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The Future Is Analog
- How to Create a More Human World
- By: David Sax
- Narrated by: David Sax
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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For years, consumers have been promised a simple, carefree digital future. We could live, work, learn, and play from the comforts of our homes, and have whatever we desire brought to our door with the flick of a finger. Instant communication would bring us together. Technological convenience would give us more time to focus on what really mattered. When the pandemic hit, that future transformed into the present, almost overnight. And the reviews aren't great.
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A curmudgeon complains about lockdown
- By Cliff McCollum on 26-04-23
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The Future Is Analog
- How to Create a More Human World
- Narrated by: David Sax
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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De volksauto
- Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van de gezinswagen
- By: Maarten van Rossem
- Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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De 20ste eeuw is de eeuw van de massamotorisering. In 1913 begon de eerste massale serieproductie van auto’s in Amerika. Door een efficiënt productieproces lukte het de industrieel Henry Ford om de T-Ford relatief goedkoop op de markt te brengen en daarmee toegankelijk te maken voor de groeiende middenklasse. In Europa kwam de automobilisering van de samenleving pas op gang na 1960. Elk Europees industrieland leverde een eigen bijdrage.
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De volksauto
- Een hoorcollege over de geschiedenis van de gezinswagen
- Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-04-21
- Language: Dutch
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The Clock and the Camshaft
- And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without
- By: John W. Farrell
- Narrated by: Celeste Oliva
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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This history of medieval inventions, focusing on the 11th to the 14th centuries, vividly portrays a thriving era of human ingenuity, and the results are still being felt to this day. From the mechanical clock to the first eyeglasses, both of which revolutionized society, many of the commonplace devices we now take for granted had their origin in the Middle Ages. Divided into 10 thematic chapters, the accessible audiobook allows the listener to sample areas of interest or listen to the book from beginning to end for a complete historical overview.
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The Clock and the Camshaft
- And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without
- Narrated by: Celeste Oliva
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 31-01-22
- Language: English
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Turing
- Pioneer of the Information Age
- By: B. Jack Copeland
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Alan Turing can be regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the war of 1939-45, Turing was also the father of the modern computer. Today, all who 'click-to-open' are familiar with the impact of Turing's ideas. Here, B. Jack Copeland provides an account of Turing's life and work, exploring the key elements of his life-story in tandem with his leading ideas and contributions.
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Turning for Knighthood versus Turning the man
- By Catriona Ferris on 14-05-21
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Turing
- Pioneer of the Information Age
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 16-06-14
- Language: English
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Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
- The Middle Ages Series
- By: E. R. Truitt
- Narrated by: Harry Shaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and 14th centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture.
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Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
- The Middle Ages Series
- Narrated by: Harry Shaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-07-19
- Language: English
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Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World
- By: Avi Jorisch
- Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Thou Shalt Innovate profiles wondrous Israeli innovations that are collectively changing the lives of billions of people around the world, and explores why Israeli innovators of all faiths feel compelled to make the world better. This is the story of how Israelis are helping to feed the hungry, cure the sick, protect the defenseless, and make the desert bloom. Israel is playing a disproportionate role in helping solve some of the world's biggest challenges by tapping into the nation's soul: the spirit of tikkun olam - the Jewish concept of repairing the world.
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Inspiring, Encouraging and challenging
- By Ola on 21-01-21
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Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World
- Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-04-18
- Language: English
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- By: Paul R. Josephson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Nuclear Russia probes the juncture of history of science and technology, political and cultural history, and environmental history. It considers the atom in Russian society as a reflection of Leninist technological utopianism, Cold War imperatives, scientific hubris, public acceptance, and a state desire to conquer nature. Furthermore the audiobook examines the vital – and perhaps unexpected – significance of ethnicity and gender in nuclear history by looking at how Kazakhs and Nenets lost their homelands and their health in Russia in the wake of nuclear testing.
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-12-22
- Language: English
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Shadow Work
- The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
- By: Craig Lambert
- Narrated by: James Jenner
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, our society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work. Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizations.
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Narration annoying
- By Amazon Customer on 29-05-24
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Shadow Work
- The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
- Narrated by: James Jenner
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 27-08-15
- Language: English
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Non-Computable You
- What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will
- By: Robert J. Marks
- Narrated by: Larry Nobles
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? What about composers, painters, and novelists? Will tomorrow’s supercomputers duplicate and exceed humans? Are we just wetware, natural computers doomed to obsolescence by tomorrow’s ultra-powerful artificial intelligence? In Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will, Robert J. Marks II answers these and other fascinating questions with his trademark blend of whimsy and expertise.
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Non-Computable You
- What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will
- Narrated by: Larry Nobles
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-09-22
- Language: English
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Interconnected Realities
- How the Metaverse Will Transform Our Relationship with Technology Forever
- By: Leslie Shannon
- Narrated by: Rebecca H. Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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In Interconnected Realities, Leslie Shannon, Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting at Nokia, delivers an energizing and optimistic new take on the Metaverse. Starting with metaverse realms already in existence today, the book explores the purpose that each independent platform serves, as well as how all these disparate realms will ultimately be stitched together to permanently transform our personal and business lives.
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Interconnected Realities
- How the Metaverse Will Transform Our Relationship with Technology Forever
- Narrated by: Rebecca H. Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-06-23
- Language: English
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Robotics
- What Beginners Need to Know about Robotic Process Automation, Mobile Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Speech Recognition, Drones, and Our Future
- By: Neil Wilkins
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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Robotics is slowly creeping into our lives, and soon, robots will be everywhere. Do you know everything there is to know about robotics? Do you want to know more about robotics? Do you want to discover the advantages of robotics? If so, then you've come to the right place.
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Robotics
- What Beginners Need to Know about Robotic Process Automation, Mobile Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Speech Recognition, Drones, and Our Future
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-05-19
- Language: English
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Hardcore Inventing
- Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Ideas
- By: Robert Yanover, Ellie Crowe
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Based on the author’s experience in the world of inventing and promotion, Hardcore Inventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience: how to developing an idea into an invention, how to build a prototype for show, how to safeguard intellectual property, how to market both strategically and in “guerilla" mode, how find investors, and much more. And all of that is based on his IP 3 Tacitical Method which breaks everything down to Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit.
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Hardcore Inventing
- Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Ideas
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 23-02-13
- Language: English
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Ancient High Tech
- The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations
- By: Frank Joseph
- Narrated by: Andy Rick
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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A detailed look into ancient advanced technology, science, and medicine - some of which has yet to be reproduced today.
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Facts are important
- By Knowledge thru Books. on 14-03-22
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Ancient High Tech
- The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations
- Narrated by: Andy Rick
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Things Fall Together
- A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
- By: Skylar Tibbits
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world.
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Things Fall Together
- A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Left to Our Own Devices
- Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus
- By: Margaret E. Morris, Sherry Turkle - foreword
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Margaret Morris argues we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways - uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity.
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Positive takes on the potential for devices
- By Rahel on 18-03-19
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Left to Our Own Devices
- Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 28-11-18
- Language: English
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Being Digital
- By: Nicholas Negroponte
- Narrated by: Penn Jillette
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax.
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Being Digital
- Narrated by: Penn Jillette
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-06-09
- Language: English
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The Social Life of Information
- By: John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid show us how to look beyond mere information to the social context that creates and gives meaning to it. Arguing elegantly for the important role that human sociability plays, even - perhaps especially - in the digital world, The Social Life of Information gives us an optimistic look beyond the simplicities of information and individuals.
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The Social Life of Information
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-06-17
- Language: English
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Nuts and Bolts
- Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
- By: Roma Agrawal
- Narrated by: Roma Agrawal
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Some of engineering's mightiest achievements are small in scale, even hidden—and yet, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the lens, the magnet, the string, and the pump. From the physics behind both Roman nails and modern skyscrapers to rudimentary springs that inspired lithium batteries, Agrawal shows us how even the most sophisticated items are built on the foundations of these ancient and fundamental breakthroughs in engineering.
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Nuts and Bolts
- Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
- Narrated by: Roma Agrawal
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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New Laws of Robotics
- Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
- By: Frank Pasquale
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: If a machine can do what you do, your job will be automated. They envision everyone from doctors to soldiers rendered superfluous by ever-more-powerful AI. They offer stark alternatives: Make robots, or be replaced by them. Another story is possible. In virtually every walk of life, robotic systems can make labor more valuable, not less. Frank Pasquale tells the story of nurses, teachers, designers, and others who partner with technologists, rather than meekly serving as data sources for their computerized replacements.
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New Laws of Robotics
- Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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GPS Declassified
- From Smart Bombs to Smartphones
- By: Richard D. Easton, Eric F. Frazier
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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GPS Declassified examines the development of GPS from its secret, cold war military roots to its emergence as a worldwide consumer industry. Drawing on previously unexplored documents, the authors examine how military rivalries influenced the creation of GPS and shaped public perceptions about its origin. Told by a son of a Navy insider and a science and technology journalist, the story chronicles the research and technological advances required for the development of GPS.
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GPS Declassified
- From Smart Bombs to Smartphones
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-01-18
- Language: English
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