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Talking to Robots
- A Brief Guide to Our Human Robot Futures
- By: David Ewing Duncan
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate for our human-robot future? From present-day Facebook and Amazon bots to near-future 'intimacy' bots and 'the robot that stole my job' bots, best-selling American popular science writer David Ewing Duncan's Talking to Robots is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful guide to possible future scenarios about robots, both real and imagined.
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Good imagination.
- By B. Limbu on 31-12-20
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Talking to Robots
- A Brief Guide to Our Human Robot Futures
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
- The Race for Space and World Prestige
- By: Yanek Mieczkowski
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment, Yanek Mieczkowski examines the early history of America's space program, reassessing Eisenhower's leadership. He details how Eisenhower approved breakthrough satellites, supported a new civilian space agency, signed a landmark science education law, and fostered improved relations with scientists. Offering a fast-paced account of this Cold War episode, Mieczkowski demonstrates that Eisenhower built an impressive record in space and on earth.
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Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
- The Race for Space and World Prestige
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 18-07-18
- Language: English
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Death Underground
- The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
- By: Robert E. Hartley, David Kenney
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951. Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney explain the causes of the accidents, identify who was to blame, and detail the emotional impact the disasters had on the survivors, their families, and their communities.
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Death Underground
- The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 11-12-13
- Language: English
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Wie KI unsere Zukunft gestalten wird
- Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen, um einen Schritt voraus zu sein
- By: Pedro Uria-Recio, Mila Johnson - translator
- Narrated by: Torsten Creutzburg
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
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„Wie KI unsere Zukunft gestalten wird“ ist in einem leicht verständlichen Stil geschrieben und widmet sich einer der zentralen Fragen unserer Zeit: Was können wir von der rasanten Entwicklung der KI erwarten? Wie wird sie unser Leben und unsere Gesellschaft in den kommenden Jahrzehnten verändern?
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Wie KI unsere Zukunft gestalten wird
- Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen, um einen Schritt voraus zu sein
- Narrated by: Torsten Creutzburg
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-11-25
- Language: German
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Riddle of the Compass
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Abridged
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The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed...
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As poor as his book 'Entanglement'
- By Peter on 28-10-08
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Riddle of the Compass
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 02-10-01
- Language: English
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Brilliant
- The Evolution of Artificial Light
- By: Jane Brox
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history - from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. Jane Brox plumbs the class implications of light - who had it, who didn't - through the many centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. Brillant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and - only a few years before it becomes illegal to sell most incandescent light bulbs in the United States - timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light.
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Brilliant
- The Evolution of Artificial Light
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 15-01-19
- Language: English
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The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community
- By: Katie Hafner
- Narrated by: Wendy Almeida
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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The Well was conceived during the Orwellian year of 1984, yet instead of heralding Big Brother, it became a boundary-breaking cultural invention that helped change our world.
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The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community
- Narrated by: Wendy Almeida
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-01-15
- Language: English
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The Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- By: Ruth Defries
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened.
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The Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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Made to Break
- Technology and Obsolescence in America
- By: Giles Slade
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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If you've replaced a computer lately - or a cell phone, a camera, a television - chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence - a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the very near future.
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Informative
- By Anonymous on 25-07-21
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Made to Break
- Technology and Obsolescence in America
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-01-14
- Language: English
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The Fourth Part of the World
- The Race to the Ends of the Earth
- By: Toby Lester
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Brimming with enthralling details and personalities, Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World spotlights Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and recounts the epic tale of the mariners and scholars who facilitated this watershed of Western history.
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The Fourth Part of the World
- The Race to the Ends of the Earth
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-11-09
- Language: English
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Meat Planet
- Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
- By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
- Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft spent five years researching the phenomenon. In Meat Planet, he reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually lead to our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? Like all problems in our food system, the meat problem is not merely a problem of production. It is intrinsically social and political.
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Meat Planet
- Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
- Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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Archaeology from Space
- How the Future Shapes Our Past
- By: Sarah Parcak
- Narrated by: Sarah Parcak
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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This program is read by the author. National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the exciting new world of space archaeology, a growing field that is sparking extraordinary discoveries from ancient civilizations across the globe. In Archaeology from Space...
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Archaeology from Space
- How the Future Shapes Our Past
- Narrated by: Sarah Parcak
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-07-19
- Language: English
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The Pen
- A Human History
- By: Simon Garfield
- Length: 6 hrs
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A journey into the history of writing, thought, and culture through the story of the pen and its integral role in shaping our lives into the twenty-first century—from New York Times bestselling author Simon Garfield The pen has been with us for millennia. Many beloved authors had their...
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The Pen
- A Human History
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 03-11-26
- Language: English
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These Strange New Minds
- How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
- By: Christopher Summerfield
- Narrated by: Rufus Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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An insider look at the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are revolutionizing our relationship to technology, exploring their surprising history, what they can and should do for us today, and where they will go in the future—from an AI pioneer and neuroscientist In this accessible, up-to-date...
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These Strange New Minds
- How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
- Narrated by: Rufus Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-03-25
- Language: English
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Power Failure
- The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
- By: William D. Cohan
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 Financial Times Best Books of 2022 The Economist Best Books of 2022 The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist...
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Power Failure
- The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 28 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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Rocket Men
- The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
- By: Craig Nelson
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride." -The Wall Street Journal Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's...
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Rocket Men
- The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-06-09
- Language: English
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Look out for Johnson’s new book, Wonderland, on sale November 15, 2016. From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the...
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-09-14
- Language: English
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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- By: Ryan North
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE “Comic book fans will fall hard for this delightfully daffy guidebook. . . . Exuberant, optimistic, and just plain fun, How to Take Over the World will both surprise and delight.” —Esquire A book this informative should be a crime! Taking...
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How to Take Over the World
- Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
- Narrated by: Ryan North
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 15-03-22
- Language: English
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India Connected
- How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
- By: Ravi Agrawal
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Foreign Policy managing editor and former CNN South Asia bureau chief Ravi Agrawal takes listeners on a journey across India, through remote rural villages and massive metropolises, to highlight how one tiny device - the smartphone - is changing all facets of Indian life. The rise of smartphones, and with them access to the internet, has caused nothing short of a revolution in India. In the West, technological advances have progressed step-by-step, starting with landline phones.
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India Connected
- How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-02-26
- Language: English
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