Computer History

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    • The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
    • By: Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
    • Narrated by: Don Azevedo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • 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....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,151 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 1,046 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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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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    • A History of Ancient Rome
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,027 ratings
    • Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power....

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    • A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
    • By: Malcolm Harris
    • Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
    • Length: 28 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably world-changing....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 756 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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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 530 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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    • Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
    • By: Jill Jonnes
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • In the final decades of the 19th century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age battled as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire....

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    • The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
    • By: Simon Singh
    • Narrated by: Patty Nieman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In his first book since the best-selling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives....

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    • 25th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Steven Levy
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,962 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 161 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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    • By: Adam Fisher
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 2,598 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 Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,190 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Paging Through History
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • A definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world....

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