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Title: A Bridge to the Future: Understanding Nanotechnology, Part 1

Subtitle: The Modern Scholar

Author: Deborah Gibbs Sauder

Narrator: Deborah Gibbs Sauder

Format: Original Recording

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 70 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Nanotechnology is radically altering the world in ways almost unimaginable in only the very recent past. With applications in arenas from medicine and science to warfare and even the world of sports, nanotechnology opens the doorway to a vast array of breathtaking possibilities. In this series of clearly articulated lectures, Professor Deborah Gibbs Sauder explores the world of nanotechnology and all its astounding applications, while also examining the ethical issues raised by the science and the impact nanotechnology is having on big business.

Members Reviews:

OK Content, Terrible Reading

This program is OK but basic. If you are already familiar with nano tech, you probably already know much of what's in this audiobook. To be fair, this is an introduction however, one chapter covers the basics of the metric system. If you don't already know about the metric system, then you have bigger problems than learning about nano tech.

The real problem with this program is that it is read by the author. She stops in the middle of sentences for uncomfortably long periods of time and talks in the most boring monotone possible. I feel sorry for the student in her classes that have to listen to her take interesting material and hammer it flat.

Dont Bother

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

If the information provided would have been more relevant and read a bit better.

What could Deborah Gibbs Sauder have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Gotten Someone else to read.

How could the performance have been better?

Completely Lifeless

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Dissapointment

Any additional comments?

The information in this read was pretty outdated as were many of the concepts. If you are completely uninitiated in the field then its an ok start. I was surprised since the Modern Scholar series is normally really good.

Exhausting to listen to

A very uninspired book. I'm sorry, but I feel as if the narrator is going to die of respiratory failure at the end of each sentence..this makes for a very uncomfortable reading. It's probably just me, but either way..simply exhausting! I've had this book for two months now, and I'm struggling to get to the end of it! Just fifteen minutes left! It will be a miracle!

SO EXCITED NOW ABOUT NANOTECHNOLOGY & OUR FUTURE

What made the experience of listening to A Bridge to the Future: Understanding Nanotechnology, Part 1 the most enjoyable?

Just so many examples of how nanotechnology is being used and how it will be used and how it can be used. AMAZING, a must read.

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Bridge to the Future: Understanding Nanotechnology, Part 1?

I guess after hearing everything nanotechnology can do when it was said that Universities are working hard to make nanotechnology programs because there will be so many jobs in this area and we need people trained.

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Title: Here Comes Everybody

Subtitle: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Author: Clay Shirky

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 167 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects - for good and for ill.

A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades. A midwestern professor of Middle Eastern history starts a blog after 9/11 that becomes essential reading for journalists covering the Iraq war. Activists use the Internet and e-mail to bring offensive comments made by Trent Lott and Don Imus to a wide public and hound them from their positions. A few people find that a world-class online encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers and open for editing by anyone, a wiki, is not an impractical idea. Jihadi groups trade inspiration and instruction and showcase terrorist atrocities to the world, entirely online. A wide group of unrelated people swarms to a Web site about the theft of a cell phone and ultimately goads the New York City police to take action, leading to the culprit's arrest.With accelerating velocity, our age's new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better and more easily. You don't have to have a MySpace page to know that the times they are a changin'. Hierarchical structures that exist to manage the work of groups are seeing their raisons d'tre swiftly eroded by the rising technological tide. Business models are being destroyed, transformed, born at dizzying speeds, and the larger social impact is profound. One of the culture's wisest observers of the transformational power of the new forms of tech-enabled social interaction is Clay Shirky, and Here Comes Everybody is his marvelous reckoning with the ramifications of all this on what we do and who we are.

Like Lawrence Lessig on the effect of new technology on regimes of cultural creation, Shirky's assessment of the impact of new technology on the nature and use of groups is marvelously broad minded, lucid, and penetrating; it integrates the views of a number of other thinkers across a broad range of disciplines with his own pioneering work to provide a holistic framework for understanding the opportunities and the threats to the existing order that these new, spontaneous networks of social interaction represent. Wikinomics, yes, but also wikigovernment, wikiculture, wikievery imaginable interest group, including the far from savory. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and Clay Shirky is its brilliant chronicler.

Members Reviews:

Sorry I don't see the magic

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The primary thrust of the book is "the internet makes it easy for users to communicate". Hardly a mind-bending proposition. The supporting anecdotes were interesting but I kept waiting for some greater insight which was never delivered.

brilliant!

What did you like best about this story?

This story was inspiring and encouraged my mind to wander and imagine opportunities and new possibilities.

Any additional comments?

Serendipitous. That's the word for this work.

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Title: What Technology Wants

Author: Kevin Kelly

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 418 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology's long course and then follows a dozen trajectories of technology into the near future to project where technology is headed.

This new theory of technology offers three practical lessons: By listening to what technology wants, we can better prepare ourselves and our children for the inevitable technologies to come; by adopting the principles of proaction and engagement, we can steer technologies into their best roles; and by aligning ourselves with the long-term imperatives of this near-living system, we can capture its full gifts.

Written in intelligent and accessible language, this is a fascinating, innovative, and optimistic look at how humanity and technology join to produce increasing opportunities in the world and how technology can give our lives greater meaning.

Editorial Reviews:

Cutting-edge technology watchdog Kevin Kelly has done it again. It is no longer silly to think of technology as having a pulse, and the former editor of Wired magazine certainly has his finger on it. In this compelling new view of the many parallels between biological development in humans and humans' development of technology, the interconnectedness of the biosophere and the technium has never been so clear. Supergeeks rejoice, not only for this exciting speculation on what our future holds, but also for the fact that it is narrated by the one and only Paul Boehmer, a terrific Shakespearean actor better known for his role as stranded Vulcan in one of the most beloved eipsodes of Star Trek: Enterprise.

Boehmer gives voice to this deep scientific inquiry with energy and precision. Kelly is keen on researching a breadth of evidences to secure his theory about what technology wants from us, and Boehmer steps lightly through the many lists of supporting examples in a tone that shows just how captivating they are. Did you know that rock ants have a system for calculating the volume of a room, in order determine the appropriate dimensions of the nest they want to build? Did you know that the Amish are in a heated debate over the possible adoption of cell phones? Did you know that a toaster makes decisions? The scope of Kelly's considerations is astounding.

This comprehensive look at technology as a near-living system will shock and delight both luddites and technophiles alike. Kelly's previous major work, Out of Control, was at the top of the Wachowski brothers' required reading list for actors in their Matrix film trilogy. This time around, the first few chapters are almost like watching the evolutionary montage that opens Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Perhaps the futuristic trajectory of Kelly's book is slightly more optimistic and his conclusion somewhat more scientific, but given the mirror of Kubrick's film, Trekkie Paul Boehmer is the perfect choice of narrator for this weirdly wonderful book.

Members Reviews:

Poor Science to Back a Solid Thesis

"If there's justice, it will win the Pulitzer Prize." --Seth Godin

"Nuh uh." -- me

I was suprised at how many scientific errors Mr.

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Title: Cryptography

Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Fred Piper, Sean Murphy

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 69 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

This book is a clear and informative introduction to cryptography and data protection - subjects of considerable social and political importance. It explains what algorithms do, how they are used, the risks associated with using them, and why governments should be concerned. Important areas are highlighted, such as Stream Ciphers, block ciphers, public key algorithms, digital signatures, and applications such as e-commerce. This book highlights the explosive impact of cryptography on modern society, with, for example, the evolution of the Internet and the introduction of more sophisticated banking methods.

Members Reviews:

Textbook

This is a textbook, written as dryly as most textbooks are. Good for someone interested in a degree in cryptography, but very boring for the casual listener. Quite a bit of the text describes written exercises that don't lend themselves to listening. From now on, I will not take audibles recommendations without researching potential titles on my own.

Good, But Not For The Beginner (in spite of title)

First a few thoughts: (1) This is a textbook, and unless you are interested in the subject matter, you will probably not enjoy the book, (2) Don't think about listening to the book without the attached PDF Files - you'll be very lost (3) This is a book that probably needs some amount of review as you move along.

I enjoyed the book, but I do agree it was very dry at times. When I first bought the book, Audible did not have the PDF's available. I tried to listen to it then and was unable to get very far into the book without being lost. I was also probably at an advantage, as I have read books on espionage and was familiar with some basic "encryption" techniques.

After Audible posted the content, I started again, and things made more sense.

I would recommend this book, but ONLY if you have a pretty good working knowledge of computers and are willing to put more time into it that reading an average book.

Excellent on ciphers, but not Technology

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes but only to study ciphers, not modern encryption in computers.

What could Fred Piper and Sean Murphy have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

The speaker is terrific!

i 2nd its like reading a text book into a micro ..

What would have made Cryptography better?

context , folks like Brain Green or Linda Randall to name but one example show how complex subjects can be shared via audio by using the context to convey the message. this is missing very much, despite the fascinating subject

Would you ever listen to anything by Fred Piper and Sean Murphy again?

never say never ....

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

see above

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

the textbook rattle down equations style

I would listen to it again.

one chapter was very difficult to follow along I'm sure it would be easier to understand if I read it myself. in order to see the examples that the author was talking about.

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Title: CompTIA A+ Practical Application (220-702) Lecture Series

Author: PrepLogic

Narrator: LearnSmart LLC

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-10

Publisher: PrepLogic, LLC.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

A+ Practical Application (220-702) Lecture Series audio training is a fresh, intuitive way for IT professionals to get the training they need for their career. A+ Practical Application Lecture Series provides genuine, instructor-led lessons on the most important topics on the CompTIA A+ Practical Application exam. A+ Practical Application is one of two exams required for the CompTIA A+ certification, and this Lecture Series audio training helps you pass the exam quickly and easily.

Topics covered include: Storage Devices, Motherboards, Processors and RAM, A Technician's Tools, Common Windows Errors, Security Fundamentals, and many more. Audio training is perfect anywhere, especially during your long commute to work or school. Get the training and certifications you need for your career with PrepLogic's A+ Practical Application (220-702) Lecture Series audio training.

Members Reviews:

Uninspired

The only thing nice I have to say about this book is that it has good audio quality. With that out of the way I should mention that this book will not help you with the 702... not even a little. It is far too short and really lacks detail. PrepLogic should be embarrassed to have this as a product. Audible should be embarrassed to sell this book. PrepLogic's 701 audiobook was 10 times better and even it was below average. This book basically walks you through some very basic troubleshooting and doesn't go into much detail at all. Anybody who has passed the 702 and took it even the least bit seriously should be able to create a more informative audiobook than this. This book is a waste of money and a waste of a download credit. There is a definite need for a really good informative Comptia A+ audiobook in my opinion, but this book isn't it.

Good, quick review

This is a good book for anyone who wants to:

Get a general idea about various hardware and software components.

Get a really quick review for the CompTia exam that covers very general concepts.

Improve their computer-related vocabulary.

This is NOT a good book for anyone who wants to:

Get an in-depth view of hardware and software components.

Take the CompTia exam and pass it by using nothing but this book.

The narrator reads very quickly, so you may have to use that button that slows down his voice to really grasp some of the concepts (and I generally prefer fast-talking narrators), but I gave him a five-star rating because his inflection kept me interested in the material.

It might also be worthwhile to point out that the narrator frequently refers to diagrams that you can't see that are apparently found within the printed material.

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Title: The Essential Engineer

Subtitle: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

Author: Henry Petroski

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world's most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources.

While the scientist may identify problems, it falls to the engineer to solve them. It is the inherent practicality of engineering, which takes into account structural, economic, environmental, and other factors that science often does not consider, that makes engineering vital to answering our most urgent concerns.

Henry Petroski takes us inside the research, development, and debates surrounding the most critical challenges of our time, exploring the feasibility of biofuels, the progress of battery-operated cars, and the question of nuclear power. He gives us an in-depth investigation of the various options for renewable energy - among them solar, wind, tidal, and ethanol - explaining the benefits and risks of each. Will windmills soon populate our landscape the way they did in previous centuries? Will synthetic trees, said to be more efficient at absorbing harmful carbon dioxide than real trees, soon dot our prairies? Will we construct a sunshade in outer space to protect ourselves from dangerous rays? In many cases, the technology already exists. Whats needed is not so much invention as engineering.

Just as the great achievements of centuries past - the steamship, the airplane, the moon landin - once seemed beyond reach, the solutions to the 21st century's problems await only a similar coordination of science and engineering. Eloquently reasoned and written, The Essential Engineer identifies and illuminates these problems and, above all, sets out a course for putting ideas into action.

Critic Reviews:

"Far from being hostile toward science, Petroski pleads for continued cooperation between science and engineering. When, as Petroski laments, even President Obama has sometimes omitted engineering in touting science, this book could hardly be more timely." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Awesome

was comprehensive on Engineering. An eye opener for the curious engineer out in the world.

I love this book. ..

I love this book because of how well written, informative and excited way Doctor Petroski puts the issues forth. His books always get me thinking of engineering issues I never would have thought of before I have read his book. I love all of his books.

Thank an engineer today

What did you like best about this story?

I think Mr. Petroski makes the important point that much of society credits science/scientists with all the advances of technology, but technological advances are primarily the realm of engineers.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I had to go look at the Webster definition of "engineer." It said something about applying science. But engineers also apply math as routinely as they do science.

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Title: The Road Ahead

Author: Bill Gates

Narrator: Rick Adamson, Bill Gates

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-09

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 37 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Gates explains why the Internet has revolutionized not just Microsoft but everything else too - and at a faster pace than even he had anticipated. He describes the implications for everybody of a world connected by interactive computer networks and addresses our most pressing questions.

Members Reviews:

Great book. Bill Gates was a visionary as you will

If you could sum up The Road Ahead in three words, what would they be?

Visionary, Quirky and informative.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Bill Gates enough said.

What does Rick Adamson and Bill Gates bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

detail

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

A man who saw the future.

Any additional comments?

A must listen and a must purchase for anyone wanting to know more about the man.

This book is no longer relevant

Out dated information. This book is worth reading in 1995 or so. It is not worth reading in 2015. Not worth the time spent.

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Title: This is Not a Drill

Author: Paul Carter

Narrator: Paul Carter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-08

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 42 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

This is the next fast, furious and very funny book from Paul Carter, the author of the bestselling Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse.

Members Reviews:

I want to part with this guy!

Wildly raunchy and unbelievable tales of a globetrotting life working on an oil drill rig made believable by the master story telling skills of Paul Carter. I loved every minute of it.

International travel and adventure

Many of the stories Carter shares are not his own but those of other people, but are (for the most part) interesting or at least entertaining. The subject matter, comprising everything from oil drilling to journalism in Afghanistan, make for great airport listening, but be forewarned that a couple of accounts of his/other people's "exploits" cross the line of tastefulness. In any case, Audible should considering carrying his first book (this one is a sequel).

The lies are too obvious

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

After reading Paul's first book and enjoying that I thought I'd give this one a go, however it's rubbish! the lies in the story are too obvious and Paul's prose just becomes very boring.

There is no memorable moments in this book, no funny moments or story's just a long boring oil field tale.

I worked with Paul on the job in Russia (Sedco 600 and Transocean Legend) and worked with Ambo as recently as six months ago. Just skip this book it's not worth the time to read it.

Has This is Not a Drill turned you off from other books in this genre?

No

Excellent and amusing. Throughly lovely.

Amusing and Authentic. Very much a good listen. Always one to listen to. looking forward to the next one.

what a great book

loved it what a life paul has had .very funny and interesting .10/10 thank you

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Title: VangoNotes for Management Information Systems

Subtitle: Managing the Digital Firm, 10/e

Author: Jane Laudon, Kenneth Laudon

Narrator: Ax Norman, Alyson Silverman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-07

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Study on the go with VangoNotes. Just download chapter reviews from Management Information Systems, 10/e and listen to them on your mp3 player. Now wherever you are -- whatever you're doing -- you can study by listening to the following for each chapter of your textbook:

©2008 Pearson Education, Inc.

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Title: Electric Universe

Subtitle: The Shocking True Story of Electricity

Author: David Bodanis

Narrator: Del Roy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-05

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 455 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the bestselling E=MC2 comes a mesmerizing journey of discovery illuminating the wondrous yet unseen force that permeates our world and the scientists who've probed its secrets. Before 1790, when Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that spurred an explosion of knowledge and invention, electricity was perceived as little more than a property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Now we know that this force is responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. Bodanis, a superb storyteller, tells a story filled with romance, divine inspiration, fraud, and scientific breakthroughs revealing how we learned to harness electricity's powers. The great scientists such as Michael Faraday and Samuel Morse come to life, complete with all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy.

©2005 David Bodanis; (P)2005 Books on Tape, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"This entertaining look at how electricity works and affects our daily lives is highlighted by Bodanis' charming narrative voice and by clever, fresh analogies that make difficult science accessible." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Electric Electricity

This was arguably one of the most enjoyable books I've listened to in a long while. While my own background is Electrical Engineering, there were concepts and ideas presented in such a simplified manner that this book should be required reading for all students. The history of how our version of electricty came to be was interesting not so much for how the various discoveries came about but the from the human side. There were many interesting stories that I had not heard before or fully understood the personalities involved. The narration is very well done which adds to the enjoyment.

An example is the authors discription of how RADAR really works, not how people thinks it works and how something devised to protect England was taken from the creator and used to firebomb a German city to the absolute distress of the creator. You get the full impact from the joy of discovery to the total dispair as women and children were incinerated.

You feel the joy of Alexendar Graham Bell working to help the deaf while bringing us the Telephone which revolutionized the world.

And while the all widgets are cool, the author goes into how electricty makes us humans work. I learned more from this book than I did in two semesters on biology. Maybe I paid more attention this time but I dont think so, I think it was the excellent presentation of what could be very complex material.

All in all, this is must-listen to audiobook.

Go Ahead, Plug In

Given the number of medium to bad reviews here, I thought I'd throw in my "plug." Since I never use audiobooks for scholarly reference, I am not as concerned about accuracy as I might be reviewing a printed text. While the points on accuracy or oversimplification made by some of the reviewers here are well taken, they didn't affect my pleasure in the work, which I thought an excellent audiobook. The writing is quite good and intelligent, at a good pace for audio, so even the author's digressive flights of fancy on the social effects of the transistor, for example, are enjoyable, imaginative riffs. The history of electricity presented here is periodic and a bit quirky, not at all comprehensive.