Computer History

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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 1,052 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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    • 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 8,156 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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    • 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 1,963 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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    • 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 5,042 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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    • 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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    • 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 52 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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    • The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary
    • By: Arnold Thackray, David Brock, Rachel Jones
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • In Moore's Law, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones give the authoritative account of Gordon Moore's life and his role in the development....

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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 382 ratings
    • On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 161 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 757 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 398 ratings
    • A definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world....

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • The Computer Science of Human Decisions
    • By: Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17,389 ratings
    • From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living....

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    • How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
    • By: T.R. Reid
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000....

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