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Il Genio Quotidiano
- By: Massimo Temporelli
- Narrated by: Massimo Temporelli
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Massimo Temporelli, fisico e divulgatore scientifico, già autore del fortunato podcast Fucking Genius, racconta la nascita e la diffusione di dodici tra le invenzioni di uso quotidiano più rivoluzionarie nella storia dei sapiens. Perché l’uomo è un animale culturale e tecnologico, e quindi, per capire chi siamo e chi saremo, dobbiamo partire dalle macchine che immaginiamo, costruiamo e usiamo.
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The Story Behind
- The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
- By: Emily Prokop
- Narrated by: Emily Prokop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Many of us learn about the major inventions that shape our world. But we too often overlook the objects we use every day. In The Story Behind, Emily Prokop, creator of the Webby Award nominated podcast, explores the who, how, and huh? of everything from Band-Aids to bubble gum; hypnosis to Hula Hoops; and lullabies to lead pipes. Along the way, she demonstrates how the major events of history - from wars, plagues and revolutions to historic achievements and discoveries - have influenced some of the world’s most pervasive inventions.
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The Story Behind
- The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
- Narrated by: Emily Prokop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- By: Michael J. Neufeld
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than 12 years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the moon.
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Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- Language: English
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TV History
- The Most Important Technologies, People and Events That Created the History of Television
- By: Edward N. Simpson
- Narrated by: Craig Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Television is probably something we nowadays take for granted. There is a TV in almost every home, a TV in almost every public building - basically, where there is a signal, there is a TV. Found in millions of homes, it is probably difficult to imagine that the first television was created less than a century ago. In such a short time, we managed to go from silent moving images to 3D lifelike images on a flat screen.
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TV History
- The Most Important Technologies, People and Events That Created the History of Television
- Narrated by: Craig Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 02-04-21
- Language: English
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Data Empire
- How Information Shaped Human History
- By: Roopika Risam
- Length: Not Yet Known
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The next chapter of human history should not be written by algorithms, it should be written by us. It is only by fully understanding how data has shaped our past that we can decide what role it plays in our future. We live in an era when trading our information for access can feel harmless or...
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Data Empire
- How Information Shaped Human History
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 09-07-26
- Language: English
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
- The Legacy of the Tech Titan - The Story of a Boy Who’s Love for Tinkering with Electronics Resulted in the Invention of the First Apple Machine. And the Rest Is History (World Class Entrepreneurs, Book 4)
- By: Phil Cooper
- Narrated by: Izmi Maruf
- Length: 57 mins
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He was a genius who gave the world access to technology that is still changing the world. To this day, his greatest accomplishment is the iPhone and still is. Taken away too soon, his legacy still lives on. Countless entrepreneurs look up to him and use his advice to succeed in the business world. If it wasn't for him, we would have never been introduced to portable computers and mobile phones with touch screens.
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
- The Legacy of the Tech Titan - The Story of a Boy Who’s Love for Tinkering with Electronics Resulted in the Invention of the First Apple Machine. And the Rest Is History (World Class Entrepreneurs, Book 4)
- Narrated by: Izmi Maruf
- Length: 57 mins
- Release date: 01-05-24
- Language: English
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Wicked Problems
- How to Engineer a Better World
- By: Guru Madhavan
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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An homage to society's innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for listeners of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice-one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.
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Wicked Problems
- How to Engineer a Better World
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- By: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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101 Amazing Sega Master System Facts
- By: Jimmy Russell
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 27 mins
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In this entry to Jimmy Russell's Games Console History series, we learn 101 amazing facts about Sega's Master System - the first Sega home console to hit non-Japanese shores. The facts cover many areas, including the history, the hardware, game titles both rare and popular and some incredible information you probably never knew! Everyone from retro gamers who were there at the time to n00bz who think a PlayStation is Old School will find this excellent audiobook jam packed full of fascinating trivia!
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101 Amazing Sega Master System Facts
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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Delayed Response
- The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
- By: Jason Farman
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs
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In this book in praise of wait times, award-winning author Jason Farman passionately argues that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of the message. Traveling backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman describes how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and how they have interpreted those times' meanings. And in a rebuttal to the demand for instant communication, Farman makes a powerful case for why good things can come to those who wait.
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Delayed Response
- The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 20-11-18
- Language: English
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Cutting the Cord
- The Cell Phone Has Transformed Humanity
- By: Martin Cooper
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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The cell phone changed the world. It revolutionized how people communicate, freed them to get in touch with one another at any time, in any place, without the constraints of the wired network. The cell phone led to the creation and growth of new industries. Yet the true story of its creation has not been told. This book tells that story. It centers on a battle for control of how people communicate, involving government regulators, lobbyists, police, technology breakthroughs, failures, quartz, and a horse. At the center of that story was Martin Cooper.
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Cutting the Cord
- The Cell Phone Has Transformed Humanity
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-01-21
- Language: English
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- By: Gregory J. Gbur
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections.
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Invisibility
- The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia de los Videojuegos [That Was Not in My Video Games History Book]
- By: Daniel García Raso
- Narrated by: Diego Rousselon
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Desde su invención en los años cincuenta del pasado siglo, los videojuegos se han convertido progresivamente y de manera imparable en uno de los mayores fenómenos culturales, artísticos y sociales contemporáneos.
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muy interesante
- By Greatie on 23-05-25
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Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia de los Videojuegos [That Was Not in My Video Games History Book]
- Narrated by: Diego Rousselon
- Series: Eso no estaba en mi libro de
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-07-20
- Language: Spanish
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The Man Who Invented the Computer
- The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical...
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Technical but fascinating
- By Goldfrapper on 27-05-20
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The Man Who Invented the Computer
- The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-10-10
- Language: English
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The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
- By: Neal Baer
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the human genome. How far can—and should—they go in editing future generations? In The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, editor Neal Baer brings together a timely collection of essays by influential bioethicists, philosophers, and geneticists to explore the moral, ethical, and policy challenges posed by CRISPR technology.
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The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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Riding on the Coattails of Genius
- Two Decades Aboard Dell’s Pioneer Ship
- By: John C. Campbell
- Narrated by: John C. Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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When John Campbell was hired in 1996, Michael Dell’s company was already a hyper-efficient technology upstart. By the time he left Dell in 2017, Michael’s little Texas-based catalog computer company had grown from 5,000 to 138,000 employees and evolved into one of the largest technology providers on the planet!
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Interesting
- By The Oracle 2025 on 14-04-26
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Riding on the Coattails of Genius
- Two Decades Aboard Dell’s Pioneer Ship
- Narrated by: John C. Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-08-18
- Language: English
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Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers
- Poetical Science
- By: Betty Alexandra Toole
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the first to write programs for, and predict the impact of, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843. Beautiful and charming, she was often characterized as "mad and bad," as was her illustrious father. This audiobook edition, Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: Poetical Science, emphasizes Ada's unique talent of integrating imagination, poetry and science.
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Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers
- Poetical Science
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-09-13
- Language: English
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Talking to Robots
- A Brief Guide to Our Human Robot Futures
- By: David Ewing Duncan
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate for our human-robot future? From present-day Facebook and Amazon bots to near-future 'intimacy' bots and 'the robot that stole my job' bots, best-selling American popular science writer David Ewing Duncan's Talking to Robots is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful guide to possible future scenarios about robots, both real and imagined.
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Good imagination.
- By B. Limbu on 31-12-20
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Talking to Robots
- A Brief Guide to Our Human Robot Futures
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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The 50 Greatest Engineers
- The People Whose Innovations Have Shaped Our World
- By: Paul Virr, William Potter
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon chips. The 50 Greatest Engineers celebrates the great achievements that have been made through the ages, containing profiles of the best-known and most innovative engineers of all time.
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The 50 Greatest Engineers
- The People Whose Innovations Have Shaped Our World
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-04-23
- Language: English
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Man-Made
- How the bias of the past is being built into the future
- By: Tracey Spicer
- Narrated by: Tracey Spicer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism through the lens of artificial intelligence. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. Winner, 2023 Australian...
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Man-Made
- How the bias of the past is being built into the future
- Narrated by: Tracey Spicer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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