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The Undersea Network
- De: Nicole Starosielski
- Narrado por: David H. Lawrence XVII
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 21
In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network, Nicole Starosielski follows these cables from the ocean depths to their landing zones on the sandy beaches of the South Pacific, bringing them to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the materiality of the wired network.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Series of Tubes, Indeed
- De Susie en 06-06-16
- The Undersea Network
- De: Nicole Starosielski
- Narrado por: David H. Lawrence XVII
No technical content, no compelling story
Revisado: 05-29-16
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
The book is written like a conference paper and the author shows absolutely no talent for making or telling an interesting story about the topic. The book is a mishmash of facts and analyzes with a structure that is extremely hard to follow (I will assume there was a structure , and that I just wasn't able to follow it; maybe the audiobook format is inappropriate for this kind of book).Moreover, the description is misleading. The author spends no time discussing any of the technical aspects of undersea cable communications (which could fill in several books by themselves). I should have checked her bio, she's into human sciences, not engineering.
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12 Essential Scientific Concepts
- De: The Great Courses, Indre Viskontas
- Narrado por: Indre Viskontas
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 860
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 745
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 741
Science is such a vast arena of knowledge that people looking for a better grasp of its secrets often wonder where to begin. The answer: with the essentials. Now, finally satisfy your desire for scientific inquiry in a way that makes this enormous field accessible, understandable, and undeniably captivating.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent overview of major science concepts
- De Tanglebones en 03-24-14
- 12 Essential Scientific Concepts
- De: The Great Courses, Indre Viskontas
- Narrado por: Indre Viskontas
Misleading title, centered on life sciences
Revisado: 09-12-15
What was most disappointing about The Great Courses’s story?
The title of the book sounds very broad and general but is misleading: most chapters are centered, or come back in some way to life sciences. The author has a background in neurosciences and this shows up throughout to book. For example, even the chapters on electricity or magnetism, while they do contain the physical explanations, eventually come back to the role of these phenomena in biological processes. The author even (ab)uses of analogies with biological systems, e.g. explaining the flow of electrons through a wire by comparing it to blood flowing through a vessel. If you have an "engineer" type of mind or not really into interested in life sciences, you can find better similar books.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
The author/narrator also sounds overly (constantly) excited, which I personally find more tiresome to listen to than a neutral tone.
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Our Final Invention
- Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
- De: James Barrat
- Narrado por: Gary Dana
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 834
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 716
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 720
Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail - human-level intelligence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Kind of chilling
- De Keegan en 04-11-15
- Our Final Invention
- Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
- De: James Barrat
- Narrado por: Gary Dana
Waste of time
Revisado: 09-07-15
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The writer obviously has very little technical knowledge of the field and wrote a story of a dystopian future without much concrete support for his predictions. If you're technically versed, working in computer science or an AI-related field, you won't learn anything useful.
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