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    • China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
    • By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.

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    • The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
    • By: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
    • Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,967 ratings
    • In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....

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    • Life and Meaning in a Solved World
    • By: Nick Bostrom
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock. We would transition into an era in which human labor becomes obsolete.

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • By: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,133 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

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    • Facing the Ultimate Frontier
    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 762 ratings
    • With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration....

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    • The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
    • By: Scott J. Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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    • Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....

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    • What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
    • By: Steven E. Koonin
    • Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,192 ratings
    • When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....

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    • How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It
    • By: Sohrab Ahmari
    • Narrated by: Sohrab Ahmari
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. tells the inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back....

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    • How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
    • By: Marietje Schaake
    • Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The Tech Coup, Marietje Schaake explains how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments.

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    • Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
    • By: Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 409 ratings
    • An urgent new warning from two best-selling security experts - and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone....

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    • The Fight for Our Digital Future
    • By: Ben Tarnoff
    • Narrated by: Ben Tarnoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit....

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    • What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
    • By: Steven E. Koonin
    • Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future.

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    • Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Jamie East
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances and their electrifying implications for us all....

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    • Technology and the End of the Future
    • By: James Bridle
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime....

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    • On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
    • By: Ali Khan, William Patrick
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,503 ratings
    • An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases - and the panic and corruption that make them worse....

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    • Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
    • By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • The digital age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive....

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