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The Great Acceleration
- By: Robert Colvile
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead? In this vitally important new audiobook, Robert Colvile explains how the cult of disruption in Silicon Valley, the ceaseless advance of technology and our own fundamental appetite for novelty and convenience have combined to speed up every aspect of daily life.
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The Great Acceleration
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-06-16
- Language: English
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Present Shock
- When Everything Happens Now
- By: Douglas Rushkoff
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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As both individuals and communities, we have a choice. We can struggle through the onslaught of information and play an eternal game of catch-up. Or we can choose to live in the present: favor eye contact over texting; quality over speed; and human quirks over digital perfection. Rushkoff offers hope for anyone seeking to transcend the false now.
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Oh dear, this was unfinishable
- By J. Armstrong on 24-09-14
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Present Shock
- When Everything Happens Now
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 10-09-13
- Language: English
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The Most Human Human
- What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
- By: Brian Christian
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance48
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The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can...
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Incredible
- By George on 26-05-11
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The Most Human Human
- What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-03-11
- Language: English
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The International Space Station
- 10 Amazing Facts
- By: Daran Volcroft
- Narrated by: Keegan Lucas
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance24
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In The International Space Station: 10 Amazing Facts, author Daran Volcroft takes you on a journey beyond our atmosphere to discover the secrets, science, and stories behind this incredible achievement. From its humble beginnings as a single Russian module launched in 1998 to its current status as the largest human-made object in space, the ISS is a triumph of vision, technology, and cooperation.
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Perfect Introduction to Space Science
- By Zoe Perkins on 30-11-25
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The International Space Station
- 10 Amazing Facts
- Narrated by: Keegan Lucas
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-10-25
- Language: English
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Modern Monopolies
- What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
- By: Nicholas L. Johnson, Alex Moazed
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance30
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Story29
What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town. A platform, by definition, creates value by facilitating an exchange between two or more interdependent groups. So, rather than making things, they simply connect people. The advent of mobile computing and its ubiquitous connectivity have forever altered how we interact with each other. Yet, few people truly grasp the radical structural shifts of the last 10 years.
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Decent coverage of the topic but basically a recap
- By Chris on 19-03-20
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Modern Monopolies
- What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-11-17
- Language: English
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Androids
- The Team That Built the Android Operating System
- By: Chet Haase
- Narrated by: Chet Haase
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software, but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen. Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System is a firsthand chronological account of how the startup began, how the team came together, and how they all built an operating system from the kernel level to its applications, and everything in between.
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Footnotes breaks the flow
- By Anton Johansson on 06-09-22
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Androids
- The Team That Built the Android Operating System
- Narrated by: Chet Haase
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-07-22
- Language: English
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What Can a Body Do?
- How We Meet the Built World
- By: Sara Hendren
- Narrated by: Sara Hendren
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance9
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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and...
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Mesmerising
- By Dohm64 on 19-02-22
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What Can a Body Do?
- How We Meet the Built World
- Narrated by: Sara Hendren
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Practical Empathy
- For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work
- By: Indi Young
- Narrated by: Indi Young
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Conventional product development focuses on the solution. Empathy is a mindset that focuses on people, helping you to understand their thinking patterns and perspectives. Practical Empathy will show you how to gather and compare these patterns to make better decisions, improve your strategy, and collaborate successfully.
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Practical Empathy
- For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work
- Narrated by: Indi Young
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-10-16
- 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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Overall17
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Performance15
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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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a really interesting and curious book
- By Anonymous on 29-05-17
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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: 16-07-13
- Language: English
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Künstliche Intelligenz
- Wie sie unser Leben verändert, welche Chancen sie bietet und warum wir ihre Risiken nicht unterschätzen dürfen
- By: Manuel Albenstein
- Narrated by: Johnny Oliver
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Dieses Buch lädt Dich dazu ein, hinter die Fassade der Technik zu blicken. Es erklärt auf verständliche und unterhaltsame Weise, wie Maschinen lernen, warum Algorithmen Macht haben und was passiert, wenn Maschinen beginnen, kreativ oder moralisch zu handeln. Du erfährst, wie KI längst Jobs beeinflusst, Diagnosen verbessert, Musik komponiert oder Meinungen lenkt. Dabei geht es nicht nur um technische Faszination, sondern auch um Verantwortung, Werte und die Frage, ob wir die Kontrolle behalten, während wir immer mehr an sie abgeben.
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KI-echt verständlich erklärt
- By Ossi on 10-10-25
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Künstliche Intelligenz
- Wie sie unser Leben verändert, welche Chancen sie bietet und warum wir ihre Risiken nicht unterschätzen dürfen
- Narrated by: Johnny Oliver
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-09-25
- Language: German
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Digital Liberty
- Power, Wealth and the Influence Machine
- By: Matt Stroud
- Narrated by: Rob Clydesdale
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Digital Liberty explores the imminent convergence of three pivotal themes: data, artificial intelligence, and society’s intricate social graph, and warns of a looming crisis that threatens to challenge the very foundations of liberal democracies. Two distinct paths unfurl–a dystopian trajectory marked by surging inequality, globalized elites, and societal unrest, and a utopian alternative rooted in adapting to this impending crisis.
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Digital Liberty
- Power, Wealth and the Influence Machine
- Narrated by: Rob Clydesdale
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-12-25
- Language: English
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- By: Marc Masters
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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How Not to Network a Nation
- The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- By: Benjamin Peters
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation - to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? Find out.
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How Not to Network a Nation
- The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 25-08-16
- Language: English
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i-Minds - Second Edition
- How and Why Constant Connectivity Is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About It
- By: Mari K. Swingle
- Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance1
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An entertaining, scientifically rigorous exploration of the social and biological effects of our wireless world. The way we use technology is affecting our health and happiness. Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, this fully revised and updated second edition of i-Minds comprehensively explores an era of screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering it as both godsend and plague. i-Minds is for anyone interested in fostering health and happiness or who is struggling with the role of screened technology in our lives.
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Eye opener
- By Lorna on 11-11-25
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i-Minds - Second Edition
- How and Why Constant Connectivity Is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age
- HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
- By: Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Thomas H. Davenport, and others
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance7
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In this book, you'll learn how: data science, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is yielding unprecedented business insights; blockchain has the potential to restructure the economy; drones and driverless vehicles are becoming essential tools; 3-D printing is making new business models possible; augmented reality is transforming retail and manufacturing; smart speakers are redefining the rules of marketing; and humans and machines are working together to reach new levels of productivity.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age
- HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton, Teri Schnaubelt
- Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 26-11-19
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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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: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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Stephen Fry On The Phone The Complete Radio 4 Series
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance12
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Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who...
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Short and maybe a bit biased?
- By Amazon Customer on 25-06-24
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Stephen Fry On The Phone The Complete Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-12-11
- Language: English
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The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
- By: Neal Baer
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the human genome. How far can—and should—they go in editing future generations? In The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, editor Neal Baer brings together a timely collection of essays by influential bioethicists, philosophers, and geneticists to explore the moral, ethical, and policy challenges posed by CRISPR technology.
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The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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How the Internet Happened
- By: Brian McCullough
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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The Internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first "dotcom".
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a must read. very insightful and well presented.
- By Anonymous on 13-09-22
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How the Internet Happened
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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The Internet of Money
- By: Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Narrated by: Stephanie Murphy
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance88
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The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos contains 11 of his most inspiring and thought-provoking talks, including: Introduction to Bitcoin; Blockchain vs Bullshit; Fake News, Fake Money; Currency Wars; Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat; Rocket Science and Ethereum's Killer App; and many more!
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Vol. 1 was more revealing
- By Franco on 18-05-18
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The Internet of Money
- Narrated by: Stephanie Murphy
- Series: The Internet of Money, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-12-17
- Language: English
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