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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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    • 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 385 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 958 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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    • 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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    • 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 2,250 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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    • 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 352 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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    • 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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    • 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 995 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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    • The Science Behind the Headlines
    • By: Richard A. Muller
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....

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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 out of 5 stars 49 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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    • Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
    • By: Jacob Helberg
    • Narrated by: Jesse Einstein
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war....

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    • How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists
    • By: Audrey Kurth Cronin
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state....

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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 1,516 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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    • 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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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Millian Quinteros
    • Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In this previously unpublished manuscript, found in the Rothbard Archives, Rothbard deftly turns the tables on the supporters of big government and their mandate for control of research....

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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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    • 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 9 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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    • 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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    • How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
    • By: Geoff Mulgan
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale....

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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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