Tag: Control

September 20, 2023

The Handover How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781800817951 | 2023 | 10 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 628 MB
Author: David Runciman
Narrator: David Runciman
‘The Singularity’ is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundred years ago, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial entities, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can do, and which, unlike us, need never die. They have made us richer, safer and healthier than would have seemed possible even a few generations ago – and they may yet destroy us. The Handover distils over three hundred years of thinking about how to live with artificial agency.

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September 16, 2023

Taking Control of Anxiety Small Steps for Getting the Best of Worry, Stress, and Fear [Audiobook]

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Free Download Taking Control of Anxiety: Small Steps for Getting the Best of Worry, Stress, and Fear (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CC3XGBRQ | 2023 | 6 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Bret A. Moore
Narrator: Kyle Tait
Anxiety is the most common mental disorder in the United States, with an estimated 40 million adult sufferers. The anti-anxiety drug Xanax is the nation’s most-prescribed drug. But drugging anxious Americans is not a solution to the problem of anxiety. Taking Control of Anxiety shows that there are many other proven ways to treat anxiety. This is a self-help book in the best sense of the term, conversational in tone, supportive, and filled with simple tips and suggestions that can help people reduce their own anxieties.

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