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Computers & Technology
3. Bill Bryson’s Appliance of Science:
Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, which has been a best-seller in the Sunday Times, has teamed together with The Science Museum to highlight the ideas and innovations of people who have an insatiable curiosity.
Throughout the course of this series consisting of five episodes, Bill Bryson, with the assistance of the curators of The Science Museum, walks us through some of the museum’s lesser known innovations and discoveries, as well as the human tales that lie behind them.
Find out how a young inventor, a pig’s head, a piece of plywood, and a well-known British record label helped make medical history, or learn how some inventions are just the result of random chance. This “museum for your ears” examines the ways in which experimentation, competition, hard labor, and the aspiration to improve our lives in some way have all contributed to the overall development of mankind.
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Ep. 1: Mapping the Earth
2. Artificial Intelligence:
1. How to Do Nothing:
Redefining productivity, reestablishing our connection to nature, and uncovering the truths about ourselves and the world that we’ve been too preoccupied to notice, this book is a searing indictment of the forces competing for our attention – and our personal information.
These days, it’s nearly impossible to find a moment to do nothing. However, in a world where our worth is based on our constant data output, doing nothing may be our most effective form of resistance. This field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism understands it) is proof of that, artist and critic Jenny Odell claims. According to Odell, our attention is the scarcest yet most valuable commodity. She argues that if we begin to pay attention in a different way, we will be able to take more radical political action, rethink humanity’s place in the natural world, and develop deeper concepts of success and fulfillment.
How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism, and it’s a far cry from the simplistic anti-technology rant or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often. This audiobook is like a four-course dinner in the era of Soylent; it’s thought-provoking, relevant, and completely convincing.
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