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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- By: Marie Hicks
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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In Programmed Inequality, Marie Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, labor problems grew into structural ones, and gender discrimination caused the nation's largest computer user to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole.
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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Free to Make
- How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
- By: Dale Dougherty, Ariane Conrad, Tim O'Reilly - introduction
- Narrated by: Jeff Machado
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating study of the global Maker Movement that explores how ‘making’ impacts our personal and social development—perfect for enthusiastic DIY-ers Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker...
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Free to Make
- How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
- Narrated by: Jeff Machado
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-01-17
- Language: English
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Open
- How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing
- By: Rod Canion
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Open provides valuable lessons in leadership in times of crisis, management decision-making under the pressure of extraordinary growth, and the power of a unique, pervasive culture. Open tells the incredible story of Compaq’s meteoric rise from humble beginnings to become the PC industry leader in just over a decade. Along the way, Compaq helped change the face of computing while establishing the foundation for today’s world of tablets and smart phones.
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Made me reassess the PC revolution
- By Antibaddy on 21-02-23
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Open
- How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-10-13
- Language: English
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Valley of Genius
- The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
- By: Adam Fisher
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"This is the most important book on Silicon Valley I've read in two decades. It will take us all back to our roots in the counterculture, and will remind us of the true nature of the innovation process, before we tried to tame it with slogans and buzzwords." -- Po Bronson, #1 New York Times...
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Unusual format but works well
- By Rob Sedgwick on 03-11-18
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Valley of Genius
- The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-07-18
- Language: English
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Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks
- A Potted History of Personal Tech
- By: Peter Leigh
- Narrated by: Peter Leigh
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In this eagerly awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than 40 pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry.
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An enjoyable romp through my childhood and beyond.
- By Sean NR on 12-01-23
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Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks
- A Potted History of Personal Tech
- Narrated by: Peter Leigh
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Designers & Dragons
- The 00's
- By: Shannon Appelcline
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Designers & Dragons: The ‘00s is a comprehensive picture of the new resurgence of the RPG industry. This 2nd edition expands the original single book into a series of four–beginning with the ’70s and ending with the ’00s–and we’ve added over tens of thousands of new words to this final and most updated volume. Take an inside look at d20 companies, watch the growth of new titans like Paizo Publishing, and learn about the growth of indie presses like Evil Hat Productions. Regardless of your gaming background, Shannon Appelcline’s meticulously researched history won’t disappoint.
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Designers & Dragons
- The 00's
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Series: Designers & Dragons, Book 4
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- By: James R. Hansen
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R...
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-10-05
- Language: English
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The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- By: Sheila Jasanoff
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Sheila Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights.
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The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 25-10-16
- Language: English
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Wise Animals
- How Technology Has Made Us What We Are
- By: Tom Chatfield
- Narrated by: Tom Chatfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Evocatively read by the author, Tom Chatfield. 'Powerful, profound and completely engrossing, a meditation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethics, psychology and, above all, what it means to be human.' – Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The Coming Wave Wise Animals...
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Superb
- By jz on 12-03-24
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Wise Animals
- How Technology Has Made Us What We Are
- Narrated by: Tom Chatfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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Recoding History: Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World
- By: Treefort Media
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Recoding History: The Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World is an immersive look into the lives of some of computer history's most ingenious and audacious women. Pulling from the Computer History Museum’s archives and hosted by Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, listeners will learn and laugh along with these great minds as they recount their stories in their own words.
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Good overview into some amazing people
- By Kev Fisher on 03-07-24
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Recoding History: Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-02-24
- Language: English
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The Eudaemonic Pie
- The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas
- By: Thomas A. Bass
- Narrated by: Stephen Tupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Eudaemonic Pie is the bizarre true story of how a band of physicists and computer wizards took on Las Vegas. It chronicles the origins of personal computers, the history of gambling, and the comedy of living a good life governed according to reason (eudaemonia).
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Bored beyong belief
- By Lee on 09-07-18
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The Eudaemonic Pie
- The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas
- Narrated by: Stephen Tupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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The Code
- Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
- By: Margaret O'Mara
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley! The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the...
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The Code
- Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-07-19
- Language: English
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Creative Selection
- Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- By: Ken Kocienda
- Narrated by: Ken Kocienda
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This program is read by the author. An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board...
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An enlightening insight into the software design process of Apple under Steve Jobs
- By Anonymous on 15-01-19
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Creative Selection
- Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- Narrated by: Ken Kocienda
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-09-18
- Language: English
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- By: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three misfits banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the apex of motorsport: the Grand Prix. Their quest for redemption culminated in a remarkable race that is still talked about in racing circles to this day - but which, soon after it ended, Hitler attempted to completely erase from history.
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Sheer grit and determination
- By Rollon2021 on 30-09-24
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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Steve Jobs
- By: Walter Isaacson, Walter Isaacson - introduction
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family...
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Steve Jobs
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-10-11
- Language: English
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The Innovation Delusion
- How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
- By: Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most? “The most important book I’ve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our...
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Repetitive and boring
- By Florian Diederichsen on 01-08-23
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The Innovation Delusion
- How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-09-20
- Language: English
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Analogia
- The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
- By: George Dyson
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution - and an unsettling vision of what comes next.
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Utterly baffling
- By Lou Lou on 21-02-21
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Analogia
- The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-08-20
- Language: English
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Future Histories
- What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
- By: Lizzie O'Shea
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a "usable past" that can help us determine our digital future. What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources - like the internet - in common?
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Future Histories
- What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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India Connected
- How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
- By: Ravi Agrawal
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Foreign Policy managing editor and former CNN South Asia bureau chief Ravi Agrawal takes listeners on a journey across India, through remote rural villages and massive metropolises, to highlight how one tiny device - the smartphone - is changing all facets of Indian life. The rise of smartphones, and with them access to the internet, has caused nothing short of a revolution in India. In the West, technological advances have progressed step-by-step, starting with landline phones.
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India Connected
- How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-02-26
- Language: English
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The Long History of the Future
- By: Nicole Kobie
- Narrated by: Nicole Kobie
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hoverboards; with driverless cars first proposed at the 1939 World's Fair. And why not? Building a better world, be it a free-flying commute or an automated urban lifestyle is a worthy dream. Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible anymore. But why are these innovations always out of reach? Delving into the history of technology, this book also looks at what lies ahead, showing how the origins of our technology may provide insight into how it realistically evolves.
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The Long History of the Future
- Narrated by: Nicole Kobie
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-08-24
- Language: English
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