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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 722 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 5,171 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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    • 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 313 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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    • Being Human in a Disembodied World
    • By: Christine Rosen
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.

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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 343 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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    • 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 1,941 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • 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 428 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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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 718 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

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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 818 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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    • 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 388 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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    • 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 6,872 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 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 357 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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    • 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 4,415 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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    • 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 4,546 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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    • Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
    • By: Hannah Brencher
    • Narrated by: Hannah Brencher
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • No matter what you do for a living, how much time your apps save you, or how much entertainment your phone brings, it is possible to unplug—and find an even better life on the other side.

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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 75 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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    • Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
    • By: Justin Whitmel Earley
    • Narrated by: William Sarris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • The answer to our contemporary chaos is to practice a rule of life that aligns our habits to our beliefs. The Common Rule offers four daily and four weekly habits, designed to help us create new routines and transform frazzled days into lives of love for God and neighbor....

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    • Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
    • By: Zoë Schiffer
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Riveting, character-driven, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter....

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    • Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity
    • By: Joe Allen
    • Narrated by: Dave Clark
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we barely notice....

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