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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 148 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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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 955 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice....

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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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    • The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
    • By: Bruce Schneier
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 994 ratings
    • In Data and Goliath, Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship, and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and cyberwar....

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    • Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
    • By: Ben Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age....

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    • Geography, Technology, and Institutions
    • By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: P. W. Singer, Allan Friedman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 574 ratings
    • Best-selling author P. W. Singer and noted cyberexpert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of deeply informative resource book that has been missing on a crucial issue of 21st-century life....

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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 3 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 Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
    • By: Chris Miller
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,228 ratings
    • You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
    • By: Deb Chachra
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....

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    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • By: Kim Zetter
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,354 ratings
    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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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 1,014 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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    • How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
    • By: Antony Loewenstein
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.

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    • Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
    • By: Carl Benedikt Frey
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....

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    • Further Updated and Expanded
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 981 ratings
    • When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war....

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    • Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: James Linkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 552 ratings
    • The best-selling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s....

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