Computer History

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    • The False Promise of Optimization
    • Auteur(s): Coco Krumme
    • Narrateur(s): Coco Krumme
    • Durée: 6 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A mathematician explains how optimization took over the world, arguing that we urgently need a new approach....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
    • Auteur(s): Colin Ellard
    • Narrateur(s): John Fleming
    • Durée: 8 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature - places we escape to and can’t escape from - have influenced us throughout history and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Engineers Think
    • Auteur(s): Guru Madhavan
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Durée: 5 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Through narratives and case studies spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use....

    Prix courant: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrateur(s): Douglas Rushkoff
    • Durée: 5 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
    • Auteur(s): David Stumpf
    • Narrateur(s): Douglas R Pratt
    • Durée: 19 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Our Bright Future with Robots
    • Auteur(s): Daniela Rus, Gregory Mone
    • Narrateur(s): Andrea Gallo
    • Durée: 10 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
    • Auteur(s): Robert Bryce
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Bryce
    • Durée: 8 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Gregory Crouch
    • Narrateur(s): John Keating
    • Durée: 23 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The rags-to-riches American frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode - the body of gold and silver so immensely valuable that it changed the destiny of the US....

    Prix courant: 33,98$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
    • Auteur(s): Scott Woolley
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Hoye
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The astonishing story of America's airwaves and the two friends - one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor - who made them available to us....

    Prix courant: 22,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics
    • Auteur(s): Robert T. Hanlon
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 33 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Block by Block offers an original perspective on thermodynamic science and history based on the three approaches of a practicing engineer, academician, and historian....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Alec Ross
    • Narrateur(s): Alec Ross
    • Durée: 8 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next 10 years....

    Prix courant: 24,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
    • Auteur(s): Sasha Costanza-Chock
    • Narrateur(s): Megan Tusing
    • Durée: 10 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities....

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    • How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
    • Auteur(s): David Runciman
    • Narrateur(s): David Runciman
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations—"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power—to predict how AI will remake society....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
    • Auteur(s): Susan Linn
    • Narrateur(s): Susan Linn
    • Durée: 11 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children comes a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood—and what we can do about it....

    Prix courant: 20,66$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Energy
    • Auteur(s): Michael E. Webber
    • Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
    • Durée: 9 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A global tour of energy - the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
    • Auteur(s): Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 11 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and the constant presence of algorithms impact our culture and society in the age of global networks.

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Building the Spatial Internet / Fully Revised and Updated Edition
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Ball
    • Narrateur(s): Luis Moreno
    • Durée: 17 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this fully revised and updated edition of his internationally best-selling book, pioneering theorist and entrepreneur Matthew Ball goes beyond the hype cycle to present a definitive account of the future of the internet.

    Prix courant: 35,66$ ou 1 crédit

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    • America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
    • Auteur(s): John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
    • Durée: 16 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyberwar against us - and how we've learned to fight back....

    Prix courant: 39,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Tony Reinke
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • New technologies can inspire us, but the breakneck pace of change can also frighten us. To build a biblical theology of technology, journalist and tech optimist Tony Reinke examines nine key texts from Scripture to show how the world’s discoveries are divinely orchestrated....

    Prix courant: 22,00$ ou 1 crédit

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