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From Morse Code to Wi-Fi
- A Simple History of How We Communicate
- By: Revin Laxtor
- Narrated by: Adrenalyn Starr
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Communication has always been at the heart of human progress. From smoke signals on mountaintops to the invisible Wi-Fi networks that surround us today, every leap forward has reshaped how we share ideas, stay safe, build relationships, and understand the world. From Morse Code to Wi-Fi is a clear, captivating journey through the ten biggest breakthroughs that transformed human connection forever.
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Covers All Major Breakthroughs
- By Jasmine Lees on 20-05-26
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From Morse Code to Wi-Fi
- A Simple History of How We Communicate
- Narrated by: Adrenalyn Starr
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 26-01-26
- 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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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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unfounded assumptions,biased unsupported opinions.
- By mike ryan on 07-06-15
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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: 29-05-14
- Language: English
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Screen People
- How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency 'A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation' SOPHIE GILBERT, author of GIRL ON GIRL
- By: Megan Garber
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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'Incisive' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation of how technology and entertainment have warped humanity ' SOPHIE GILBERT, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF GIRL ON GIRL _______ From an award-winning staff writer for the Atlantic, Screen People is an eye-opening...
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Screen People
- How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency 'A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation' SOPHIE GILBERT, author of GIRL ON GIRL
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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The Irrational Decision
- How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us
- By: Benjamin Recht
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in which every decision is a statistical question of risk. Benjamin Recht traces how this quantitative standard came to define our understanding of rationality, looking at the history of optimization, game theory, statistical testing, and machine learning.
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The Irrational Decision
- How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- A guide to building a better world
- By: Klaus Schwab, Nicholas Davis
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolutionby Klaus Schwab and Nicholas Davis, read by Nicholas Guy Smith. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing everything - from the way we relate to each other, to the work we do, the way our economies...
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this guy is a psychopath!
- By searl on 31-01-22
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Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- A guide to building a better world
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-11-18
- Language: English
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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
- Power in the Era of Post-Humanity
- By: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Jamie East
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance112
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Penguin presents the audiobook of Like A Thief In Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek read by Jamie East. In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek...
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Excellent text, sub-par performance
- By G Douglas Whistler on 14-02-19
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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
- Power in the Era of Post-Humanity
- Narrated by: Jamie East
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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The Final Betrayal
- How Technocracy Destroyed America
- By: Patrick Wood, Courtenay Turner
- Narrated by: Katherine Quinton
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The dark horse of the New World Order was never Communism, Socialism or Fascism: It has always been Technocracy! Started in the 1930s, re-introduced by the Trilateral Commission in 1973 as the “New International Economic Order,” Technocrats have staged a sweeping coup d’état in plain sight in Washington, DC. during the Trump presidency. The Dark Enlightenment wants to turn us into a monarchy. Tokenization is flipping us into an asset-based economic system where you “will own nothing”. AI is shoving us into a digital Gulag.
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They saw the digital gulag coming - but...
- By Mr M.R on 16-02-26
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The Final Betrayal
- How Technocracy Destroyed America
- Narrated by: Katherine Quinton
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 29-12-25
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell
- By: Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to influence much of what’s wrong with the internet today.
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Great story
- By Sue on 21-05-24
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This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-05-24
- Language: English
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Elon Musk
- By: Walter Isaacson, Walter Isaacson - introduction
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years...
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Elon Musk
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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The New World on Mars
- What We Can Create on the Red Planet
- By: Robert Zubrin
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Within a few years, humans will be able to voyage to Mars. SpaceX is at the forefront of companies already building fleets of spaceships to make interplanetary travel as affordable as Old-World passage to America – to the New World. We will settle the red planet, transforming its raw materials into resources and tackling the challenges that await us, creating a new frontier for humankind. Dr Robert Zubrin explains how populous Martian city-states will emerge, producing their own air, water, food, power and more. How they must be beautiful to attract settlers, and what that might look like.
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American exceptionalism writ large
- By Daniel Willoughby on 27-02-25
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The New World on Mars
- What We Can Create on the Red Planet
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models
- Master Prompt Engineering and Monetize the Power of Language Processing
- By: Russell Dawson
- Narrated by: Dan Hamel
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Curious about AI, but unsure how it works? Want to tap into the lucrative potential of this rapidly advancing technology? Unlock the immense potential of AI with this transformative book! Welcome to Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models, the second in a series of books crafted to help you join a movement toward a more financially fruitful future.
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Made with AI?
- By Edward Fisher on 19-08-25
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Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models
- Master Prompt Engineering and Monetize the Power of Language Processing
- Narrated by: Dan Hamel
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- By: Ethan Mollick
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general...
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-04-24
- Language: English
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Moral AI
- And How We Get There
- By: Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Vincent Conitzer
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A reassuring and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Should robots ever be considered free? Will computers transcend human intelligence? And what can we do to make sure AI is safe? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today...
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Moral AI
- And How We Get There
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Yorkshire
- A lyrical history of England's greatest county
- By: Richard Morris
- Narrated by: Sean Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance9
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Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a...
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Somewhat disappointed
- By Gillian Stapleton on 15-07-22
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Yorkshire
- A lyrical history of England's greatest county
- Narrated by: Sean Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-04-19
- Language: English
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Electronic Dreams
- How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
- By: Tom Lean
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Electronic Dreams by Tom Lean, read by Mark Meadows Remember the ZX Spectrum? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite or master digital kung-fu in Way of the Exploding Fist? For anyone growing up in the 1980s...
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Electronic Dreams
- How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 14-05-26
- Language: English
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World Eaters
- How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
- By: Catherine Bracy
- Narrated by: Catherine Bracy
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Award for Current Events & Public Affairs Longlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Award 2025 A Next Big Idea Book Club March 2025 Must-Read An urgent and illuminating perspective that offers a window into how the most pernicious aspects of the venture...
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A smart and fresh perspective on venture capital and its harms
- By paul j davies on 01-06-25
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World Eaters
- How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
- Narrated by: Catherine Bracy
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-03-25
- Language: English
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Instagram Basics
- Learning the Essential Foundations of Instagram
- By: Liam Turner
- Narrated by: Jason Belvill, Millian Quinteros
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is not about the newest tricks or the latest trends. Instead, it revisits the early practices and ideas that made Instagram grow in its beginning, bringing back what users and creators once relied on. If you’re looking for the next update or cutting-edge hacks, this book is not for you. But if you want to rediscover the timeless foundations that still apply today, then you’ve found the right guide.
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Instagram Basics
- Learning the Essential Foundations of Instagram
- Narrated by: Jason Belvill, Millian Quinteros
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s - the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book.
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Really boring!
- By Miss P. on 18-11-19
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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 27-03-18
- Language: English
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review). “Kurzweil offers a...
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still very accurate
- By cristinagps on 14-10-21
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 16-12-99
- Language: English
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks...
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Very not coherent book
- By Saad Kamoona on 26-06-25
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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