Computer Science History
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The Age of Living Machines
- How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
- Auteur(s): Susan Hockfield
- Narrateur(s): Andrea Gallo
- Durée: 6 h et 35 min
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The Age of Living Machines describes some of the most exciting new developments and the scientists and engineers who helped create them. Virus-built batteries. Protein-based water filters. Cancer-detecting nanoparticles. Mind-reading bionic limbs. Computer-engineered crops. Together they highlight the promise of the technology revolution of the 21st century to overcome some of the greatest humanitarian, medical, and environmental challenges of our time.
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The Age of Living Machines
- How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
- Narrateur(s): Andrea Gallo
- Durée: 6 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2019-05-07
- Langue: Anglais
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From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution and how it will change our lives....
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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
- Auteur(s): Iwan Rhys Morus
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Harding
- Durée: 6 h et 41 min
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Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks and visionaries in equal number.
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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Harding
- Durée: 6 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2019-10-03
- Langue: Anglais
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Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes....
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A Deadly Wandering
- A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
- Auteur(s): Matt Richtel
- Narrateur(s): Fred Berman
- Durée: 12 h et 30 min
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An ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally strikes two rocket scientists while texting and driving. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings regarding human attention and the impact of technology on our brains.
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A Deadly Wandering
- A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
- Narrateur(s): Fred Berman
- Durée: 12 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2014-09-23
- Langue: Anglais
- An ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally strikes two rocket scientists while texting and driving....
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Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
- How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
- Auteur(s): Robert Bryce
- Narrateur(s): Steven Menasche
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
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In this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection.
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Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
- How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
- Narrateur(s): Steven Menasche
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2014-05-13
- Langue: Anglais
- In the face of today’s environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course....
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Life Finds a Way
- What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
- Auteur(s): Andreas Wagner
- Narrateur(s): Alex Hyde-White
- Durée: 7 h et 33 min
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In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection - instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls. For instance, in Picasso's 40-some iterations of Guernica, we see the same combination of small steps, incessant reshuffling, and large, almost reckless, leaps that characterize the way evolution transformed a dinosaur's grasping claw into a condor's soaring wing.
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Life Finds a Way
- What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity
- Narrateur(s): Alex Hyde-White
- Durée: 7 h et 33 min
- Date de publication: 2019-06-25
- Langue: Anglais
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In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection - instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls....
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- Auteur(s): Henry Petroski
- Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
- Durée: 10 h et 41 min
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
- Durée: 10 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2016-07-14
- Langue: Anglais
- Acclaimed historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from historical and contemporary perspectives and explains how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health....
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- Auteur(s): Jon Wilkman
- Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
- Durée: 10 h
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Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind LA noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.
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Interesting history, but slow and technical in areas
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-04-05
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
- Durée: 10 h
- Date de publication: 2020-07-28
- Langue: Anglais
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Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a 20-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared 54 miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path....
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Science and Technology in Ancient Rome
- The History and Legacy of the Romans’ Technological Advances
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Colin Fluxman
- Durée: 1 h et 26 min
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The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technologies, conveniences, and ideas, from running water, baths, and republican-style government to roads. Similarly, by the third century BCE, the Romans were prodigious monument builders, so much so that the memory of the great Roman Republic and the Roman Empire continues to exist within a cityscape of stone. Rome’s public spaces were filled with statues, arches, temples, and many other varieties of monumental images, and each of these structures had its own civic or religious function.
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Science and Technology in Ancient Rome
- The History and Legacy of the Romans’ Technological Advances
- Narrateur(s): Colin Fluxman
- Durée: 1 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2022-04-12
- Langue: Anglais
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The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technologies, conveniences, and ideas, from running water, baths, and republican-style government to roads. Similarly, by the third century BCE, the Romans were prodigious monument builders....
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Go, Flight!
- The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- Auteur(s): Rick Houston, J. Milt Heflin
- Narrateur(s): John Gagnepain
- Durée: 14 h et 9 min
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At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building 30—at what is now Johnson Space Center—would become known by many as "the Cathedral." These members of the space program were the brightest of their generations, making split-second decisions that determined the success or failure of a mission.
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Go, Flight!
- The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- Narrateur(s): John Gagnepain
- Série: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Durée: 14 h et 9 min
- Date de publication: 2017-07-03
- Langue: Anglais
- At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building....
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Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- Auteur(s): Michael J. Neufeld
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 4 h et 50 min
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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
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 4 h et 50 min
- Date de publication: 2019-04-02
- Langue: Anglais
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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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The Brain Electric
- The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines
- Auteur(s): Malcolm Gay
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic limbs, and the rest of us to manipulate computers and other objects through thought alone. These fiercely competitive scientists are vying for Defense Department and venture capital funding, prestige, and great wealth.
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The Brain Electric
- The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2015-10-20
- Langue: Anglais
- The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machines....
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Distracted
- The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
- Auteur(s): Maggie Jackson
- Narrateur(s): Christine Carroll
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
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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
- Narrateur(s): Christine Carroll
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
- Date de publication: 2010-02-16
- Langue: Anglais
- Welcome to the land of distraction. Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment....
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