Machine History

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    • A Design History of the Car
    • By: Witold Rybczynski
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski-hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by Publishers Weekly-tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who created them.

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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ian McEwan
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 836 ratings
    • In an alternative 1980s London, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 635 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Ethem Alpaydi
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • In this audiobook, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general listener, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms....

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    • Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
    • By: Erik J. Larson
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be....

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    • Inside the Cockpit of the World’s Most Deadly Fighting Machine
    • By: Ed Macy
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Apache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot, that takes you inside one of the world's most dangerous war machines....

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    • A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens....

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    • The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
    • By: Mark Graham, Callum Cant, James Muldoon
    • Narrated by: Orlando Wells
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • A.I. is an extraction machine that feeds off humanity’s collective effort and intelligence, churning through ever-larger datasets to power its algorithms. This book is a call to arms that details what we need to do to fight for a more just digital future.

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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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    • A Cybernetic History
    • By: Thomas Rid
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine....

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    • Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
    • By: Paul Scharre
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death....

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 833 ratings
    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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    • The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion
    • By: Stephen Dando-Collins
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire - a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again....

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    • How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
    • By: Andy Clark
    • Narrated by: Andy Clark
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head....

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    • How an Army of Crypto-Hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
    • By: Camila Russo
    • Narrated by: Laura Jennings
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 837 ratings
    • Here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it....

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    • The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
    • By: James Tejani
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Historian James Tejani charts the Port of Los Angeles's rise out of the mud and salt marsh of San Pedro estuary.

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    • The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
    • By: Brian Merchant
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....

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    • The Curious Quest That Solved Golf
    • By: Scott Gummer
    • Narrated by: Alan Robertson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The remarkable true story of a lone genius whose quest to unlock the science behind the perfect swing changed golf forever....

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    • Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
    • By: Mark O'Connell
    • Narrated by: James Garnon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body....

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