Bestsellers
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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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New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host Chris Hayes offers a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society
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Thoughtful and captivating
- By Nancy on 02-02-25
By: Chris Hayes
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The Coming Wave
- AI, Power, and Our Future
- By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
- Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services.
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Click bait
- By Buyer on 09-11-23
By: Mustafa Suleyman, and others
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....
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Disappointing
- By Aaron on 04-15-19
By: Cal Newport
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AI Valley
- Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence
- By: Gary Rivlin
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work.
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A dizzying account of the development of AI
- By ER on 03-31-25
By: Gary Rivlin
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Superagency
- What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
- By: Reid Hoffman, Greg Beato
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities.
By: Reid Hoffman, and others
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The Last Human Job
- The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World
- By: Allison J. Pugh
- Narrated by: Allison J. Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, Allison Pugh makes a timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation.
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A profound book
- By Ezra Schwartz on 01-15-25
By: Allison J. Pugh
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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
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host Chris Hayes offers a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society
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Thoughtful and captivating
- By Nancy on 02-02-25
By: Chris Hayes
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The Coming Wave
- AI, Power, and Our Future
- By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
- Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services.
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Click bait
- By Buyer on 09-11-23
By: Mustafa Suleyman, and others
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....
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Disappointing
- By Aaron on 04-15-19
By: Cal Newport
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AI Valley
- Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence
- By: Gary Rivlin
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work.
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A dizzying account of the development of AI
- By ER on 03-31-25
By: Gary Rivlin
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Superagency
- What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
- By: Reid Hoffman, Greg Beato
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities.
By: Reid Hoffman, and others
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The Last Human Job
- The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World
- By: Allison J. Pugh
- Narrated by: Allison J. Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, Allison Pugh makes a timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation.
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A profound book
- By Ezra Schwartz on 01-15-25
By: Allison J. Pugh
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AI Snake Oil
- What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
- By: Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor reveal what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products.
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Basic level information nothing new here
- By Al on 10-09-24
By: Sayash Kapoor, and others
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- By: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility"....
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Limited value for the average person
- By James C on 10-14-17
By: Kevin Mitnick, and others
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Nexus
- Une brève histoire des réseaux d'information, de l'âge de pierre à l'intelligence artificielle
- By: Yuval Noah Harari, David Fauquemberg - traducteur
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
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Les histoires nous ont réunis. Les livres ont diffusé nos idées et nos mythologies. Internet nous a promis le savoir infini. Les algorithmes ont découvert nos secrets
By: Yuval Noah Harari, and others
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Artificial Intelligence
- A Guide for Thinking Humans
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....
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Start understanding AI right here!
- By Chad M. on 01-26-20
By: Melanie Mitchell
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- By: Mo Gawdat
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Scary Smart is an insider look at the future not only of technology and AI, but of our species, together with an accessible blueprint for what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself....
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Nothing but fluff.
- By Anonymous User on 07-30-23
By: Mo Gawdat
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Genesis
- Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
- By: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
- Narrated by: Niall Ferguson, Byron Wagner
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dramatically empowered people in all walks of life, from artists to business executives to policymakers. But as the technology becomes more powerful and more ubiquitous, it is giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity.
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Not as good as I expected
- By @CaffeinatedRunner on 11-21-24
By: Henry A. Kissinger, and others
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....
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Totally Mixed on This One
- By D. Sooley on 02-03-20
By: Peter H. Diamandis, and others
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Quantum Supremacy
- How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
- By: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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The bestselling author of The God Equation takes an exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease.
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Title should have been “Quantum Global Warming”
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-23
By: Michio Kaku
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- By: Brian Christian
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.
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Required reading for any AI course
- By ehan ferguson on 11-16-20
By: Brian Christian
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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The Age of AI
- And Our Human Future
- By: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society - and what this technology means for us all....
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Little Substantive Value
- By Tennisartist85 on 11-12-21
By: Henry A. Kissinger, and others
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Glow Kids
- How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance
- By: Nicholas Kardaras PhD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology - more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity - has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation....
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Fear Mongering - a modern day Mazes and Monsters
- By Veronica on 11-03-20
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
- By: Parmy Olson
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. Parmy Olson uses her experience covering technology to bring to light the exploitation of the greatest invention in human history, and how it will impact us all.
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Author doesn’t understand AI
- By David on 09-30-24
By: Parmy Olson
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How to Raise a Healthy Gamer
- End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids
- By: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
- Narrated by: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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A former gamer and Harvard-trained psychiatrist offers a proven, tested plan to help parents define, set, and reinforce healthy boundaries around video games and help kids who have developed an addiction to gaming....
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not the target audience but
- By nick on 03-13-24
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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, These Strange New Minds explores 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.
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Excellent Perspective to AI
- By roger m pena on 03-21-25
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....
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RUINED audio.
- By Fred on 06-25-21
By: Ray Kurzweil
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The Pacific Circuit
- A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
- By: Alexis Madrigal
- Narrated by: Alexis Madrigal
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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NPR host Alexis Madrigal reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world.
By: Alexis Madrigal
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Merchants of Doubt
- How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
- By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Merchants of Doubt tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades....
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heroic
- By Anonymous User on 06-02-23
By: Naomi Oreskes, and others
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Everybody Lies
- Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....
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Leave out the politics please
- By Shane Hampson on 02-20-20
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, and others
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The Opt-Out Family
- How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
- By: Erin Loechner
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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The Opt-Out Family unveils compelling research and startling insights from Erin Loechner's experiences as a social media trailblazer and former influencer, as well as practical and creative ways to transform your family's relationship with today's ever-evolving technology....
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Narrator Sounds like AI
- By ghfecx on 06-17-24
By: Erin Loechner
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On Privacy and Technology
- By: Daniel J. Solove
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of digital technologies and AI.
By: Daniel J. Solove
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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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A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.
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Timely, thought-provoking, and invitational
- By Duncan Idaho on 03-22-25
By: Christine Rosen
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Tech Agnostic
- How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
- By: Greg M. Epstein
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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In our tumultuous era of religious extremism and rampant capitalism, Tech Agnostic offers a new path forward, where we maintain enough critical distance to remember that all that glitters is not gold—nor is it God.
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Woke nonsense
- By Fingersfive on 11-30-24
By: Greg M. Epstein
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it....
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Error in recording
- By D. Cassidy on 04-30-15
By: Neil Postman
New releases
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Superagency
- What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
- By: Reid Hoffman, Greg Beato
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Superagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. While acknowledging challenges like disinformation and potential job changes, the book focuses on AI’s immense potential to increase individual agency and create better outcomes for society as a whole. Imagine AI tutors personalizing education for each child, researchers rapidly discovering cures for diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer, and AI advisors empowering people to navigate complex systems and achieve their goals.
By: Reid Hoffman, and others
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AI Valley
- Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence
- By: Gary Rivlin
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Artificial Intelligence has been “just around the corner” for decades, continually disappointing those who long believed in its potential. But now, with the emergence and growing use of ChatGPT, Gemini, and a rapidly multiplying number of other AI tools, many are wondering: Has AI’s moment finally arrived? In AI Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin brings us deep into the world of AI development in Silicon Valley. Over the course of more than a year, Rivlin closely follows founders and venture capitalists trying to capitalize on this AI moment.
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A dizzying account of the development of AI
- By ER on 03-31-25
By: Gary Rivlin
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World Eaters
- How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy
- By: Catherine Bracy
- Narrated by: Catherine Bracy
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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The venture capital playbook is causing unique harms to society. And in World Eaters, Catherine Bracy offers a window into the pernicious aspects of VC and shows us how its bad practices are bleeding into all industries, undermining the labor and housing markets and posing unique dangers to the economy at large. VC’s creates a wide, powerful wake that impacts the average consumer just as much as it does investors and entrepreneurs.
By: Catherine Bracy
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The Pacific Circuit
- A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
- By: Alexis Madrigal
- Narrated by: Alexis Madrigal
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history, and an intimate portrait of an essential American city that has been at the crossroads of the defining themes of the twenty-first century. Oakland’s stories encompass everything from Silicon Valley’s prominence and the ramifications of a compulsively digital future to the underestimated costs of technological innovation on local communities.
By: Alexis Madrigal
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On Privacy and Technology
- By: Daniel J. Solove
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Internationally renowned privacy expert Daniel J. Solove draws from a range of fields, from law to philosophy to the humanities, to illustrate the profound changes technology is wreaking upon our privacy, why they matter, and what can be done about them. Solove provides incisive examinations of key concepts in the digital sphere, including control, manipulation, harm, automation, reputation, consent, prediction, inference, and many others.
By: Daniel J. Solove
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The Second Machine Age
- Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
- By: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Second Machine Age MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.
By: Erik Brynjolfsson, and others
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Superagency
- What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
- By: Reid Hoffman, Greg Beato
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Superagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. While acknowledging challenges like disinformation and potential job changes, the book focuses on AI’s immense potential to increase individual agency and create better outcomes for society as a whole. Imagine AI tutors personalizing education for each child, researchers rapidly discovering cures for diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer, and AI advisors empowering people to navigate complex systems and achieve their goals.
By: Reid Hoffman, and others
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AI Valley
- Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence
- By: Gary Rivlin
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Artificial Intelligence has been “just around the corner” for decades, continually disappointing those who long believed in its potential. But now, with the emergence and growing use of ChatGPT, Gemini, and a rapidly multiplying number of other AI tools, many are wondering: Has AI’s moment finally arrived? In AI Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin brings us deep into the world of AI development in Silicon Valley. Over the course of more than a year, Rivlin closely follows founders and venture capitalists trying to capitalize on this AI moment.
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A dizzying account of the development of AI
- By ER on 03-31-25
By: Gary Rivlin
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World Eaters
- How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy
- By: Catherine Bracy
- Narrated by: Catherine Bracy
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The venture capital playbook is causing unique harms to society. And in World Eaters, Catherine Bracy offers a window into the pernicious aspects of VC and shows us how its bad practices are bleeding into all industries, undermining the labor and housing markets and posing unique dangers to the economy at large. VC’s creates a wide, powerful wake that impacts the average consumer just as much as it does investors and entrepreneurs.
By: Catherine Bracy
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The Pacific Circuit
- A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
- By: Alexis Madrigal
- Narrated by: Alexis Madrigal
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history, and an intimate portrait of an essential American city that has been at the crossroads of the defining themes of the twenty-first century. Oakland’s stories encompass everything from Silicon Valley’s prominence and the ramifications of a compulsively digital future to the underestimated costs of technological innovation on local communities.
By: Alexis Madrigal
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On Privacy and Technology
- By: Daniel J. Solove
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Internationally renowned privacy expert Daniel J. Solove draws from a range of fields, from law to philosophy to the humanities, to illustrate the profound changes technology is wreaking upon our privacy, why they matter, and what can be done about them. Solove provides incisive examinations of key concepts in the digital sphere, including control, manipulation, harm, automation, reputation, consent, prediction, inference, and many others.
By: Daniel J. Solove
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The Second Machine Age
- Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
- By: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Second Machine Age MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.
By: Erik Brynjolfsson, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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In this accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative examination of the world’s most radical technology, neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores what it really takes to build a brain from scratch. We have entered a world in which disarmingly human-like chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Bard, appear to be able to talk and reason like us—and are beginning to transform everything we do. But can AI ‘think’, 'know' and ‘understand’? What are its values? Whose biases is it perpetuating? Can it lie and if so, could we tell? Does their arrival threaten our very existence?
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Excellent Perspective to AI
- By roger m pena on 03-21-25
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The Infrastructure Book
- How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
- By: Sybil Derrible
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Clean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet—all this infrastructure is what makes cities work and powers our lives, often seamlessly and silently. Virtually everything we do and consume depends on infrastructure. Yet, most people have no idea how these systems work. How is water treated? How do cities manage rainwater? Why do traffic jams exist? How is electricity generated and distributed? What happens to trash after it is picked up? How does the Internet work?
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Insightful and engaging!
- By Rishabh on 03-08-25
By: Sybil Derrible
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On Privacy
- Twenty Lessons to Live By
- By: Lawrence Cappello
- Narrated by: Gregory Jones
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Living today means most of us must contend with things like workplace surveillance, cyberstalking, ransomware attacks, and facial recognition. But it's not too late to protect our privacy. 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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The Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of Our Automated Future
- By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Unlock the future with "The Age of Artificial Intelligence," a compelling exploration into the transformative world of generative AI. This thought-provoking eBook serves as your ultimate guide to understanding how AI is reshaping the modern landscape across various domains. Start your journey with an introduction to the rise of generative models, discovering their evolution from humble algorithms to complex systems capable of creativity. Delve deep into the mechanics powering generative AI, from neural networks to transformers, and gain insight into the data-driven processes that breathe ...
By: Barrett Williams, and others
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2030
- A Blueprint for Humanity’s Exponential Leap
- By: Alan Smithson, Doug Hohulin, Harvey Castro MD MBA
- Narrated by: Nathan Nolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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2030: A Blueprint for Humanity’s Exponential Leap explores the transformative technologies poised to reshape our world over the next decade. Written for investors, executives, policymakers, educators, and curious individuals alike, this book delivers powerful insights into the technological revolution ahead, offering predictions and actionable strategies to thrive in a rapidly evolving landscape. From quantum computing, AI, robotics, to 3D printing, space travel, and beyond, 2030 examines how these advancements will impact every facet of life.
By: Alan Smithson, and others
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Genesi
- Come navigare nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale
- By: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
- Narrated by: Dario Dossena
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Il tema dell'intelligenza artificiale sta dominando ormai da alcuni anni il dibattito pubblico. Questo perché, anche se abbiamo appena iniziato ad avvertire l'impatto che l'IA avrà sulle nostre vite, stiamo diventando sempre più consapevoli che i suoi effetti saranno profondi, così come sarà profondo il modo in cui essa trasformerà il nostro rapporto con la realtà, la conoscenza e la verità. Le sue potenzialità aumentano a un ritmo vertiginoso, e i progressi, come i benefici che sapremo trarne, appaiono straordinari. Tuttavia, non mancano i segnali d'allarme.
By: Henry A. Kissinger, and others