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Artificial Intelligence
- From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks
- By: Clifford A. Pickover
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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From medieval robots and Boolean algebra to facial recognition, artificial neural networks, and adversarial patches, this fascinating history takes listeners on a vast tour through the world of artificial intelligence. Award-winning author Clifford A. Pickover explores the historic and current applications of AI in such diverse fields as computing, medicine, popular culture, mythology, and philosophy, and considers the enduring threat to humanity should AI grow out of control.
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choose another book.
- By Anonymous User on 19-01-22
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Artificial Intelligence
- From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Being Online
- On Computing, Data, the Internet, and the Cloud
- By: Jian Wang, Jack Ma - foreword
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Jian Wang was the founder and architect of Alibaba's cloud and has been the driving force behind its technology innovations. He was also the founder of the City Brain initiative to develop a new digital infrastructure for sustainable cities.
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Being Online
- On Computing, Data, the Internet, and the Cloud
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 31-12-21
- Language: English
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The Hello Girls
- America’s First Women Soldiers
- By: Elizabeth Cobbs
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the US Army. In 1918 the US Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, demanded female "wire experts" when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops under fire.
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The Hello Girls
- America’s First Women Soldiers
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-06-17
- Language: English
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Robots
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Phil Husbands
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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There is a huge effort underway in industry and universities to develop the next generation of more intelligent, autonomous, mobile robots. Accompanying these arrivals has been a steady stream of inflammatory articles in the media raising concerns over the impending specter of super-intelligent robots, along with stories about how most jobs will soon be lost to robots.
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Robots
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-12-21
- Language: English
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Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach
- America's Techno-Spy Empire
- By: Kristie Macrakis
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe through techno-spies. Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach investigates how America's technophiles inadvertently created a global espionage empire: one based on technology, not land.
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Well written and balanced
- By Tom Mortley on 24-08-23
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Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach
- America's Techno-Spy Empire
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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Death Glitch
- How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
- By: Tamara Kneese
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.
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Death Glitch
- How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Empire of the Air
- The Men Who Made Radio
- By: Tom Lewis
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
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Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries - Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff - whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the 20th century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak.
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Had to stop listening
- By seaside terminator on 19-04-23
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Empire of the Air
- The Men Who Made Radio
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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Crossed Wires
- The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet
- By: Dan Schiller
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 32 hrs and 19 mins
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Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on United States telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary United States political economy.
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Crossed Wires
- The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 32 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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People of the Screen
- How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shapes Their Reading of Scripture
- By: John Dyer
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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People of the Screen traces the history of Bible software development, showing the unique and powerful role evangelical entrepreneurs and coders have played in shaping its functionality and how their choices in turn shape the reading habits of millions of people around the world.
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People of the Screen
- How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shapes Their Reading of Scripture
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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What Is to Be Done
- Political Engagement and Saving the Planet
- By: Barry Jones
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world. Now its author, the polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has happened since - especially to politics, health, and our climate in the digital age - and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and public institutions.
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What Is to Be Done
- Political Engagement and Saving the Planet
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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Robot, Take the Wheel
- The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving
- By: Jason Torchinsky, Beau Boeckmann - foreword
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic, and yet they'll soon be on every street in America. Whether it's Tesla's Autopilot, Google's Waymo, Mercedes' Distronic, or Uber's modified Volvos, companies around the world are developing autonomous cars. But why? And what will they mean for the auto industry and humanity at large? In Robot, Take the Wheel, famed automotive expert Jason Torchinsky gives a colorful account of the development of autonomous vehicles and their likely implications.
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Robot, Take the Wheel
- The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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Speed Limits
- Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
- By: Mark C. Taylor
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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Connecting our speed-obsession with today's global capitalism, Taylor composes a grand narrative showing how commitments to economic growth and extreme competition, combined with accelerating technological innovation, have brought us close to disaster. Psychologically, environmentally, economically, and culturally, speed is taking a profound toll on our lives.
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Speed Limits
- Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-01-15
- Language: English
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Delayed Response
- The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
- By: Jason Farman
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs
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In this book in praise of wait times, award-winning author Jason Farman passionately argues that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of the message. Traveling backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman describes how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and how they have interpreted those times' meanings. And in a rebuttal to the demand for instant communication, Farman makes a powerful case for why good things can come to those who wait.
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Delayed Response
- The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 20-11-18
- Language: English
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Digitize and Punish
- Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age
- By: Brian Jefferson
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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The US Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law-enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. Digitize and Punish explores the long history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past 40 years - with devastating impact on poor communities of color.
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Digitize and Punish
- Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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The Pivot
- Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action
- By: Steve Hamm
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Early in the crisis, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. Some members are experts in the sciences and the humanities; others are environmental activists or regular people who see themselves as world citizens. In The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm - who embedded in the enterprise from the start - explores their efforts and shows how their approach provides a model for achieving systemic change.
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The Pivot
- Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom
- How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World
- By: Matthew Fraser, Soumitra Dutta
- Narrated by: Ray Grover
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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The rise of social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo is changing the way we see ourselves, how we interact with each other, how we work and how we do business on a daily basis. Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom explores the powerful forces driving the social networking revolution, the impact of these profound changes, and the far reaching consequences of social networking.
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Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom
- How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World
- Narrated by: Ray Grover
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 10-07-20
- Language: English
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- By: Jon Wilkman
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs
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Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind LA noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails
- How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
- By: Tom Wheeler
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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The Civil War was the first "modern war." Because of the rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels that gave the North an advantage was the telegraph, which Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool to gain control over a fractious situation. An eager student of technology, Lincoln had to learn to use the power of electronic messages.
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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails
- How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-09-20
- Language: English
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Whose Global Village?
- Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World
- By: Ramesh Srinivasan
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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This audiobook asks us to reconsider "whose global village" we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to reimagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspective of diverse cultures.
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Whose Global Village?
- Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 20-07-17
- Language: English
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Technology Touchpoints
- Parenting in the Digital Dystopia
- By: Loretta L. C. Brady PhD MAC
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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This is a story about a family coming of age at the same time as smartphones and social media; a multiracial family coming into its own as windows into social injustice opened up before our very screens; and a multi-parent multi-professional family with children living differently depending on which house and which combination of family members happen to be home. While it is a story about a family, it is really the story of technological and global changes unfolding on our doorsteps.
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Technology Touchpoints
- Parenting in the Digital Dystopia
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-06-23
- Language: English
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