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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 753 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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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • 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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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 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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    • How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
    • By: Shannon Vallor
    • Narrated by: Kim Niemi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past.

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    • How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
    • By: Flynn Coleman
    • Narrated by: Flynn Coleman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology....

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    • The Science Behind the Headlines
    • By: Richard A. Muller
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 301 ratings
    • We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 244 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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    • By: Nils J. Nilsson
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future....

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    • How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
    • By: Mark Bauerlein
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Let's take stock of young America.....

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    • A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
    • By: Stephen Cave - editor, Kanta Dihal - editor, Sarah Dillon - editor
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed, and regulated....

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 451 ratings
    • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

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    • By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The question of our time: Can we reclaim our lives in an age that feels busier and more distracting by the day? This author says yes....

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    • How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
    • By: Salman Khan
    • Narrated by: Salman Khan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....

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    • Paths, Dangers, Strategies
    • By: Nick Bostrom
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,357 ratings
    • Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 875 ratings
    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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    • How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
    • By: Geoff Mulgan
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale....

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    • What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
    • By: Nicholas Carr
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,438 ratings
    • A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds....

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    • The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
    • By: Dava Sobel
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,289 ratings
    • An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....

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    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • By: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57,692 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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    • Our Myth of Measured Time
    • By: Joseph Mazur
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • 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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