Bestsellers
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Nuts and Bolts
- Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
- De: Roma Agrawal
- Narrado por: Roma Agrawal
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world....
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An articulate view of stuff
- De R. LeBlanc en 02-21-24
De: Roma Agrawal
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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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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The best of competence porn
- De Tristan en 08-20-16
De: Ashlee Vance
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- De: Max Tegmark
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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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....
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Irritating
- De Thomas Cotter en 10-25-17
De: Max Tegmark
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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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....
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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The Genius of Israel
- The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
- De: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
- Narrado por: Dan Senor
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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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?....
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An Optimistic Analysis of Success
- De So far so good en 11-09-23
De: Dan Senor, y otros
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Longitude
- De: Dava Sobel
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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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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To hear Neil Armstongs Voice
- De Boots en 01-19-13
De: Dava Sobel
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Nuts and Bolts
- Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
- De: Roma Agrawal
- Narrado por: Roma Agrawal
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world....
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An articulate view of stuff
- De R. LeBlanc en 02-21-24
De: Roma Agrawal
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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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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The best of competence porn
- De Tristan en 08-20-16
De: Ashlee Vance
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- De: Max Tegmark
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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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....
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Irritating
- De Thomas Cotter en 10-25-17
De: Max Tegmark
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The Wright Brothers
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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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....
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Disappointing
- De Sara en 07-10-16
De: David McCullough
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The Genius of Israel
- The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
- De: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
- Narrado por: Dan Senor
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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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?....
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An Optimistic Analysis of Success
- De So far so good en 11-09-23
De: Dan Senor, y otros
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Longitude
- De: Dava Sobel
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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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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To hear Neil Armstongs Voice
- De Boots en 01-19-13
De: Dava Sobel
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The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....
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Somewhat less than perfect
- De enya keshet en 06-19-18
De: Simon Winchester
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When the Heavens Went on Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 18 h y 20 m
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In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West of aerospace engineering and its unprecedented impact on our lives....
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Great Background for the New Rocket Startups
- De daniel kreigh en 05-27-23
De: Ashlee Vance
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Electrical Age
- De: W. Bernard Carlson
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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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....
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A detailed examination of Tesla's work
- De Jean en 02-01-14
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ChatGPT Made Simple
- How Anyone Can Harness AI to Streamline Their Work, Study, and Everyday Tasks to Boost Productivity and Maintain Competitive Edge by Mastering Prompt Engineering
- De: D. Nardo Publications
- Narrado por: Scott Gillis
- Duración: 3 h y 16 m
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This isn't a tech-babble narration or AI's self-portrait. It's an easy-to-grasp audio guide aimed at anyone and everyone—parents, executives, retirees—ready to embrace the future....
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Chatgpt for beginners!
- De Taha en 01-13-24
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Tim Fannon
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Not the best from Vaclav, but near the top
- De Tan en 07-19-23
De: Vaclav Smil
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life....
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cool title, unexceptional content
- De Andy en 10-10-14
De: Steven Johnson
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The Master Algorithm
- How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
- De: Pedro Domingos
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and solving an extraordinary range of problems....
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Great book, irritating narration
- De N. G. PEPIN en 09-24-15
De: Pedro Domingos
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Edison's Ghosts
- The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
- De: Katie Spalding
- Narrado por: Susie Riddell
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known....
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Wonderful Wonderful Read.
- De marc edge en 06-01-23
De: Katie Spalding
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- De: Sharon Weinberger
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years....
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Blandly written story about DARPA politics
- De Syed en 04-18-17
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
- De: Tim Harford
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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This audiobook paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us....
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Thought provoking
- De Paul Norris en 09-10-17
De: Tim Harford
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Flight Paths
- How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
- De: Rebecca Heisman
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent—flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring....
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BIRDS!
- De Dan en 04-28-24
De: Rebecca Heisman
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Quirky
- De: Melissa A. Schilling
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Schilling shares the science behind the convergence of traits that increases the likelihood of success. And, as Schilling also reveals, there is much to learn about nurturing breakthrough innovation in our own lives....
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Most fascinating and important book to date!
- De Jonathan en 04-16-18
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
- What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
- De: Michael Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Glen McCready
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: artificial intelligence....
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very basic.
- De Michael Peintinger en 11-11-21
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Eject! Eject!
- De: John Nichol
- Narrado por: Thomas Judd
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
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Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....
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Never knew
- De Trapperdt en 09-18-23
De: John Nichol
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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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This history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change....
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It will delight you
- De T. Leach en 02-09-17
De: Steven Johnson
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Electrical Oscillators
- De: Nikola Tesla
- Narrado por: Adriel Brandt
- Duración: 20 m
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In reading ‘electrical oscillator’, you will probably automatically think ‘earthquake machine’. This charming title aside, electrical oscillators at its core employ an amplifier whose output is fed back to the input, so the signal regenerates and sustains itself....
De: Nikola Tesla
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The One Device
- The Secret History of the iPhone
- De: Brian Merchant
- Narrado por: Tristan Morris
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story....
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TECH PORN AT ITS BEST
- De Amazon Customer en 07-11-17
De: Brian Merchant
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Next
- A Brief History of the Future
- De: Avi Jorisch
- Narrado por: Shlomo Zacks
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Next tells the story of 13 inspiring innovators around the world who are already tackling these challenges and transforming our species. Call it Humanity 2.0. Every individual and venture featured in Next is having an outsized impact on human history....
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Lacks Spirituality
- De Ariel Sandoval en 02-26-24
De: Avi Jorisch
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Dawn of the New Everything
- Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
- De: Jaron Lanier
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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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
- De Breaks en 09-17-20
De: Jaron Lanier
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- De: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrado por: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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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!
- De See Reverse en 04-16-18
De: Kelly Weinersmith, y otros
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James May's 20th Century
- De: James May, Phil Dolling
- Narrado por: James May
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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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....
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brilliant.
- De Chris Thompson en 04-08-19
De: James May, y otros
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Gutenberg the Geek
- De: Jeff Jarvis
- Narrado por: Jeff Jarvis
- Duración: 39 m
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Johannes Gutenberg was our first geek, the original technology entrepreneur, who had to grapple with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today....
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Concise, precise, and insightful
- De John J. Sviokla en 05-21-15
De: Jeff Jarvis
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Heroes of Progress
- 65 People Who Changed the World
- De: Alexander C. R. Hammond
- Narrado por: Timothy Morgan
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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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.
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The Einstein Effect
- How the World's Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds
- De: Benyamin Cohen
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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In The Einstein Effect, Cohen embarks on a global quest to unearth Einstein's ongoing relevance today....
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No there there.
- De A. Visserman en 12-27-23
De: Benyamin Cohen