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The Big Score
- The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
- By: Michael S. Malone
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the past five decades, the tech industry has grown into one of the most important sectors of the global economy, and Silicon Valley - replete with sprawling office parks, sky-high rents, and countless self-made millionaires - is home to many of its key players. But the origins of Silicon Valley and the tech sector are much humbler. At a time when tech companies’ influence continues to grow, The Big Score chronicles how they began.
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The Big Score
- The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-07-2021
- Language: English
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Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
- By: Nicholas de Monchaux
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: 21 layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of that spacesuit. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex" - a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics.
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The best story I have ever heard about Apollo
- By Jack Fleming on 13-03-2018
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Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2014
- Language: English
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Influence Empire
- The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
- By: Lulu Yilun Chen
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip, Lulu Yilum Chen
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2019, a Chinese entity called Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth-largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism of Silicon Valley: Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft. Yet to many of the two billion-plus people who live just across the Pacific Ocean, it came as no surprise at all.
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Influence Empire
- The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip, Lulu Yilum Chen
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2022
- Language: English
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A Question of Power
- Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
- By: Robert Bryce
- Narrated by: Robert Bryce
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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An “informative and highly readable” (Foreign Affairs) breakdown of the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment Global demand for power is doubling every two decades, but electricity remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to...
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Realistic look at both sides of the story
- By shaun p on 30-09-2025
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A Question of Power
- Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
- Narrated by: Robert Bryce
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-03-2020
- Language: English
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The Bomb and America's Missile Age
- By: Christopher Gainor
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to quickly deliver thermonuclear weapons to distant targets, was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. More than a generation later, we are still living with the political, technological, and scientific effects of the space race, while nuclear-armed ICBMs remain on alert and in the headlines around the world. Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's decision, in March 1954, to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM.
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The Bomb and America's Missile Age
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-10-2018
- Language: English
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- By: David A. Price
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer—decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age. Winner, Institute of Electrical and...
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2021
- Language: English
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- By: Dan Parry
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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‘It didn’t matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below. “Thirty seconds,” called mission control. In truth, the flight controllers were now no more than spectators, just like everybody else. No more needed to be said. It was down to Armstrong
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of Man's Greatest Adventure
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-02-2011
- Language: English
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- By: Marie Hicks
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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In Programmed Inequality, Marie Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, labor problems grew into structural ones, and gender discrimination caused the nation's largest computer user to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole.
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brilliant book
- By DigsBooks on 25-03-2020
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 27-02-2018
- Language: English
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Future Histories
- What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
- By: Lizzie O'Shea
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a "usable past" that can help us determine our digital future. What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources - like the internet - in common?
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Quite interesting
- By Clare on 14-08-2019
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Future Histories
- What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2019
- Language: English
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Fire in the Valley
- The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
- By: Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
- Narrated by: Don Azevedo
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution.
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Fire in the Valley
- The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
- Narrated by: Don Azevedo
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 10-05-2017
- Language: English
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- By: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 18-06-2019
- Language: English
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Replay
- The History of Video Games
- By: Tristan Donovan, Richard Garriott
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past.
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Great nostalgia
- By Geoff Jones on 10-04-2022
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Replay
- The History of Video Games
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2017
- Language: English
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Exploding the Phone
- The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
- By: Phil Lapsley
- Narrated by: Johann North
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary "harmonic telegraph", by the middle of the 20th century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.
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Exploding the Phone
- The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
- Narrated by: Johann North
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-07-2013
- Language: English
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The Road Ahead
- By: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson, Bill Gates
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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The founder of Microsoft presents his vision for the future, in which he sees the digital technologies of the coming years changing the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate...
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The Road Ahead
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson, Bill Gates
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2009
- 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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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
- Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
- By: Ralph Watson McElvenny, Marc Wortman
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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“A compelling new biography… [The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived] spins the Watsons into near-Shakespearean figures, as if ‘Succession’ were set in the era of ‘Mad Men’.” ―The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.—a figure...
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Great insight into IBM and Watson family
- By Anonymous on 24-01-2024
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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
- Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2023
- Language: English
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- By: George Dyson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study...
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2012
- Language: English
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- By: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages - of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today.
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Eudaemonic Pie
- The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas
- By: Thomas A. Bass
- Narrated by: Stephen Tupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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The Eudaemonic Pie is the bizarre true story of how a band of physicists and computer wizards took on Las Vegas. It chronicles the origins of personal computers, the history of gambling, and the comedy of living a good life governed according to reason (eudaemonia).
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The Eudaemonic Pie
- The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas
- Narrated by: Stephen Tupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2017
- Language: English
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When Computing Got Personal
- A History of the Desktop Computer
- By: Matt Nicholson
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of how a handful of geeks and mavericks dragged the computer out of corporate back rooms and laboratories and into our living rooms and offices. It is a tale not only of extraordinary innovation and vision but also of cunning business deals, boardroom tantrums and acrimonious lawsuits.
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Great for us young 'uns
- By Tom S on 20-05-2019
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When Computing Got Personal
- A History of the Desktop Computer
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2015
- Language: English
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