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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....
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I like it, but ...
- By VTS on 22-04-17
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Hacker Crackdown
- Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- By: Bruce Sterling
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security....
By: Bruce Sterling
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- By: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Unabridged
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This book conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail....
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The best one so far...
- By Sam on 30-01-17
By: Andrew Chaikin
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Hijacking Bitcoin
- The Hidden History of BTC
- By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker
- Narrated by: Steve Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.
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The Truth is dealt in every chapter by the arrow of time and quotes.
- By Roy on 24-04-24
By: Roger Ver, and others
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Blood in the Machine
- The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....
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Had me reaching for a hammer
- By Amazon Customer on 26-10-23
By: Brian Merchant
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Very good story with great narrator performance
- By abdul on 19-07-23
By: Vaclav Smil
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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....
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I like it, but ...
- By VTS on 22-04-17
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Hacker Crackdown
- Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- By: Bruce Sterling
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security....
By: Bruce Sterling
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
- By: Andrew Chaikin
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 23 hrs
- Unabridged
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This book conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail....
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The best one so far...
- By Sam on 30-01-17
By: Andrew Chaikin
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Hijacking Bitcoin
- The Hidden History of BTC
- By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker
- Narrated by: Steve Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.
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The Truth is dealt in every chapter by the arrow of time and quotes.
- By Roy on 24-04-24
By: Roger Ver, and others
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Blood in the Machine
- The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....
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Had me reaching for a hammer
- By Amazon Customer on 26-10-23
By: Brian Merchant
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Very good story with great narrator performance
- By abdul on 19-07-23
By: Vaclav Smil
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- By: Kim Zetter
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....
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Fascinating subject and an amazing story
- By Just little old me on 01-04-15
By: Kim Zetter
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The Bleeding Edge
- My Six Decades at the Forefront of the Tech Revolution (From Scott McNealy to Steve Jobs to Steve Case to Steve Ballmer and Other Titans of Technology and Media)
- By: Bill Raduchel
- Narrated by: Alex Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Packed with never-before-heard stories and timeless wisdom on the art of computer science, the business of technology, and the durable power of relationships, The Bleeding Edge provides a rare history of how and why the internet looks and feels the way it does today....
By: Bill Raduchel
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Electronic Dreams
- How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
- By: Tom Lean
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother....
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Entertaining, Engaging, Enlightening
- By Ulven on 15-05-18
By: Tom Lean
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Steven Levy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....
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Enjoyable and inspiring
- By Martin on 17-03-16
By: Steven Levy
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- By: Virginia I. Postrel
- Narrated by: Caroline Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....
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A great narrative but...
- By Alyce von Rothkirch on 22-06-22
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Victorious Century
- The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
- By: David Cannadine
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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To live in 19th-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience....
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Good story, frustrating listen
- By j hellings on 05-04-20
By: David Cannadine
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James May's 20th Century
- By: James May, Phil Dolling
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Abridged
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Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....
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An Enjoyable & Informative Listen
- By Anabella on 20-03-09
By: James May, and others
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Stealth
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- By: Peter Westwick
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....
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Excellent
- By Mike & Emma allison on 20-01-24
By: Peter Westwick
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The Wright Brothers
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Great
- By Niall Grimley on 18-09-23
By: David McCullough
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Valley of Genius
- By: Adam Fisher
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
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Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....
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Unusual format but works well
- By Rob Sedgwick on 03-11-18
By: Adam Fisher
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Fire in the Valley
- The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
- By: Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
- Narrated by: Don Azevedo
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of oppression, a motley collection of people were engaged in something more subversive....
By: Michael Swaine, and others
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The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- By: Marc Levinson
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston....
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How the modern world works
- By Jim on 26-03-14
By: Marc Levinson
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Where Is My Flying Car?
- By: J. Storrs Hall
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: We’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years....
By: J. Storrs Hall
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- By: Joseph Menn
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism....
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Fascinating History of Hacking
- By James on 19-07-19
By: Joseph Menn
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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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In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses - led by John von Neumann - gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey....
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Covers a lot more than Turing
- By Mr on 04-05-17
By: George Dyson
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
- By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, and others
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....
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Amazing....until the final three chapters
- By Wayne O'Brien on 19-10-20
By: Alan Shepard, and others
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....
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better to read
- By tom bunge on 04-10-19
By: John Drury Clark, and others
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Influence Empire
- The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
- By: Lulu Yilun Chen
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip, Lulu Yilum Chen
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Lulu Chen tells the story of how Tencent is changing the world, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at one of the worlds biggest tech companies....
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Great book on politics and business
- By Jamie Jon Canavan on 06-07-23
By: Lulu Yilun Chen
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- By: Marc Masters
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities....
By: Marc Masters
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The Dream Machine
- By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
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In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be....
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Fascinating history
- By Fred on 14-04-22
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Minuteman
- A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
- By: David Stumpf
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation....
By: David Stumpf
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How the Internet Happened
- By: Brian McCullough
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the Internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything....
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a must read. very insightful and well presented.
- By Anonymous User on 13-09-22
By: Brian McCullough
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- By: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....
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Poor introduction to an important subject
- By Terra72 on 09-01-17
By: Gretchen Bakke
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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....
By: John W. Farrell
New Releases
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Hijacking Bitcoin
- The Hidden History of BTC
- By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker
- Narrated by: Steve Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.
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The Truth is dealt in every chapter by the arrow of time and quotes.
- By Roy on 24-04-24
By: Roger Ver, and others
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Wicked Problems
- How to Engineer a Better World
- By: Guru Madhavan
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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An homage to society's innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for listeners of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice-one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.
By: Guru Madhavan
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Recoding History: Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World
- By: Treefort Media
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Original Recording
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Recoding History: The Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World is an immersive look into the lives of some of computer history's most ingenious and audacious women. Pulling from the Computer History Museum’s archives and hosted by Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, listeners will learn and laugh along with these great minds as they recount their stories in their own words.
By: Treefort Media
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Burn Book
- By: Kara Swisher
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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While tech titans bragged they would 'move fast and break things', Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the truth of this new world order. Burn Book is part memoir, part history and, most of all, a necessary recounting of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for of modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.
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Classic Kara
- By Cliente Amazon on 21-04-24
By: Kara Swisher
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Before the Refrigerator
- How We Used to Get Ice (How Things Worked)
- By: Jonathan Rees
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor.
By: Jonathan Rees
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- By: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
By: Dennis Yi Tenen
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Hijacking Bitcoin
- The Hidden History of BTC
- By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker
- Narrated by: Steve Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.
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The Truth is dealt in every chapter by the arrow of time and quotes.
- By Roy on 24-04-24
By: Roger Ver, and others
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Wicked Problems
- How to Engineer a Better World
- By: Guru Madhavan
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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An homage to society's innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for listeners of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice-one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.
By: Guru Madhavan
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Recoding History: Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World
- By: Treefort Media
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Recoding History: The Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World is an immersive look into the lives of some of computer history's most ingenious and audacious women. Pulling from the Computer History Museum’s archives and hosted by Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, listeners will learn and laugh along with these great minds as they recount their stories in their own words.
By: Treefort Media
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Burn Book
- By: Kara Swisher
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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While tech titans bragged they would 'move fast and break things', Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the truth of this new world order. Burn Book is part memoir, part history and, most of all, a necessary recounting of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for of modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.
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Classic Kara
- By Cliente Amazon on 21-04-24
By: Kara Swisher
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Before the Refrigerator
- How We Used to Get Ice (How Things Worked)
- By: Jonathan Rees
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor.
By: Jonathan Rees
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- By: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
By: Dennis Yi Tenen