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Can anyone recommend an audiobook that would be of interest to a FoC audience? Judea Pearl's "book of why" is the closest I know. I tried Maria Montessori's "The Absorbent Mind" but didn't think much of it

I quite enjoyed <https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine|https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine> as an audiobook

I really enjoyed anathem. But I feel like it works better as a book to read than listen (but I just might be weird in that kind of view)

Maybe these two...
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, by Steven Johnsson 2010 
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner (2012)
• Not a book but audio: The Advent of Computing podcast has many episodes that should be of interest.

If you're into biographies I'd recommend the ones on Shannon & especially Lanier:
• <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_at_Play|A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age> 
• <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier#Dawn_of_the_New_Everything_(2017)|Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality> (autobiographical & not pure biography)
PS. Just rejoined audible to listen to the Lickie biography (The Dream Machine), seems great! :+1: