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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
- By: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cox
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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In 1979, Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the 15th-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarizing the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.
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Narrator in the way of a fascinating book
- By Peter Thomas McNeely on 03-06-25
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cox
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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Discarded
- How Technofossils Will be Our Ultimate Legacy
- By: Sarah Gabbott, Jan Zalasiewicz
- Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far future? A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth: plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete flyways, chicken bones, cans, teabags, phones, shirts. They're produced for our comfort and pleasure then quickly discarded. This new-made treasure chest underpins our lives. But it is also giving a completely new style of fossilization to our planet. Designed to resist corrosion and decay, many will remain, petrified, as future geology.
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Discarded
- How Technofossils Will be Our Ultimate Legacy
- Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-05-25
- Language: English
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Access Rules
- Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
- By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge contend that if we disrupt monopoly power and create a level playing field, digital innovations can emerge to benefit us all.
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Access Rules
- Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Elting E. Morison
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This 50th anniversary edition of Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society by such change, and society's reaction to that change.
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Still relevant, but no longer new
- By JCM on 18-10-23
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-08-16
- Language: English
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The Sirens' Call
- How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
- By: Chris Hayes
- Narrated by: Chris Hayes
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and...
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Very informative
- By Oana Manea on 30-03-26
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The Sirens' Call
- How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
- Narrated by: Chris Hayes
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- 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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Automate This
- How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
- By: Christopher Steiner
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills - and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These "bots" started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected.
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Enlightening
- By mr Peter Mo on 19-10-17
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Automate This
- How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-09-12
- Language: English
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Against the Web
- A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
- By: Michael Brooks
- Narrated by: Sam Seder
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analysis of the "conservative rebels" who had taken YouTube by storm in 2018. Brooks provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible critique of the most prominent "renegades," including Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Brett Weinstein while also examining the social, political, and media environment that such rebels thrive in.
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Vital & Funny
- By King Pig on 16-11-23
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Against the Web
- A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
- Narrated by: Sam Seder
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-06-23
- Language: English
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Cyberpsychology
- By: Juan Moises de la Serna
- Narrated by: Ian A. Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook addresses the new branch called cyberpsychology, which shows how there has been a change in the person-technology relationship, analyzing how new developments affect the day-to-day life of the person, as well as the mental health of its users. All this is backed by an extensive bibliography on the latest research conducted in this area.
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Cyberpsychology
- Narrated by: Ian A. Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-08-20
- Language: English
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Hybrid Humans
- Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
- By: Harry Parker
- Narrated by: Harry Parker
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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"I loved Hybrid Humans. It is modest, wise ... and a way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past" Jeanette Winterson "Harry Parker has explored the cutting edge of interaction between humanity, computing and AI ... a captivating and cautionary travel guide to a new world" Gavin...
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A thought provoking book on the current and future blurring of the boundaries between humans and machines
- By Amazon Customer on 13-03-22
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Hybrid Humans
- Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
- Narrated by: Harry Parker
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-02-22
- Language: English
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I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works
- Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
- By: Nick Bilton
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been...
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I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works
- Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 14-09-10
- Language: English
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As If Human
- Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- By: Nigel Shadbolt, Roger Hampson
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Plumb
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being.
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As If Human
- Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Plumb
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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The Future of Almost Everything
- By: Patrick Dixon
- Narrated by: Patrick Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Patrick Dixon looks at how the future will be Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical - a future of boom and bust and great economic change as the emerging markets grow up; a future of great advances in medicine and also greater threats from viral epidemics; a future of political shocks and greater conflicts; a future in which people will strive for more privacy and businesses will change the way they relate to their staff and their customers.
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Thought provoking
- By MISS HT BYRNE on 29-05-20
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The Future of Almost Everything
- Narrated by: Patrick Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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The Age of Living Machines
- How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
- By: Susan Hockfield
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Age of Living Machines describes some of the most exciting new developments and the scientists and engineers who helped create them. Virus-built batteries. Protein-based water filters. Cancer-detecting nanoparticles. Mind-reading bionic limbs. Computer-engineered crops. Together they highlight the promise of the technology revolution of the 21st century to overcome some of the greatest humanitarian, medical, and environmental challenges of our time.
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The Age of Living Machines
- How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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The Power of Onlyness
- Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
- By: Nilofer Merchant
- Narrated by: Nilofer Merchant
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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An 800-CEO-READ Staff Pick Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award A Financial Times Business Book of the Month “For any would-be activists who hear the voice: ‘not me’ or ‘not now,’ Merchant makes the strong case for ‘yes you’ and ‘yes now’—and even shows you...
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The Power of Onlyness
- Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
- Narrated by: Nilofer Merchant
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-08-17
- Language: English
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The New Digital Age
- Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
- By: Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet written about how the digital age will affect our world' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs. From two leading thinkers, the widely anticipated book that describes a new, hugely connected world of the future, full of challenges and...
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Dissapointment
- By Nikola on 07-05-13
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The New Digital Age
- Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 25-04-13
- Language: English
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Lovable AI
- The Technology Revolution
- By: Sam Zuker
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Lovable AI is not a fantasy. It’s the recognition that technology, when guided by empathy, ethics, and imagination, can amplify our humanity instead of replacing it. From healthcare and education to creativity and communication, AI is becoming a mirror of our best selves — when designed with heart.
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Lovable AI
- The Technology Revolution
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-12-25
- Language: English
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The Algorithmic Shopper
- Rethinking Growth, Strategy, and Brand Power in an AI-First World
- By: Paul Ferrando Accornero
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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You can't separate marketing, product, and AI anymore—The Algorithmic Shopper will help you win the next era. Marketing has always relied on human psychology—now that trillion-dollar ecosystem is becoming obsolete. For over a century, companies have tirelessly studied our aspirations and our...
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The Algorithmic Shopper
- Rethinking Growth, Strategy, and Brand Power in an AI-First World
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-04-27
- Language: English
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Rate This Book
- How Star Ratings Took Over the World
- By: Benji Wilson
- Narrated by: Benji Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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‘? ? ? ? ?’ Ian Hislop ‘A fun and fascinating look at one of those things we all do’ Jonathan Ross ‘The history of modern life we didn’t know we wanted’ Giles Coren The story of how – and why – the world has come to rely on star ratings for almost everything. The world has come...
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- How Star Ratings Took Over the World
- Narrated by: Benji Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-07-26
- Language: English
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Who's Raising the Kids?
- Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
- By: Susan Linn
- Narrated by: Susan Linn
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children’s lives, despite a growing body of research detailing the harms of excessive immersion in the unregulated, powerfully seductive, profit-driven world of the “kid-tech” industry. In Who’s Raising the Kids? Linn—one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of Big Tech and big business on children—explores the roots and consequences of this monumental shift toward a digitized, commercialized childhood, focusing on kids’ values, relationships, and learning.
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Who's Raising the Kids?
- Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
- Narrated by: Susan Linn
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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