your attention without quitting technology altogether. This book explains why screens are so addictive, how multitasking destroys focus, and how to redesign your habits, environment, and boundaries to regain mental clarity.
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The Art of the Digital Detox
- How to Reclaim Your Brain, Focus, and Free Time
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Stockton
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2026
- Language: English
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Uncanny Valley
- A Memoir
- By: Anna Wiener
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Narrator Suehyla El-Attar has a strong voice for this memoir of a woman's journey into the mostly male world of tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. She is energetic, funny, and swift while telling the story of Anna Wiener's acculturation from book publishing in...
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Uncanny Valley
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2020
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Master
- A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Matteo Pasquinelli
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence," a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's "calculating engines" of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance.
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The Eye of the Master
- A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2026
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2025
- Language: English
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- By: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gidel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance35
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have.
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Interesting
- By Anonymous on 11-02-2020
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gidel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2019
- Language: English
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The Organized Mind
- The Science of Preventing Overload, Increasing Productivity and Restoring Your Focus
- By: Daniel Levitin
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance84
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin, read by Luke Daniels. 'Thought-provoking and practical ... Good advice based on sound neuroscientific principles' Sunday Times In The Organized Mind, New York Times and Sunday Times...
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amazing the best book on organization out there.
- By greg barr on 15-02-2016
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The Organized Mind
- The Science of Preventing Overload, Increasing Productivity and Restoring Your Focus
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-07-2015
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- By: Joseph Menn
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Joseph Menn
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance43
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The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our freedom, “a hugely important piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping the internet age” (The New York Times Book Review) Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest...
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A very interesting listen
- By I. Larsen on 23-07-2020
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Joseph Menn
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2019
- Language: English
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A World Without Email
- Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever (from the NYT bestselling productivity expert)
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance32
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Brought to you by Penguin. Feel like you're always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them - and how much happier would you be? Emails are an integral part of work today. But the 'kind regards', forwards and attachments we check every 5.4 minutes are making us...
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Some really good aspects to consider and take onboard
- By Jabba on 08-03-2021
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A World Without Email
- Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever (from the NYT bestselling productivity expert)
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2021
- Language: English
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- By: Kim Zetter
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance81
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A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. “Immensely enjoyable...
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A Thrilling Eye-Opener
- By Jason on 20-05-2017
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 11-11-2014
- Language: English
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The Optimist
- Sam Altman, OpenAI and the Race to Invent the Future
- By: Keach Hagey
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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In The Optimist, the Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey presents the most detailed account yet of Altman’s rise, his time as legendary entrepreneur Paul Graham’s protégé and successor as head of Y Combinator, the start-up accelerator where Altman became the premier power broker in Silicon Valley; the founding of OpenAI and his recruitment of a small yet superior team.
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Important topic, not a story as such though
- By Daniel on 08-06-2025
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The Optimist
- Sam Altman, OpenAI and the Race to Invent the Future
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-05-2025
- Language: English
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