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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman. From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the...
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Beautiful book
- By S K. on 28-08-17
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-01-17
- Language: English
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- By: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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Sanctimonious and lightweight
- By Olly Buxton on 09-09-19
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-09-19
- Language: English
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior “Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark...
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Had so badly wanted to like it
- By Apple Smith on 26-04-19
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 28-01-19
- Language: English
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- By: Mo Gawdat
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance355
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This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat. One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a...
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Don’t be fooled by his gospel of AI.
- By I.H. Schots on 30-10-21
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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Chasing the Dark
- Encounters with the supernatural
- By: Ben Machell
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance40
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'One of the best books about the paranormal I have read... Uncannily good' DANNY ROBINS 'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational... engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling' SARAH WATERS 'Shiversomely eerie... so...
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Thoughtful and absorbing
- By wpm on 22-02-26
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Chasing the Dark
- Encounters with the supernatural
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
- By: Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance102
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Brought to you by Penguin 'A path-breaking, thought-provoking and in-depth study of how new technology will transform the world of work' Gordon Brown 'Compelling ... Thought-provoking ... Should be required reading for any presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future' NEW YORK...
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Very thought provoking
- By Androcles on 24-12-20
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- By: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment systems. But according to prominent political scientists Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, this network is the key source of American power on the global stage, more significant than its military might. Underground Empire weaves together tales of economic conflict, shadowy surveillance technologies and covert infrastructure projects to present an explosive new vision of geopolitics.
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Excellent synopsis of the weaponisation of commerce, finance and trade
- By davezol on 27-04-25
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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Atoms and Ashes
- From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance49
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Brought to you by Penguin. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now...
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A Toast For Serhii Plokhy
- By Anonymous on 09-07-23
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Atoms and Ashes
- From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 17-05-22
- Language: English
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- By: Cathy O'Neil
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance53
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for insurance—are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules and bias is eliminated. And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination.
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Too American and gpt?
- By Thomas Z. Ramsoy on 01-07-24
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 21-04-22
- Language: English
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- By: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 ONE OF THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE AND NATURE BOOK 2024 A HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST RELATED WORK 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the...
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A fun and enjoyable book
- By clare gregory on 07-11-25
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-02-25
- Language: English
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors! From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for the future of technology and technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists...
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The book I’ve read on the future of technology
- By Darrell Hodgetts on 27-01-24
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Series: Exponential Technology, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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A Hacker's Mind
- How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
- By: Bruce Schneier
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Hacker’s Mind, Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society: from tax laws to financial markets to politics. He reveals an array of powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else.
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white man bad, blabla
- By julien on 19-01-24
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A Hacker's Mind
- How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- By: Joseph Menn
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Joseph Menn
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our freedom, “a hugely important piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping the internet age” (The New York Times Book Review) Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest...
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Fascinating History of Hacking
- By James on 19-07-19
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Joseph Menn
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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UnPlug
- A Radiologist Explores the Damage Caused by Electropollution and How You Can Prevent It
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-08-26
- Language: English
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Logging Off
- The Human Cost of Our Digital World
- By: Adele Zeynep Walton
- Narrated by: Adele Zeynep Walton
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BESTSELLER 'You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book' Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM 'Read this book!' Jeremy Corbyn 'A book never more sorely needed than now' David Larbi 'Urgent...Persuasive and brilliantly written' Yasmin...
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Great book about how our digital choices affect us!
- By Craig on 28-12-25
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Logging Off
- The Human Cost of Our Digital World
- Narrated by: Adele Zeynep Walton
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
- What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
- By: Steven Novella
- Narrated by: Steven Novella
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted in the 1920s, like multi-purpose utility belts with climate control capabilities and planes the size of luxury cruise ships, or the forecasts of the '60s, which didn't anticipate the sexual revolution or women's liberation, the path to the present is littered with failed predictions and incorrect estimations. The best we can do is try to absorb from futurism's checkered past, perhaps learning to do a little better.
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the future
- By stephen a vieites on 27-11-23
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
- What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Steven Novella
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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The Authority Gap
- Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously than Men, and What We Can Do About It
- By: Mary Ann Sieghart
- Narrated by: Mary Ann Sieghart
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Authority Gap provides a startling perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and women. Marshalling a wealth of data with precision and insight, and including interviews with pioneering women such as Baroness Hale, Mary Beard and Bernadine Evaristo, this is a fresh feminist take on how to address and counteract systemic sexism in ways that benefit us all.
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Incredible
- By richard on 23-08-21
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The Authority Gap
- Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously than Men, and What We Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Mary Ann Sieghart
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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Build
- An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
- By: Tony Fadell
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill...
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Terrible
- By A.N. on 21-02-26
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Build
- An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-05-22
- Language: English
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How AI Thinks
- How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it
- By: Nigel Toon
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in...
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The book is not really about how AI thinks
- By Anonymous on 07-07-24
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How AI Thinks
- How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Human Agency in a Digital World
- Understand Technology and Make It Work for You
- By: Marcus Fontoura
- Narrated by: Andrew Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This may be the first true AI-era self-help book —not because we need help using technology, but because we need help using it well. It's about building the knowledge —and the confidence —to question, to evaluate, to choose. Because understanding how algorithms work is the first step in making sure they work for us. Human Agency in a Digital World is a book about reclaiming our role —not as passengers, but as pilots —in the fast-moving journey of technological change.
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Human Agency in a Digital World
- Understand Technology and Make It Work for You
- Narrated by: Andrew Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 17-06-26
- Language: English
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