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How to Save the Internet
- The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict
- By: Nick Clegg
- Narrated by: Nick Clegg
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. The global, open internet is fragmenting. How To Save the Internet outlines the global cooperation needed to reform Big Tech and preserve the internet as we know it. As democracies aim to control Big Tech, Silicon Valley adopts an America-first agenda, and...
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china or Zuckerberg, or options
- By Dave on 16-01-26
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How to Save the Internet
- The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict
- Narrated by: Nick Clegg
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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The Digital Delusion
- By: Jared Cooney Horvath
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Brought to you by Penguin. An urgent, deeply researched reckoning with the role of tech in our classrooms -- from neuroscientist, researcher and former teacher, Dr Jared Cooney Horvath. Our children are struggling. Schools, once alive with deep learning born of human connection, are now...
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The Digital Delusion
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 20-08-26
- Language: English
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The Organized Mind
- The Science of Preventing Overload, Increasing Productivity and Restoring Your Focus
- By: Daniel Levitin
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin, read by Luke Daniels. 'Thought-provoking and practical ... Good advice based on sound neuroscientific principles' Sunday Times In The Organized Mind, New York Times and Sunday Times...
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Unnecessarily Long - Information overload
- By DR on 17-02-16
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The Organized Mind
- The Science of Preventing Overload, Increasing Productivity and Restoring Your Focus
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-07-15
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Master
- A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Matteo Pasquinelli
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence," a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind...
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The Eye of the Master
- A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-03-26
- Language: English
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When The Heavens Went On Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. *An instant New York Times Bestseller* A momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race, from the 3-million copy, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk In 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a...
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The human connection with chaotically good and clever people.
- By Jerry Cornelius on 07-01-25
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When The Heavens Went On Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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The Infinity Machine
- Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
- By: Sebastian Mallaby
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company Even by the...
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The Infinity Machine
- Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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A World Without Email
- Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever (from the NYT bestselling productivity expert)
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Feel like you're always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them - and how much happier would you be? Emails are an integral part of work today. But the 'kind regards', forwards and attachments we check every 5.4 minutes are making us...
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Cut to the chase Cal!
- By Viv Chambers - Bricolage on 16-03-21
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A World Without Email
- Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever (from the NYT bestselling productivity expert)
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-03-21
- Language: English
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro. We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society-and, even, our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other...
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Entertaining and thought provoking.
- By ColCam on 09-04-18
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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We Are as Gods
- A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
- By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Zac Aleman
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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National Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance, Bold, and The Future Is Faster Than You Think comes a bold exploration of what it means to stay human in a world where technology has granted us godlike power. In 1968, Stewart Brand declared: “We are as gods—and...
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We Are as Gods
- A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
- Narrated by: Zac Aleman
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-04-26
- Language: English
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Atoms and Ashes
- From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now...
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A Toast For Serhii Plokhy
- By Anonymous on 09-07-23
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Atoms and Ashes
- From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 17-05-22
- Language: English
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Digital Jim Crow (Spanish Edition)
- Empodérate contra la dieta visual del escapismo, el racismo y el abuso que contribuyen a la erosión de nuestro espíritu y al deterioro del bienestar de los pueblos marginados.
- By: Luis Merced, Miguel Noboa, ChatGPT Open AI
- Narrated by: Miguel Noboa
- Length: 22 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Digital Jim Crow ofrece un análisis fundamentado en la evidencia y con enfoque informado por el trauma de nuestro mundo saturado de pantallas. Combina neurociencia, salud pública y justicia social para investigar cómo las comunidades BIPOC y neurodivergentes sufren de manera particular el daño de medios visuales que perpetúan el escapismo, el sesgo sistémico y la sobreestimulación impulsada por la dopamina. También proporciona herramientas accesibles para la autorregulación, la reducción de daños y el bienestar digital, basadas en modalidades terapéuticas como la DBT, la EMDR y el mindfulness.
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Digital Jim Crow (Spanish Edition)
- Empodérate contra la dieta visual del escapismo, el racismo y el abuso que contribuyen a la erosión de nuestro espíritu y al deterioro del bienestar de los pueblos marginados.
- Narrated by: Miguel Noboa
- Length: 22 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: Spanish
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The End of Reality
- How four billionaires are selling out our future
- By: Jonathan Taplin
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns. At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our...
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Read this, understand how to Vote in November
- By Allan Paterson on 10-08-24
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The End of Reality
- How four billionaires are selling out our future
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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Gilded Rage
- Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
- By: Jacob Silverman
- Narrated by: Jacob Silverman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Gilded Rage written and read by Jacob Silverman A searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives. From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic...
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cogent & accessible analysis of the reactionary tech oligarchy
- By r lewis on 11-11-25
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Gilded Rage
- Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
- Narrated by: Jacob Silverman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- By: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.
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Thorough, analytical, v. detailed
- By Mr. M. J. Yeomans on 22-08-19
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 18-06-19
- Language: English
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No One Wants to See Your D*ck
- A Handbook for Survival in the Digital World
- By: Jess Davies
- Narrated by: Jess Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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'One of the most important books you'll read this year ' THE NEW FEMINIST 'A bold, unapologetic exploration of modern relationships, self-image, and the complexities of navigating social media and intimacy in today's world' MARIE CLAIRE Are women asking for it because of their outfits, routes...
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A "Must listen" to truly appreciate the dangers for women online
- By Ian Gardiner on 09-05-25
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No One Wants to See Your D*ck
- A Handbook for Survival in the Digital World
- Narrated by: Jess Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- By: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Joseph May
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Soonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, read by Kelly Weinersmith and Joseph May. What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach...
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Author / narrator seriously grating
- By KMV on 02-03-18
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- Narrated by: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Joseph May
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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The Inevitable
- Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- By: Kevin Kelly
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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A New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends...
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Unimaginative and unrelentingly tedious
- By Daft Monk on 22-08-17
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The Inevitable
- Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-06-16
- Language: English
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- By: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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Sanctimonious and lightweight
- By Olly Buxton on 09-09-19
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-09-19
- Language: English
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Sandy Hook
- An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
- By: Elizabeth Williamson
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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Slate, "25 Best Crime Books, Podcasts, and Documentaries of All Time" Vanity Fair’s “Books We Can't Stop Thinking About” Carnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist 2023 The Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Publishers Weekly Best Books 2022 Kirkus Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Slate...
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Not about Sandy Hook
- By Staupe on 11-03-22
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Sandy Hook
- An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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Nexus
- Une brève histoire des réseaux d'information, de l'âge de pierre à l'intelligence artificielle
- By: Yuval Noah Harari, David Fauquemberg - traducteur
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
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Les histoires nous ont réunis. Les livres ont diffusé nos idées et nos mythologies. Internet nous a promis le savoir infini. Les algorithmes ont découvert nos secrets – et nous ont divisés. Quel monde nous promet l’IA ? Depuis cent mille ans, nous, les Sapiens, avons acquis un gigantesque pouvoir. Mais malgré nos découvertes, inventions et conquêtes, nous sommes aujourd’hui confrontés à une crise existentielle inédite. Le monde est au bord de l’effondrement écologique. Les tensions politiques se multiplient. La désinformation abonde.
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Nexus
- Une brève histoire des réseaux d'information, de l'âge de pierre à l'intelligence artificielle
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: French
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