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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 57,646 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 5,891 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 13,964 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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    • 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 102 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 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 166 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 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 1,952 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 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 1,255 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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    • 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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    • 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 56 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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    • 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 1,676 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 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 205 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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    • 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
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world....

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    • By: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,009 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 Untold Story of Silicon Alley
    • By: Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Fisher
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Grigoriadis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Early True Believers: The Untold Story of Silicon Alley is a 1990s saga of ambition and innovation set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, a swath of downtown that served as New York City’s nerve center of tech entrepreneurship.

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    • How Anyone Can Harness AI to Streamline Their Work, Study, and Everyday Tasks to Boost Productivity and Maintain Competitive Edge by Mastering Prompt Engineering
    • By: D. Nardo Publications
    • Narrated by: Scott Gillis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • 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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