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Social Aspects Audiobooks

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    Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Max Tegmark ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 29 min

    Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro.We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society-and, even, our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionize our collective future - and there's nobody better ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Technically Wrong

    Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

    by Sara Wachter-Boettcher ...
    Narrated by Andrea Emmes ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Inevitable

    Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

    by Kevin Kelly ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    **A New York Times BestsellerFrom one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives**Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Industries of the Future

    by Alec Ross ...
    Narrated by Alec Ross ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 48 min

    The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one countries, exploring the latest advances coming out of every continent. From startup hubs in Kenya ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Invisible Women

    Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

    by Caroline Criado Perez ...
    Narrated by Caroline Criado Perez ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of Invisible Women, read by Caroline Criado Perez.**Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2019****Winner of the Readers' Choice Books Are My Bag Award 2019****Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2019 Book of the Year Award 2019****The Times Current Aff... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Authority Gap

    Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it

    by Mary Ann Sieghart ...
    Narrated by Mary Ann Sieghart ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Imagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronised by women.Imagine having your views ignored or your expertise frequently challenged by them.Imagine trying to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by female colleagues.Imagine subordinates resisting you as a boss, merely because you're a man.Imagine being trolle... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A World Without Email

    Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever (from the NYT bestselling productivity expert)

    by Cal Newport ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Feel like you're always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them - and how much happier would you be?Emails are an integral part of work today. But the 'kind regards', forwards and attachments we check every 5.4 minutes are making us unproductive, stressed and costing businesses millions in untapped potential.Bestselling author of Deep Work and ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Scary Smart

    The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

    by Mo Gawdat ...
    Narrated by Mo Gawdat ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 20 min

    One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the YearTechnology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. – **Mo Gawdat'From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction' – Tim Ash, ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Human Compatible

    AI and the Problem of Control

    by Stuart Russell ...
    Narrated by Raphael Corkhill ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last.In this groundbreaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to his own species, and lays out how we can ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A World Without Work

    Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond

    by Daniel Susskind ...
    Narrated by Daniel Susskind ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 56 min

    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 TIMESNew technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Metaverse

    And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

    by Matthew Ball ...
    Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    Apple Books: Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2022 Amazon: Editors' Choice in Nonfiction Fast Company: Selected Among 11 Best Technology Books of Summer 2022 Tim Sweeney (CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games): “Matthew Ball’s essays have defined, analyzed, and inspired the Metaverse for years. His book is an approachable and essential guide to the strategic, technical, and philosophical foundations of ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Novacene

    The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

    by James Lovelock ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 20 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Novacene written by James Lovelock, read by Roy McMillan.James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Battle for Your Brain

    Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

    by Nita A. Farahany ...
    Narrated by Rachel Perry ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick uses true-life stories to show exactly what is happening without your knowledge, teaching you "the ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Weapons of Math Destruction

    How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

    by Cathy O'Neil ...
    Narrated by Cathy O'Neil ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In this New York Times bestseller, Cathy O'Neil, one of the first champions of algorithmic accountability, sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life -- and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Premonitions Bureau

    A Sunday Times bestseller

    by Sam Knight ...
    Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.Most are innocent. You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the station.What if you could share your vision, and stop that train? Could these ... Read more

    $54.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Future Starts Here

    An Optimistic Guide to What Comes Next

    by John Higgs ...
    Narrated by John Higgs ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 5 min

    At some point in the 1980s we gave up on the future. Before then, we imagined wonderful days to come, free from disease, work and want, in television series like Star Trek or events such as the 1939 Futurama World Fair. When we look ahead now, we tell dystopian stories of environmental collapse, zombie plagues and the end of civilisation. If it is true that we have to imagine the future before we ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Stand Up to a Dictator

    Radio 4 Book of the Week

    by Maria Ressa ...
    Narrated by Maria Ressa ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 and the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Smart Phone Dumb Phone

    Free Yourself from Digital Addiction

    by Allen Carr, John Dicey ...
    Narrated by Jot Davies ...
    series Allen Carr's Easyway

    Unabridged

    7 hours 35 min

    "The Allen Carr method has helped millions quit smoking. Now its experts are determined to tackle the UK's obsession with digital devices" - Daily Express"You'll be aware off how your devices affect you and most of all, you will enjoy the feeling of regaining control" - Daily MirrorDo you pull out your phone at every idle moment?Do hours slip away as you mindlessly scroll?Has your smartphone added ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Atoms and Ashes

    From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Summary of Nicholas Kardaras's Glow Kids

    by Falcon Press ...
    Narrated by Glenn Argenti ...

    Unabridged

    24 min

    Buy now to get the main key ideas from Nicholas Kardaras's Glow KidsA pandemic is overtaking kids today - but it’s not Covid. It’s the glowing screens they carry everywhere. In Glow Kids (2016), addiction expert Nicholas Kardaras explores how technology, especially interactive media such as video games, affects human development. Glowing screens can change the structure and composition of the ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Modern Detective

    How Corporate Intelligence Is Reshaping the World

    by Tyler Maroney ...
    Narrated by William DeMeritt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    A fascinating examination of the world of private investigators by a 21st-century private eye.Today's world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate institutions grow murkier, and the internet is shredding our privacy. To combat these onslaughts, people everywhere -- rich and not so rich, in business and in their personal lives -- ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Program or be Programmed

    Ten Commands for a Digital Age

    by Doug Rushkoff ...
    Narrated by Doug Rushkoff ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 27 min

    The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere.The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it?A Better Listen audio production. ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Black Mirror and Philosophy

    Dark Reflections

    by William Irwin ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards, Emily Beresford ...
    series Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture

    Unabridged

    14 hours 29 min

    Black Mirror-the Emmy-winning Netflix series that holds up a dark, digital mirror of speculative technologies to modern society-shows us a high-tech world where it is all too easy to fall victim to ever-evolving forms of social control. In Black Mirror and Philosophy, original essays written by a diverse group of scholars invite you to peer into the void and explore the philosophical, ethical, and ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial