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The Future of Happiness
- 5 Modern Strategies for Balancing Productivity and Well-Being in the Digital Era
- By: Amy Blankson, Shawn Achor - foreword
- Narrated by: Amy Blankson
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Technology - at least in theory - is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it's not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't have to be that way. Technology can drive - not diminish - human happiness.
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Great information and examples of how to stay happy
- By mr r f hunt on 20-06-23
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The Future of Happiness
- 5 Modern Strategies for Balancing Productivity and Well-Being in the Digital Era
- Narrated by: Amy Blankson
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-04-17
- Language: English
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Bitcoin
- The Inverse of Clown World
- By: Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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As we stand on the cusp of a new political reality, the contours of personal freedom and autonomy are becoming increasingly well-defined. The future holds the possibility of an existence where the barriers to living life on one’s own terms are ever-diminishing, where the power of voluntarily connected individuals challenges and reshapes the statist quo. Even though the journey toward this new reality is fraught with trade-offs and challenges, it has the potential for unprecedented freedom and philosophical fulfillment.
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made factory work a lot more enjoyable
- By Anonymous on 06-02-25
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late. “In the spirit of Thomas Paine’s Revolution-era Common Sense, this manifesto challenges us to...
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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To Save Everything, Click Here
- The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- By: Evgeny Morozov
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such “solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?
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To Save Everything, Click Here
- The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-12-13
- Language: English
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Cyberpsychology
- By: Juan Moises de la Serna
- Narrated by: Ian A. Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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This audiobook addresses the new branch called cyberpsychology, which shows how there has been a change in the person-technology relationship, analyzing how new developments affect the day-to-day life of the person, as well as the mental health of its users. All this is backed by an extensive bibliography on the latest research conducted in this area.
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Cyberpsychology
- Narrated by: Ian A. Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-08-20
- Language: English
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Utopia Is Creepy
- And Other Provocations
- By: Nicholas Carr
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers an alternative history of the digital age, chronicling its roller-coaster crazes and crashes, its blind triumphs, and its unintended consequences.
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I love Carr, but this narrator doesn't work for me
- By Amazon Customer on 13-04-17
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Utopia Is Creepy
- And Other Provocations
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-09-16
- Language: English
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Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- A guide to building a better world
- By: Klaus Schwab, Nicholas Davis
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolutionby Klaus Schwab and Nicholas Davis, read by Nicholas Guy Smith. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing everything - from the way we relate to each other, to the work we do, the way our economies...
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this guy is a psychopath!
- By searl on 31-01-22
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Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- A guide to building a better world
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-11-18
- Language: English
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Zucked
- Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
- By: Roger McNamee
- Narrated by: Roger McNamee
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the Financial Times' Best Business Books of 2019 The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society—and sets out to try to stop it. If you had...
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Zucked
- Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
- Narrated by: Roger McNamee
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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Distracted
- The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
- By: Maggie Jackson
- Narrated by: Christine Carroll
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In Distracted, journalist Maggie Jackson ponders our increasingly cyber-centric world and fears we're entering a dark age of interruption that will render us unable to think critically, work creatively or cultivate meaningful relationships.
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Distracted
- The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
- Narrated by: Christine Carroll
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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The Great Acceleration
- By: Robert Colvile
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead? In this vitally important new audiobook, Robert Colvile explains how the cult of disruption in Silicon Valley, the ceaseless advance of technology and our own fundamental appetite for novelty and convenience have combined to speed up every aspect of daily life.
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The Great Acceleration
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-06-16
- Language: English
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The New Breed
- How to Think About Robots
- By: Kate Darling
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcher The robots are here. They make our cars, they deliver fast food, they mine the sea floor. And in the near-future their...
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ENGROSSING
- By Paul Shorten on 20-02-22
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The New Breed
- How to Think About Robots
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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The Industries of the Future
- By: Alec Ross
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Performance178
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The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring. While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled...
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Well written and well researched
- By Richard on 17-03-17
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The Industries of the Future
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-02-16
- Language: English
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Outnumbered
- Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
- By: David Sumpter
- Narrated by: David West
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Performance27
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Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision making to algorithms - are we giving up this up too easily?
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Easy listening for a complex subject
- By Henry on 09-05-19
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Outnumbered
- Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
- Narrated by: David West
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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What Can a Body Do?
- How We Meet the Built World
- By: Sara Hendren
- Narrated by: Sara Hendren
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and...
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Mesmerising
- By Dohm64 on 19-02-22
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What Can a Body Do?
- How We Meet the Built World
- Narrated by: Sara Hendren
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Virtual Society
- The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
- By: Herman Narula
- Narrated by: Herman Narula
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Performance9
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Herman Narula argues that it is all of these things. His vision of the metaverse, deeply rooted in history and psychology, looks to the Egyptians, whose conception of death inspired them to build the pyramids, to modern-day sports fans whose fantasy leagues are as competitive as the real thing, and finds that humanity has always sought to supplement our day-to-day lives with a rich diversity of alternative immersive experiences.
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Typical technologist's opinion
- By Theo on 27-12-22
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Virtual Society
- The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
- Narrated by: Herman Narula
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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AIQ
- How Artificial Intelligence Works and How We Can Harness Its Power for a Better World
- By: Nick Polson, James Scott
- Narrated by: Nick Polson, Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence: what it is, how it works, where it came from and how to harness its power for a better world. Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. These machines, from smartphones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world in the 21st century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world in the 19th.
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Not an AI Book
- By Russell on 14-09-18
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AIQ
- How Artificial Intelligence Works and How We Can Harness Its Power for a Better World
- Narrated by: Nick Polson, Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-06-18
- Language: English
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Unsupervised
- Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies
- By: Daniel Doll-Steinberg, Staurt Leaf
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Unsupervised examines the fast-emerging technologies and tools that are already starting to completely revolutionize our world. Beyond that, the book takes an in-depth look at how we have arrived at this dizzying point in our history, who holds the reins of these formidable technologies, mostly without any supervision. It explains why we as business leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, educators, lawmakers, investors or users and all responsible citizens must act now to influence and help oversee the future of a technological world.
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For futurist enthusiast!
- By Samy Sam on 02-01-24
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Unsupervised
- Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-12-23
- Language: English
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Modern Monopolies
- What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
- By: Nicholas L. Johnson, Alex Moazed
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town. A platform, by definition, creates value by facilitating an exchange between two or more interdependent groups. So, rather than making things, they simply connect people. The advent of mobile computing and its ubiquitous connectivity have forever altered how we interact with each other. Yet, few people truly grasp the radical structural shifts of the last 10 years.
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Decent coverage of the topic but basically a recap
- By Chris on 19-03-20
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Modern Monopolies
- What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-11-17
- Language: English
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What Tech Calls Thinking
- An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
- By: Adrian Daub
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In Daub’s hands the founding concepts of Silicon Valley don’t make money; they fall apart." --The New York Times Book Review From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of Silicon Valley's intellectual origins Adrian...
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What Tech Calls Thinking
- An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 16-03-21
- Language: English
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- By: Alex Rosenblat
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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