Computer Science History

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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 398 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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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • Written by: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • Written by: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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    • Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • Written by: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-07
    • Language: English
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    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
    • Written by: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson, Byron Wagner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2024-11-19
    • Language: English
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    • The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dramatically empowered people in all walks of life, from artists to business executives to policymakers. But as the technology becomes more powerful and more ubiquitous, it is giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity.

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • Written by: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • Written by: Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science....

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    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • Written by: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
    • Written by: Paul Scharre
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • Written by: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • Written by: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....

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    • Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
    • Written by: Ben Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age....

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    • Paging Through History
    • Written by: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world....

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    • Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
    • Written by: April Falcon Doss
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Cyber Privacy, Doss demystifies the digital footprints we leave in our daily lives and reveals how our data is being used - sometimes against us - by the private sector, the government, and even our employers and schools....

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    • An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
    • Written by: Rob Manning, William L. Simon
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2014-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • Written by: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2015-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • When We Merge with AI
    • Written by: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come....

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    • Our Myth of Measured Time
    • Written by: Joseph Mazur
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us....

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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 1,825 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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