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    • Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
    • By: Ruha Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity....

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    • UFOs, Religion, Technology
    • By: D.W. Pasulka
    • Narrated by: Norah Tocci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,103 ratings
    • American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions....

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    • The Surrender of Culture to Technology
    • By: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 706 ratings
    • In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it....

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    • How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
    • By: Chris Hayes
    • Narrated by: Chris Hayes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 541 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host Chris Hayes offers a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society

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    • By: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer, Randy Pausch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,621 ratings
    • When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with cancer....

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    • Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
    • By: Stephen L. Sass
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

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    • The 10 Trends Shaping Today's Young People - and the Nation
    • By: Jean M. Twenge Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,013 ratings
    • An entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen - the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later - are vastly different from their millennial predecessors....

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    • By: Trenor Williams MD, Anita Samarth
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This helpful, plain-English guide provides need-to-know information on how to choose the right system, assure patients of the security of their records, and implement an EHR in such a way that it causes minimal disruption to the daily demands of a hospital or clinic....

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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 1,339 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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    • How Algorithms Flattened Culture
    • By: Kyle Chayka
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices....

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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 1,531 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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    • Transforming Healthcare Information Technology the Cleveland Clinic Way
    • By: C. Martin Harris MD, Gene Lazuta
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
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    • Exciting new technology is revolutionizing healthcare in the twenty-first century. This visionary guide by the former CIO of the Cleveland Clinic shows you how to design, implement, and maximize your organization's IT systems to deliver fully integrated, coordinated, high-quality care....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 554 ratings
    • A gripping narrative that fuses research, exclusive interviews, and on-the-ground reporting to capture the full inside story of Big Tech’s monomaniacal race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs....

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    • Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
    • By: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 388 ratings
    • In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse....

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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 983 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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    • Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
    • By: Erik Davis
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • In TechGnosis, Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication....

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    • Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
    • By: Stephen Kurczy
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and Wi-Fi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet....

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    • By: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity....

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    • Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
    • By: Ben Sasse
    • Narrated by: Ben Sasse
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,196 ratings
    • Something is wrong. We all know it. American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil....

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