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Bestsellers
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- De: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: David E. Sanger, y otros
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- De: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrado por: Jay Aaseng
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Excellent science based
- De Russ en 05-08-21
De: Steven E. Koonin
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Stephen Perring
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- De Dalton en 06-06-22
De: Vaclav Smil
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- De: Andy Greenberg
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- De ndru1 en 11-12-19
De: Andy Greenberg
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- De: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- De Ken Vanden branden en 07-23-23
De: Scott J. Shapiro
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- De: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....
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Excellent Book, As the Weinersmiths Are Known to Do!
- De R. Carr en 02-03-24
De: Kelly Weinersmith, y otros
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- De: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Gives many insights into our new Cold Wars
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: David E. Sanger, y otros
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- De: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrado por: Jay Aaseng
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Excellent science based
- De Russ en 05-08-21
De: Steven E. Koonin
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Stephen Perring
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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Let me save you a credit: progress is hard
- De Dalton en 06-06-22
De: Vaclav Smil
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- De: Andy Greenberg
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- De ndru1 en 11-12-19
De: Andy Greenberg
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- De: Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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I can't seem to like this book...
- De Ken Vanden branden en 07-23-23
De: Scott J. Shapiro
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A City on Mars
- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
- De: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....
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Excellent Book, As the Weinersmiths Are Known to Do!
- De R. Carr en 02-03-24
De: Kelly Weinersmith, y otros
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Recoding America
- Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
- De: Jennifer Pahlka
- Narrado por: Jennifer Pahlka
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....
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Very good, minimally partisan.
- De Samuel Mebane en 11-25-23
De: Jennifer Pahlka
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Accessory to War
- The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- De: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....
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Inspiring, educational, patriotic.
- De Kevin en 09-17-18
De: Avis Lang, y otros
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Lessons from the Covid War
- An Investigative Report
- De: COVID Crisis Group
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s COVID response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times....
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Great, but more is needed...
- De Michael en 06-28-23
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- De: Madhumita Murgia
- Narrado por: Madhumita Murgia
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making.
De: Madhumita Murgia
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The Technology Trap
- Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
- De: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrado por: Richard Lyddon
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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The Technology Trap reveals how the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation....
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Very good
- De Brad en 07-04-19
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AI Needs You
- How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
- De: Verity Harding
- Narrado por: Daisy Donovan
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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This audiobook narrated by Daisy Donovan shares an electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI’s future for the public good.
De: Verity Harding
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Tyranny, Inc.
- How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It
- De: Sohrab Ahmari
- Narrado por: Sohrab Ahmari
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. tells the inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back....
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Doesn't address the whole picture
- De Penelope M en 09-18-23
De: Sohrab Ahmari
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk
- Rethinking Our Response
- De: Judith Curry
- Narrado por: Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change.
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Fantastically balanced and optimistic.
- De aaron en 04-02-24
De: Judith Curry
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The Fifth Domain
- Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
- De: Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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An urgent new warning from two best-selling security experts - and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone....
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The Author Lacks Critical Thinking
- De Thomas Rose en 08-08-20
De: Richard A. Clarke, y otros
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The Power Brokers
- The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry
- De: Jeremiah D. Lambert
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States....
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Excellent Evolutionary Discourse on US Utilities
- De Bala en 10-31-21
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The Conservative Futurist
- How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised
- De: James Pethokoukis
- Narrado por: Séan Marrinan
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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America was once the world’s dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more wonders lay just over the horizon: clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer....
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well-researched and interesting point of view
- De Jonah en 01-21-24
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Crisis and Chaos
- Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against Covid-19
- De: Jerome M. Adams MD MPH, Nancy Peske - contributor
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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The former Surgeon General of the United States—freed from the many constraints he worked under in public office—reveals critical lessons learned from both mistakes and successes overlooked during the pandemic....
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Very insightful- good read
- De DER en 02-20-24
De: Jerome M. Adams MD MPH, y otros
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The Future of Violence
- Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones - Confronting a New Age of Threat
- De: Benjamin Wittes, Gabriella Blum
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the US government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect....
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I enjoyed Digital Crimes much more
- De Rick Segrest en 06-20-15
De: Benjamin Wittes, y otros
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Tyranny of the Gene
- Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
- De: James Tabery
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our genomes—have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures....
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Everyone in biotech should read this
- De Abel Licon en 01-22-24
De: James Tabery
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A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide
- De: Cyd Harrell
- Narrado por: Taylor Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
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This friendly guide is for technology people who work, or want to work, in the public sector. Cyd Harrell outlines the types of projects, partnerships, and people that civic technologists encounter, and the methods they can use to make lasting change....
De: Cyd Harrell
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Pandora's Gamble
- Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
- De: Alison Young
- Narrado por: Pamela Almand
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Investigative journalist Alison Young goes deep into the troubling history—and enormous risks—of leaks and accidents at scientific labs....
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This book again shows the critical role of investigative journalists
- De Anonymous User en 05-24-23
De: Alison Young
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Manipulated
- Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth
- De: Theresa Payton
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane, Theresa Payton
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes....
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awesome book
- De John Hill en 06-05-20
De: Theresa Payton
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Genesis
- Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
- De: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
- Duración: 5 h
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A new nonfiction book by Henry Kissinger, coauthored by Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, to be published in November 2024.
De: Henry A. Kissinger, y otros
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Big Mind
- How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
- De: Geoff Mulgan
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale....
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The world of collective intelligence
- De Philomath en 12-23-17
De: Geoff Mulgan
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System Error
- Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
- De: Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors reveals how big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves....
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Excellent on tech. Weak on political speech.
- De Kindle Customer en 11-05-21
De: Rob Reich, y otros
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Pharmanomics
- How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health
- De: Nick Dearden
- Narrado por: Gareth Richards
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Iinvestigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic consequences....
De: Nick Dearden
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
- De: Jonathan Wells Ph.D
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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The latest and most bitterly contested battle in the culture war is the controversy over Darwin and intelligent design....
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Poor content
- De Luigi en 02-27-08
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The Handover
- How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
- De: David Runciman
- Narrado por: David Runciman
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations—"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power—to predict how AI will remake society....
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States and corporations as AIs, before AI
- De W. P. Gardner en 11-21-23
De: David Runciman
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The Equality Machine
- Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
- De: Orly Lobel
- Narrado por: Dominique Dibbell
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future....
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Enlightening peek into the future
- De APBaller en 06-13-23
De: Orly Lobel