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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 57,651 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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    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,893 ratings
    • 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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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,971 ratings
    • 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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    • Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
    • By: Jon Gertner
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,011 ratings
    • 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 the 1980s....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • 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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    • The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
    • By: Katie Spalding
    • Narrated by: Susie Riddell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
    • By: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • 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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    • How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
    • By: Rebecca Heisman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 1,257 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,303 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
    • By: Michael Wooldridge
    • Narrated by: Glen McCready
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • Inventor of the Electrical Age
    • By: W. Bernard Carlson
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • 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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    • The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
    • By: Sharon Weinberger
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • 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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    • The Storytelling Magic of Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos
    • By: The Audible Editors, Sam Danis
    • Narrated by: Sam Danis
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • 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.