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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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This is what our future looks like: in the next decade, AI will be able to convince us that it’s human. During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure. By 2045, it will be possible to connect our brains with these AIs using invisibly small nanotechnologies. Our minds and theirs will merge, expanding our consciousness more profoundly than we can fully comprehend, unlocking possibilities we can barely imagine. This is the singularity.
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Balanced view of the upcoming technology revolution
- By Anonymous User on 14-07-24
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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?
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An important story told very well
- By Anonymous User on 24-06-24
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- By: Allen Carr
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity. Including 20 practical steps to help you along your way, this wonderful guide will release you from the clutches of your smartphone and allow you to live in the moment. It truly is the easyway.
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Feeling pretty good after reading this book
- By Anonymous on 12-08-21
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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Feeding the Machine
- The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
- By: James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network of organisations that maintain this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI.
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Feeding the Machine
- The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- By: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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I almost didn't listen to this
- By hellojoanie on 10-01-22
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-11-15
- Language: English
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- By: Ethan Mollick
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, he urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher and coach.
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Good intro to the new world
- By Auguste Dupin on 14-04-24
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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The End of Reality
- How Four Billionaires Are Selling Out Our Future
- By: Jonathan Taplin
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme - from the metaverse to cryptocurrency, space travel and transhumanism - is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin shines a light on the enormous cultural power of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen.
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The End of Reality
- How Four Billionaires Are Selling Out Our Future
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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Plurality
- The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
- By: E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, ⿻ Community
- Narrated by: E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, JJ Reynolds-Strange, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Taiwan achieved inclusive, technology-fueled growth, overcame the pandemic without lockdowns and the infodemic without takedowns, entrusted its people to tackle shared challenges like environmental protection while capitalizing on a culture of innovation to hack the government. Here, the architects of Taiwan's internationally acclaimed digital democracy share the secret of their success. Plurality harnesses digital tools not to replace humans or trust, but to channel the potential energy in social diversity that can erupt in conflict instead for progress, growth and beauty.
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Plurality
- The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
- Narrated by: E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, JJ Reynolds-Strange, Kaliya Young, Matt Prewitt, Divya Siddarth, Gisele Chou
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-07-24
- Language: English
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Architects of Intelligence
- The Truth About AI from the People Building It
- By: Martin Ford
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times best-selling author Martin Ford uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the artificial intelligence community.
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Provocative insights into the minds that have shaped modern AI
- By Black2Sugars on 18-06-24
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Architects of Intelligence
- The Truth About AI from the People Building It
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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From the Sunday Times top ten best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. "It's about the terror, isn't it?" "The terror of what?" I said. "The terror of being found out." For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world, meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made jokes on social media that came out badly or made mistakes at work.
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Not too bad for a Jon Ronson book
- By M. S. on 20-08-19
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-03-15
- Language: English
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Technofeudalism
- What Killed Capitalism
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of those cute cats on Instagram. But gradually, quietly, a yet more exploitative new system has taken hold: techno-feudalism. Crafted in the form of a letter to his late father, who first taught him about the power of new technologies to shape human history, Yanis Varoufakis explains how Big Tech has effected an invisible but fundamental transformation in all our lives.
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Amazing thought and insight
- By Stephanie Clay on 17-10-23
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Technofeudalism
- What Killed Capitalism
- Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Flourish
- Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
- By: Sarah Ichioka, Michael Pawlyn
- Narrated by: Nicola Burgess
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Looking deeply into the web of life that created and supports us, and drawing inspiration from diverse cultural traditions and perspectives, spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings; infrastructure; and communities.
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Inspirational
- By Britt Rees on 02-06-23
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Flourish
- Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
- Narrated by: Nicola Burgess
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-09-22
- Language: English
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LikeWar
- The Weaponization of Social Media
- By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, “Twitter wars” produce real world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations. The result is that war, tech, and politics have blurred into a new kind of battlespace that plays out on our smartphones.
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good book, strange narration
- By Kindle Customer on 31-08-21
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LikeWar
- The Weaponization of Social Media
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs
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In this timely and enlightening audiobook, Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can have fun with friends and family and eat out at restaurants without the obsessive urge to document the experience...Now, Newport gives us a name for this quiet movement and makes a case for its urgency in our tech-saturated world.
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Thought Provoking; Shame About The Narrator
- By Philippa Turner on 20-04-19
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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Because Internet
- Understanding How Language Is Changing
- By: Gretchen McCulloch
- Narrated by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Length: 8 hrs
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Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before.
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Amazing job reading about typed text by the author!
- By Kirstie Whitaker on 19-01-20
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Because Internet
- Understanding How Language Is Changing
- Narrated by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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Why Machines Learn
- The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
- By: Anil Ananthaswamy
- Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that is not slowing down. This major shift is based on simple mathematics, some of which goes back centuries: linear algebra and calculus, the stuff of eighteenth-century mathematics. Indeed by the mid-1850s, a lot of the groundwork was all done. In this enlightening book, Anil Ananthaswamy explains the fundamental maths behind AI, which suggests that the basics of natural and artificial intelligence might follow the same mathematical rules.
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Why Machines Learn
- The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
- Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 16-07-24
- Language: English
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Social Engineering
- The Art of Human Hacking
- By: Paul Wilson - foreword, Christopher Hadnagy
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking does its part to prepare you against nefarious hackers. Now you can do your part by putting to good use the critical information this audiobook provides.
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An important intro to manipulation tactics
- By Julia Kylmälä on 29-01-23
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Social Engineering
- The Art of Human Hacking
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-07-20
- Language: English
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Mismatch
- How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
- By: Kat Holmes, John Maeda - foreword
- Narrated by: Kat Holmes
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion.
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Really interesting and informative
- By Annette on 27-07-20
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Mismatch
- How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
- Narrated by: Kat Holmes
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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The Metaverse
- Building the Spatial Internet / Fully Revised and Updated Edition
- By: Matthew Ball
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
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In this fully revised and updated edition of his internationally best-selling book, pioneering theorist and entrepreneur Matthew Ball goes beyond the hype cycle to present a definitive account of the future of the internet. The Metaverse, according to Ball’s industry-shaping definition, is a persistent and interconnected network of 3D virtual worlds that will eventually serve as the gateway to most online experiences and underpin much of the physical world.
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The Metaverse
- Building the Spatial Internet / Fully Revised and Updated Edition
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-07-24
- Language: English
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- By: Mo Gawdat
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predicting outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does Intelligence frequently get it so wrong? The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works and the processed information reflects an imperfect world.
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Don’t be fooled by his gospel of AI.
- By I.H. Schots on 30-10-21
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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