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    • Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 751 ratings
    • Co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman warns of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and tells us how we might contain them while we have the chance.

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    • Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    • By: Cal Newport
    • Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,191 ratings
    • Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 834 ratings
    • 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.

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    • How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
    • By: Michio Kaku
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 329 ratings
    • 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.

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 438 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
    • By: Bruce Schneier
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about your life and the world....

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    • The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
    • By: Scott Galloway
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,417 ratings
    • Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. They're wrong....

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    • Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
    • By: Kathleen Hale
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true-crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet....

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    • A Guide for Thinking Humans
    • By: Melanie Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 391 ratings
    • Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....

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    • The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
    • By: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,548 ratings
    • In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility"....

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    • What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
    • By: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor reveal what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products.

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    • The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
    • By: Mo Gawdat
    • Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • Scary Smart is an insider look at the future not only of technology and AI, but of our species, together with an accessible blueprint for what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself....

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    • How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
    • By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,884 ratings
    • The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

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    • The Science, Technology, and Impact
    • By: Pantheon Space Academy
    • Narrated by: Grant Benker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Are you curious about the future of computing but confused about where to start? Are you fascinated by the quantum buzz but intimidated by dense academic jargon? I'm here to guide you through the fascinating universe of quantum tech, in the simplest way possible....

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    • AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
    • By: Parmy Olson
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. Parmy Olson uses her experience covering technology to bring to light the exploitation of the greatest invention in human history, and how it will impact us all.

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    • The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    • By: Shoshana Zuboff
    • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,644 ratings
    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....

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    • End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids
    • By: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
    • Narrated by: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A former gamer and Harvard-trained psychiatrist offers a proven, tested plan to help parents define, set, and reinforce healthy boundaries around video games and help kids who have developed an addiction to gaming....

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    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,514 ratings
    • People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education....

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    • 25th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Steven Levy
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,948 ratings
    • Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....

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