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    • UFOs, Religion, Technology
    • By: D.W. Pasulka
    • Narrated by: Norah Tocci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 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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    • Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
    • By: Ruha Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 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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    • 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: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 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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    • 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: 29-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 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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    • Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
    • By: Erik Davis
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 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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    • By: Robert Colvile
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 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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    • 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: 22-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 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: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 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: 11-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
    • By: Mark C. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, fashion, and finance, Mark C. Taylor presents an original and rich account of a great paradox of our times....

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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: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • The Design of Everyday Life
    • By: Adam Greenfield
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us....

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    • The Surrender of Culture to Technology
    • By: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it....

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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: 05-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 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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    • 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: 27-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • A Radical Defence of the Human Being
    • By: Paul Mason
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 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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    • Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age
    • By: Christine M. Beckman, Melissa Mazmanian
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • In Dreams of the Overworked, Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices....

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    • How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
    • By: Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush....

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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: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 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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