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Bestsellers
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: David E. Sanger, and others
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- By Dalton on 06-06-22
By: Vaclav Smil
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Turtles All the Way Down
- Vaccine Science and Myth
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Tim Bodnar
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the fierce debate surrounding vaccination and looking for information that will allow you to make the best decisions for yourself and your loved ones....
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A Review from a Nurse & Mama
- By Casey James on 04-19-24
By: Anonymous
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- By: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- By ndru1 on 11-12-19
By: Andy Greenberg
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Recoding America
- Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
- By: Jennifer Pahlka
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....
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Very good, minimally partisan.
- By Samuel Mebane on 11-25-23
By: Jennifer Pahlka
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- By: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- By Ken Vanden branden on 07-23-23
By: Scott J. Shapiro
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: David E. Sanger, and others
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- By Dalton on 06-06-22
By: Vaclav Smil
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Turtles All the Way Down
- Vaccine Science and Myth
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Tim Bodnar
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the fierce debate surrounding vaccination and looking for information that will allow you to make the best decisions for yourself and your loved ones....
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A Review from a Nurse & Mama
- By Casey James on 04-19-24
By: Anonymous
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- By: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- By ndru1 on 11-12-19
By: Andy Greenberg
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Recoding America
- Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
- By: Jennifer Pahlka
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....
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Very good, minimally partisan.
- By Samuel Mebane on 11-25-23
By: Jennifer Pahlka
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- By: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- By Ken Vanden branden on 07-23-23
By: Scott J. Shapiro
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....
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Excellent Book, As the Weinersmiths Are Known to Do!
- By R. Carr on 02-03-24
By: Kelly Weinersmith, and others
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- By: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Excellent science based
- By Russ on 05-08-21
By: Steven E. Koonin
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- By: Madhumita Murgia
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making.
By: Madhumita Murgia
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Tyranny, Inc.
- How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It
- By: Sohrab Ahmari
- Narrated by: Sohrab Ahmari
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. tells the inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back....
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Doesn't address the whole picture
- By Penelope M on 09-18-23
By: Sohrab Ahmari
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Accessory to War
- The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- By: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
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In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....
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Inspiring, educational, patriotic.
- By Kevin on 09-17-18
By: Avis Lang, and others
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AI Needs You
- How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
- By: Verity Harding
- Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Daisy Donovan shares an electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI’s future for the public good.
By: Verity Harding
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Pandora's Gamble
- Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
- By: Alison Young
- Narrated by: Pamela Almand
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Investigative journalist Alison Young goes deep into the troubling history—and enormous risks—of leaks and accidents at scientific labs....
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This book again shows the critical role of investigative journalists
- By Anonymous User on 05-24-23
By: Alison Young
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Icarus
- or The Future of Science
- By: Bertrand Russell
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 49 mins
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In this rambling essay, Bertrand Russell reflects on the future of the world while the memory of the First World War was still strong in the public imagination....
By: Bertrand Russell
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The Fifth Domain
- Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
- By: Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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An urgent new warning from two best-selling security experts - and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone....
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The Author Lacks Critical Thinking
- By Thomas Rose on 08-08-20
By: Richard A. Clarke, and others
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The Handover
- How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
- By: David Runciman
- Narrated by: David Runciman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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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....
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States and corporations as AIs, before AI
- By W. P. Gardner on 11-21-23
By: David Runciman
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk
- Rethinking Our Response
- By: Judith Curry
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change.
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Fantastically balanced and optimistic.
- By aaron on 04-02-24
By: Judith Curry
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Atomic Days
- The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
- By: Joshua Frank
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl....
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this is more political than I thought it should be
- By Dean on 09-29-23
By: Joshua Frank
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Space Chronicles
- Facing the Ultimate Frontier
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration....
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The least helpful review of Space Chronicles.
- By Joshua Kring on 06-17-15
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- By: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....
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Very good
- By Brad on 07-04-19
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The Seventh Sense
- Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
- By: Joshua Cooper Ramo
- Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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The digital age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive....
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Ridiculously Relevant
- By Abhinav on 05-21-16
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The Miracle Century
- Making Sense of the Cell Therapy Revolution
- By: Scott Gottlieb
- Length: 12 hrs
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New York Times bestselling author and former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb provides a glimpse of a promising future that is quickly approaching: a world with cures for chronic illnesses and cancers....
By: Scott Gottlieb
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The Equality Machine
- Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
- By: Orly Lobel
- Narrated by: Dominique Dibbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future....
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Enlightening peek into the future
- By APBaller on 06-13-23
By: Orly Lobel
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Crisis and Chaos
- Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against Covid-19
- By: Jerome M. Adams MD MPH, Nancy Peske - contributor
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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The former Surgeon General of the United States—freed from the many constraints he worked under in public office—reveals critical lessons learned from both mistakes and successes overlooked during the pandemic....
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Very insightful- good read
- By DER on 02-20-24
By: Jerome M. Adams MD MPH, and others
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Lessons from the Covid War
- An Investigative Report
- By: COVID Crisis Group
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s COVID response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times....
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Great, but more is needed...
- By Michael on 06-28-23
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Crushed
- Big Tech's War on Free Speech with a Foreword by Senator Ted Cruz
- By: Ken Buck
- Narrated by: Hunter Gatherer
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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When the Founding Fathers drafted our Constitution, they had no idea there would be a “Big Tech”–nor any concept of the immense power these companies would wield over our people....
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A must read
- By Patrick Mara on 03-29-23
By: Ken Buck
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When Science Meets Power (1st Edition)
- By: Geoff Mulgan
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding—and unsolicited—authority being heaped upon science....
By: Geoff Mulgan
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Manipulated
- Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth
- By: Theresa Payton
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane, Theresa Payton
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes....
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awesome book
- By John Hill on 06-05-20
By: Theresa Payton
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Uncontrolled Spread
- Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
- By: Scott Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America’s pandemic preparations....
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Save yourself the time and $
- By Travis on 09-21-21
By: Scott Gottlieb
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Containing Big Tech
- How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy
- By: Tom Kemp
- Narrated by: Dave Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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The path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies....
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A Must-Read for those concerned our democracy
- By Alexander on 11-04-23
By: Tom Kemp