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Transition Point
- From Steam to the Singularity
- By: Sean A. Culey
- Narrated by: Sean Culey
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
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The world is an uncertain and unnerving place right now. Technological advancement is creating a perfect storm of disruption, changing the way we shop, eat, work, and communicate. The traditional structures that underpin Western society are all unraveling, identity politics is running rampant, and there is a heightened sense of victimhood with demands for the state to intervene.
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Transition Point
- From Steam to the Singularity
- Narrated by: Sean Culey
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2020
- Language: English
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How Digital Technology Shapes Us
- By: Indre Viskontas, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Indre Viskontas
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Digital technology definitely shapes us. But once we learn how it does so, we can make good decisions for our ourselves and our children.
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How Digital Technology Shapes Us
- Narrated by: Professor Indre Viskontas
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-09-2020
- Language: English
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Against Technoableism
- Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
- By: Ashley Shew
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume they want—nor are they generally asked. In vibrant prose, Shew shows how we can create better narratives and more accessible futures by drawing from the insights of the cross-disability community.
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Against Technoableism
- Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-12-2023
- Language: English
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The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making
- By: Alex Caldwell
- Narrated by: Alex Pike
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making is the guide you need. Backed by cognitive science and grounded in real-life examples, this hands-on workbook helps you outthink bias, avoid manipulation, and make better choices in every area of life.
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The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making
- Narrated by: Alex Pike
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2025
- Language: English
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Manipulation
- What It Is, Why It's Bad, What to Do About It
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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New technologies are offering companies, politicians, and others unprecedented opportunity to manipulate us. Sometimes we are given the illusion of power—of freedom—through choice, yet the game is rigged, pushing us in specific directions that lead to less wealth, worse health, and weaker democracy.
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Manipulation
- What It Is, Why It's Bad, What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2025
- Language: English
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The Artificial Intelligence Contagion
- Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
- By: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs
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As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels - underfunded or nonexistent pensions, health problems, lack of savings, and job destruction without comparable job creation - will drive many into homelessness and produce a dramatic rise in violence as we fight over shrinking resources.
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The Artificial Intelligence Contagion
- Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 16-07-2019
- Language: English
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The Quiet Zone
- Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
- By: Stephen Kurczy
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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""Captivating."" —Kirkus | ""Fascinating, deeply reported, and slightly eerie."" —BookPage (Starred Review) | ""The Quiet Zone will live on in your memory."" —Bill McKibben A stunning portrait of an Appalachian community, the people who call it home, and the enduring human quest for quiet...
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The Quiet Zone
- Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-08-2021
- Language: English
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The Digital Doctor
- Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
- By: Robert Wachter
- Narrated by: Benjamin Wachter
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, health care has finally gone digital.
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The Digital Doctor
- Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
- Narrated by: Benjamin Wachter
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2015
- Language: English
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Technology's Child
- Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up
- By: Katie Davis
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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What happens to the little ones, the tweens, and the teenagers, when technology—ubiquitous in the world they inhabit—becomes a critical part of their lives? This timely book brings much-needed clarity to what we know about technology's role in child development. Better yet, it provides guidance on how to use what we know to help children of all ages make the most of their digital experiences.
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Technology's Child
- Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2023
- Language: English
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Human Rights, Robot Wrongs
- Being Human in the Age of AI
- By: Susie Alegre
- Narrated by: Susie Alegre
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from how we think to who we love. In this urgent polemic, leading barrister Susie Alegre explores the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights—including the rights to life, liberty and fair trial; the right to private and family life; and the right to free expression—and how we protect those rights.
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Human Rights, Robot Wrongs
- Being Human in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Susie Alegre
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-08-2024
- Language: English
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Future Imperfect
- Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World
- By: David D. Friedman
- Narrated by: David Friedman
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Future Imperfect describes and discusses technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them. Topics range from encryption and surveillance through biotechnology and nanotechnology to life extension, mind drugs, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. One theme of the book is that the future is radically uncertain.
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Future Imperfect
- Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World
- Narrated by: David Friedman
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2020
- Language: English
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- By: Joy Lisi Rankin
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2018
- Language: English
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Fertility Technology
- By: Donna J. Drucker
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman's uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts around the world.
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Fertility Technology
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2023
- Language: English
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Robot-Proof
- Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Joseph E. Aoun
- Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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In Robot-Proof, Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun proposes a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover - to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot. A "robot-proof" education, Aoun argues, is not concerned solely with topping up students' minds with high-octane facts. Rather, it calibrates them with a creative mindset and the mental elasticity to invent, discover, or create something valuable to society.
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A good mindset for whats ahead
- By Thomas Batchelor on 25-09-2018
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Robot-Proof
- Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2018
- Language: English
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The Economic Singularity
- Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
- By: Calum Chace
- Narrated by: Calum Chace
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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The Economic Singularity is the time when most people cannot find employment, because machines can do everything that humans can do for money cheaper, faster, and better than they can. Some people say this will never happen, but most AI professionals think it will, although they disagree about when.
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The Economic Singularity
- Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Calum Chace
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2021
- Language: English
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
- By: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cox
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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In 1979, Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the 15th-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarizing the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cox
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2021
- Language: English
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This Is For Everyone
- Die unvollendete Geschichte des World Wide Web
- By: Tim Berners-Lee, Karsten Petersen – Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Wagner
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Eine revolutionäre Erfindung – und ihre Zukunft. Tim Berners-Lee ist der womöglich einflussreichste Erfinder der modernen Welt. Geboren im selben Jahr wie Bill Gates und Steve Jobs, teilte er seine Erfindung, das World Wide Web, ohne sie kommerziell zu verwerten. Auch deshalb konnte sich diese Technologie so schnell über den gesamten Globus verbreiten. Mit ihr wurde die Menschheit zur ersten digitalen Spezies: Hier, im Web, vernetzen wir uns, hier leben, arbeiten, streiten und träumen wir.
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This Is For Everyone
- Die unvollendete Geschichte des World Wide Web
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Wagner
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 23-09-2025
- Language: German
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Applied Minds
- How Engineers Think
- By: Guru Madhavan
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Through narratives and case studies spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use in fields as diverse as transportation, retail, health care, and entertainment. Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to a future where we apply strategies borrowed from engineering to create useful and inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges.
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Applied Minds
- How Engineers Think
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2015
- Language: English
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Employment Is Dead
- How Disruptive Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way We Work
- By: Deborah Perry Piscione, Josh Drean
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Business is on the cusp of an inevitable and profound transformation. The tools of tomorrow will amplify human potential, from collaborating in virtual spaces through digital avatars, to managing transactions transparently on the blockchain. Those who embrace these technologies—and the manner in which people want to work—will unleash unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation. Conversely, those who remain tethered to outdated work patterns risk losing out on the best talent, and even becoming obsolete.
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Employment Is Dead
- How Disruptive Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way We Work
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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The Age of Simorgh
- Planning for Human Convergence with Technology
- By: M. Riaziat
- Narrated by: Richard Thomets
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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As science and technology rapidly permeate our lives, we may soon lose control of their tremendous impact on all facets of our society. Instead of making positive or negative projections, this book delves into the specifics of forthcoming changes and how much impact we may have to direct them in our favor. Closely tied together, the evolution of humankind alongside machines is gearing up for the merging of both and the formation of a new entity: a Simorgh whose decisions will be beyond our control.
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The Age of Simorgh
- Planning for Human Convergence with Technology
- Narrated by: Richard Thomets
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 22-07-2024
- Language: English
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