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- The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation - they've just been erased from the story. Until now.
Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize.
Vice reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the Internet what it is today. Learn from Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wove numbers into the first program for a mechanical computer in 1842. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Meet Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Evans shows us how these women built and colored the technologies we can't imagine life without.
Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention and the longest odds to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. This inspiring call to action is a revelation: women have embraced technology from the start. It shines a light on the bright minds whom history forgot, and shows us how they will continue to shape our world in ways we can no longer ignore.
Welcome to the Broad Band. You're next.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"An insightful, intelligent observer...Evans proves a companionable guide for a tour through cyberspace...[and] provide[s] much needed perspective." (New York Times)
“Broad Band is a celebration of the women whose minds gave birth to the motherboard and its brethren.... an engaging series of biographical essays on lesser known mathematicians, innovators and cyberpunks." (Wall Street Journal)
"A jaunty new history of women in computing." (Wired)
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- Narrado por: Gus Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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When most of us think about artificial intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that artificial intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways the future people dreamed of at the World's Fair in the 1960s is already here. We're teaching our machines how to think like humans, and they're learning at an incredible rate.
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Mostly platitudes with no depth
- De Gary en 03-24-17
De: Luke Dormehl
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Group Genius
- The Creative Power of Collaboration
- De: Keith Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Marosz
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity and erects new principles in their place. He reveals that creativity is always collaborative: even when you're alone. Sawyer's audiobook is filled with compelling stories about the inventions that changed our world.
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De: Keith Sawyer
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The World Is Flat
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- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
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When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations?
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If you like cliches...
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The Filter Bubble
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- De: Eli Pariser
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In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's change in policy is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years: the rise of personalization.
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De: Eli Pariser
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A Mind at Play
- How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
- De: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
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Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the Digital Revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. His work gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass.
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I wanted more information about Information Theory
- De Bonny en 05-08-18
De: Rob Goodman, y otros
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Electronic Dreams
- How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
- De: Tom Lean
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 10 h
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In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the wonder technology of the 1980s. This book charts the history of the rise and fall of the home computer, the family of futuristic and quirky machines that took computing from the realm of science and science fiction to being a user-friendly domestic technology.
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Awesome outline of electronic history
- De Johnny en 09-28-17
De: Tom Lean
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Automate This
- How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
- De: Christopher Steiner
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills - and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These "bots" started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected.
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- De RealTruth en 02-15-13
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The Idea Factory
- Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- De: Jon Gertner
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
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In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the1980s. In its heyday, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1200 of whom held PhDs and 13 of whom won Nobel Prizes. Thriving in a work environment that embraced new ideas, Bell Labs scientists introduced concepts that still propel many of today’s most exciting technologies.
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Great story -- horrible pauses
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De: Jon Gertner
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Technically Wrong
- Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
- De: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Narrado por: Andrea Emmes
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Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.
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Pretty good but not complete
- De Casey en 10-29-17
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Whiplash
- How to Survive Our Faster Future
- De: Joi Ito, Jeff Howe
- Narrado por: James Foster
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions - one in technology and the other in communications - joined, an explosive force was unleashed that changed the very nature of innovation. And with any change, we have seen many strategic blunders and extraordinary learning curves along the way.
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Just general advice on how to survive
- De A. Yoshida en 09-01-17
De: Joi Ito, y otros
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Data-ism
- The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
- De: Steve Lohr
- Narrado por: Steve Lohr
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution. Today data is the vital raw material of the information economy. The explosive abundance of this digital asset, more than doubling every two years, is creating a new world of opportunity and challenge. Data-ism is about this next phase, in which vast, Internet-scale data sets are used for discovery and prediction in virtually every field. It is a journey across this emerging world with people, illuminating narrative examples, and insights.
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More business case than serious analysis
- De Godfried Gubbels en 06-03-15
De: Steve Lohr
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Proving Ground
- The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
- De: Kathy Kleiman
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer—better known as the ENIAC. Proving Ground restores these women to their rightful place as technological revolutionaries.
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A Joy to Listen To
- De Sam en 08-07-22
De: Kathy Kleiman
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The End of College
- Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
- De: Kevin Carey
- Narrado por: James Yaegashi
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research to paint a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education.
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40 pages of content inflated to 250 pages
- De Brian Dickinson en 04-28-15
De: Kevin Carey
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The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community found itself targeting not soldiers on the battlefield, but suspected spies, foreign leaders, and even American citizens.
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Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them.
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Broken Glass
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In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time—unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began spending weekends together, talking philosophy, Catholic mysticism, and, of course, architecture over wine-soaked picnic lunches.
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Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition)
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Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.
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Operation Chaos
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Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They’re young, they’re radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. The Swedes treat them like pop stars - but the CIA is determined to stop all that.
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- Teri G.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. So many rich stories of the women pioneers of Tech.
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- Lauren
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Similar to Hidden Figures
The womens' contributions inspired me to see beyond cultural stereotypes.
I also enjoyed relating to the nuance in each story. None were "perfect" & that left room for something to be built upon by future contributors.
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- Etoile NEOhio
- 03-11-19
A MUST Read for Women of the Computer Age...
A MUST Read for Women of the Computer Age... and their daughters... and their mothers. If you liked "Hidden Figures", you'll love this!
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- Jean
- 03-29-18
Inspiring
This is an interesting book about the history of women coders, engineers, mathematicians, entrepreneurs as well as visionaries who helped create and shape the internet. Evans even discusses Ada Lovelace, the mathematician daughter of Lord Byron.
The book is well written and researched. Evans is a journalist so the writing style is that of a journalist. Evans reviews the stories of women scientists such as the famous Grace Hopper, who worked on Harvard Mark One, to more recent women such as Stanford University scientist Elizabeth Feinler. She also includes programmer Brenda Laurel, a gamer entrepreneur. I found the story about Radia Perlman most interesting. Perlman invented a protocol for moving information to the way computers are networked. I had no idea so many women have achieved so much with so little recognition. I highly recommend this book.
The book is nine hours. The author narrated the book.
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- Terry623
- 08-21-18
Wonderful history full of surprises
Poetic language and well-told stories yield numerous affecting and interesting insights about how the history of computers and the internet shapes our world today. Wonderful work of history accessibly preserving important stories about the women who led the exploration of the tech that dominates our lives today.
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- Leanne Roed
- 08-06-18
Loved This Book
This is a fantastic survey of computing history. If you have any interest in the internet, where it came from and why it matters you won’t be sorry you listened to this book.
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- Kamran
- 09-11-18
On the shoulders of Computers
Claire skillfully brought to light fascinating stories of truly revolutionary thinkers and experimentalists who, without me knowing it, improved my life and inspired my own cyber-creative journey. Listening was a joy and if you’re got to the point if reading this review, I know you will feel the same.
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- Heather Cassell
- 03-01-19
Amazing Story, Amazing Story Telling
I absolutely love how well Claire L. Evans told the story of the women behind the technology industry. I've listened to this book twice because not only are the women's stories so compelling and inspiring but because Evans' prose is so poetic, insightful, and compelling. This is a must listen to and read book for anyone interested in technology, women in technology, and women’s contributions to technology and STEM.
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- M2E7
- 06-10-19
I lived this time period in IT but never knew..
I started in the IT field in 1984. I experienced the evolution of the technology from my corporate jobs as the tools I used evolved and improved. Much of the overall history was familiar to me but the exact roles women played in the evolution was hidden from my view. I very much enjoyed listening to this book on audible and learning about the contributions of specific women. Claire did a great job of combining the technology with the contributions in an easy to listen to and understand narrative.
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- Jb
- 03-12-18
Great book, though not as good as author thinks
If you could sum up Broad Band in three words, what would they be?
Good historical review
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
Great to hear all the stories of how things started.
Any additional comments?
My only issue with this book is that it sounded like the author thought she was a great writer, and the wording and tonality detracted sometimes from the story/history. Given that, it was a fabulous book, and since I am 68 and a child of Silicon Valley history, it was wonderful to hear the women's side of the story. I heard an interview with her on NPR and bought the book, and it seemed like it was going to be another Hidden Figures movie, which I would have liked. But it is stories about the incredible women who did various parts of computer and Internet discovery over the last 50 years, which I did like! But, as I say, sometimes the author gets too involved in how well she thinks she can elocute.
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