Katrina Manson Audiobooks

Project Maven: thirteen hours on technology, power and the machinery of the state

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Who is Katrina Manson?

Named projects tend to carry their own weather. Project Maven arrives on our shelves filed under both politics and technology, which is where the consequential arguments of this decade are actually being had: not in the code itself, but in the question of who is permitted to point it at what.

Thirteen and a half hours indicates reporting rather than opinion. Work of that length is built through accumulation, from sources and sequence and the patient establishment of who knew what and when. Katrina Manson also reads it herself, a choice far more common in journalism than in fiction, and one that keeps the emphasis on the reporting voice rather than on a performance of it.

The catalogue records the work. For a title of this kind that is the appropriate emphasis: the material, not the byline.

Katrina Manson in audiobooks

Self-narrated across thirteen and a half hours, this is a substantial listen, closer to a documentary series in duration than to a single sitting.

The ratings tally is currently tiny, so no average is worth quoting yet. Take it in sections instead of attempting the whole in one go; long-form reporting holds up well to being resumed. Anyone who follows the collision of politics, policy and machine intelligence, or who simply wants a thoroughly documented account rather than a confident thread of speculation, is the intended listener here. See what is available below.