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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Steven Levy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall222
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Performance199
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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, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers.
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Enjoyable and inspiring
- By Martin on 17-03-16
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-11-15
- Language: English
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- By: Kim Zetter
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall410
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Performance362
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A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. “Immensely enjoyable...
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Fascinating subject and an amazing story
- By Just little old me on 01-04-15
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 11-11-14
- Language: English
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The History of the Future
- Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
- By: Blake J. Harris
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance70
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The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But...
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Does not live up to Console Wars
- By Stephen on 20-02-19
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The History of the Future
- Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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This Is for Everyone
- The Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web
- By: Tim Berners-Lee
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance48
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Narrated by the brilliant Stephen Fry, this audiobook features an inspiring prologue read by the author, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a fascinating bonus conversation between Stephen and Tim. 'Visionary . . . Full of warmth and humanity' – Kate Bush 'Profound' – Al Gore 'Compulsive reading' –...
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The web as it should be
- By D on 05-05-26
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This Is for Everyone
- The Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- By: Richard Susskind
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance16
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In How To Think About AI, Richard Susskind draws on his experience of working on AI since the early 1980s. For Susskind, balancing the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence is the defining challenge of our age. He explores the history of AI and possible scenarios for its future. His views on AI are not always conventional. He positions ChatGPT and generative AI as no more than the latest chapter in the ongoing story of AI and claims we are still at the foothills of developments.
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An enjoyable, thoughtful listen
- By M Nichols on 23-09-25
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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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Attensity!
- A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement
- By: The Friends of Attention
- Narrated by: Alyssa Loh, Peter Schmidt, David Graham Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Brought to you by Penguin. We all feel it: something is seriously wrong. Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped, gutted, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power. The heedless exploitation...
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A powerful message that we should all heed.
- By Mr. R. E. Barr on 08-03-26
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Attensity!
- A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement
- Narrated by: Alyssa Loh, Peter Schmidt, David Graham Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
- By: Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance102
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Story101
Brought to you by Penguin 'A path-breaking, thought-provoking and in-depth study of how new technology will transform the world of work' Gordon Brown 'Compelling ... Thought-provoking ... Should be required reading for any presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future' NEW YORK...
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Very thought provoking
- By Androcles on 24-12-20
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall381
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Performance317
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Story313
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen alike. Matt Ridley argues that we need to see innovation as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan.
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good but rather a political agenda
- By Olly Buxton on 09-12-20
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-06-20
- Language: English
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The Soul of A New Machine
- By: Tracy Kidder
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance78
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Story78
Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since...
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An interesting glimpse into a wonderful era...
- By Ash on 01-09-17
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The Soul of A New Machine
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-05-16
- Language: English
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- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- By: Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance67
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Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial fallout. This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?
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Unbelievable, Poorly Narrated with dull patches
- By Gardener joe on 24-09-25
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- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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World Eaters
- How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
- By: Catherine Bracy
- Narrated by: Catherine Bracy
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Award for Current Events & Public Affairs Longlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Award 2025 A Next Big Idea Book Club March 2025 Must-Read An urgent and illuminating perspective that offers a window into how the most pernicious aspects of the venture...
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A smart and fresh perspective on venture capital and its harms
- By paul j davies on 01-06-25
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World Eaters
- How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
- Narrated by: Catherine Bracy
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-03-25
- Language: English
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Palo Alto
- A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
- By: Malcolm Harris
- Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
- Length: 28 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system. In Palo Alto, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did.
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In depth
- By SH on 27-05-23
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Palo Alto
- A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
- Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
- Length: 28 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime
- Cybersecurity Tactics to Outsmart Hackers and Disarm Scammers
- By: Eric O'Neill
- Narrated by: Eric O'Neill
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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**Narrated by the Author** National security strategist and former FBI counterintelligence operative Eric O’Neill exposes how nefarious cybercriminals relentlessly attempt to access your data and wallet, and arms you with his proven tactics for spotting and neutralizing cyberthreats to protect...
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Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime
- Cybersecurity Tactics to Outsmart Hackers and Disarm Scammers
- Narrated by: Eric O'Neill
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-10-25
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- By: Joseph Menn
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Joseph Menn
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall166
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Performance142
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The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our freedom, “a hugely important piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping the internet age” (The New York Times Book Review) Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest...
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Fascinating History of Hacking
- By James on 19-07-19
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Cult of the Dead Cow
- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Joseph Menn
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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The Atomic Human
- Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI
- By: Neil D. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Neil D. Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We believe it's what differentiates us. Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our digital lives, but also the implied threat of an intelligence that displaces us from our position at the centre of the world. Neil D. Lawrence's visionary book shows why these fears may be misplaced. By contrasting our own intelligence with the capabilities of machine intelligence through history, The Atomic Human reveals the technical origins, capabilities and limitations of AI systems, and how they should be wielded.
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Interesting but it meanders
- By thoughtfuldiner on 08-05-25
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The Atomic Human
- Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Neil D. Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Hacking Humanity
- Innovations for a healthier life
- By: Lara Lewington
- Narrated by: Lara Lewington
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Brought to you by Penguin. What if we could stop cancer in its tracks, prevent cardiovascular disease, lose weight at will and reverse the effects of ageing? With new developments in artificial intelligence, gene editing and robotics, it might all be possible sooner than you think. In Hacking...
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2025 Technology Update
- By John on 19-08-25
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Hacking Humanity
- Innovations for a healthier life
- Narrated by: Lara Lewington
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 10-07-25
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of...
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Everyone should read this book
- By Alex on 02-11-20
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-08-17
- Language: English
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Apple
- The First 50 Years
- By: David Pogue
- Narrated by: David Pogue
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Instant New York Times Bestseller In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company’s entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, the most valuable company in the...
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Apple
- The First 50 Years
- Narrated by: David Pogue
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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The Infinity Machine
- Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
- By: Sebastian Mallaby
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company Even by the...
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The Infinity Machine
- Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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