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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 60 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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    • 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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    • The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
    • By: Robert T. Hanlon
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Block by Block offers an original perspective on thermodynamic science and history based on the three approaches of a practicing engineer, academician, and historian....

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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 369 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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    • 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 722 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 to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself....

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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 298 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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    • 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 387 ratings
    • A definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world....

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    • The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
    • By: David Hatcher Childress
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 430 ratings
    • Popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the amazing world of ancient technology, from computers in antiquity to the flying machines of the gods....

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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 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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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 114 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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    • 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 8,106 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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    • 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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    • 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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