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  • The Innovators cover art

    • The Innovators

    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • Hijacking Bitcoin

    • The Hidden History of BTC
    • By: Roger Ver, Jeffrey Tucker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.

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    • Victorious Century

    • The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
    • By: David Cannadine
    • Narrated by: Kris Dyer
    • Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • To live in 19th-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience....

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    • Failure Is Not an Option

    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 739 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • James May's 20th Century

    • By: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
      How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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    • Conquering the Electron

    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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  • This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell cover art

    • This Is Not a Game with Marc Fennell

    • By: Marc Fennell
    • Narrated by: Marc Fennell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat.

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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
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings

    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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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
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings

    • Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly anonymous, its members invented the concept of hacktivism....

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    • Stealth

    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • Moon Shot

    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings

    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • Electronic Dreams

    • How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
    • By: Tom Lean
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 11-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother....

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    • Shuttle, Houston

    • My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
    • By: Paul Dye
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • From the longest-serving flight director in NASA's history comes a revealing account of high-stakes Mission Control work and the Space Shuttle program that has redefined our relationship with the universe....

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    • Truth, Lies, and O-Rings

    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 69 ratings

    • On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....

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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
    • Release date: 10-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 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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    • They Made America

    • From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
    • By: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
    • Narrated by: Harold Evans
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 20-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • There has never been a history of America like Harold Evans's long-awaited They Made America....

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  • Blood in the Machine cover art

    • Blood in the Machine

    • The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
    • By: Brian Merchant
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • The "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)....

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    • The Fabric of Civilization

    • How Textiles Made the World
    • By: Virginia I. Postrel
    • Narrated by: Caroline Cole
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....

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