Computer History

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • De: Brian Christian
    • Narrado por: Brian Christian
    • Duración: 13 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-06-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 887 calificaciones
    • 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.

    Precio regular: $25.00

    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • De: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrado por: George Wilson
    • Duración: 24 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-10-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 454 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $29.25

    • From Victory to Collapse
    • De: Joseph T. Glatthaar
    • Narrado por: Robertson Dean
    • Duración: 25 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-18-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 calificaciones
    • This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee....

    Precio regular: $30.06

    • Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
    • De: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
    • Narrado por: Niall Ferguson, Byron Wagner
    • Duración: 6 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-19-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 109 calificaciones
    • The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dramatically empowered people in all walks of life, from artists to business executives to policymakers. But as the technology becomes more powerful and more ubiquitous, it is giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity.

    Precio regular: $22.49

    • The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
    • De: Jane Smiley
    • Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
    • Duración: 8 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-19-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 calificaciones
    • From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age....

    Precio regular: $15.75

    • A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
    • De: Tore C. Olsson
    • Narrado por: Roger Clark
    • Duración: 10 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-06-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 calificaciones
    • Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. How do they fare as re-creations of history? In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more.

    Precio regular: $20.24

    • Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
    • De: Frank Pasquale
    • Narrado por: Perry Daniels
    • Duración: 11 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-06-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them - but only through wise regulation....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
    • De: Greg M. Epstein
    • Narrado por: Alex Boyles
    • Duración: 12 h y 48 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-29-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • In our tumultuous era of religious extremism and rampant capitalism, Tech Agnostic offers a new path forward, where we maintain enough critical distance to remember that all that glitters is not gold—nor is it God.

    Precio regular: $17.47

    • The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    • De: Ananyo Bhattacharya
    • Narrado por: Nicholas Camm
    • Duración: 11 h y 56 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-22-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 345 calificaciones
    • The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
    • De: Michael Punke
    • Narrado por: Christopher Grove
    • Duración: 9 h y 16 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-29-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 379 calificaciones
    • The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
    • De: Ryan North
    • Narrado por: Ryan North
    • Duración: 12 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-18-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 440 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • Pioneering in Television
    • De: Santos Rivera
    • Narrado por: C.S Cyan
    • Duración: 3 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-14-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Presenting our innovative television, the ideal fusion of enjoyment and innovation. With our amazing device, which is meant to completely change the way you watch television, you can fully immerse yourself in the world of high definition viewing.

    Precio regular: $14.95

    • How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
    • De: Amy Webb
    • Narrado por: Amanda Dolan
    • Duración: 9 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-05-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 567 calificaciones
    • In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI - the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself - is broken....

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
    • De: Rowland White, Richard Truly
    • Narrado por: Eric Meyers
    • Duración: 15 h y 51 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-19-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 calificaciones
    • Using interviews, NASA oral histories, and recently declassified material, Into the Black pieces together the dramatic untold story of the Columbia mission....

    Precio regular: $22.49

    • The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
    • De: Michael S. Malone
    • Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
    • Duración: 20 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-29-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 calificaciones
    • The only contemporary history of the birth of Silicon Valley - from the reporter who had a ringside seat to it all....

    Precio regular: $29.95

    • The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
    • De: Sandra Matz
    • Narrado por: Anna Caputo
    • Duración: 6 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-28-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make.

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
    • De: Michio Kaku
    • Narrado por: Feodor Chin
    • Duración: 10 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-02-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 381 calificaciones
    • The bestselling author of The God Equation takes an exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease.

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • Further Updated and Expanded
    • De: Thomas L. Friedman
    • Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
    • Duración: 27 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-23-07
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 983 calificaciones
    • When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war....

    Precio regular: $33.74

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • De: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
    • Duración: 11 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-08-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,335 calificaciones
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

    Precio regular: $24.30

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