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  • Elon Musk Audiobook By Walter Isaacson cover art

    • Elon Musk

    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,642 ratings

    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh.

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  • A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts Audiobook By Andrew Chaikin cover art

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  • Burn Book Audiobook By Kara Swisher cover art

    • Burn Book

    • A Tech Love Story
    • By: Kara Swisher
    • Narrated by: Kara Swisher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,485 ratings

    • Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....

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  • How to Invent Everything Audiobook By Ryan North cover art

    • How to Invent Everything

    • A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
    • By: Ryan North
    • Narrated by: Ryan North
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 430 ratings

    • Best-selling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North tells you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted - from first principles....

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  • The Perfectionists Audiobook By Simon Winchester cover art

    • The Perfectionists

    • How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,955 ratings

    • 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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  • Energy Audiobook By Richard Rhodes cover art

    • Energy

    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 765 ratings

    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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  • Invention and Innovation Audiobook By Vaclav Smil cover art

    • Invention and Innovation

    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

    • 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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  • The Information Audiobook By James Gleick cover art

    • The Information

    • A History, a Theory, a Flood
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,952 ratings

    • James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....

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  • Wizard Audiobook By Marc J. Seifer cover art

    • Wizard

    • The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,971 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

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  • Nuts and Bolts Audiobook By Roma Agrawal cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

    • A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world....

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  • How Innovation Works Audiobook By Matt Ridley cover art

    • How Innovation Works

    • And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Matt Ridley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 788 ratings

    • 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....

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  • The Master Algorithm Audiobook By Pedro Domingos cover art

    • The Master Algorithm

    • How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
    • By: Pedro Domingos
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,675 ratings
    • 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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  • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence Audiobook By Erik J. Larson cover art

    • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

    • Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
    • By: Erik J. Larson
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings

    • Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be....

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  • Into the Black Audiobook By Rowland White, Richard Truly cover art

    • Into the Black

    • The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
    • By: Rowland White, Richard Truly
    • Narrated by: Eric Meyers
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 569 ratings
    • Using interviews, NASA oral histories, and recently declassified material, Into the Black pieces together the dramatic untold story of the Columbia mission....

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  • Spycraft Audiobook By Robert Wallace, Henry Robert Schelsinger cover art

    • Spycraft

    • The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda
    • By: Robert Wallace, Henry Robert Schelsinger
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,067 ratings
    • The former director of OTS gives listeners an unprecedented look at the devices and operations deemed "inappropriate for public disclosure" by the CIA just two years ago....

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  • Hands of Time Audiobook By Rebecca Struthers cover art

    • Hands of Time

    • A Watchmaker’s History
    • By: Rebecca Struthers
    • Narrated by: Anna Ploszajski
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon....

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  • The Little Book of Aliens Audiobook By Adam Frank cover art

    • The Little Book of Aliens

    • By: Adam Frank
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

    • Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe....

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  • Blood in the Machine Audiobook By Brian Merchant cover art

    • Blood in the Machine

    • The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
    • By: Brian Merchant
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings

    • The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....

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  • A Million Years in a Day Audiobook By Greg Jenner cover art

    • A Million Years in a Day

    • A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age
    • By: Greg Jenner
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted....

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  • How We Got to Now Audiobook By Steven Johnson cover art

    • How We Got to Now

    • Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,868 ratings
    • How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life....

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