The MANIAC (Benjamín Labatut)

Author:: Benjamín Labatut
Narrators:: Gergo Danka, Eva Magyar
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 9:51 h
Format:: MP3 download (428 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Pushkin Press (2023)
Genre:: Fiction
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01 - Chapter 1	0:16	1 MB
02 - Chapter 2	0:56	1 MB
03 - Chapter 3	54:59	41 MB
04 - Chapter 4	4:26	3 MB
05 - Chapter 5	0:07	1 MB
06 - Chapter 6	17:03	12 MB
07 - Chapter 7	1:50	1 MB
08 - Chapter 8	10:37	7 MB
09 - Chapter 9	12:02	7 MB
10 - Chapter 10	4:36	3 MB
11 - Chapter 11	22:20	16 MB
12 - Chapter 12	16:33	11 MB
13 - Chapter 13	26:10	19 MB
14 - Chapter 14	1:02	1 MB
15 - Chapter 15	28:42	21 MB
16 - Chapter 16	23:56	15 MB
17 - Chapter 17	18:17	14 MB
18 - Chapter 18	9:33	7 MB
19 - Chapter 19	10:48	7 MB
20 - Chapter 20	18:25	13 MB
21 - Chapter 21	0:27	1 MB
22 - Chapter 22	9:53	6 MB
23 - Chapter 23	10:59	8 MB
24 - Chapter 24	25:11	17 MB
25 - Chapter 25	33:45	21 MB
26 - Chapter 26	25:14	18 MB
27 - Chapter 27	22:06	13 MB
28 - Chapter 28	6:03	4 MB
29 - Chapter 29	14:30	10 MB
30 - Chapter 30	1:37	1 MB
31 - Chapter 31	7:02	5 MB
32 - Chapter 32	15:54	12 MB
33 - Chapter 33	19:57	15 MB
34 - Chapter 34	18:22	14 MB
35 - Chapter 35	11:31	8 MB
36 - Chapter 36	22:32	16 MB
37 - Chapter 37	16:21	12 MB
38 - Chapter 38	24:20	17 MB
39 - Chapter 39	8:34	6 MB
40 - Chapter 40	6:18	4 MB
41 - Chapter 41	7:13	5 MB
42 - Chapter 42	0:51	1 MB

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Summary

John von Neumann was a titan of science. A Hungarian wunderkind who revolutionized every field he touched, his mathematical powers were so exceptional that Hans Bethe—a Nobel Prize-winning physicist—thought he might represent the next step in human evolution.
After seeking the foundations of mathematics during his youth in Germany, von Neumann emigrated to the United States, where he became entangled in the power games of the Cold War; he designed the world's first programmable computer, invented game theory, pioneered AI and digital life, and helped create the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was the darling of the military industrial complex, but when illness unmoored his mind, his work pushed further into areas beyond human comprehension and control.
The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych about the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI. It begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and close friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces; it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master, Lee Sedol, and the AI program AlphaGo.
Braiding fact with fiction, Benjamín Labatut takes us on a journey to the frontiers of rational thought, where invention outpaces human understanding and offers godlike power, but takes us to the brink of Armageddon.

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