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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

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10 hours 9 min

Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be.Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence, and what it would take to get ... Read more

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Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be.Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence, and what it would take to get
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Blood in the Machine

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15 hours 34 min

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up ... Read more

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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up
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Reload

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Skolelærer Steve Morris er på tiende år følelsesmæssigt plaget efter en dødsulykke på Long Island i USA. Han drømmer om et andet liv, hvor han kan være en mere tilstedeværende og forstående far og ægtemand.Ved et tilfælde bliver Steve bekendt med ny RELOAD-teknologi, der genetablerer Alzheimerpatienters tabte erindringer. Han lader sig behandle med en hemmeligholdt variant af RELOAD og oplever et ... Read more

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Skolelærer Steve Morris er på tiende år følelsesmæssigt plaget efter en dødsulykke på Long Island i USA. Han drømmer om et andet liv, hvor han kan være en mere tilstedeværende og forstående far og ægtemand.Ved et tilfælde bliver Steve bekendt med ny RELOAD-teknologi, der genetablerer Alzheimerpatienters tabte erindringer. Han lader sig behandle med en hemmeligholdt variant af RELOAD og oplever et
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Holding Back the River

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9 hours 10 min

A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers.The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our ... Read more

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A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers.The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our
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The Powerhouse

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A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technologyA worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win?Steve LeVine was ... Read more

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A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technologyA worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win?Steve LeVine was
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Principles of Project Management Explained

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Unabridged

36 min

Are you a busy project manager, or even just an employee that works on projects from time to time?You work on projects regularly, yet you rarely feel one hundred percent satisfied with them, and you feel as if the feedback from others is never perfect…If that is the case, then this book is an absolute must-read to improve your career!In this book, I discuss the principles of project management in ... Read more

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Hello World

How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

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6 hours 51 min

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Hello World, written and read by Hannah Fry.You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.You need a liver transplant to save your life. Who would you want in charge of ... Read more

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Hello World, written and read by Hannah Fry.You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.You need a liver transplant to save your life. Who would you want in charge of
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1 hour 7 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book will help you through a refreshing set of tools and techniques to help deliver your project challenges. The aim of book two is to assist in structuring and maintaining people-centric, good working practices during key stages of a project.The core elements include:Structuring - using scaffolding to lay down seeds of expectationsPredicting - ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book will help you through a refreshing set of tools and techniques to help deliver your project challenges. The aim of book two is to assist in structuring and maintaining people-centric, good working practices during key stages of a project.The core elements include:Structuring - using scaffolding to lay down seeds of expectationsPredicting -
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Die Geschichte des Handys im Zeitraffer

Wie das Smartphone die Welt veränderte

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Unabridged

1 hour 28 min

Hast du dich jemals gefragt, wie ein klobiger Knochen zu dem unverzichtbaren Begleiter wurde, den du heute in der Tasche trägst? In Die Geschichte des Handys im Zeitraffer nimmst du an einer faszinierenden akustischen Reise teil. Dieses Hörbuch im Stil einer hochwertigen Dokumentation zeigt dir hautnah, wie rasant sich unsere Technologie entwickelt hat.Tauche ein in die spannende Geschichte des ... Read more

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Hast du dich jemals gefragt, wie ein klobiger Knochen zu dem unverzichtbaren Begleiter wurde, den du heute in der Tasche trägst? In Die Geschichte des Handys im Zeitraffer nimmst du an einer faszinierenden akustischen Reise teil. Dieses Hörbuch im Stil einer hochwertigen Dokumentation zeigt dir hautnah, wie rasant sich unsere Technologie entwickelt hat.Tauche ein in die spannende Geschichte des
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Speed and Scale

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Speed and Scale: The Smart Guide on Living Green. Discover Useful Tips on How to Live Green so You Can Help the Environment and Mother Earth.Global warming poses one of the most serious threats to the global environment ever faced in human history. We hear and read about it everyday and how this impacts our planet. Climate change, pollution, animal extinction, are amongst many other issues that ... Read more

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Agile Coaching : Where to Start?

by Dmitri Iarandine ...

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Agile Coaching remains a prominent career progression trend for many Agile practitioners, such as Scrum Masters and Agile Project Managers who feel like they outgrew the shoes of their Digital Delivery roles.This book is my attempt to summarize the learnings and observations from inside the Agile professional space, explaining in simple terms what an Agile Coach is really supposed to do, how they ... Read more

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LIFT

by Dan Ward ...

Narrated by Dan Ward ...

Unabridged

5 hours 11 min

LIFT is a playful introduction to flying machines from the late 1800’s and the inspiring people who designed, built, launched, and crashed them. It is also a serious guide to innovation for 21st century problem solvers.Blending light-hearted pop culture whimsy with well-grounded engineering pragmatism, LIFT introduces five inventors who tackled the seemingly impossible challenge of human flight ... Read more

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Nuts and Bolts

How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

by Roma Agrawal ...

Narrated by Roma Agrawal ...

Unabridged

8 hours 16 min

Shard engineer Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex inventions into seven fundamental objects: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump._____________'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to give' JANE GARVEY'Splendid. Clearly written, elegantly structured full of facts yo... ... Read more

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Shard engineer Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex inventions into seven fundamental objects: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump._____________'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to give' JANE GARVEY'Splendid. Clearly written, elegantly structured full of facts yo...
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Smoke & Mirrors

How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It

by Gemma Milne ...

Narrated by Gemma Milne ...

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from ... Read more

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'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from
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What the F*ck is The Dark Web?

by Kit Eaton ...

Narrated by Kit Eaton ...

Series series WTF Series
Unabridged

2 hours 15 min

What the f*ck is the dark web and how does it work?Whether it's from dodgy acronym-titled crime shows to news stories designed to terrify you down to your socks we've all heard about sites like Silk Road and the ways criminals use cryptocurrency online. But did you know that among the various shady corners of the dark web you can also find portals to the BBC and Facebook?The thing is even the way ... Read more

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What the f*ck is the dark web and how does it work?Whether it's from dodgy acronym-titled crime shows to news stories designed to terrify you down to your socks we've all heard about sites like Silk Road and the ways criminals use cryptocurrency online. But did you know that among the various shady corners of the dark web you can also find portals to the BBC and Facebook?The thing is even the way
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The Innovation Delusion

How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most

by Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most?“The most important book I’ve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our economy, and the world, and gives a simple recipe for how to fix it: Focus on understanding what it takes for your ... Read more

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“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most?“The most important book I’ve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our economy, and the world, and gives a simple recipe for how to fix it: Focus on understanding what it takes for your
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The Mercenary River

Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water

by Nick Higham ...

Narrated by Nick Higham ...

Unabridged

11 hours 21 min

No city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn't always so. For centuries London, one of the largest and richest cities in the world, struggled to supply its citizens with reliable, clean water. The Mercenary River tells the story of that struggle from the middle ages to the present day.Based on new research, it ... Read more

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No city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn't always so. For centuries London, one of the largest and richest cities in the world, struggled to supply its citizens with reliable, clean water. The Mercenary River tells the story of that struggle from the middle ages to the present day.Based on new research, it
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Into the Black

by Rowland White ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

15 hours 51 min

On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chuck Yeager had tested in the skies over the Mojave Desert, Columbia was a winged rocket plane, ... Read more

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On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chuck Yeager had tested in the skies over the Mojave Desert, Columbia was a winged rocket plane,
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Alien Thinking

How to Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life

by Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael Wade ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

Brought to you by Penguin.How do you come up with ideas that change the world?________________This bold and inspiring new book argues that everyone who made leaps of creative genius - whether to cure Ebola or circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon - had one thing in common; they all thought like ALIENs.Distilling over a decade of research into a fascinating journey through history and ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.How do you come up with ideas that change the world?________________This bold and inspiring new book argues that everyone who made leaps of creative genius - whether to cure Ebola or circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon - had one thing in common; they all thought like ALIENs.Distilling over a decade of research into a fascinating journey through history and
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by Peter Lonny, Kamden Clover ...

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23 min

Emergency Survival Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: How To Stay Alive and SurviveWe have all seen those disaster movies. And while movies may exaggerate certain situations, it certainly makes us think if we are ready or prepared to face them and if we can come out of these situations alive. We don’t want to be that token character in the movie who dies very early on. Nobody wants calamities to happen but ... Read more

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The Department of Mad Scientists

Inside DARPA, the Path-Breaking Government Agency You've Never Heard Of

by Michael Belfiore ...

Narrated by Michael Belfiore ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless carsAmerica's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower ... Read more

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The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless carsAmerica's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower
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The Idealist

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by Justin Peters ...

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9 hours 4 min

This smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters “captures Swartz flawlessly” (The New York Times Book Review).Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of ... Read more

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This smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters “captures Swartz flawlessly” (The New York Times Book Review).Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of
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Deviced!

Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World

by Doreen Dodgen-Magee ...

Narrated by Suzanne Barbetta ...

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10 hours 3 min

With current statistics suggesting that the average American over the age of 14 engages with screens upwards of 10 hours a day, the topic of our growing dependence upon technology applies to nearly everyone. While the effects differ at each point of development, real changes to the brain, relationships, and personal lives are well documented. Deviced! explores these alterations and offers a ... Read more

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With current statistics suggesting that the average American over the age of 14 engages with screens upwards of 10 hours a day, the topic of our growing dependence upon technology applies to nearly everyone. While the effects differ at each point of development, real changes to the brain, relationships, and personal lives are well documented. Deviced! explores these alterations and offers a
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The Singularity Paradox

Bridging the Gap Between Humanity and AI

by Anders Indset, Florian Neukart ...

Narrated by Andrew Kallen-Keck ...

Unabridged

12 hours 13 min

Understand humanity's opportunity to create Artificial Conscious Entities in response to the singularityThe Singularity Paradox: Bridging the Gap Between Humanity and AI is a comprehensive exploration of how the fusion of biology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence can lead to the creation of Artificial Human Intelligence (AHI) as a conscious response to the unconscious development of ... Read more

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Understand humanity's opportunity to create Artificial Conscious Entities in response to the singularityThe Singularity Paradox: Bridging the Gap Between Humanity and AI is a comprehensive exploration of how the fusion of biology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence can lead to the creation of Artificial Human Intelligence (AHI) as a conscious response to the unconscious development of
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