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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    • By: Shoshana Zuboff
    • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....

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    • The Daily Aus Explains How the World Works (and Why You Should Care)
    • By: Zara Seidler, Sam Koslowski
    • Narrated by: Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • No Silly Questions is here to lay out the facts and principles behind the day's headlines. Zara Seidler and Sam Koslowski, creators of The Daily Aus, are like your super well-informed mates who you can rely on to quickly bring you up to speed....

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    • The Culture of Radical Sex
    • By: Pat Califia
    • Narrated by: Robin Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2012
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Public Sex collects the best of Pat Califia's work published over the past 20 years....

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    • Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
    • By: Paul Krugman
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Paul Krugman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won’t die....

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    • Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
    • By: Carl Benedikt Frey
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • By: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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    • How to Survive Any Crisis While Remaining Wealthy, Famous, and Most Importantly, Skinny
    • By: Leslie Gornstein - E!'s Answer Bitch
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2013
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • A must-read for anyone who cares why so many celebs are sporting "bumps", or whether they are really "just like us", this guide - nay, rulebook - lays down the law on what you need to know to play Hollywood....

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    • My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
    • By: Joy Buolamwini
    • Narrated by: Joy Buolamwini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-2023
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making.

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    • An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Mr Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children....

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    • Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
    • By: Sasha Costanza-Chock
    • Narrated by: Megan Tusing
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities....

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    • How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
    • By: Heather Mac Donald
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning....

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    • Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
    • By: James Ball
    • Narrated by: James Ball
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
    • By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The digital age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive....

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    • How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People
    • By: Charles C. Camosy
    • Narrated by: Charles C. Camosy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 24-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • This is a book about hope in the midst of a polarized culture. Camosy begins with a hopeful starting point in the midst of a crumbling US political culture....

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    • How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
    • By: Geoff Mulgan
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale....

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    • Inside the Strange & Menacing World of Antarctica
    • By: Nicholas Johnson, Eirik Sonneland - foreword
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • When Johnson went to work for the US Antarctic Program, he figured he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins, and lofty-minded scientists. Instead he found boredom, alcohol, and bureaucracy....

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    • Technology and the End of the Future
    • By: James Bridle
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime....

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    • Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
    • By: Robert Bryce
    • Narrated by: Robert Bryce
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity....

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