Best sellers
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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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 To Live The Good Life
- By Loïs Talagrand on 02-12-19
By: Cal Newport
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Everybody Lies
- Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....
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Leave out the politics please
- By Shane Hampson on 02-20-20
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, and others
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Stealing Fire
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Terrible Book Don’t waste your Money! It’s all filler!
- By Amazon Customer on 12-27-17
By: Steven Kotler, and others
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- By: Kevin Mitnick
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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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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Limited value for the average person
- By James C on 10-14-17
By: Kevin Mitnick
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The Metaverse
- And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
- By: Matthew Ball
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of The Second Machine Age and Superintelligence comes the first book on the next internet: the metaverse....
By: Matthew Ball
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....
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Totally Mixed on This One
- By D. Sooley on 02-03-20
By: Peter H. Diamandis, and others
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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 To Live The Good Life
- By Loïs Talagrand on 02-12-19
By: Cal Newport
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Everybody Lies
- Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....
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Leave out the politics please
- By Shane Hampson on 02-20-20
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, and others
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Stealing Fire
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Terrible Book Don’t waste your Money! It’s all filler!
- By Amazon Customer on 12-27-17
By: Steven Kotler, and others
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- By: Kevin Mitnick
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Limited value for the average person
- By James C on 10-14-17
By: Kevin Mitnick
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The Metaverse
- And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
- By: Matthew Ball
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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In the tradition of The Second Machine Age and Superintelligence comes the first book on the next internet: the metaverse....
By: Matthew Ball
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
- How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....
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Totally Mixed on This One
- By D. Sooley on 02-03-20
By: Peter H. Diamandis, and others
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- By: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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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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great book, voiceover is brutal
- By Anonymous User on 08-24-19
By: Jenny Odell
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- 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
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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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One of the most important books of the decade
- By Steve on 04-28-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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Reset Your Child's Brain
- A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time
- By: Victoria L. Dunckley MD
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Based on emerging scientific research and extensive clinical experience, child psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley has pioneered a four-week program to treat the frequent underlying cause....
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Alarmist with few innovative strategies
- By Stacey Latronica on 08-19-21
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Glow Kids
- How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance
- By: Nicholas Kardaras PhD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology - more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity - has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation....
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Fear Mongering - a modern day Mazes and Monsters
- By Veronica on 11-03-20
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The Four
- The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
- By: Scott Galloway
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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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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Terrible book
- By "achuith" on 06-23-19
By: Scott Galloway
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Work Rules!
- Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
- By: Laszlo Bock
- Narrated by: Laszlo Bock
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work - and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed....
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Multifaceted
- By jeremiah on 04-07-15
By: Laszlo Bock
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
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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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RUINED audio.
- By Fred on 06-25-21
By: Ray Kurzweil
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- By: Jaron Lanier
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them....
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Hatred for Trump Interferes with book
- By Craig D. Lawrence Jr. on 06-23-20
By: Jaron Lanier
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- By: Klaus Schwab
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution....
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Friendly reminding : On August 15th, 1971, the dec
- By steve white on 03-24-21
By: Klaus Schwab
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The Age of AI
- And Our Human Future
- By: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society - and what this technology means for us all....
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Little Substantive Value
- By Tennisartist85 on 11-12-21
By: Henry A. Kissinger, and others
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iGen
- The 10 Trends Shaping Today's Young People - and the Nation
- By: Jean M. Twenge Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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An entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen - the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later - are vastly different from their millennial predecessors....
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Really, Amazon, no PDF?
- By Elizabeth on 10-19-17
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LikeWar
- The Weaponization of Social Media
- By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....
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Deep analysis of the Social Media revolution
- By Ross J. Patti on 10-29-18
By: P. W. Singer, and others
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- By: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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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....
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Entertaining, but author clearly has an agenda
- By Josh on 11-18-19
By: Mike Isaac
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The Common Rule
- Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
- By: Justin Whitmel Earley
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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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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Well worth the time!
- By David Collins on 04-09-19
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A World Without Email
- Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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From New York Times best-selling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox - and unleashing a new era of productivity....
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Waste of time
- By Tarek Kamil on 04-20-21
By: Cal Newport
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The Death of Expertise
- The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
- By: Tom Nichols
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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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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There couldn't be a better book at this time.
- By Tom from Pittsburgh on 02-03-18
By: Tom Nichols
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Artificial Intelligence
- A Guide for Thinking Humans
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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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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Start understanding AI right here!
- By Chad M. on 01-26-20
By: Melanie Mitchell
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- By: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms....
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Read this book. Tell everyone you know about it.
- By Joshua Daniel-Wariya on 06-06-19
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Build
- An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
- By: Tony Fadell
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century....
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Awesome
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-22
By: Tony Fadell
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Console Wars
- Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
- By: Blake J. Harris
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
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A mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on Nintendo....
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My Childhood: Explained
- By Shane Snyder on 07-22-14
By: Blake J. Harris
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life....
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connect the dots
- By Raleigh on 03-08-17
By: Steven Johnson
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- By: Brian Christian
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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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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One of the best outlook books on AI
- By Ahmed ELGazzar on 11-04-21
By: Brian Christian
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Bold
- How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
- By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrated by: Steven Kotler
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth....
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Great content, mediocre narration.
- By Eivind Hagen on 07-03-15
By: Peter H. Diamandis, and others
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It Came from Something Awful
- How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
- By: Dale Beran
- Narrated by: Dale Beran
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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It Came from Something Awful is the fascinating and bizarre story of 4chan and its profound effect on youth counterculture....
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This book was way better than it needed to be.
- By Samuel T. on 10-13-19
By: Dale Beran
New releases
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The Potentialist I
- Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years
- By: Ben Lytle
- Narrated by: Dean T. Moody
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Those of you living through the next 30 years will become the most powerful creatures that have ever existed. You will have the opportunity and the duty to create a decidedly better world. Experience and maturity alone cannot provide the required wisdom fast enough. You will need to maximize your innate potential to accelerate wisdom. The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years explains the first steps to achieve your potential and accelerate wisdom. You will discover how forces of change create a New Reality by breaking down the one we know.
By: Ben Lytle
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Big Data
- A Beginner's Introduction
- By: Saswat Sarangi, Pankaj Sharma
- Narrated by: John Palmer
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Big Data is everywhere. It shapes our lives in more ways than we know and understand. This comprehensive introduction unravels the complex terabytes that will continue to shape our lives in ways imagined and unimagined.Â
By: Saswat Sarangi, and others
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Surveillance Capitalism in America
- Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
- By: Josh Lauer, Kenneth Lipartito
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing public debate. Tech giants like Google and Facebook are fueled by a continuous supply of user data and digital exhaust. Surveillance is not just a side effect of digital capitalism; it is the business model itself.
By: Josh Lauer, and others
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Expand
- Stretching the Future by Design
- By: Christian Bason, Jens Martin Skibsted
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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With Expand: Stretching the Future By Design, authors Jens Martin Skibsted, a multiple-award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher, and Christian Bason, political scientist and CEO of the Danish Design Centre, take listeners beyond "design thinking" to challenge current habits and carve out new space for more sustainable innovation. From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand explores how expansive thinking across six key areas.
By: Christian Bason, and others
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Build
- An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
- By: Tony Fadell
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in over 30 years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopaedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopaedia. A mentor in a box. Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century.
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Awesome
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-22
By: Tony Fadell
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Access Rules
- Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
- By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge contend that if we disrupt monopoly power and create a level playing field, digital innovations can emerge to benefit us all.Â
By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and others
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The Potentialist I
- Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years
- By: Ben Lytle
- Narrated by: Dean T. Moody
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Those of you living through the next 30 years will become the most powerful creatures that have ever existed. You will have the opportunity and the duty to create a decidedly better world. Experience and maturity alone cannot provide the required wisdom fast enough. You will need to maximize your innate potential to accelerate wisdom. The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years explains the first steps to achieve your potential and accelerate wisdom. You will discover how forces of change create a New Reality by breaking down the one we know.
By: Ben Lytle
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Big Data
- A Beginner's Introduction
- By: Saswat Sarangi, Pankaj Sharma
- Narrated by: John Palmer
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Big Data is everywhere. It shapes our lives in more ways than we know and understand. This comprehensive introduction unravels the complex terabytes that will continue to shape our lives in ways imagined and unimagined.Â
By: Saswat Sarangi, and others
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Surveillance Capitalism in America
- Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
- By: Josh Lauer, Kenneth Lipartito
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing public debate. Tech giants like Google and Facebook are fueled by a continuous supply of user data and digital exhaust. Surveillance is not just a side effect of digital capitalism; it is the business model itself.
By: Josh Lauer, and others
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Expand
- Stretching the Future by Design
- By: Christian Bason, Jens Martin Skibsted
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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With Expand: Stretching the Future By Design, authors Jens Martin Skibsted, a multiple-award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher, and Christian Bason, political scientist and CEO of the Danish Design Centre, take listeners beyond "design thinking" to challenge current habits and carve out new space for more sustainable innovation. From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand explores how expansive thinking across six key areas.
By: Christian Bason, and others
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Build
- An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
- By: Tony Fadell
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in over 30 years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopaedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopaedia. A mentor in a box. Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century.
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Awesome
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-22
By: Tony Fadell
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Access Rules
- Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
- By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge contend that if we disrupt monopoly power and create a level playing field, digital innovations can emerge to benefit us all.Â
By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and others