Audible.com is an on-line service that sells downloadable
audio books in a very compact form. They can be played on a
PC, transferred to an MP3 player (mine is only 32 MB and it
can hold 8 hours!) or just burned to a CD (NB
- not using Nero though!).
I'm a big fan because there are lots of situations when
I can't read something but I want to do something constructive
that will help me learn. Like I'm walking about for hours
or editing image files. I've spent a ton of cash there since
joining the Open University, listened to all my books about
a hundred times each on the long walk from Finsbury Park to
Crouch End, and become an internationally renowned expert
on absolutely everything as a result.
T209
Cyborg stuff:
Science Fiction Favorites (Unabridged) 
Ender's Game (Unabridged)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
...and the rest:
Going Wireless (Unabridged) 
Annoyingly, some of my favourites are no longer available.
Ah well!
Others you might try but I can't link to them directly are:
Speak and You Shall Receive - Wall Street Journal Special
Report on Telecommunications (Speech Recognition etc)
The Fast Forward MBA in Management Technology by Daniel P.
Petrozzo
Techno Trends: 24 Technologies That Will Revolutionize Our
Lives by Daniel Burrus with Roger Gittines
Ten Quick Steps to Making a Wi-Fi Connection by Adam C Engst
B200
Audible's Business section is very well stocked. unfortunately,
a lot of it is more 'motivational' rather than academic,
but here are a few I like:
Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron
by Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins
Almost anything by Peter F. Drucker is good. Try
Managing in the Next Society ,
Management Challenges for the 21st Century (Unabridged)
,
or
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Unabridged)
The Agenda: What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade
by Michael Hammer (Also 'Beyond Re-engineering' by the same
author. Very good for the processes module. His accent is
kinda irritating though.)
Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook
by Scott Adams (and I just dare you to cite this as a ref
in your bibliography!)
Harvard Business Review, 1-Month Subscription 
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work
and What to Do About It
Others you might try but I can't link to them directly are:
Blind Trust - What Enron Says About America by David Brancaccio
Competing with Giants by Niraj Dawar and Tony Frost
The Core Competence of the Corporation by C.K. Prahalad and
Gary Hamel. (Excellent for the 'Markets' module)
T171
Probably the most useful things on Audible at the moment
are Strategy and the New Economics of Information and Getting
Real about Virtual Commerce both by Philip Evans and Thomas
S. Wurster, and covering, between them, most of the material
in 'Blown to Bits'. Personally, I found them very useful for
revision purposes. Annoyingly, I can't link to either one
directly, but if you go to the site and type 'wurster' into
the search box on the left you'll be able to find them easily
enough.
21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com (Unabridged) 
Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System
by Bill Gates
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer
Age
by Michael Hiltzik - My most listened-to book. A mine of information!)
Inside the Tornado
by Geoffrey A. Moore
Next: The Future Just Happened (Unabridged)
by Michael Lewis
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy
by Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds, and Manuel Castells
The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other True Tales of Silicon
Valley
by Po Bronson
World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies
by Ken Auletta (warning - this guy has a really boring reading
voice!)
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny
of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (Unabridged)
by Alan Deutschman
ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
(Unabridged)
by Scott McCartney
High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise
of Sun Microsystems (Unabridged)
by Karen Southwick
Others you might try but I can't link to them directly are:
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Rick
Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, et al.
Microsoft: First Generation by Cheryl Tsang
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