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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506083 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AIAuthor: Ray KurzweilNarrator: Adam BarrFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 25 minutesRelease date: June 25, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: The noted inventor and futuristâs successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweilâs The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public. In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularityâassessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technologyâthat, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and 'After Life' technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA. The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweilâs crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with illustrations and graphs from the book.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/488622 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Sugar Girls of Love Lane: Tales of Love, Loss and Friendship from Tate & Lyle's Liverpool RefineryAuthor: Duncan Barrett, Nuala CalviNarrator: Samantha RobinsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 12 minutesRelease date: April 25, 2024Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: In The Sugar Girls of Love Lane, Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Sugar Girls, tell the remarkable stories of those who worked at the famous Tate & Lyle factory in Liverpool. For over a hundred years until it closed in 1981, Henry Tateâs flagship sugar refinery at Love Lane dominated the Liverpool skyline â and was the beating heart of the local community. More than 10,000 workers passed through the doors of the factory during its lifetime, with some families counting four or even five generations of service. Young women leaving school in the post-war years were drawn by the good wages and the unrivalled social life that Tate & Lyle offered. When they arrived, they started at the very bottom, sweeping sugar off the floors, before graduating to packing and weighing by hand. The work was tough, with girls expected to stack heavy bags of sugar onto pallets five feet high, and by the end of the day their arms were aching and their stockings full of sugar dust. But, despite the hot, heavy work, they found their own ways of having fun, and the friendships they formed would last a lifetime. As well as the female friendships, many women met their future husbands at the factory, and expected their own children to follow in their footsteps. Barrett and Calvi's social history of the post-war era casts a warm and nostalgic look back at one of the most iconic factories in the north, bringing back a vanished era of hard work, community spirit and simple pleasures.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502955 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts DemocracyâAnd What We Can Do About ItAuthor: Tobias Rose-StockwellNarrator: Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Bolton Marsh, Justin PriceFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 50 minutesRelease date: July 11, 2023Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attentionâand keeps us coming back by filling us with rage. The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little fanfare. Together, they triggered a cascading set of dramatic changes to how media, politics, and society itself operateâinadvertently creating an Outrage Machine we cannot ignore. Author, designer, and media researcher Tobias Rose-Stockwell shares the defining shifts caused by these technologies, and how they have ignited a society-wide crisis of trust. Drawing from cutting-edge research and vivid personal anecdotes, Rose-Stockwell illustrates how social media has bound us to an unprecedented system of public performance, training us to react rather than reflect, and attack rather than debate. Outrage Machine reveals the triggers and tactics used to exploit our anger, unpacking how these tools hack our deep tribal instincts and psychological vulnerabilities, and how they have become opportunistic platforms for authoritarians and a threat to democratic norms everywhere. But this book is not just about the problem. In a story spanning continents and generations, Rose-Stockwell explores how every new media technology disrupts our ability to make sense of the world, from the printing press to the telegraph, from radio to television. Outrage Machine situates social media within a historical cycle of confusion, violence, and emerging tolerance. Using clear language and powerful illustrations, this book reveals the magnitude of the challenges we face, while offering realistic solutions and a promising pathway out.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532670 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the WeekAuthor: Maria RessaNarrator: Maria RessaFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 13 minutesRelease date: November 17, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 and the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021 What 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: President Duterte. Now, hounded by the state, she has 10 arrest warrants against her name, and a potential 100+ years behind bars to prepare for - while she stands trial for speaking the truth. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation - a heinous web of cause and effect - that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes. Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Maria Ressa's urgent cry for us to wake up and hold the line, before it is too late. Praise for Maria Ressa: 'A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us' Hillary Clinton 'Maria Ressa is 5ft 2in, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth' Amal Clooney 'Maria is a key voice ... she is so incredible in so many ways' Carole Cadwalladr Š Maria Ressa 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502045 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The YouTube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow RevenueAuthor: Derral EvesNarrator: Derral Eves, Tom ParksFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 3 minutesRelease date: April 26, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: Learn the secrets to getting dramatic results on YouTube Derral Eves has generated over 60 billion views on YouTube and helped twenty-four channels grow to one million subscribers from zero. In The YouTube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, Build an Audience, and Grow Revenue, the owner of the largest YouTube how-to channel provides the secrets to getting the results that every YouTube creator and strategist wants. Eves will reveal what listeners can't get anywhere else: the inner workings of the YouTube algorithm that's responsible for determining success on the platform, and how creators can use it to their advantage. Full of actionable advice and concrete strategies, this book teaches listeners how to: launch a channel, create life-changing content, drive rapid view and subscriber growth, build a brand and increase engagement, improve searchability, and monetize your content and audience. Replete with case studies and information from successful YouTube creators, The YouTube Formula is perfect for any creator, entrepreneur, social media strategist, and brand manager who hopes to see real commercial results from their work on the platform.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525605 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in StereoAuthor: Garrett HongoNarrator: Kaleo GriffithFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 20 hours 23 minutesRelease date: February 22, 2022Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: A poetâs audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that âingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truthâ (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan). Garrett Hongoâs passion for audio dates back to the Empire 398 turntable his father paired with a Dynakit tube amplifier in their modest tract home in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out speakers and amps both powerful and refined enough to honor the top notes of the greatest opera sopranos. In recounting this search, he describes a journey of identity where meaning, fulfillment, and even liberation were often most available to him through music and its astonishingly varied delivery systems. Hongo writes about the sound of surf being his first music as a kid in Hawaiâi, about doo-wop and soul reaching out to him while growing up among Black and Asian classmates in L.A., about Rilke and Joni Mitchell as the twin poets of his adolescence, and about feeling the pulse of John Coltraneâs jazz and the rhythmic chords of Billy Joelâs piano from his car radio while driving the freeways as a young man trying to become a poet. Journeying further, he visits devoted collectors of decades-old audio gear as well as designers of the latest tube equipment, listens to sublime arias performed at La Scala, hears a ghostly lute at the grave of English Romantic poet John Keats in Rome, drinks in wisdom from blues musicians and a diversity of poetic elders while turning his ear toward the memory-rich strains of the music that has shaped him: Hawaiian steel guitar and canefield songs; Bach and the Band; Mingus, Puccini, and Duke Ellington. And in the decades-long process of perfecting his stereo setup, Hongo also discovers his own now-celebrated poetic voice.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493497 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Ten Survival Skills for a World in FluxAuthor: Tom FletcherNarrator: Tom FletcherFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 54 minutesRelease date: February 3, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: âOriginal and thought provokingâ Gordon Brown âChallenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the futureâ Valerie Amos To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way. And start adapting, now. We all know there are major, overlapping, global crises ahead of humanity: climate change, mass migration, new warfare, big tech, further pandemics, authoritarian capitalism. Rather than be daunted, this book charts a way that we can respond. With expertise from his work at the highest levels of international politics, education, activism and business, Tom Fletcher offers a practical manifesto that can help us transform the way we learn, live, and work together. Amongst its key survival skills, this book offers ideas on how we renew education, restore society and reimagine the future. It helps us chart a course to take back control, to find purpose, and to become better ancestors. It helps us to learn the language of technology â without thinking like computers. It offers 39 steps that each of us can start to take today to boost our survivability. Vital, practical and accessible, this is a book about how we can anticipate the threats and opportunities of tomorrow and be ready for them â individually and collectively.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511877 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight BackAuthor: Jacob WardNarrator: Jacob WardFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 25 minutesRelease date: January 25, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds, and the real threat it poses to humanity: "The best book I have ever read about AI" (New York Times bestselling author Roger McNamee). Artificial intelligence is going to change the world as we know it. But the real danger isn't some robot that's going to enslave us: It's our own brain. Our brains are constantly making decisions using shortcuts, biases, and hidden processesâand we're using those same techniques to create technology that makes choices for us. In The Loop, award-winning science journalist Jacob Ward reveals how we are poised to build all of our worst instincts into our AIs, creating a narrow loop where each generation has fewer, predetermined, and even dangerous choices. Taking us on a world tour of the ongoing, real-world experiment of artificial intelligence, The Loop illuminates the dangers of writing dangerous human habits into our machines. From a biometric surveillance state in India that tracks the movements of over a billion people, to a social media control system in China that punishes deviant friendships, to the risky multiple-choice simplicity of automated military action, Ward travels the world speaking with top experts confronting the perils of their research. Each stop reveals how the most obvious patterns in our behaviorâpatterns an algorithm will use to make decisions about what's best for usâare not the ones we want to perpetuate. Just as politics, marketing, and finance have all exploited the weaknesses of our human programming, artificial intelligence is poised to use the patterns of our lives to manipulate us. The Loop is call to look at ourselves more clearlyâour most creative ideas, our most destructive impulses, the ways we help and hurt one another-so we can put only the best parts of ourselves into the thinking machines we create.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494230 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of BoeingAuthor: Peter RobisonNarrator: Feodor ChinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 45 minutesRelease date: November 30, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.25 of Total 4Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS BEST SELLER ⢠A suspenseful behind-the-scenes look at the dysfunction that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation: the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX. An 'authoritative, gripping and finely detailed narrative that charts the decline of one of the great American companies' (New York Times Book Review), from the award-winning reporter for Bloomberg. Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. The planemaker remains a cornerstone of the U.S. economy, as well as a linchpin in the awesome routine of modern air travel. But in 2018 and 2019, two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 killed 346 people. The crashes exposed a shocking pattern of malfeasance, leading to the biggest crisis in the companyâs historyâand one of the costliest corporate scandals ever. How did things go so horribly wrong at Boeing? Flying Blind is the definitive exposĂŠ of the disasters that transfixed the world. Drawing from exclusive interviews with current and former employees of Boeing and the FAA; industry executives and analysts; and family members of the victims, it reveals how a broken corporate culture paved the way for catastrophe. It shows how in the race to beat the competition and reward top executives, Boeing skimped on testing, pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines, and convinced regulators to put planes into service without properly equipping them or their pilots for flight. It examines how the company, once a treasured American innovator, became obsessed with the bottom line, putting shareholders over customers, employees, and communities. By Bloomberg investigative journalist Peter Robison, who covered Boeing as a beat reporter during the companyâs fateful merger with McDonnell Douglas in the late â90s, this is the story of a business gone wildly off course. At once riveting and disturbing, it shows how an iconic company fell prey to a win-at-all-costs mentality, threatening an industry and endangering countless lives.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499095 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red PlanetAuthor: Larry CrumplerNarrator: Stephen GraybillFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 2 minutesRelease date: November 9, 2021Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASAâs most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-colour photographsâa wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars. âThere are probably just a few of moments in human history when a small group of humans stood on the margins of a vast new world, and it is no stretch of the romantic imagination that the arrival of two rovers on the surface of another planet was surely one of them.â Human exploration of Mars is the most ambitious and exciting scientific goal of the 21st century, and few people on earth know as much about this fascinating planet as Dr Larry Crumpler. As one of the long-term planning leads for the Mars Exploration Rover Project, he helped control the daily communications between NASA and the rovers roaming the planet to gather scientific data. In this magnificent compendium, Dr. Crumpler recounts the history of the Red Planet, from the earliest days when ancient astronomers turned their eyes to the heavens to the breakthrough discoveries being unearthed by modern technology today, including some of the first images from the latest rover, Perseverance. Paired with stunning, full-colour photographs taken by rovers and NASA satellites images, this magnificent âbiographyâ of the red planet allows us to understand and experience it as never before. When the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers landed on Mars in January 2004, scientists expected them to function for 90 days. But those three months turned into fifteen years. With data gathered by the rovers, Dr Crumpler and his team were able to reconstruct the planetâs stunning geological past, when it was once inundated with water, and perhaps could have supported microbial life. Dr Crumpler also reveals the joys and demands of life as a scientist taking part in these historic missions. Exploring fundamental questions about this remarkable planet that have intrigued us earthlings for years, Red Planet Renaissance illuminates Marsâ significance in the solar systemâand the human imagination.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502022 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and LifeAuthor: Marcus Du SautoyNarrator: Mark ElstobFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 35 minutesRelease date: October 19, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaverâand how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts. We are often told that hard work is the key to success. But success isnât about hard work â itâs about shortcuts.âŻShortcuts allow us to solve one problem quickly so that we can tackle an even bigger one. They make us capable of doing great things.âŻAnd according to Marcus du Sautoy, math is the very art of the shortcut. Thinking Better is a celebration of how math lets us do more with less. Du Sautoy exploresâŻhow diagramming revolutionized therapy, why calculus is the greatest shortcut ever invented, whether you must really practice for ten thousand hours to become a concert violinist, and why shortcuts give us an advantage over even the most powerful AI. Throughout, we meet artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs who use mathematical shortcuts to change the world. Delightful, illuminating, and above all practical, Thinking Better is for anyone who has wondered why you should waste time climbing the mountain when you could go around it much faster.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525025 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the FutureAuthor: Jonathan E. HillmanNarrator: James FouheyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 58 minutesRelease date: October 19, 2021Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: An expert on Chinaâs global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrowâs networks. From the ocean floor to outer space, Chinaâs Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside Chinaâs surveillance state, rural America, and Africaâs megacities, Jonathan Hillman reveals what Chinaâs expanding digital footprint looks like on the ground and explores the economic and strategic consequences of a future in which all routers lead to Beijing. If China becomes the worldâs chief network operator, it could reap a commercial and strategic windfall, including many advantages currently enjoyed by the United States. It could reshape global flows of data, finance, and communications to reflect its interests. It could possess an unrivaled understanding of market movements, the deliberations of foreign competitors, and the lives of countless individuals enmeshed in its networks. However, Chinaâs digital dominance is not yet assured. Beijing remains vulnerable in several key dimensions, the United States and its allies have an opportunity to offer better alternatives, and the rest of the world has a voice. But winning the battle for tomorrowâs networks will require the United States to innovate and take greater risks in emerging markets. Networks create large winners, and this is a contest America cannot afford to lose.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503808 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for PowerAuthor: Jacob HelbergNarrator: Jesse EinsteinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 32 minutesRelease date: October 12, 2021Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: From the former news policy lead at Google, an âinformative and often harrowing wake-up callâ (Publishers Weekly) that explains the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy. From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Googleâs global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy. On the front-end, weâre fighting to control the softwareâapplications, news information, social media platforms, and moreâof what we see on the screens of our computers, tablets, and phones, a clash which started out primarily with Russia but now increasingly includes China and Iran. Even more ominously, weâre also engaged in a hidden back-end battleâlargely with Chinaâto control the internetâs hardware, which includes devices like cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks. This tech-fueled war will shape the worldâs balance of power for the coming century as autocracies exploit 21st-century methods to redivide the world into 20th-century-style spheres of influence. Without a firm partnership with the government, Silicon Valley is unable to protect democracy from the autocrats looking to sabotage it from Beijing to Moscow and Tehran. Helberg offers âunnervingly convincing evidence that time is running out in the âgray warâ with the enemies of freedomâ (Kirkus Reviews) which could affect every meaningful aspect of our lives, including our economy, our infrastructure, our national security, and ultimately, our national sovereignty.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509314 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our WorldAuthor: Mo GawdatNarrator: Mo GawdatFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 20 minutesRelease date: September 30, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat. One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year Technology 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. â Mo Gawdat 'From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction' â Tim Ash, bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predicting outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does AI frequently get it so wrong? The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works, and the processed information reflects an imperfect world. Does that mean we are doomed? In Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy, draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better. With more than thirty years' experience working at the cutting-edge of technology and his former role as chief business officer of Google [X], no one is better placed than Mo Gawdat to explain how the Artificial Intelligence of the future works. By 2049 AI will be a billion times more intelligent than humans. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This audiobook offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519303 to listen full audiobooks.Title: AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our FutureAuthor: Kai-Fu Lee, Chen QiufanNarrator: Siho Ellsmore, Fajer Al-Kaisi, James Chen, Emily Woo Zeller, Soneela Nankani, Feodor Chin, Mirron WillisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 4 minutesRelease date: September 16, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it. In this provocative, utterly original work of 'scientific fiction,' Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, set twenty years in the future, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings: In San Francisco, a new industry, 'job reallocation,' arises to serve displaced workers In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI gets in the way of romance In Seoul, virtual teachers offer orphaned twins new ways to learn and connect In Munich, a rogue quantum computer scientist's revenge plot imperils the world By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future-while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny. Š Chen Qiufan 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/512809 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel previously published as The Antisocial NetworkAuthor: Ben MezrichNarrator: Fajer Al-KaisiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 25 minutesRelease date: September 16, 2021Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: *Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall Street to its Knees. Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet trolls took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that threatens to upend the financial establishment. It started on a subreddit forum called WallStreetBets â a meme-filled, freewheeling place where a disparate group of investors shared their shoot-the-moon investment tips, laughed about big losses and posted diamond hand emojis. Until some members noticed an opportunity in Game Stop â a flailing bricks and mortar video-game retailer â and somehow rode a rocket ship to tens of millions of dollars in earnings overnight, simultaneously triggering unfathomable losses for one of the most respected funds on the street. In thrilling, pulse-pounding prose, DUMB MONEY (previously published as THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK) offers a fascinating, never-before-seen glimpse at the outsize personalities, dizzying swings, corporate drama, and underestimated American heroes and heroines who captivated the world during one of the most volatile weeks in financial history. Itâs the amazing story of what just happened â and where we go from here.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493648 to listen full audiobooks.Title: AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our FutureAuthor: Kai-Fu Lee, Chen QiufanNarrator: Soneela Nankani, Siho Ellsmore, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Emily Woo Zeller, Justin Chien, Feodor Chin, Mirron WillisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 4 minutesRelease date: September 14, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 2Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a âdazzlingâ (The New York Times) look at the future that âbrims with intriguing insightsâ (Financial Times) A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning. In this âinspired collaborationâ (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526848 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management: The Comprehensive, Easy to Read Handbook for Beginners and Pros, 6th EditionAuthor: Eric VerzuhNarrator: Mike ChamberlainFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 54 minutesRelease date: September 14, 2021Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management is a comprehensive guide to real-world project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easy-to-use, and deeply thorough, this book gives you the answers you need now. You'll find cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of one of the field's leading experts, delivered in short, lively segments that address common management issues. Brief descriptions of important concepts, tips on real-world applications, and compact case studies illustrate the most sought-after skills and pitfalls you should watch out for. This sixth edition now includes: a brand-new chapter on project quality; a new chapter on managing media, entertainment, and creative projects; a new chapter on the project manager's #1 priority: leadership; a new chapter with the most current practices in Change Management; and current PMP certification study tips. The book teaches listeners how to manage and deliver projects on-time and on-budget by applying the practical strategies and concrete solutions found within. Whether the challenge is finding the right project sponsor, clarifying project objectives, or setting realistic schedules and budget projections, The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management shows you what you need to know, the best way to do it, and what to watch out for along the way.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520859 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We BuyAuthor: Christopher MimsNarrator: James FouheyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 23 minutesRelease date: September 14, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: The Wall Street Journal technology columnist reveals the fascinating story behind the misleadingly simple phrase shoppers take for grantedââArriving Todayââin this eye-opening investigation into the new rules of online commerce, transportation, and supply chain management. We are at a tipping point in retail history. While consumers are profiting from the convenience of instant gratification, rapidly advancing technologies are transforming the way goods are transported and displacing workers in ways never before seen. In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving to fulfill consumersâ demand for âarriving todayâ gratification. Mims reveals a world where the only thing moving faster than goods in an Amazon warehouse is the rate at which an entire industry is being gutted and rebuilt by innovation and mass shifts in human labor practices. He goes behind the scenes to uncover the paradoxes in this shiftâinto the worldâs busiest port, the cabin of an 18-wheeler, and Amazonâs automated warehousesâto explore how the promise of âarriving todayâ is fulfilled through a balletic dance between humans and machines. The scope of such large-scale innovation and expended energy is equal parts inspiring, enlightening, and horrifying. As he offers a glimpse of our future, Mims asks us to consider the systemâs vulnerability and its resilience, and who shoulders the burden, as we hurtle toward a fully automated systemâand what it will mean when we are there.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519874 to listen full audiobooks.Title: You Are What You Click: How Being Selective, Positive, and Creative Can Transform Your Social Media ExperienceAuthor: Brian A. PrimackNarrator: Eric Jason MartinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 21 minutesRelease date: September 14, 2021Genres: Computers & TechnologyPublisher's Summary: An empowering, forward-thinking solution for creating intentional and healthy social media habits from an expert on media, technology and health. Internationally acclaimed behavioral scientist and social media expert Brian Primack, MD, PhD, believes we do not need to swear off social media, delete all our online accounts, or give up our phones to live healthier, happier lives. In You Are What You Click, he offers a new approach to digital wellness, and a realist's perspective on how what we consume online affects our well-being. In response, he presents a 'social media pyramid' that personalizes our tech diet so we can enjoy a fruitful, balanced relationship with social media. While many of us turn to social media looking for a sense of connection and comfort, the data show that it may paradoxically leave us feeling more alone and depressed. Drawing on over twenty years of original research, Dr. Primack explains the fascinating nuances of our relationship with social media, its impact on our mental health, and the dangers of social media using us instead of the other way around. He empowers us to take back control with a simple method: being more selective, positive, and creative with our lives online. Dr. Primack introduces surprising strategies you can use right away to fine-tune your online experience and discover your definition of digital balance. Through short, actionable chapters, you'll learn how to: ⢠Tailor your social media use to your personality. ⢠Select positive relationships over toxic ones. ⢠Overcome comparison syndrome and the fear of missing out. ⢠Fill your feed with meaningful, humorous, and uplifting content. ⢠Optimize your news intake and resist doomscrolling. ⢠Improve your sleep, create 'tech holidays,' and more. With innovative strategies for managing technology, you'll transform your relationship with tech and discover how to make social media work for you. You Are What You Click offers a science-backed approach from a credentialed doctor: Dr. Brian Primack has an MD and a PhD in Education and Behavioral Science. Primack is the go-to expert on this topic. His work on the intersection of media and health has been cited nearly 6,000 times in peer-reviewed scholarly literature, and he has been featured in major media outlets across the world. FOR WELLNESS READERS, PARENTS, AND ANYONE WHO USES SOCIAL MEDIA: Dropping off the digital map or deleting all our social media accounts isn't the only optionâand often isn't something we feel ready to do. Rather than digital abstinence, with Primack's 3-step plan, tech lovers will be able to understand how to regulate their online social platforms in healthier ways. A BALANCED PERSPECTIVE ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN A POSITIVE LIGHT: Almost every book in this genre portrays technology in a negative or even scary way. With this book, readers will learn how to adjust and balance their presence online with a personalized plan they can use across all platforms, no matter what new social media app goes public next. Primack offers an empowering solution that is forward-thinking, and will continue to be relevant as technology becomes more immersed into our lives. QUICK, PRACTICAL ADVICE:You Are What You Click is broken into short, actionable chapters that allow readers to understand the research, take action, and see resultsâperfect for short attention spans whittled down by Facebook and Instagram stories, Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok! FOR FANS OF PERSONALITY BOOKS: Fans of books like The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery and The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles that Reveal How to Make Your Life Better will love the personality quiz and personalized solutions Primack offers for being selective, creative, and healthy with social media use.
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