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  • This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell cover art

    • This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell

    • By: Marc Fennell
    • Narrated by: Marc Fennell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings

    • This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat.
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    • The Innovators

    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • To Engineer Is Human

    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • Failure Is Not an Option

    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Moon Shot

    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • 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....

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    • Conquering the Electron

    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • Invention and Innovation

    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • James May's 20th Century

    • By: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
      How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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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
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism....

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    • Energy

    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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    • Never Panic Early

    • An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
    • By: Fred Haise
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon....

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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
    • Release date: 17-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing....

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    • Empire of the Sum

    • The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
    • By: Keith Houston
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Keith Houston provides hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life....

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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
    • Release date: 14-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and how when we draw on the resources of the past, we can see the potential for struggle, for liberation, for art, and poetry in our technological present.....

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    • Countdown to Zero Day

    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • By: Kim Zetter
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings

    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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    • Nexus (Spanish Edition)

    • Una breve historia de las redes de información desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la IA [A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Luis David García Márquez
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2024
    • Language: Spanish
    • Not rated yet

    • El esperado nuevo libro de Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los pensadores más innovadores, interesantes y clarividentes de la actualidad, y autor de Sapiens, el fenómeno literario global que ha cautivado a millones de lectores.

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    • The Box

    • How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
    • By: Marc Levinson
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston....

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    • ColdFusion Presents

    • New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
    • By: Dagogo Altraide
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • Dagogo Altraide of YouTube's ColdFusion breaks down the history of gamechanger breakthroughs in the world of science and technology that have shaped our modern world and will impact the future....

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