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The Technological Republic

Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska ...

Narrated by Nicholas W. Zamiska ...

Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing ... Read more

$20.99 USD

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing
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Shareware Heroes

The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet

by Richard Moss ...

Narrated by Richard Moss ...

Unabridged

9 hours 12 min

Shareware Heroes is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game historyShareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet takes listeners on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the early 1980s, the origins of the concept, even the name itself, and the rise of shareware's major ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Shareware Heroes is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game historyShareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet takes listeners on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the early 1980s, the origins of the concept, even the name itself, and the rise of shareware's major
... Read more
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Turing's Cathedral

The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Unabridged

15 hours 40 min

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal ... Read more

$24.99 USD

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal
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Computer Maintenance Hacks

by Life 'n' Hack ...

Narrated by Life 'n' Hack ...

Unabridged

55 min

Unlock The Keys To Optimize, Speed Up And Make Computer FasterComputers can be both a blessing and a never-ending source of frustration.With the internet, Skype, email, and other software programs, computers are great for accessing all sorts of information and the world around us; hence, it’s no surprise that these machines have become an integral part of everyday life.However, constant computer ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Unlock The Keys To Optimize, Speed Up And Make Computer FasterComputers can be both a blessing and a never-ending source of frustration.With the internet, Skype, email, and other software programs, computers are great for accessing all sorts of information and the world around us; hence, it’s no surprise that these machines have become an integral part of everyday life.However, constant computer
... Read more
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iWoz

How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way

by Gina Smith, Steve Wozniak ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea ... Read more

$17.99 USD

The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea
... Read more
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The Innovators

How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson ...

Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

Unabridged

17 hours 28 min

2015 Audie Award Finalist for NonfictionFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their ... Read more

$29.99 USD

2015 Audie Award Finalist for NonfictionFollowing his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their
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The Friendly Orange Glow

The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture

by Brian Dear ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

21 hours 6 min

At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers. Not only did PLATO engineers ... Read more

$30.99 USD

At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers. Not only did PLATO engineers
... Read more
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The Ultimate Video Game Quiz

600 Questions from Pong to the present day

by Jack Goldstein ...

Narrated by J.D. Kelly ...

Unabridged

1 hour 40 min

Join quizmaster J.D. Kelly and find out who can rightfully wear the crown as the king or queen of video game trivia.Sure, maybe you’re unbeatable at FIFA or you’ve mastered super cancel on Pro Evo. Perhaps you’ve clocked up more headshots in Call of Duty or Battlefield than most people have had hot dinners, or you hold the world record speed run for a level in Rayman Legends… but just how well do ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Join quizmaster J.D. Kelly and find out who can rightfully wear the crown as the king or queen of video game trivia.Sure, maybe you’re unbeatable at FIFA or you’ve mastered super cancel on Pro Evo. Perhaps you’ve clocked up more headshots in Call of Duty or Battlefield than most people have had hot dinners, or you hold the world record speed run for a level in Rayman Legends… but just how well do
... Read more
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Your Data, Their Billions

Unraveling and Simplifying Big Tech

by Jane S. Hoffman ...

Narrated by Natalie Duke ...

Unabridged

10 hours 36 min

**What if somebody knew everything about you?Somebody does. That somebody is "Big Tech."Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft know more about you than you do. And they make billions of dollars by cashing in on your private data.**Our personal data, which Big Tech companies get for free, is the engine that drives the unregulated, free-for-all world called the digital marketplace. These ... Read more

$24.99 USD

**What if somebody knew everything about you?Somebody does. That somebody is "Big Tech."Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft know more about you than you do. And they make billions of dollars by cashing in on your private data.**Our personal data, which Big Tech companies get for free, is the engine that drives the unregulated, free-for-all world called the digital marketplace. These
... Read more
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Keep Calm and Log On

Your Handbook for Surviving the Digital Revolution

by Gillian "Gus" Andrews ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

10 hours 19 min

Feeling overwhelmed by an avalanche of online content? Anxious about identity theft? Unsettled by the proliferation of fake news? Welcome to the digital revolution. Wait—wasn't the digital revolution supposed to make our lives better? It was going to be fun and put the world at our fingertips. What happened? Keep Calm and Log On is a survival handbook that will help you achieve online mindfulness ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Feeling overwhelmed by an avalanche of online content? Anxious about identity theft? Unsettled by the proliferation of fake news? Welcome to the digital revolution. Wait—wasn't the digital revolution supposed to make our lives better? It was going to be fun and put the world at our fingertips. What happened? Keep Calm and Log On is a survival handbook that will help you achieve online mindfulness
... Read more
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Microsoft First Generation

The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who Launched a Technology Empire

by Cheryl Tsang ...

Narrated by Mary Woods ...

Unabridged

7 hours 6 min

This is a story with all the ingredients of a modern legend, representing nothing less than the proverbial American Dream—writ extra-large. It is a story of hard work, brilliance, and extraordinary commitment, featuring the story’s original cast members, who could not possibly have foreseen the unprecedented success that awaited them: the forging of a technology empire that would change the world ... Read more

$16.99 USD

This is a story with all the ingredients of a modern legend, representing nothing less than the proverbial American Dream—writ extra-large. It is a story of hard work, brilliance, and extraordinary commitment, featuring the story’s original cast members, who could not possibly have foreseen the unprecedented success that awaited them: the forging of a technology empire that would change the world
... Read more
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Replay

The History of Video Games

by Tristan Donovan ...

Narrated by Gary Furlong ...

Unabridged

15 hours 15 min

A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past. Along the way it takes in the spectacular rise and fall of Atari, the crazed cottage industry ... Read more

$20.99 USD

A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past. Along the way it takes in the spectacular rise and fall of Atari, the crazed cottage industry
... Read more
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Bitwise

A Life in Code

by David Auerbach ...

Narrated by David Marantz ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we areBitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer languages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philosopher’s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the ... Read more

$22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we areBitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer languages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philosopher’s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the
... Read more
Audiobook

Story of Computing, The

by Dermot Turing ...

Narrated by Tom Babbage ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

Today computers shape every aspect of our lives. In our pockets, we carry mobile phones with computing power that was unimaginable just 50 years ago. Many industries are embracing the promises - and the risks - of artificial intelligence. The world is changing faster than ever, and computing is at the heart of technological development.Dermot Turing explores the history of this rapidly evolving ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Today computers shape every aspect of our lives. In our pockets, we carry mobile phones with computing power that was unimaginable just 50 years ago. Many industries are embracing the promises - and the risks - of artificial intelligence. The world is changing faster than ever, and computing is at the heart of technological development.Dermot Turing explores the history of this rapidly evolving
... Read more
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Kindle Library Cleanup Made Easy

Delete Books, Remove Samples, Organize Collections, Free Up Space, and Manage Your Kindle Account Step by Step

by Clara Winslow Reed ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madelyn G ...

Unabridged

1 hour 8 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Is your Kindle library cluttered with old books, unread samples, expired borrows, confusing downloads, and titles you no longer want?Kindle Library Cleanup Made Easy is a clear, beginner-friendly guide that shows you how to clean up your Kindle library step by step without feeling lost, overwhelmed, or afraid of deleting the wrong thing. Whether you ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Is your Kindle library cluttered with old books, unread samples, expired borrows, confusing downloads, and titles you no longer want?Kindle Library Cleanup Made Easy is a clear, beginner-friendly guide that shows you how to clean up your Kindle library step by step without feeling lost, overwhelmed, or afraid of deleting the wrong thing. Whether you
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Aum Golly 3

Aivan hyviä tekoälyn runoja ihmisyydestä

by Jukka Aalho ...

Narrated by Jukka Aalho ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Aum Golly
Unabridged

34 min

Aum Golly 3 on runokirja, joka on syntynyt tekoälyn ja ihmisen yhteistyönä. Aum Golly -sarja tarkastelee luovuuden ja teknologian muuttuvia rajoja generatiivisen tekoälyn kehittyessä.Kahdeksassa tunnissa valmistunut Aum Golly 3 on tehty agenttipohjaisella työnkululla, jossa useat tekoälyjärjestelmät tekivät yhteistyötä kirjoittajina, kriitikkoina, editoreina, ideoijina ja kääntäjinä. Yhden ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Aum Golly 3 on runokirja, joka on syntynyt tekoälyn ja ihmisen yhteistyönä. Aum Golly -sarja tarkastelee luovuuden ja teknologian muuttuvia rajoja generatiivisen tekoälyn kehittyessä.Kahdeksassa tunnissa valmistunut Aum Golly 3 on tehty agenttipohjaisella työnkululla, jossa useat tekoälyjärjestelmät tekivät yhteistyötä kirjoittajina, kriitikkoina, editoreina, ideoijina ja kääntäjinä. Yhden
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How AI Thinks

How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it

by Nigel Toon ...

Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 47 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big.**We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically, ... Read more

$18.99 USD

**Brought to you by Penguin.Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big.**We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically,
... Read more
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Cryptocurrency: Mining, Investing and Trading in Blockchain for Beginners.

by Travis Goleman ...

Narrated by Matt Montanez ...

Unabridged

1 hour 37 min

Lots of investment opportunities have come and gone. Now is the time for cryptocurrencies, so do not miss the boat.Thе block сhаin is an online dесеntrаliѕеd рubliс ledger of аll digitаl trаnѕасtiоnѕ thаt have taken рlасе. It iѕ digitаl currency's equivalent оf a high street bаnk'ѕ lеdgеr thаt records trаnѕасtiоnѕ bеtwееn twо раrtiеѕ.Juѕt аѕ our mоdеrn bаnking ѕуѕtеm couldn't function withоut thе ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Lots of investment opportunities have come and gone. Now is the time for cryptocurrencies, so do not miss the boat.Thе block сhаin is an online dесеntrаliѕеd рubliс ledger of аll digitаl trаnѕасtiоnѕ thаt have taken рlасе. It iѕ digitаl currency's equivalent оf a high street bаnk'ѕ lеdgеr thаt records trаnѕасtiоnѕ bеtwееn twо раrtiеѕ.Juѕt аѕ our mоdеrn bаnking ѕуѕtеm couldn't function withоut thе
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Geek Sublime

The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

by Vikram Chandra ...

Narrated by Neil Shah ...

Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?Exploring ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?Exploring
... Read more
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Hijacking Bitcoin

The Hidden History of BTC

by Roger Ver ...

Narrated by Steve Patterson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 38 min

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.Few people know the true history of Bitcoin and its original design due to years of heavy censorship, social media engineering, and tight information controls online. ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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.Few people know the true history of Bitcoin and its original design due to years of heavy censorship, social media engineering, and tight information controls online.
... Read more
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Being Digital

by Nicholas Negroponte ...

Narrated by Penn Jillette ...

Abridged

1 hour 12 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --**NewsdayIn lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way ... Read more

$9.99 USD

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --**NewsdayIn lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way
... Read more
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8-Bit Apocalypse

The Untold Story of Atari's Missile Command

by Alex Rubens, Jeff Gerstmann ...

Narrated by Ryan Burke ...

Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

The first history of Atari’s Missile Command, and its unforeseen effects on its creators and the cultureBefore Call of Duty, before World of Warcraft, before even Super Mario Bros., the video game industry exploded in the late 1970s with the advent of the video arcade. Leading the charge was Atari Inc., the creator of, among others, the iconic game Missile Command. The first game to double as a ... Read more

$35.99 USD

The first history of Atari’s Missile Command, and its unforeseen effects on its creators and the cultureBefore Call of Duty, before World of Warcraft, before even Super Mario Bros., the video game industry exploded in the late 1970s with the advent of the video arcade. Leading the charge was Atari Inc., the creator of, among others, the iconic game Missile Command. The first game to double as a
... Read more
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Hacker Chronicles, The - Volume 1: Origins

Ten Cases That Made Cybersecurity Necessary, 1971-1998

by Ronan Blake ...

Narrated by A Lancaster ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Hacker Chronicles
Unabridged

4 hours 42 min

Between 1971 and 1998, the networks the modern world was being built on had no defences worth the name. This is the story of ten cases that changed that.In 1971, a blind eight-year-old in Boston discovered he could whistle into a telephone and place free long-distance calls. In 1986, an astronomer at Berkeley traced a 75-cent accounting discrepancy to a West German intelligence operation. In 1988, ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Between 1971 and 1998, the networks the modern world was being built on had no defences worth the name. This is the story of ten cases that changed that.In 1971, a blind eight-year-old in Boston discovered he could whistle into a telephone and place free long-distance calls. In 1986, an astronomer at Berkeley traced a 75-cent accounting discrepancy to a West German intelligence operation. In 1988,
... Read more
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Silicon Dreams - Von Röhren, Rechnern und Revolutionen

by Alex Wettengl ...

Narrated by Johannes ...

Unabridged

2 hours 12 min

Vom Klackern der Relais zum Flüstern der KI.Eine epische Reise durch die Geschichte der Computer – erzählt als Drama, nicht als Datenblatt.Dieses Buch ist keine trockene Technikgeschichte. Es ist eine Zeitreise zurück in dieKinderzimmer der 80er, in verrauchte Studios der 90er und in die Serverfarmen der Gegenwart.Eine Geschichte über Maschinen – und über die Menschen, die mit ihnen träumten ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Vom Klackern der Relais zum Flüstern der KI.Eine epische Reise durch die Geschichte der Computer – erzählt als Drama, nicht als Datenblatt.Dieses Buch ist keine trockene Technikgeschichte. Es ist eine Zeitreise zurück in dieKinderzimmer der 80er, in verrauchte Studios der 90er und in die Serverfarmen der Gegenwart.Eine Geschichte über Maschinen – und über die Menschen, die mit ihnen träumten
... Read more

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