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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, 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 - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers.
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The best of competence porn
- By Tristan on 08-20-16
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-19-15
- Language: English
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Heroes of Progress
- 65 People Who Changed the World
- By: Alexander C. R. Hammond
- Narrated by: Timothy Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Over the past two centuries, humanity has experienced unprecedented progress. Extreme poverty has declined, life expectancy has doubled, illiteracy has declined. While we as a species are becoming more prosperous, more educated, healthier, and more peaceful, it is useful to remind ourselves of the underlying cause of this progress: innovation. Human innovation whether it be new ideas, inventions, or systems is the primary way people create wealth and escape poverty.
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Heroes of Progress
- 65 People Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Timothy Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-07-24
- Language: English
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The Wright Brothers
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?
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Disappointing
- By Sara on 07-10-16
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The Wright Brothers
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-05-15
- Language: English
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The Idea Factory
- Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- By: Jon Gertner
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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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
- By Rodney on 01-29-13
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The Idea Factory
- Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-13-12
- Language: English
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Nuts and Bolts
- Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
- By: Roma Agrawal
- Narrated by: Roma Agrawal
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Some of engineering's mightiest achievements are small in scale, even hidden—and yet, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the lens, the magnet, the string, and the pump. From the physics behind both Roman nails and modern skyscrapers to rudimentary springs that inspired lithium batteries, Agrawal shows us how even the most sophisticated items are built on the foundations of these ancient and fundamental breakthroughs in engineering.
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An articulate view of stuff
- By R. LeBlanc on 02-21-24
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Nuts and Bolts
- Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
- Narrated by: Roma Agrawal
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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The Genius of Israel
- The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
- By: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
- Narrated by: Dan Senor
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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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? How can it be that Israel, according to a United Nations ranking, is the fourth happiest nation in the world? Why do Israelis tend to look to the future with hope, optimism, and purpose while the rest of the West struggles with an epidemic of loneliness, teen depression, and social decline?
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An Optimistic Analysis of Success
- By So far so good on 11-09-23
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The Genius of Israel
- The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
- Narrated by: Dan Senor
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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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 - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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Irritating
- By Thomas Cotter on 10-25-17
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-29-17
- Language: English
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Stories in 360 Degrees
- The Storytelling Magic of Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos
- By: The Audible Editors, Sam Danis
- Narrated by: Sam Danis
- Length: 29 mins
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Audible editor Sam Danis delves into spatial audio with Dolby Atmos: what it is, what makes it so immersive, and what the future holds for audio entertainment. Featuring conversations with experts in sound design and production, as well as samples from some of the most unique Audible productions available in Dolby Atmos. Listen in to discover the storytelling magic this innovative technology can offer.
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A nice over view
- By Wesley J. Critchfield on 04-30-24
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Stories in 360 Degrees
- The Storytelling Magic of Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos
- Narrated by: Sam Danis
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 03-22-24
- Language: English
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The Powerhouse
- Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
- By: Steve LeVine
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secret federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics. But these scientists - almost all foreign born - are not alone.
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Nitty Gritty Battery Story
- By Michael on 04-22-15
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The Powerhouse
- Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-05-15
- Language: English
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The Optimist's Telescope
- Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
- By: Bina Venkataraman
- Narrated by: Bina Venkataraman
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Bina Venkataraman sees the way forward. A journalist and former adviser in the Obama White House, she helped communities and businesses prepare for climate change, and she learned firsthand why people don’t think ahead - and what can be done to change that. In The Optimist’s Telescope, she draws from stories she has reported around the world and new research in biology, psychology, and economics to explain how we can make decisions that benefit us over time.
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Even more relevant.
- By tj on 03-04-21
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The Optimist's Telescope
- Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
- Narrated by: Bina Venkataraman
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-27-19
- Language: English
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Tech Trends in Practice
- The 25 Technologies That Are Driving the 4th Industrial Revolution
- By: Bernard Marr
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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How will the latest technologies transform your business? Tech Trends in Practice will give you the knowledge of today's most important technology trends and how to take full advantage of them to grow your business. The book presents 25 real-world technology trends along with their potential contributions to organizational success. You'll learn how to integrate existing advancements and plan for those that are on the way.
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Great Book
- By Marv on 02-21-23
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Tech Trends in Practice
- The 25 Technologies That Are Driving the 4th Industrial Revolution
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-16-21
- Language: English
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Quirky
- By: Melissa A. Schilling
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world - those creative geniuses who give us one breakthrough after another? What differentiates Marie Curie or Elon Musk from the merely creative, the many one-hit wonders among us? Melissa Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people - Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs - to identify the traits and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again.
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Most fascinating and important book to date!
- By Jonathan on 04-16-18
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Quirky
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-13-18
- Language: English
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- By: Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
- Narrated by: J.P. Romney
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- By George M. Liveakos on 03-24-17
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- Narrated by: J.P. Romney
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-14-17
- Language: English
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How the Internet Happened
- By: Brian McCullough
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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The Internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first "dotcom".
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Critically empty history
- By Keith on 12-19-20
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How the Internet Happened
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-23-18
- Language: English
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Longitude
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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In 1714, England's Parliament offered a huge reward to anyone whose method of measuring longitude could be proven successful. The scientific establishment--from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton--had mapped the heavens in its certainty of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution--a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had been able to do on land. And the race was on....
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To hear Neil Armstongs Voice
- By Boots on 01-19-13
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Longitude
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-30-09
- Language: English
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.
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Not the best from Vaclav, but near the top
- By Tan on 07-19-23
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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James May's 20th Century
- By: James May, Phil Dolling
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related? Did teenagers exist before 1950? If not, who invented them? James May's 20th Century answers all these questions and more.
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brilliant.
- By Chris Thompson on 04-08-19
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James May's 20th Century
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-20-07
- Language: English
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Makers
- The New Industrial Revolution
- By: Chris Anderson
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of "Makers" using the Web’s innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent.
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Good basic information, but not a lot of good info
- By Tarik Y. on 11-30-12
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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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. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen alike. Matt Ridley argues that we need to see innovation as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan.
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Exceptional
- By Anonymous User on 05-01-22
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-25-20
- Language: English
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Electrical Age
- By: W. Bernard Carlson
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius.
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A detailed examination of Tesla's work
- By Jean on 02-01-14
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Electrical Age
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-16-14
- Language: English
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