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    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....

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    • Une brève histoire des réseaux d'information, de l'âge de pierre à l'intelligence artificielle
    • Written by: Yuval Noah Harari, David Fauquemberg - traducteur
    • Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-26
    • Language: French
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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

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    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • Written by: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2015-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,823 ratings
    • Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

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    • Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • Written by: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman warns of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and tells us how we might contain them while we have the chance.

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    • A Tech Love Story
    • Written by: Kara Swisher
    • Narrated by: Kara Swisher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....

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    • Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    • Written by: Cal Newport
    • Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....

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    • Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
    • Written by: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....

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    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2014-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital
    • Written by: Rob Walling
    • Narrated by: Rob Walling
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2023-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • With nearly two decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur, author, and investor, Rob Walling is one of the world's leading experts in SaaS. In this audiobook, he shares little-known strategies that have been battle-tested by some of today's most successful founders....

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    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • Written by: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

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    • The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
    • Written by: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
    • Narrated by: Dan Senor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking?....

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    • A Guide for Thinking Humans
    • Written by: Melanie Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....

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    • Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
    • Written by: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today’s artificial intelligence — has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest.

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    • How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
    • Written by: Bruce Schneier
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about your life and the world....

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    • And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
    • Written by: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Matt Ridley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society....

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    • An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
    • Written by: Elizabeth Williamson
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2022-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson’s landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents who fought to defend themselves, and the truth of their children’s fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists.

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • Written by: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • Written by: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids
    • Written by: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
    • Narrated by: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A former gamer and Harvard-trained psychiatrist offers a proven, tested plan to help parents define, set, and reinforce healthy boundaries around video games and help kids who have developed an addiction to gaming....

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    • Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
    • Written by: Allen Carr
    • Narrated by: Jot Davies
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity....

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