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Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition
- Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
- By: Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, Antonio García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter....
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Best Non-fiction (and entertaining frolic) I’ve listened to in years!
- By Martha Mangan on 09-22-19
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Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition
- Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-24-18
- Language: English
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After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, Antonio García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter....
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Computing: A Concise History
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....
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Hard to Believe it an "MIT Press" Thing
- By Sam on 05-15-22
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Computing: A Concise History
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 10-30-15
- Language: English
- The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....
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Dawn of the Code War
- America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
- By: John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyberwar against us - and how we've learned to fight back....
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Exhausting
- By Raz on 01-08-19
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Dawn of the Code War
- America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-16-18
- Language: English
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The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyberwar against us - and how we've learned to fight back....
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Dawn of the New Everything
- Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
- By: Jaron Lanier
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Jaron Lanier - the father of virtual reality - explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology....
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Extremely impactful, rewarding audio journey
- By Breaks on 09-17-20
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Dawn of the New Everything
- Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-21-17
- Language: English
- Jaron Lanier - the father of virtual reality - explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology....
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Eccentric Orbits
- The Iridium Story
- By: John Bloom
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of Iridium - the most complex satellite system ever built, the cell phone of the future, and one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history - and one man's race to save it....
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Ugh! The skipping/repeating is INCREDIBLY irritating and distracting!
- By A. S. on 07-17-16
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Eccentric Orbits
- The Iridium Story
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-07-16
- Language: English
- The story of Iridium - the most complex satellite system ever built, the cell phone of the future, and one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history - and one man's race to save it....
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Exponential Organizations
- New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (and What to Do About It)
- By: Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, Michael S. Malone, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company....
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Not a revelation
- By A. Yoshida on 01-24-16
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Exponential Organizations
- New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (and What to Do About It)
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-07-15
- Language: English
- In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company....
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Future Presence
- How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
- By: Peter Rubin
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A Wired senior editor and VR expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection....
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Lacked Depth and Range; Some New Content
- By wbiro on 05-11-18
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Future Presence
- How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-17-18
- Language: English
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A Wired senior editor and VR expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection....
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How to Fix the Future
- By: Andrew Keen
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society....
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Pretty good, surprisingly.
- By Benjamin on 04-26-18
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How to Fix the Future
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-06-18
- Language: English
- Former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society....
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Irresistible
- The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
- By: Adam Alter
- Narrated by: Adam Alter
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction - an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year....
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Not scientifically sound
- By Alex Gertner on 09-05-20
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Irresistible
- The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
- Narrated by: Adam Alter
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-07-17
- Language: English
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Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction - an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year....
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Learn or Die
- Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
- By: Edward D. Hess
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals, and organizations must take their ability to learn....
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Very inspiring
- By Keane on 10-02-15
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Learn or Die
- Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-31-15
- Language: English
- To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals, and organizations must take their ability to learn....
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Life After Google
- The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
- By: George Gilder
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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In Life After Google, Gilder takes listeners on a brilliant, rocketing journey into the very near-future, into an Internet with a new "bitcoin-bitgold" transaction layer that will replace spam with seamless micro-payments and provide an all-new standard for global money....
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Good, but a lot of inside baseball
- By R.J. on 09-29-18
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Life After Google
- The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-17-18
- Language: English
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In Life After Google, Gilder takes listeners on a brilliant, rocketing journey into the very near-future, into an Internet with a new "bitcoin-bitgold" transaction layer that will replace spam with seamless micro-payments and provide an all-new standard for global money....
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- The Future Just Happened
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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In Liar's Poker, the barbarians seized control of the bond markets. In The New New Thing some guys from Silicon Valley redefined...
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Worth your time
- By Jason on 03-02-03
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- The Future Just Happened
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-10-01
- Language: English
- In Liar's Poker, the barbarians seized control of the bond markets. In The New New Thing some guys from Silicon Valley redefined...
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Rocket Billionaires
- Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
- By: Tim Fernholz
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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For the larger-than-life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity - or the key to humanity's salvation....
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Interesting book; hard to listen to
- By K. Thai on 04-12-18
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Rocket Billionaires
- Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-20-18
- Language: English
- For the larger-than-life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity - or the key to humanity's salvation....
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Silicon States
- The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
- By: Lucie Greene
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Silicon Valley is imperializing the planet. With nearly bottomless supplies of cash and ambition, a small group of companies have been gradually seizing symbolic and practical civic leadership in America and worldwide....
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Timely and Important
- By Brad on 10-03-18
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Silicon States
- The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-31-18
- Language: English
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Silicon Valley is imperializing the planet. With nearly bottomless supplies of cash and ambition, a small group of companies have been gradually seizing symbolic and practical civic leadership in America and worldwide....
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- Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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A hilarious investigation into future technologies - from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing....
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Really Good-ish!
- By See Reverse on 04-16-18
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- Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- Narrated by: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-31-17
- Language: English
- A hilarious investigation into future technologies - from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing....
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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
- By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....
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Very disappointing. Not what it promises to be.
- By R8r on 03-18-17
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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-21-17
- Language: English
- The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....
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