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    • UFOs, Religion, Technology
    • By: D.W. Pasulka
    • Narrated by: Norah Tocci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions....

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    • Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
    • By: Stephen L. Sass
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

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    • Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
    • By: Ruha Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity....

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    • The 10 Trends Shaping Today's Young People - and the Nation
    • By: Jean M. Twenge Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • An entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen - the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later - are vastly different from their millennial predecessors....

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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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    • How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets
    • By: Nathaniel Popper
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets....

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    • By: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity....

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    • The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
    • By: W. Daniel Hillis
    • Narrated by: Lewis Arlt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Pattern on the Stone is an indispensable guide to understanding the workings of that most ubiquitous and important of machines: the computer....

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    • Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
    • By: Erik Davis
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In TechGnosis, Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication....

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    • How and Why Constant Connectivity Is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About It
    • By: Mari K. Swingle
    • Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
    • Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An entertaining, scientifically rigorous exploration of the social and biological effects of our wireless world. The way we use technology is affecting our health and happiness....

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    • By: Robert Colvile
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? Find out....

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    • How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It Could Drive Us Apart
    • By: Rachel Botsman
    • Narrated by: Caroline Baum
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • From government to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low, but millions exchange cryptocurrency online, or get in the cars of unknown Uber drivers. This is the age of distributed trust....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Germaine Halegoua
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis....

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    • The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
    • By: Mark J. Penn, E. Kinney Zalesne
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2007
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, and President Bill Clinton proves that small is big by identifying 75 hidden-in-plain-sight trends that are moving America, revealing that the nation is no longer a melting pot but a collection of communities....

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    • A Radical Defence of the Human Being
    • By: Paul Mason
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Our world order is under pressure as never before. From new authoritarian regimes in the US, Turkey and Russia to the imminent breakup of the European Union and a social media awash with intolerance, things look set to fall apart just as abruptly as the Soviet Union did some 30 years ago....

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    • The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
    • By: Maggie Jackson
    • Narrated by: Christine Carroll
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2010
    • Language: English
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    • Welcome to the land of distraction. Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment....

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    • Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
    • By: Nancy Jo Sales
    • Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer, Nancy Jo Sales
    • Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of Nancy Jo Sales' American Girls....

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    • Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
    • By: Ben Sasse
    • Narrated by: Ben Sasse
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Something is wrong. We all know it. American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil....

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    • The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
    • By: Robert Elliott Smith
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Offering a rigorous, fresh perspective on how technology has brought us to this place, Rage Inside the Machine challenges the long-held assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force....

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    • 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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