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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
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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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In depth look at soviet tech and politics
- By BookFan on 17-09-2016
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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: 25-08-2016
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Moon
- A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
- By: Francis French, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. Drawing on interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, their families, technicians, and scientists, as well as rarely seen Soviet and American government documents, the authors craft a remarkable story of the golden age of spaceflight as both an intimate human experience and a rollicking global adventure.
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In the Shadow of the Moon
- A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 29-03-2016
- Language: English
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Monstrous Devices
- By: Damien Love
- Narrated by: Chris Devon
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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On a winter's day in a British town, 12-year-old Alex receives a package in the post: an old tin robot from his grandfather. 'This one is special,' says the enclosed note, but when strange events start occurring around him, Alex begins to suspect this small toy is more than special: it might be deadly. Just as things are getting out of hand, Alex's grandfather arrives, whisking him away from his otherwise humdrum life and into a world of strange, macabre magic.
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Monstrous Devices
- Narrated by: Chris Devon
- Series: Monstrous Devices, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-03-2020
- Language: English
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The Glass Cage
- Automation and Us
- By: Nicholas Carr
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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In The Glass Cage, bestselling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us.
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The Glass Cage
- Automation and Us
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2014
- Language: English
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Automate This
- How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
- By: Christopher Steiner
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills - and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These "bots" started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected.
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Automate This
- How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2012
- Language: English
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Artificial Intelligence
- An Essential Beginner’s Guide to AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, the Internet of Things, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Our Future
- By: Neil Wilkins
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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If you want to learn about artificial intelligence, then pay attention.... So, what is the deal with intelligent machines? Will they soon decide on things such as copyright infringement? How about self-driving trucks and cars? What kind of impact will smart machines have on society and the future of human jobs? This book will give you a glimpse into the most fascinating topic of the 21st century - artificial intelligence (AI), a hypothetical simulation of a living brain inside a computer.
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Artificial Intelligence
- An Essential Beginner’s Guide to AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, the Internet of Things, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Our Future
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2020
- 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
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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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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: 07-09-2017
- Language: English
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Machine, Platform, Crowd
- Harnessing Our Digital Future
- By: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help listeners make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.
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excellent book
- By Kuda Dube on 12-11-2018
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Machine, Platform, Crowd
- Harnessing Our Digital Future
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2017
- Language: English
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- By: Joy Lisi Rankin
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2018
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Us
- How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
- By: Ainissa Ramirez
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer.
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The Alchemy of Us
- How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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Augmented
- Life in the Smart Lane
- By: Brett King, Andy Lark, Alex Lightman, and others
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250-year-long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we work, and the way we interact. The coming Augmented Age, however, promises a level of disruption, behavioral shifts, and changes that are unparalleled. While consumers today are camping outside of an Apple store waiting to be one of the first to score a new Apple Watch or iPhone, the next generation of wearables will be able to predict if we're likely to have a heart attack and recommend a course of action.
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Interesting but too long winded and repetitive
- By E. Stamatakis on 24-08-2018
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Augmented
- Life in the Smart Lane
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 15-08-2017
- Language: English
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Taking on Gravity
- A Guide to Inventing the Impossible from the Man Who Learned to Fly
- By: Richard Browning
- Narrated by: Richard Browning
- Length: 7 hrs
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Richard Browning’s story is one of groundbreaking innovation. Building an aviation business from his garage, he has invented a whole new form of personal flight - a fantasy previously reserved for the pages of science fiction. His iconic jet suit has captured the imaginations of millions around the world, triggered ongoing developments in technology and engineering, and inspired a new generation of creative minds to pursue their dreams.
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Taking on Gravity
- A Guide to Inventing the Impossible from the Man Who Learned to Fly
- Narrated by: Richard Browning
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 06-05-2021
- Language: English
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Quirky
- By: Melissa A. Schilling
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world - those creative geniuses who give us one breakthrough after another? What differentiates Marie Curie or Elon Musk from the merely creative, the many one-hit wonders among us? Melissa Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people - Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs - to identify the traits and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again.
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Well-balanced & insightful
- By Amazon Customer on 17-01-2022
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Quirky
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2018
- Language: English
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Dealers of Lightning
- Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- By: Michael Hiltzik
- Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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The riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC, a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the '70s and '80s.
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Great history, terrible audio quality.
- By Amazon Customer on 18-02-2020
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Dealers of Lightning
- Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-12-1999
- Language: English
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Dark Data
- Why What You Don’t Know Matters
- By: David J. Hand
- Narrated by: David J. Hand
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Dark Data explores the many ways in which we can be blind to missing data and how that can lead us to conclusions and actions that are mistaken, dangerous, or even disastrous. Examining a wealth of real-life examples, from the Challenger shuttle explosion to complex financial frauds, Hand gives us a practical taxonomy of the types of dark data that exist and the situations in which they can arise, so that we can learn to recognize and control for them.
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Dark Data
- Why What You Don’t Know Matters
- Narrated by: David J. Hand
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2020
- Language: English
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Fatal System Error
- The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet
- By: Joseph Menn
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs, who began by attacking corporate websites but increasingly steal financial data from consumers.
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Fatal System Error
- The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 11-01-2010
- Language: English
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The New Digital Age
- Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
- By: Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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The New Digital Age is the product of an unparalleled collaboration: full of the brilliant insights of one of Silicon Valley's great innovators - what Bill Gates was to Microsoft and Steve Jobs was to Apple, Schmidt (along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin) was to Google - and the Director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, formerly an advisor to both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Never before has the future been so vividly and transparently imagined. From
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The New Digital Age
- Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 25-04-2013
- Language: English
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Footprints in the Dust
- The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
- By: Richard F. Gordon Jr, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Jerry Longe
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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The flight of Apollo 11 was a triumph of human endeavor, persistence, and technology, one of the greatest achievements in human history. This book begins with the mission that sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin to the moon, then follows American spaceflight through the harrowing rescue of Apollo 13 before moving on to the successful joint Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.
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Footprints in the Dust
- The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
- Narrated by: Jerry Longe
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2014
- Language: English
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- By: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages - of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today.
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The Book
- A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- Language: English
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Turned On
- Science, Sex and Robots
- By: Kate Devlin
- Narrated by: Kate Devlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. With advances in technology come machines that may one day think independently. What will happen to us when we form close relationships with these intelligent systems? Sex robots are here and here to stay, and more are coming. This audiobook explores how the emerging and future development of sexual companion robots might affect us and the society in which we live. It explores the social changes arising from emerging technologies and our relationships with the machines that may someday care for us and about us.
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Turned On
- Science, Sex and Robots
- Narrated by: Kate Devlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 18-10-2018
- Language: English
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