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Mars Rover Curiosity
- An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
- By: Rob Manning, William L. Simon
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised toanswer this all-important question.
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Building a rover under the bureaucracy of NASA
- By Wakeman on 04-05-18
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Mars Rover Curiosity
- An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 21-10-14
- Language: English
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.
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interesting book, horrible narration.
- By Joe Lonsdale on 14-06-20
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-09-12
- Language: English
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Joshua B. Freeman
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills". Many factories that operated over the last two centuries - such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn - were known for the labor exploitation and class warfare they engendered, not to mention the environmental devastation caused by factory production.
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Great overview of the industrial revolution
- By Anonymous User on 15-08-23
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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The Future of Happiness
- 5 Modern Strategies for Balancing Productivity and Well-Being in the Digital Era
- By: Amy Blankson, Shawn Achor - foreword
- Narrated by: Amy Blankson
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Technology - at least in theory - is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it's not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't have to be that way. Technology can drive - not diminish - human happiness.
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Great information and examples of how to stay happy
- By mr r f hunt on 20-06-23
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The Future of Happiness
- 5 Modern Strategies for Balancing Productivity and Well-Being in the Digital Era
- Narrated by: Amy Blankson
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-04-17
- Language: English
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ENIAC
- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
- By: Scott McCartney
- Narrated by: Adams Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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The world's first programmable computer was the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology, and it restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.
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Very inform and interesting summary about ENIAC and it’s creatures
- By Amazon Customer on 01-08-23
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ENIAC
- The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
- Narrated by: Adams Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-11-00
- Language: English
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How to Survive a Robot Uprising
- Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
- By: Daniel H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous "smart" house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans the secrets to quashing a robot mutiny.
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not funny or interesting
- By Jose on 15-07-16
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How to Survive a Robot Uprising
- Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 22-02-06
- Language: English
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Industry of Anonymity
- Inside the Business of Cybercrime
- By: Jonathan Lusthaus
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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The most extensive account yet of the lives of cybercriminals and the vast international industry they have created, deeply sourced and based on field research in the world's technology-crime hot spots.
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interesting material
- By Andy Roxburgh on 02-03-19
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Industry of Anonymity
- Inside the Business of Cybercrime
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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High Noon
- The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems
- By: Karen Southwick
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Both entertaining and instructive, High Noon offers valuable lessons for taking charge of your destiny and succeeding in a fast-paced, unpredictable, and even hostile environment. It is the inside story of Sun Microsystem's rise to power, from its shaky start in Silicon Valley through its transformation under the aggressive and inspirational leadership of Scott McNealy.
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Needs Updating
- By Mike on 22-08-09
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High Noon
- The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-08-01
- Language: English
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How the Internet Happened
- By: Brian McCullough
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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The Internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first "dotcom".
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a must read. very insightful and well presented.
- By Anonymous User on 13-09-22
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How the Internet Happened
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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Driverless
- Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead
- By: Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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In this book, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman offer listeners insight into the risks and benefits of driverless cars, and a lucid and engaging explanation of the enabling technology. Recent advances in software and robotics are toppling long-standing technological barriers that for decades have confined self-driving cars to the realm of fantasy. A new kind of artificial intelligence software called deep learning gives cars rapid and accurate visual perception. Human drivers can relax and take their eyes off the road.
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interesting, but not convinced.
- By Keith on 04-01-22
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Driverless
- Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-10-16
- Language: English
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Robot Rights
- By: David J. Gunkel
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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In this audiobook, David Gunkel offers a provocative attempt to think about what has been previously regarded as unthinkable: whether and to what extent robots and other technological artifacts of our own making can and should have any claim to moral and legal standing.
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Robot Rights
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-02-19
- 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: 08-10-18
- Language: English
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Tomorrow-Land
- The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
- By: Joseph Tirella
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "master builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the fair.
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Tomorrow-Land
- The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-01-14
- Language: English
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The End of Ownership
- Personal Property in the Digital Economy
- By: Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put it on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the eBooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your eBook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation - as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers.
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Essential listening for IP geeks
- By SH on 09-01-22
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The End of Ownership
- Personal Property in the Digital Economy
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-11-16
- Language: English
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Breakout
- Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate
- By: Newt Gingrich
- Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Best-selling author Newt Gingrich proposes a bold vision ofthe future: America is on the cusp of a renaissance, a new birth of technological and scientific innovation that will dramatically transform the prosperity and quality of life of every American. Our biggest enemy? Special interest groups, powerful lobbyists, and government bureaucrats who aredetermined to squash, control, or prevent these innovations - and permanently change the future of America.
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Breakout
- Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate
- Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-11-13
- Language: English
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Microsoft
- First Generation
- By: Cheryl Tsang
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Microsoft: First Generation uncovers the range of surprising success secrets behind the upstart company that defined the Age of Information - and reveals, once and for all, exactly what makes Microsoft tick.
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Frankly I'm Puzzled....
- By Simon on 17-04-07
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Microsoft
- First Generation
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-08-01
- Language: English
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Microsoft First Generation
- The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who Launched a Technology Empire
- By: Cheryl Tsang
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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What began as a modest start-up partnership only 25 years ago has already surpassed all the giants of contemporary capitalism. How did Microsoft achieve all of this in so short a time? Cheryl Tsang steps inside the famous culture of loyalty, the storied “maniacal work ethic”, and the hardcore world of reckless risk-taking to reveal, once and for all, exactly what makes Microsoft tick.
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Microsoft First Generation
- The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who Launched a Technology Empire
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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