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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
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In 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. Suddenly Silicon Valley, not NASA, was the epicentre of the new Space Age. Start-ups and investors began to realise that the heavens - ungoverned and unregulated - were open for business. When the Heavens Went on Sale tells the remarkable, unfolding story of this frenzied race to control access to outer space. Ashlee Vance follows four pioneering companies - Astra, Firefly, Planet Labs and Rocket Lab - as they attempt to launch thousands of low-cost rockets and satellites into orbit.
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A heavenly tale about apace.
- By David on 24-12-2023
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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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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs
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In this timely and enlightening audiobook, Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can have fun with friends and family and eat out at restaurants without the obsessive urge to document the experience...Now, Newport gives us a name for this quiet movement and makes a case for its urgency in our tech-saturated world.
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Read Deep Work
- By Anonymous User on 07-08-2019
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 05-02-2019
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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Destroy Erase Improve
- By Mike on 08-01-2018
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-08-2017
- Language: English
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Artificial Intelligence
- A Guide for Thinking Humans
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent - really - are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way, she introduces the dominant methods of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought that led to recent achievements.
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Explanations
- By mikeberry2 on 11-04-2024
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Artificial Intelligence
- A Guide for Thinking Humans
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2019
- Language: English
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New Power
- Why outsiders are winning, institutions are failing, and how the rest of us can keep up in the age of mass participation
- By: Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms
- Narrated by: Andrew Fallaize
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, hyperconnected world? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our age - the rise of megaplatforms like Facebook and Uber; the out-of-nowhere rise of Trump and Corbyn - and reveal what's really behind them: the rise of New Power. For most of human history, the rules of power were clear. To get ahead or get things done, you mastered 'old power', which is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven....
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Great insights into paradigm
- By Mentor Education Pty Ltd on 08-07-2023
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New Power
- Why outsiders are winning, institutions are failing, and how the rest of us can keep up in the age of mass participation
- Narrated by: Andrew Fallaize
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-04-2018
- Language: English
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Mr Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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From the Pulitzer Prize winner and number one international best-selling author of The World Is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the 21st century. We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying.
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A fascinating picture of where the world is headed and the pace at which we are going there
- By Daniel Burgess on 14-06-2017
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- Narrated by: Mr Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2017
- Language: English
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Filterworld
- How Algorithms Flattened Culture
- By: Kyle Chayka
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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From coffee shops to city grids to TikTok feeds and Netflix homepages the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences. This network of mathematically determined choices - the 'filterworld' - has taken over, almost unnoticed, as we've grown accustomed to an insipid new normal. But to have our tastes, behaviours, and emotions governed by computers calls the very notion of free will into question. Internationally recognized journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka journeys through this ever-tightening web woven by algorithms.
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Filterworld
- How Algorithms Flattened Culture
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2024
- Language: English
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Sandy Hook
- An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
- By: Elizabeth Williamson
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later, Sandy Hook has become a foundational story of how false conspiracy narratives and malicious misinformation have gained traction in society.
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Timely and fascinating
- By Amazon Customer on 06-06-2023
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Sandy Hook
- An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 08-03-2022
- Language: English
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Future Minds
- The Rise of Intelligence, from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe
- By: Richard Yonck
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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With the ongoing advancement of AI and other technologies, our world is becoming increasingly intelligent. From chatbots to innovations in brain-computer interfaces to the possibility of superintelligences leading to the Singularity later this century, our reality is being transformed before our eyes. This is commonly seen as the natural result of progress, but what if there's more to it than that? What if intelligence is an inevitability, an underlying property of the universe?
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Future Minds
- The Rise of Intelligence, from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2020
- Language: English
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Growth
- A Reckoning
- By: Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer. As a result, the unfettered pursuit of growth defines economic life around the world. Yet this prosperity has come at an enormous price. At this time of uncertainty about growth and its value, award-winning economist Daniel Susskind provides an essential reckoning. In a sweeping analysis full of historical insight, he argues that we cannot abandon growth but shows instead how we must redirect it, making it better reflect what we truly value.
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Growth
- A Reckoning
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2024
- 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
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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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this book is amazing.
- By josh on 07-03-2023
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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: 07-02-2023
- Language: English
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Life 3.0
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro. We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society - and even our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionise our collective future - and there's nobody better situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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Absolutely awesome.
- By Craig on 10-11-2019
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Life 3.0
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2018
- Language: English
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- By: Klaus Schwab
- Narrated by: Mr Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum on how the impending technological revolution will change our lives. We are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And this one will be unlike any other in human history. Characterized by new technologies fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will impact all disciplines, economies and industries - and it will do so at an unprecedented rate.
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delusional, out of touch, control freak...YAWN....
- By Liz Forster-knight on 05-01-2022
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Narrated by: Mr Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2017
- Language: English
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- By: Madhumita Murgia
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Through the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Madhumita Murgia, AI Editor at the FT, exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency – and shatter our illusion of free will.
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2024
- Language: English
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- By: Brian Christian
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. Algorithms decide bail and parole - and appear to assess black and white defendants differently. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. And autonomous vehicles on our streets can injure or kill.
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excellent primer on AI Safety
- By Mike C on 30-01-2023
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2020
- Language: English
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- By: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment systems. But according to prominent political scientists Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, this network is the key source of American power on the global stage, more significant than its military might. Underground Empire weaves together tales of economic conflict, shadowy surveillance technologies and covert infrastructure projects to present an explosive new vision of geopolitics.
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2023
- Language: English
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Wrong Theory
- By: Girish Abhyankar
- Narrated by: Sagar Naik
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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A scientific evaluation: is intense use of technology (hard-tech), progress, development, economic growth, and technological advances in self-learning artificial intelligence and robotics helping humans lead and sustain a joyous, leisurely and dignified life? What are the real objectives of using technology? What costs does human society bear, in terms of efforts put in and possible harm, for the claimed benefits of technology? Do the claimed benefits serve to achieve the real objectives?
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Wrong Theory
- Narrated by: Sagar Naik
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2024
- Language: English
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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We LIve and Work
- By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving, in this groundbreaking book in the vein of Daniel Pink's Drive and Charles Duhigg's Smarter Faster Better.
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The whole book could fit in a chapter
- By Mr. G. Trabakoulas on 12-10-2017
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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We LIve and Work
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2017
- 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
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From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives. Much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives - from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture.
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Good picture of future tech
- By Sarah Collins on 19-07-2017
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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: 07-06-2016
- Language: English
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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.
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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2023
- Language: English
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