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In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
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Compelled to listen at 2x speed
- De LEE en 09-26-18
De: Kai-Fu Lee
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Captive Audience
- De: Susan P. Crawford
- Narrado por: Carol Hendrickson
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price of broadband.
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Great info, dry delivery
- De Chase Vaughan en 02-12-16
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What to Do When Machines Do Everything
- How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data
- De: Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, Ben Pring
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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What to Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on artificial intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans, it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete.
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Assumes that machine learning will grow very slow
- De Nathan Burnham en 05-06-17
De: Malcolm Frank, y otros
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Postcapitalism
- A Guide to Our Future
- De: Paul Mason
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes - economic cycles that veer from boom to bust - from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly new.
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some good ideas...
- De "ge-ko" en 06-19-16
De: Paul Mason
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Matchmakers
- The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
- De: Richard Schmalensee, David S. Evans
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Facebook to Visa, and the most valuable start-ups, such as Airbnb and Uber, are matchmakers that connect one group of customers with another group of customers. Economists call matchmakers multisided platforms because they provide physical or virtual platforms for multiple groups to get together. Dating sites connect people with potential matches, for example, and ride-sharing apps do the same for drivers and riders.
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Repetition of one business all the time !
- De Razi T. en 06-03-20
De: Richard Schmalensee, y otros
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The Mobile Wave
- How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
- De: Michael Saylor
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it. Saylor explains that the current generation of mobile smart phones and tablet computers has set the stage to become the universal computing platform for the world. In the hands of billions of people and accessible anywhere and anytime, mobile computers are poised to become an appendage of the human being and an essential tool for modern life.
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Commonplace knowledge peppered with buzzwords
- De Amazon Customer en 10-22-13
De: Michael Saylor
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The World Is Flat
- Further Updated and Expanded
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 27 h y 15 m
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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? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations?
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If you like cliches...
- De Jonathan Shultz en 09-08-07
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Conversations
- De: Steve Reich
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill, Johnny Heller, Derek Perkins, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and video pieces. He toured the world with his own ensemble and his compositions are performed internationally by major orchestras and ensembles.
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A thrilling account of the life of composer Steve Reich!
- De Bob Crowder en 09-12-23
De: Steve Reich
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The Accommodation
- The Politics of Race in an American City
- De: Jim Schutze, John Wiley Price
- Narrado por: Mike Rhyner, John Wiley Price
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the civil rights movement and the city’s desegregation efforts in the 1950s and ‘60s.
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Floored
- De Anthony en 09-16-22
De: Jim Schutze, y otros
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The Angel and the Assassin
- The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
- De: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
- Narrado por: Melinda Wade
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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Until recently, microglia were thought to be merely the brain’s housekeepers, helpfully removing damaged cells. But a recent groundbreaking discovery revealed them to be capable of terrifying Jekyll and Hyde behavior. When triggered - and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia - they can morph into destroyers, impacting a wide range of issues from memory problems and anxiety to depression and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers.
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A Magnus Opus for Microglia
- De Dominic Acri en 01-23-20
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This America of Ours
- Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
- De: Nate Schweber
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industry, the DeVotos entered the fight of their lives.
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Fascinating history of a great conservationist
- De Sue en 10-18-22
De: Nate Schweber
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Sold Out
- How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy
- De: James Rickards
- Narrado por: James Rickards
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Today, your favorite products are missing from store shelves, caught in supply chain limbo somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. But what does this supply chain disruption look like six months, or even three years, from now? While we hope that post-pandemic recovery will absolve these issues, the reality is that digital currency, meme stonks, and social media can’t solve the age-old problem of producing and moving physical goods across oceans and continents. Jim Rickards argues that consumer frustration is only the tip of a large, menacing iceberg that threatens global economic collapse.
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Hard to like this. Book is really Dull.
- De horoscopy en 12-06-22
De: James Rickards
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Probable Impossibilities
- Musings on Beginnings and Endings
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores these questions and more - from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang.
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What a beautiful, insightful, learned yet poetic book
- De Steve Yastrow en 07-15-22
De: Alan Lightman
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Conversations
- De: Steve Reich
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill, Johnny Heller, Derek Perkins, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and video pieces. He toured the world with his own ensemble and his compositions are performed internationally by major orchestras and ensembles.
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A thrilling account of the life of composer Steve Reich!
- De Bob Crowder en 09-12-23
De: Steve Reich
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The Accommodation
- The Politics of Race in an American City
- De: Jim Schutze, John Wiley Price
- Narrado por: Mike Rhyner, John Wiley Price
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the civil rights movement and the city’s desegregation efforts in the 1950s and ‘60s.
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Floored
- De Anthony en 09-16-22
De: Jim Schutze, y otros
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The Angel and the Assassin
- The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
- De: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
- Narrado por: Melinda Wade
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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Until recently, microglia were thought to be merely the brain’s housekeepers, helpfully removing damaged cells. But a recent groundbreaking discovery revealed them to be capable of terrifying Jekyll and Hyde behavior. When triggered - and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia - they can morph into destroyers, impacting a wide range of issues from memory problems and anxiety to depression and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers.
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A Magnus Opus for Microglia
- De Dominic Acri en 01-23-20
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This America of Ours
- Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
- De: Nate Schweber
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industry, the DeVotos entered the fight of their lives.
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Fascinating history of a great conservationist
- De Sue en 10-18-22
De: Nate Schweber
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Sold Out
- How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy
- De: James Rickards
- Narrado por: James Rickards
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Today, your favorite products are missing from store shelves, caught in supply chain limbo somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. But what does this supply chain disruption look like six months, or even three years, from now? While we hope that post-pandemic recovery will absolve these issues, the reality is that digital currency, meme stonks, and social media can’t solve the age-old problem of producing and moving physical goods across oceans and continents. Jim Rickards argues that consumer frustration is only the tip of a large, menacing iceberg that threatens global economic collapse.
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Hard to like this. Book is really Dull.
- De horoscopy en 12-06-22
De: James Rickards
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Probable Impossibilities
- Musings on Beginnings and Endings
- De: Alan Lightman
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores these questions and more - from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang.
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What a beautiful, insightful, learned yet poetic book
- De Steve Yastrow en 07-15-22
De: Alan Lightman
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Power Failure
- The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
- De: William D. Cohan
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 28 h y 17 m
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No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we take for granted today, nearly everything from the lightbulb to the jet engine. GE also built a cult of financial and leadership success envied across the globe and became the world’s most valuable and most admired company. But even at the height of its prestige and influence, cracks were forming in its formidable foundation.
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Much better than other GE books
- De Brannon Crawford en 12-26-22
De: William D. Cohan
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Hooked
- Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
- De: Michael Moss
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h
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Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? And to what extent does the food industry know, or care, about these vulnerabilities? In Hooked, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss sets out to answer these questions - and to find the true peril in our food.
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Empowering Read
- De Lorena Kazmierski en 04-04-21
De: Michael Moss
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Spam Nation
- The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime - from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
- De: Brian Krebs
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the rise, fall, and alarming resurrection of the digital mafia behind the two largest spam pharmacies - and countless viruses, phishing, and spyware attacks - he delivers the first definitive narrative of the global spam problem and its threat to consumers everywhere.
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Risky topic, but Br. Krebs hits it out of the park
- De RRiley en 12-21-14
De: Brian Krebs
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Hollywood Ending
- Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence
- De: Ken Auletta
- Narrado por: Jonathan Coleman
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
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Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote an iconic New Yorker profile of the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was then at the height of his powers. The profile made waves for exposing how volatile, even violent, Weinstein was to his employees and collaborators. But there was a much darker story that was just out of reach: rumors had long swirled that Weinstein was a sexual predator. Auletta confronted Weinstein, who denied the claims. Since no one was willing to go on the record, Auletta and the magazine concluded they couldn’t close the case.
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Compelling but too long, with some strange errors
- De bugsmeany en 11-16-22
De: Ken Auletta
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Water
- A Biography
- De: Giulio Boccaletti
- Narrado por: Giulio Boccaletti
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Giulio Boccaletti - honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford - shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers.
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Understand Built-Environment Governance~Know Water
- De Tom en 05-11-22
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American Cheese
- De: Joe Berkowitz
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Joe Berkowitz loves cheese. Or at least he thought he did. After stumbling upon an artisanal tasting at an upscale cheese shop one Valentine’s Day, he realized he’d hardly even scratched the surface. These cheeses were like nothing he had ever tasted - a visceral drug-punch that reverberated deliciousness - and they were from America. He felt like he was being let in a great cosmic secret, and instantly he was in love.
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Interesting and a Little Disappointing
- De Joe F. en 03-26-23
De: Joe Berkowitz
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Some Assembly Required
- Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
- De: Neil Shubin
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans that walk on two legs, talk, and write. For more than a century, paleontologists have traveled the globe to find fossils that show how such changes have happened.
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Interesting but thin. ANNOYING narration
- De MSB en 04-10-20
De: Neil Shubin
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Prediction Machines
- The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
- De: Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible - driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? In Prediction Machines, three eminent economists recast the rise of AI as a drop in the cost of prediction. With this single, masterful stroke, they lift the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and show how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
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Not sure what I was expecting, but underwhelmed
- De William J Brown en 09-27-18
De: Ajay Agrawal, y otros
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- De: Mike Isaac
- Narrado por: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.
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A forced narrative and a bad version of Bad Blood
- De Benji en 09-09-19
De: Mike Isaac
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The Daughters of Kobani
- A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
- De: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- Narrado por: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani. By then, the Islamic State had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria alongside the United States.
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Very informative but one-sided.
- De Yahya en 04-09-21
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The Road to Unafraid
- How the Army's Top Ranger Faced Fear and Found Courage Through "Black Hawk Down" and Beyond
- De: Jeff Struecker
- Narrado por: Jeff Struecker
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Jeff Struecker, a "Black Hawk Down" hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.S. initiative since Panama, and tells how God taught him faith from the front in fear-soaked times. As listeners go on-mission with Struecker through his harrowing tales, they will learn how to face their own fears with faith in a mighty God. Just as he told one of his charges in Mogadishu: "The difference between being a coward and a hero is not whether you're scared, it's what you do while you're scared."
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Outstanding
- De Chad J Cargill en 03-19-24
De: Jeff Struecker
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The Office
- The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History
- De: Andy Greene
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Holter Graham, P.J. Ochlan, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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When did you last hang out with Jim, Pam, Dwight, Michael, and the rest of Dunder Mifflin? It might have been back in 2013, when the series finale aired...or it might have been last night, when you watched three episodes in a row. But either way, long after the show first aired, it’s more popular than ever, and fans have only one problem - what to watch, or listen to, next. Fortunately, writer Andy Greene has that answer. In his brand-new oral history, The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, Greene takes listeners behind the scenes.
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Good, but some missing info for the true fan...
- De Molly en 03-29-20
De: Andy Greene
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Cloudmoney
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- Ronald F Geary
- 10-03-22
A must listen
The apparent movement to a cashless society is not inevitable nor is a good trend. The narratives being given in support of this “trend” are at best incomplete. Essentially it is a merger between large platform tech and big financial institutions to get a piece of every last transaction.
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- Adam
- 08-08-22
Well presented and balanced review of global financial networks
The author presents a well argued concern for the decline of cash in various societies. Touching on the large influence from mega corporations and central banks, he shows how our privacy and freedoms are at risk by moving into a world where every purchase we make is monitored. This is not a pro crypto book for anyone looking to simply reinforce their current views. Instead the author presents some criticisms of several monetary systems while promoting cash, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain technologies.
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- Kadmonster
- 07-10-22
A Must-Read
Outstanding treatment of the subject matter and highly engaging from start to finish. Not too heavy a lift for those new to these subjects, but full of enough connections and clever insights that even people with some expertise will find the wheels in their head spinning.
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- Steven D. Grumbine
- 08-20-22
one of the best books you will ever read.
i loved this. the author is amazing and brilliant. Vital listening. This is absolutely necessary to understand the fintech assault on our lives.
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- Holger
- 03-09-23
Suspicions and grievances instead of arguments
"Cloud Money" tells people with fears of overreach and powerlessness: You're not alone. The author has identified "cash" as worthy of preservation, threatened by an ominous _them_. _They_ never bodes well for journalism.
_They_ encompass credit card companies, banks, central banks, big tech. Rather than opposing a new standard being adopted for profit reasons and accepted for convenience, the book goes to great lengths to imply darker motives, such as disdain for the poor up and outright racism founded in colonial roots.
The arguments are one-sided and veer into personal preferences and anecdotes. See this typical quote, criticizing all financial inclusion initiatives without questioning why they'd support digital payments - arguments replaced by an unrelated grievance and insinuating it's the norm:
"Almost all financial inclusion initiatives present digital technology as a great leap forward, that will enable unbanned to get banked. Not mentioned, however, is that the economic risk-return equation is only half of a bigger equation: while banks may not like poor people unless they can dealing with them profitable, poor people had no practical reason to like banks either. One part of the reason is practical: Historically, the average size of their transaction was so small as to make writing a cheque or requesting bank transfers an unnecessary or even embarrassing process, especially in situations where they might only buy essential goods within a small radius from where they live. Another part is political: I was a boy at the tail end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, notorious for its discrimination. At this time, my parents opened a special children's account for me at the "Standard Bank", one of the country's most prominent financial institutions. I remember the branches full of white people, while the black people stood outside. Gradually, as South Africa moved into its post-Apartheid phase, the number of black customers increased. But those who were illiterate were treated with condescension. For an elderly Zulu man, who had spent his formative years as a laborer for a South African mining corporation, there was no reason to feel trusting towards financial institutions. This same pattern is found the world over."
One star for good explanations - Scott is a gifted user of metaphors. Unfortunately, he uses them neither objectively nor constructively.
By glazing over why the less fortunate and unbanked _choose_ digital payment systems (or declaring that they are being hoodwinked by "the system"), the book ultimately loses all justification.
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