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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1,198
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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...
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Entertaining and thought provoking.
- By ColCam on 09-04-18
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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The West End Front
- The War Time Secrets of London's Grand Hotels
- By: Matthew Sweet
- Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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It’s the Second World War and the Savoy, the Dorchester, and Claridge’s teem with those determined not to allow Hitler to impact on their way of life. Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas. Royals: Meet Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, born in a suite at Claridge’s that was declared Yugoslav territory for the night. Players: Meet Joyce Stone, whose husband leads the band at the Dorchester. West End Front is a witty and eye-opening account of the extraordinary events that unfolded under the reinforced ceilings of London’s grand hotels.
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Exceptional book.Matthew Sweet excellent as always
- By Rachel on 19-03-17
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The West End Front
- The War Time Secrets of London's Grand Hotels
- Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 25-12-12
- Language: English
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- By: Scott Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance40
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It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott Shapiro exposes the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators.
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Fancy bear for beginners Not Much Depth
- By Zaba on 29-05-24
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- 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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Overall133
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Performance117
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Story114
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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it's pronounced Zed Ex.. not Zee Ex. garrrrrrggghh
- By Lord KarlosFandango on 16-10-18
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Replay
- The History of Video Games
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- 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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Overall56
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Performance50
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Story47
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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Thorough, analytical, v. detailed
- By Mr. M. J. Yeomans on 22-08-19
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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: 18-06-19
- Language: English
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Palo Alto
- A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
- By: Malcolm Harris
- Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
- Length: 28 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system. In Palo Alto, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did.
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In depth
- By SH on 27-05-23
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Palo Alto
- A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
- Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
- Length: 28 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- By: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Joseph May
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance42
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Story40
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Soonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, read by Kelly Weinersmith and Joseph May. What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach...
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Author / narrator seriously grating
- By KMV on 02-03-18
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- Narrated by: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Joseph May
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- By: Patrick McGee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance98
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Story98
*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** * WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2025 FOR BUSINESS REPORTING * What if the greatest business success story of the twenty-first century was hiding the West’s gravest mistake? For two decades, Apple poured billions into China, training...
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China, Apple, America. A fruit in the jaws of superpowers
- By a nonni mouse on 04-08-25
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Grace Given: The Mythology of Elden Ring
- By: Geoff Truscott
- Narrated by: Emmalition
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
The most ambitious RPG in video-game history is now being honoured with the most extravagant book-length appraisal yet, written by beloved Elden Ring lore expert Geoff “SmoughTown” Truscott. Prepare for a comprehensive deep dive into the mythology underpinning Miyazaki’s latest masterpiece.
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A good book but the narration is lacking.
- By David Scott on 03-07-25
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Grace Given: The Mythology of Elden Ring
- Narrated by: Emmalition
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 22-05-25
- Language: English
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Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- By: Clarence L "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith, Brig Gen Leo P. Geary USAF (ret.) - Foreword
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance38
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Story38
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
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For the engineering out there
- By MR J R Stagg on 13-01-20
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Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Steven Levy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall221
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Performance198
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Story196
Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers.
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Enjoyable and inspiring
- By Martin on 17-03-16
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-11-15
- Language: English
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Filterworld
- How Algorithms Make Everything the Same
- By: Kyle Chayka
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance24
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Story24
One of the BBC's most anticipated books for 2024 An i-D non-fiction book of 2024 A Stylist non-fiction book of 2024 'An essential book' i-D What happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us by an algorithm? What does it mean when shareability supersedes innovation? How can we...
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Giga snop
- By Anonymous on 13-03-24
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Filterworld
- How Algorithms Make Everything the Same
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 23-01-24
- Language: English
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- By: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance79
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Story78
Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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I almost didn't listen to this
- By hellojoanie on 10-01-22
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-11-15
- Language: English
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Papyrus
- THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
- By: Irene Vallejo
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance31
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THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR An enthralling 6,000-year journey through the history of books and reading Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world...
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Really interesting and well presented
- By Amazon Customer on 20-09-25
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Papyrus
- THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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The Mercenary River
- Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water
- By: Nick Higham
- Narrated by: Nick Higham
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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No city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn't always so. For centuries London, one of the largest and richest cities in the world, struggled to supply its citizens with reliable, clean water. The Mercenary...
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Fascinating and well paced
- By Paul Dorey on 15-01-24
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The Mercenary River
- Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water
- Narrated by: Nick Higham
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- 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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The Dream Machine
- By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance25
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Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be.
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Fascinating history
- By Fred on 14-04-22
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The Dream Machine
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-10-18
- Language: English
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This Is for Everyone
- The Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web
- By: Tim Berners-Lee
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance50
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Narrated by the brilliant Stephen Fry, this audiobook features an inspiring prologue read by the author, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a fascinating bonus conversation between Stephen and Tim. 'Visionary . . . Full of warmth and humanity' – Kate Bush 'Profound' – Al Gore 'Compulsive reading' –...
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His desire for open source, sharing and ownership with a good look at humanity as it stands.
- By Claire B on 09-06-26
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This Is for Everyone
- The Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
- By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, and others
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance77
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On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the 20th century's greatest feat - landing humans on another world.
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Amazing....until the final three chapters
- By Wayne O'Brien on 19-10-20
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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The Atomic Human
- Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI
- By: Neil D. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Neil D. Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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Story21
Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We believe it's what differentiates us. Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our digital lives, but also the implied threat of an intelligence that displaces us from our position at the centre of the world. Neil D. Lawrence's visionary book shows why these fears may be misplaced. By contrasting our own intelligence with the capabilities of machine intelligence through history, The Atomic Human reveals the technical origins, capabilities and limitations of AI systems, and how they should be wielded.
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Interesting but it meanders
- By thoughtfuldiner on 08-05-25
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The Atomic Human
- Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Neil D. Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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