Computer Age

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 999 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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    • From Algol Genes to Neural Nets
    • By: Subrata Dasgupta
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This book describes the evolution of computer science in the second age of computer science in the form of seven overlapping, intermingling, parallel histories that unfold concurrently in the course of the two decades....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 01-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,644 ratings
    • 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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    • Big Ideas from the Computer Age
    • By: Paul Graham
    • Narrated by: Mark Sando
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Find out....

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    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,514 ratings
    • People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education....

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    • How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
    • By: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 522 ratings
    • Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible....

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    • Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
    • By: Jon Gertner
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009 ratings
    • In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the 1980s....

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    • A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens....

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    • And Our Human Future
    • By: Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
    • Narrated by: Eric Pollins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare....

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    • Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    • By: Deborah Blum
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,559 ratings
    • Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City....

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    • The Art of Standing out in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Pascal Bornet
    • Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pascal Bornet, an award-winning AI expert, former McKinsey executive, and Top Voice in Technology with over 1 million LinkedIn followers, unveils the ultimate guide for working, living, and leading organizations in a rapidly changing, AI-driven world.

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age
    • By: Greg Jenner
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted....

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    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,892 ratings
    • How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

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    • When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 539 ratings
    • Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil.

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    • Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 312 ratings
    • Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC....

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    • Una breve historia de las redes de información desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la IA [A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Luis David García Márquez
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • El esperado nuevo libro de Yuval Noah Harari, uno de los pensadores más innovadores, interesantes y clarividentes de la actualidad, y autor de Sapiens, el fenómeno literario global que ha cautivado a millones de lectores.

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    • 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
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,548 ratings
    • 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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    • Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
    • By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • AI—including generative AI—is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge.

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    • Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
    • By: Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future....

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