Computer History

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    • The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
    • Auteur(s): Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
    • Narrateur(s): Don Azevedo
    • Durée: 15 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of oppression, a motley collection of people were engaged in something more subversive....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Adam Fisher
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
    • Durée: 18 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....

    Prix courant: 39,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How to Combine Computer Analysis and Human Creativity for Better Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Strategic Thinking Skills, Book 2
    • Auteur(s): Albert Rutherford
    • Narrateur(s): Russell Newton
    • Série: Strategic Thinking Skills, Livre 2, Advanced Thinking Skills, Livre 1
    • Durée: 2 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Think creatively like a human. Analyze and solve problems efficiently like a computer. Our everyday lives are filled with inefficient and ineffective decisions and solutions. Being overwhelmed by the magnitude of our problems makes it hard to think clearly. We procrastinate and overthink....

    Prix courant: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
    • Auteur(s): Chris Hayes
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Hayes
    • Durée: 12 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated.

    Prix courant: 28,51$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,51$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Watchmaker’s History
    • Auteur(s): Rebecca Struthers
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Ploszajski
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Computers Learned to Write
    • Auteur(s): Dennis Yi Tenen
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lam
    • Durée: 4 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • With its masterful blend of history, technology, and philosophy, Yi Tenen's work ultimately urges us to view AI as a matter of labor history, celebrating the long-standing cooperation between authors and engineers....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

    • Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity
    • Auteur(s): Joe Allen
    • Narrateur(s): Dave Clark
    • Durée: 16 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we barely notice....

    Prix courant: 22,80$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,80$ ou 1 crédit

    • Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
    • Auteur(s): Henry Petroski
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our worlds most pressing issues....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About)
    • Auteur(s): Spike Carlsen
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
    • Durée: 9 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A simple walk around the block set journalist Spike Carlsen, best-selling author of A Splintered History of Wood, off to investigate everything he could about everything we take for granted in our normal life — from manhole covers and recycling bins to bike lanes and stoplights....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
    • Auteur(s): Keith Houston
    • Narrateur(s): Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Durée: 9 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Keith Houston provides hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Understand Artificial Intelligence and Stay Ahead. Machine Learning. Generative AI. Robots. Quantum AI. Super Intelligence.
    • Auteur(s): Pedro Uria-Recio
    • Narrateur(s): Will Stauff
    • Durée: 17 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Written in an accessible style for all audiences, “How AI Will Shape Our Future” anchors listeners in the history and evolution of Artificial Intelligence, laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of its trajectory.

    Prix courant: 31,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Kurczy
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Wayne
    • Durée: 9 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What the Internet Is Hiding from You
    • Auteur(s): Eli Pariser
    • Narrateur(s): Kirby Heyborne
    • Durée: 7 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-05-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    • Video Game Revolution
    • Auteur(s): Heather E. Schwartz
    • Narrateur(s): uncredited
    • Durée: 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the 1970s, Atari became the leader in home video gaming with the Atari 2600. But were they the first? And how did it evolve into the revolutionary games and systems of today? Listen to learn the answers to these questions and more.

    Prix courant: 8,07$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 8,07$ ou 1 crédit

    • How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
    • Auteur(s): Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri
    • Narrateur(s): Will Damron
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Microchip Design That Changed the World
    • Auteur(s): James Ashton
    • Narrateur(s): James Ashton
    • Durée: 11 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Everything Blueprint describes the titanic power struggle for control of the microchip - told through the story of a British start up that has found itself in the middle....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck out of Gambling
    • Auteur(s): Adam Kucharski
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Adam Kucharski reveals the long and tangled history between betting and science and explains why gambling continues to generate insights into luck and decision making today....

    Prix courant: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

    • What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
    • Auteur(s): Clifford Nass, Corina Yen
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Durée: 7 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-09-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Here are startling insights into persuasion, trust, empathy, and teamwork based on how we treat our computers....

    Prix courant: 30,05$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,05$ ou 1 crédit

    • How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever
    • Auteur(s): Alex Kantrowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Alex Kantrowitz
    • Durée: 6 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • An acclaimed tech reporter reveals the inner workings of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft, showing how to compete with the tech titans using their own playbook....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World
    • Auteur(s): Kathy Koch
    • Narrateur(s): Ann Richardson
    • Durée: 5 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • If you feel like you're losing your teen to technology, you're not alone. Screen time is rapidly replacing family time, and for teens especially, it is hardwiring the way they connect....

    Prix courant: 16,68$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 16,68$ ou 1 crédit