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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- By: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 ONE OF THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE AND NATURE BOOK 2024 A HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST RELATED WORK 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the...
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What if woke leftists were in charge of space exploration?
- By Amazon Customer on 08-06-25
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-02-25
- Language: English
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- By: George Dyson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study...
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Covers a lot more than Turing
- By Mr on 04-05-17
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Turing's Cathedral
- The Origins of the Digital Universe
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-03-12
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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Unlocked
- The Real Science of Screen Time (and How to Spend It Better)
- By: Pete Etchells
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Most of us spend a significant part of the day in front of a screen. Our work and social lives play out through our computers, tablets and phones: on email, social media, video conference calls and gaming servers. But what is all this screen time doing to our health, our sleep, and our relationships? Professor Pete Etchells studies the way we use screens, and how they can affect us. In UNLOCKED, he delves into the real science behind the panic about our alleged device addiction and withering attention spans.
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Excellent - can’t recommend enough
- By N. F. on 17-04-24
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Unlocked
- The Real Science of Screen Time (and How to Spend It Better)
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-03-24
- Language: English
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Digital Dharma
- How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Wellbeing
- By: Deepak Chopra
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra MD
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. In a world captivated yet bewildered by artificial intelligence, spiritual icon Deepak Chopra explores AI's untapped potential to unlock the mystery of consciousness, positioning AI not as a threat, but as a powerful catalyst for personal and spiritual growth. Digital...
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Better than expected....
- By Reviewer on 19-01-25
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Digital Dharma
- How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Wellbeing
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra MD
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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The History of the Future
- Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
- By: Blake J. Harris
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But...
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Does not live up to Console Wars
- By Stephen on 20-02-19
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The History of the Future
- Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
- By: Tim Harford
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, best-selling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of 50 radical inventions that changed the world. Along the way he entertained us with a myriad of great stories and revealed some of the most surprising landmarks in our history.
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Good continuation.
- By Jeffrey Archer on 01-07-20
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The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-05-20
- Language: English
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The AI Illusion
- Why Machines Aren't Creative
- By: Luc Julia
- Narrated by: Joshua Ward
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In The AI Illusion: Why Machines Aren't Creative, Luc Julia dismantles the hype surrounding generative AI by revealing what these technologies can actually do (as of today) versus what their promoters claim. Drawing on over thirty-five years' experience in the tech industry, Julia exposes the...
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The AI Illusion
- Why Machines Aren't Creative
- Narrated by: Joshua Ward
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-04-26
- Language: English
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The Metaverse
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- By: Scott Shackelford, Michael Mattioli, Jeffrey Prince, and others
- Narrated by: Dustin Naylor
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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This book explores whether the Metaverse—understood here as a persistent, immersive, and widely utilized, virtual world—will be the next chapter in the evolution of cyberspace, and what that means for people, business, and society. The Metaverse. Depending on your perspective, it's the...
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The Metaverse
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- Narrated by: Dustin Naylor
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 07-07-26
- Language: English
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Managing Your Gaming and Social Media Habits
- From Science to Solutions
- By: Catherine Knibbs
- Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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The influence of technology on hobbies and leisure time is quickly becoming a regular part of daily life, but how much do we really understand about how or why we're using it, and its impact on our health? This easy-to-listen guide is designed to provide all of the support needed to understand...
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Managing Your Gaming and Social Media Habits
- From Science to Solutions
- Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 07-07-26
- Language: English
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Lost in Time
- Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge
- By: Jack R. Bialik
- Narrated by: Dr. Juan Carlos Rey
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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What if the information that powers modern life were wiped out tomorrow? Across history, breakthroughs have appeared, flourished—and vanished. The Egyptians could remove cataracts 4,000 years ago; entire libraries of irreplaceable data have burned in a night. Today, our hyper-connected, fully digital world may be even more fragile than the empires that came before us.
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Lost in Time
- Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge
- Narrated by: Dr. Juan Carlos Rey
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-04-26
- Language: English
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The AI Ten Commandments
- A New Moral Code for Humanity
- By: Jamie Metzl, GPT-5
- Narrated by: Jamie Metzl
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In a historically unprecedented collaboration, leading futurist and bestselling author Jamie Metzl partners with the AI system GPT-5 to demonstrate a breathtaking possibility: that advanced artificial intelligence, guided by human ethics and wisdom, can help shape a more humane future. At a moment of rapid AI disruption, growing concern about AI governance, and deep uncertainty about the future of technology, this groundbreaking work reveals how we can partner with advanced AI to foster peace, understanding, and responsible decision-making-if we are ready to listen.
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The AI Ten Commandments
- A New Moral Code for Humanity
- Narrated by: Jamie Metzl
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person
- Words as Violence and Stories of Women's Resistance Online
- By: Alia Dastagir
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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An urgently needed reckoning with the harm, harassment, and abuse women face on the Internet, complicating how we think about violence online and featuring deep reporting on how women are surviving the trauma—by an award-winning reporter When Alia Dastagir published a story for USA Today as...
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To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person
- Words as Violence and Stories of Women's Resistance Online
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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“A house of wonders itself. . . . Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows” —The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times–bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Extra Life, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves...
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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-11-16
- Language: English
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Say Everything
- How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
- By: Scott Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s...
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Say Everything
- How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-07-09
- Language: English
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What Just Happened
- A Chronicle from the Information Frontier
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Dan Cashman
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Here’s some of what just happened: Millions of ordinary, sensible people came into possession of computers. These machines had wondrous powers, yet made unexpected demands on their owners. Telephones broke free of the chains that had shackled them to bedside tables and office desks. No one was...
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What Just Happened
- A Chronicle from the Information Frontier
- Narrated by: Dan Cashman
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 18-03-05
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
- What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
- By: Michael Wooldridge
- Narrated by: Glen McCready
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and...
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
- What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
- Narrated by: Glen McCready
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti
- IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World'sFirst Desktop Computer
- By: Meryle Secrest
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150. The human, business...
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The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti
- IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World'sFirst Desktop Computer
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Human Compatible
- Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
- By: Stuart Russell
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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"The most important book on AI this year." --The Guardian "Mr. Russell's exciting book goes deep, while sparkling with dry witticisms." --The Wall Street Journal "The most important book I have read in quite some time" (Daniel Kahneman); "A must-read" (Max Tegmark); "The book we've all been...
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Human Compatible
- Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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