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Technocreep
- The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
- By: Thomas P. Keenan
- Narrated by: Thomas P. Keenan
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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With security scares like the Heartbleed bug (which compromised even supposedly safe internet behemoths like Google and Yahoo!) becoming more commonplace, this book is a must-listen for anybody who values their privacy in a wired world.
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Technocreep
- The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
- Narrated by: Thomas P. Keenan
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-10-14
- Language: English
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Digital Vertigo
- How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
- By: Andrew Keen
- Narrated by: Andrew Keen
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen illuminates today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution, and critiques of "social" companies like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, Keen argues that this social media transformation is weakening, disorienting, and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age.
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Digital Vertigo
- How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
- Narrated by: Andrew Keen
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 17-05-12
- Language: English
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The UNOFFICIAL Facebooker's Social Survival Guide
- By: Sarah Herman, Lucy York
- Narrated by: Lucy York
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Ever woken from a night of revelry to find your drunken antics the subject of a tagfest? Ever accidentally wall-posted yourself into a relationship row or been hunted by a school-days stalker? If your real social life is dying a death at the hands of your virtual one, fear not, Facebookers - help is just a little book away.This cheeky unofficial guide will show you how to navigate the perilous pitfalls of life online while having as much fun as possible.
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The UNOFFICIAL Facebooker's Social Survival Guide
- Narrated by: Lucy York
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 21-05-08
- Language: English
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Empowered
- Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business
- By: Josh Bernoff, Ted Schadler
- Narrated by: Josh Bernoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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In Empowered, Forrester’s Josh Bernoff - coauthor of the pioneering book Groundswell - and Ted Schadler explain how to transform your company by unleashing the force of HEROes: highly empowered and resourceful operatives. Your company needs them because, in the age of twitter, iPhones, Facebook, YouTube, your customers now step up to the counter armed with more data and access than ever before - often overmatching your team.
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Empowered
- Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business
- Narrated by: Josh Bernoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-09-10
- Language: English
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Falter
- Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
- By: Bill McKibben
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Bill McKibben - foreword
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature - issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic - was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: Even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control.
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Falter
- Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Bill McKibben - foreword
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro [Turn Off Your Cell Phone and Turn On Your Brain]
- Manipulación, control y destrucción del ser humano [Manipulation, Control and Destruction of the Human Being]
- By: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta
- Narrated by: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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En un mundo de servicios de streaming a la carta y de interminables contenidos de TikTok, no es ningún secreto que la tecnología está dominando nuestras mentes y comportamiento, lo que en última instancia conducirá a una dominación social y del pensamiento mundial. Eso, si no lo detenemos ahora. Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro es una llamada a vivir la realidad como los seres humanos de pensamiento libre.
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Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro [Turn Off Your Cell Phone and Turn On Your Brain]
- Manipulación, control y destrucción del ser humano [Manipulation, Control and Destruction of the Human Being]
- Narrated by: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-09-23
- Language: Spanish
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What Is to Be Done
- Political Engagement and Saving the Planet
- By: Barry Jones
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world. Now its author, the polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has happened since - especially to politics, health, and our climate in the digital age - and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and public institutions.
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What Is to Be Done
- Political Engagement and Saving the Planet
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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Big Data demystifiziert [Big Data Demystified]
- Tiefe Einblicke in die Welt der Daten - Chancen und Risiken für die Zukunft - Und wie Du dich ab jetzt sicherer im Datendschungel fortbewegst.
- By: Axel Mammitzsch
- Narrated by: Alex Anders
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
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Demystifizieren wir zusammen die Welt der großen Daten! Fast jeder nutzt heute Smartphones und Messenger und damit Big Data! Aber weißt du auch, wie im Hintergrund all diese Daten konkret generiert, gesammelt und ausgewertet werden? Praktische Tipps zum Thema Datenschutz, Smartphones und anonymes Surfen. Mache dich mit diesem Hörbuch zu einem wahren Datenschutzexperten!
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Big Data demystifiziert [Big Data Demystified]
- Tiefe Einblicke in die Welt der Daten - Chancen und Risiken für die Zukunft - Und wie Du dich ab jetzt sicherer im Datendschungel fortbewegst.
- Narrated by: Alex Anders
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: German
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The Parent App
- Understanding Families in the Digital Age
- By: Lynn Schofield Clark
- Narrated by: Jean Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations never faced: Is my 13-year-old responsible enough for a Facebook page? What will happen if I give my nine-year-old a cell phone?
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The Parent App
- Understanding Families in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Jean Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 04-02-14
- Language: English
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control.
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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Can God Outperform AI? The Surprising Revelations
- Unveiling the Profound Differences between Divine Omnipotence and Technological Limitations - A Groundbreaking Exploration of the Power of God
- By: Marc James Valley
- Narrated by: Bob McCoy
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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This groundbreaking audiobook challenges listeners to contemplate the profound differences between divine omnipotence and the limitations of artificial intelligence. Narrated with clarity and depth, this thought-provoking journey takes you through twelve captivating chapters that contrast the infinite capabilities of God with the finite potential of AI.
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Can God Outperform AI? The Surprising Revelations
- Unveiling the Profound Differences between Divine Omnipotence and Technological Limitations - A Groundbreaking Exploration of the Power of God
- Narrated by: Bob McCoy
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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Seen Yet Unseen
- A Black Woman Crashes the Tech Fraternity
- By: Bärí A. Williams
- Narrated by: Bärí A. Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Part memoir, part searing revelation, Seen Yet Unseen takes listeners behind the scenes of some of the world’s biggest tech companies and exposes the way their exclusion of and, at times, hostility toward Black women have lasting impacts on the technology we use every day.
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Seen Yet Unseen
- A Black Woman Crashes the Tech Fraternity
- Narrated by: Bärí A. Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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Alles und nichts sagen
- Vom Zustand der Debatte in der Digitalmoderne
- By: Eva Menasse
- Narrated by: Eva Menasse
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Zieht sich eine liberale Gesellschaft gerade den Boden weg, auf dem sie fest stehen sollte? Ein Essay darüber, was die digitale Massenkommunikation zwischenmenschlich anrichtet. Nichts hat das Zusammenleben so umfassend verändert wie die Digitalisierung – wir denken, fühlen und streiten anders, seit wir dauervernetzt und überinformiert sind. Demokratiepolitisch bedeutsam wird dies bei der vielbeschworenen Debattenkultur. Denn die Umgangsformen der sogenannten Sozialen Medien haben längst auf die anderen Arenen übergegriffen, Politik und Journalismus spielen schon nach den neuen, erbarmungsloseren Regeln.
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Alles und nichts sagen
- Vom Zustand der Debatte in der Digitalmoderne
- Narrated by: Eva Menasse
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-11-23
- Language: German
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Wealthcare
- Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies
- By: Brigitte Piniewski
- Narrated by: Claudia Dunn
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Crypto, decentralized blockchains, NFTs, and the ownership economy of web3 hold the future of healthcare. Discover how the metaverse provides innovative business models that are poised to revolutionize the way society approaches health. Wealthcare envisions what healthcare and wellness may look like when accidental wellness is a thing of the past. As web3 technology reshapes finance, supply chain, social media, and other industries, Wealthcare presents a clear case for including healthcare privacy and innovation within this new reality.
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Wealthcare
- Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies
- Narrated by: Claudia Dunn
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 21-08-23
- Language: English
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Google Bomb
- The Untold Story of the 11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet
- By: John W. Dozier Jr./, Sue Scheff
- Narrated by: Susan Bennet
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In today's technology-dependent world, the Internet has become a legal but lethal weapon against the privacy and reputations of its users. Based on Sue Scheff's landmark Internet defamation case, which gave a face to online harassment, cyberbulling, privacy invasion, and Google bombs, and stirred Internet regulation and free-speech debates, Google Bomb arms listeners with information, legal advice, and reputation-defense tips.
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Google Bomb
- The Untold Story of the 11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet
- Narrated by: Susan Bennet
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-09-09
- Language: English
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Digital Grooming
- Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime
- By: Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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By shedding new light on grooming practices, this book provides a key resource for discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, communication, and media studies, as well as for practitioners aiming to counter online grooming through policy changes, detection software, and prevention-focused training to promote digital civility and safety.
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Digital Grooming
- Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-06-23
- Language: English
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The Future of AI: A Guide for the General Public
- Two Fellow Travelers on the Quest for Intelligent Behavior in Machines
- By: Carole Kelderman
- Narrated by: Scott LeCote
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Artificial intelligence, often referred to as AI, is a rapidly evolving field that is revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. At its core, AI is the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. This allows machines to analyze data, recognize patterns, and make predictions, all without human intervention. AI is a broad and diverse field, encompassing a wide range of technologies and applications that have the potential to transform industries and improve our daily lives.
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The Future of AI: A Guide for the General Public
- Two Fellow Travelers on the Quest for Intelligent Behavior in Machines
- Narrated by: Scott LeCote
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-07-24
- Language: English
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On Privacy
- Twenty Lessons to Live By
- By: Lawrence Cappello
- Length: 5 hrs
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Living today means most of us must contend with things like workplace surveillance, cyberstalking, ransomware attacks, and facial recognition. But all is not lost when it comes to our privacy, and it is definitely not too late to do something about protecting yours. Written in blunt jargon-free prose, On Privacy defines today’s privacy landscape while also reminding listeners of the joys of keeping things to ourselves—that privacy creates space for intimacy, is essential to mental health, and is a fundamental right in a free society.
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On Privacy
- Twenty Lessons to Live By
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 04-03-25
- Language: English
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Elon Musk und die Zerstörung von Twitter
- Die Inside-Story
- By: Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Hans-Peter Remmler - Übersetzer, and others
- Narrated by: Olaf Pessler
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Kate Conger und Ryan Mac erzählen die wahre Geschichte hinter der Übernahme von Twitter durch Elon Musk! Der Kauf von Twitter für 44 Milliarden Dollar durch den reichsten Mensch der Welt ist anders als alles, was in der Wirtschaft oder den Medien bisher geschehen ist. Ein streitbarer, launischer CEO entschied nach der Übernahme 2022 darüber, was unter freie Meinungsäußerung fiel – und was nicht.
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Elon Musk und die Zerstörung von Twitter
- Die Inside-Story
- Narrated by: Olaf Pessler
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: German
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The Singularity of Hope
- Humanity's Role in an AI-Dominated Future
- By: Sam Sammane
- Narrated by: Anthony
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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"Artificial intelligence" or "AI" is one of the hottest buzzwords of the last decade. And with the release of the AI language bot "ChatGPT" in 2022, the buzz around AI has only grown louder. Ask around and you’ll often hear something rather unbelievable, from “AI will be the end of humanity as we know it!” to “AI will make everything better; you’ll never have to do anything again!”But isn’t there some sort of practical middle ground, free of hysteria?
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The Singularity of Hope
- Humanity's Role in an AI-Dominated Future
- Narrated by: Anthony
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-07-24
- Language: English
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