NOTE: The references are currently out of date and will be revised shortly
[1] Agrarian Society {#ref-WIKIAS}
Wikipedia, 2017
[2] The Most Important Inventors of the Industrial Revolution {#ref-THGHTCO}
ThoughtCo, 2017
[3] Amazon and the Race to Be the First $1 Trillion Company {#ref-FORT}
Fortune, 2017
[4] What is a Turing machine? {#ref-CAMB}
University of Cambridge, 2012
[5] Church–Turing thesis {#ref-WIKICTT}
Wikipedia, 2017
Timpson, Christopher G., 2004
[7] Wright Brothers {#ref-WIKIWB}
Wikipedia, 2017
[8] British Overseas Airways Corporation {#ref-BOAC}
Wikipedia, 2017
[9] Teaching Machines to Understand Us {#ref-MITTMUU}
MIT Technology Review, 2015
[10] The Artificially Intelligent Doctor Will Hear You Now {#ref-MITAIDOC}
MIT Technology Review, 2016
[11] The self-driving car logs more miles on new wheels {#ref-GOOG}
Google, 2012
[12] AlphaGo seals 4-1 victory over Go grandmaster Lee Sedol {#ref-GUAR}
The Guardian, 2016
[13] The Beginning of Infinity {#ref-DEUT}
David Deutsch, 2011
[14] Was the Unabomber Correct? {#ref-FOX}
Fox News, 2013
[15] Saudi king lifts ban on female drivers {#ref-THEWK}
The Week, 2017
[16] Red flag traffic laws {#ref-WIKIRF}
Wikipedia, 2017
[17] F.C.C. Chairman Pushes Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules {#ref-NYT3}
The New York Times, 2017
[18] Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind {#ref-HARARI}
Harari, Yuval, 2014
[19] Tech Tuesday: Finite State Machines (Continued) {#ref-CONT}
Wenger, Albert, 2013
[20] An Essay on the Principle of Population {#ref-MALTH}
Malthus, Thomas Robert, 1798
[21] Egalitarian Societies {#ref-EGAL}
Woodburn, James, 1982
[22] Neolithic Revolution {#ref-WIKINR}
Wikipedia, 2017
[23] Breitbart reveals owners: CEO Larry Solov, the Mercer family and Susie Breitbart {#ref-POLITICO}
Politico, 2017
[24] How much oxygen does a person consume in a day? {#ref-HSWOXY}
How Stuff Works, 2017
[25] Water: How much should you drink every day? {#ref-MAYO}
Mayo Clinic, 2014
[26] 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 8th Edition {#ref-USDHHS}
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2015
[27] Malthusian catastrophe {#ref-WIKIMS}
Wikipedia, 2017
[28] Current World Population {#ref-WORLDO}
Worldometers, 2017
[29] Global Extreme Poverty {#ref-OWD3}
Roser, Max and Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban, 2017
[30] Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review {#ref-PLOS}
Holt-Lunstad, Julianne; Smith, Timothy B.; Layton, J. Bradley, 2010
[31] Land Use in Agriculture {#ref-OWD1}
Roser, Max, 2016
[32] Famine in India {#ref-WIKI}
Wikipedia, 2017
[33] Fertility {#ref-OWD2}
Roser, Max, 2016
[34] Future World Population Growth {#ref-OWD4}
Roser, Max, 2016
[35] Technological Progress {#ref-OWD5}
Roser, Max, 2016
[36] The Island Of Stone Money {#ref-NPR}
National Public Radio, 2010
[37] $37 to $162: The Strange World of Birth Control Pill Prices {#ref-YHOO}
Yahoo! Finance, 2013
Quote Investigator, 2011
[39] Machine earning {#ref-ECONO}
The Economist, 2016
[40] The Demographics of the U.S. Equine Population {#ref-THS}
Kilby, Emily R., 2007
[41] Machines and Man {#ref-SCIAM}
Leontief, Wassily, 1952
[42] A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe {#ref-QZ}
Quartz, 2016
[43] Big Data: 20 Mind-Boggling Facts Everyone Must Read {#ref-FORBES2}
Forbes, 2015
[44] YouTube reveals users now upload more than 100 hours of video per minute, as the site turns eight {#ref-TNW}
The Next Web, 2013
[45] How Much Time Do People Spend on Social Media? {#ref-SMT}
Social Media Today, 2017
Inglehart, Ronald and Norris, Pippa, 2016
[47] Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens {#ref-PRN}
Gilens, Martin and Page, Benjamin I., 2014
[48] Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices {#ref-GUAR2}
The Guardian, 2012
[49] Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? {#ref-SCIAM2}
Scientific American, 2016
[50] Languages: Why we must save dying tongues {#ref-BBC}
BBC, 2014
[51] Journey To Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration {#ref-NASA}
NASA, 2015
[52] Arthur C. Clarke {#ref-CLARKE}
WikiQuote, 2017
[53] Constructor Theory {#ref-CONTHY}
Constructor Theory, 2016
[54] Wiki {#ref-WIKIWIKI}
Wikipedia, 2017
[55] Views of the National Economy are Clouded by Personal Finance and Employment Concerns {#ref-APNORC}
The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 2016
[56] 1 IN 3 AMERICANS HAVE $0 SAVED FOR RETIREMENT {#ref-GOBANK}
GoBankingRates, 2016
[57] Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2015 {#ref-FEDRES}
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2016
[58] Agrarian Justice {#ref-PAINE}
Paine, Thomas, 1797
[59] Air Pollution in China: Mapping of Concentrations and Sources {#ref-BERK}
Rohde, Robert A. and Muller, Richard A., 2015
[60] Historical Statistics of the United States 1789-1945, p. 295 {#ref-CENS1}
U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, 1949
[61] Forecasts of the Population of the United States 1945-1975, p. 44 {#ref-CENS2}
U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, 1948
[62] GDP and Other Major NIPA Series, 1929–2012:II {#ref-BEA}
Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2012
[63] AM Basics {#ref-ADD}
Additive Manufacturing, 2017
[64] AM Basics {#ref-ADD}
Additive Manufacturing, 2017
[65] The first on-site house has been printed in Russia {#ref-APIS}
Apis Cor, 2017
[66] Write a House {#ref-WAH}
A Writer's Residency, Reimagined, 2017
[67] Asheville Monthly Furnished Rentals {#ref-GBR}
Greybeard Rentals, 2017
[68] Baby Boomers’ Second Act {#ref-NYT4}
The New York Times, 2017
[69] How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost {#ref-ATLANTIC}
The Atlantic, 2016
[70] National Health Expenditures 2015 Highlights {#ref-CMS}
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2015
[71] Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. {#ref-CRISPR}
Wired, 2015
[72] [Resident population projection for the United States for 2015 and 2060, by age (in millions)](https://www.statista.com/statistics/494592/population-of-the-us-by-age-2015-2060/
) {#ref-STAT2}
Statista, 2017
the U.S. Population: 2014 to 2060 p. 2-4](https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1143.pdf) {#ref-CENS3}
U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, 2017
[74] Data - United States {#ref-TWB2}
The World Bank, 2016
[75] [Gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States of America from 1990 to 2015 (in billion U.S. dollars, current)](https://www.statista.com/statistics/188105/annual-gdp-of-the-united-states-since-1990/
) {#ref-STAT3}
Statista, 2016
[76] Gross Output of All Industries {#ref-FRED}
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017
Department of the Treasury, 2016
[78] Military Spending in the United States {#ref-NATPR}
National Priorities Project, 2016
Zero Hedge, 2017
[80] American car buyers are borrowing like never before—and missing plenty of payments, too {#ref-QZ2}
Quartz, 2017
[81] Student Loan Debt In 2017: A $1.3 Trillion Crisis {#ref-FORBES3}
Forbes, 2017
MarketWatch, 2017
[83] Napster Settlement Offer Rejected {#ref-CBS}
CBS News, 2001
[84] Internet Users {#ref-ILS}
Internet Live Stats, 2016
[85] The Cost of Connectivity 2014 {#ref-COC}
Open Technology Institute, 2014
[86] Broadband Performance OBI Technical Paper No. 4 {#ref-FCC}
Federal Communications Commission, 2010
[87] MIMO {#ref-WIKIMIMO}
Wikipedia, 2017
[88] Filtering in Oz: Australia's Foray into Internet Censorship {#ref-UPENN}
Bambauer, Derek E., 2009
[89] VPNs and Informational Freedom {#ref-CONT2}
Wenger, Albert, 2017
[90] Government Just Gave Your ISP Even More Power: You Can Take it Back! {#ref-CONT3}
Wenger, Albert, 2017
[91] Tim Berners-Lee {#ref-W3C}
W3C, 2017
[92] Judge rules on taxi industry lawsuit: Compete with Uber or die {#ref-CNY}
Crain's New York Business, 2015
[93] Cum privilegio: Licensing of the Press Act of 1662 {#ref-HARV}
Nipps, Karen, 2014
[94] Copyright Law for Business People: A Handy Guide {#ref-FINN}
Hornick, John F., 2003
[95] S. 505 Title I - Copyright Term Extension {#ref-COPY}
Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress, 1998
[96] The Discovery of an Ancient Mesopotamian Theory of Music {#ref-MUSIC}
Kilmer, Anne Draffkorn, 1971
[97] U.S. Sales Database {#ref-RIAA}
The Recording Industry Association of America, 2017
[98] The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t {#ref-NYT}
Johnson, Steven, 2015
[99] Company Overview of Warner Music Group Corp. {#ref-BLOOM}
Bloomberg, 2017
[100] Universal Music Group {#ref-ZOOM}
ZoomInfo, 2017
[101] Sony Music Entertainment {#ref-LINKEDIN}
LinkedIn, 2017
[102] History of patent law {#ref-WIKIHIST}
Wikipedia, 2017
[103] Study: Most Important Innovations Are Not Patented {#ref-INFOJ}
infojustice, 2013
[104] Illumina Promises To Sequence Human Genome For $100 -- But Not Quite Yet {#ref-FORBES}
Forbes, 2017
[105] Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics - Whole Genome Sequencing {#ref-SCIX}
Science Exchange, 2017
[106] Lyme disease vaccine {#ref-CDC1}
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017
[107] Longitude Prize: The History {#ref-LONGI}
Longitude Prize, 2017
[108] Supreme Court Ruling Could Hinder ‘Patent Trolls’ {#ref-NYT5}
The New York Times, 2017
[109] Privacy, what privacy? Many Nordic tax records are a phone call away {#ref-REUTERS}
Reuters, 2017
[110] Why this doctor posted his medical history online for anyone to see {#ref-NAKEDSEC}
Naked Security, 2015
[111] Culture Shock in China – Bathrooms {#ref-TRANSPARENT}
Transparent Blog, 2013
[112] World's Biggest Data Breaches {#ref-INFOBEAUT}
Information is Beautiful, 2017
[113] How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body {#ref-NYT6}
The New York Times, 2016
[114] How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life {#ref-ENOUGH}
Skidelsky, Robert and Skidelsky, Edward, 2012
[115] Orlo Salon Price List {#ref-ORLO}
Orlo Salon, 2017
The Influence, 2016
[117] Masa NYC Reservations {#ref-MASA}
Masa NYC, 2017
[118] Mothers asked nearly 300 questions a day, study finds {#ref-TELE}
The Telegraph, 2013
[119] Global Village or Cyber-Balkans? {#ref-ALSTYNE}
van Alstyne, Marshall and Brynjolfsson, Erik, 2005
[120] The Filter Bubble {#ref-PARISER}
Pariser, Eli, 2012
[121] The spread of true and false news online {#ref-RUMOR}
Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, Sinan Aral, 2018
[122] Needed: The Opposing View Reader {#ref-CONT4}
Wenger, Albert, 2011
[123] The Incredible Jun: A Town that Runs on Social Media {#ref-MEDIUM}
MIT Media Lab - Medium, 2015
[124] Flight distance record {#ref-WIKIFD}
Wikipedia, 2017
[125] World Population Prospects 2017 {#ref-UNDESA}
United Nations DESA / Population Division, 2017
[126] World Development Indicators {#ref-WDI}
The World Bank, 2017
[127] Child Mortality Estimates {#ref-UNIGME}
UN IGME, 2017
[128] FRED Graph {#ref-FRED2}
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017
[129] Real Median Family Income in the United States {#ref-FRED3}
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017
[130] Households and Nonprofit Organizations; Credit Market Instruments; Liability, Level {#ref-FRED4}
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017
[131] Gross Domestic Product {#ref-FRED5}
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017
[132] Fatal Injury Reports, National, Regional and State, 1981 – 2015 {#ref-CDC}
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017
[133] Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: Results from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health {#ref-SAMHSA}
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2015
[134] Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Durables {#ref-FRED6}
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017
[136] College tuition and fees in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted {#ref-BLS2}
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017
[137] Health expenditure per capita (current US$) {#ref-TWB4}
The World Bank, 2017
[138] Housing Inventory Estimate: Total Housing Units for the United States {#ref-FRED7}
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017
[139] DNA Sequencing Costs: Data {#ref-NHGRI}
National Human Genome Research Institute, 2017
[140] The Mass of the Atmosphere: A Constraint on Global Analyses {#ref-AMS}
Trenberth, Kevin E and Smith, Lesley, 2003
[141] The Troposphere - overview {#ref-UCAR}
UCAR Center for Science Education, 2011
[142] Thermosphere - overview {#ref-UCAR2}
UCAR Center for Science Education, 2008
[143] Earth Fact Sheet {#ref-NASA2}
NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, 2016
[144] Recent Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2 {#ref-NOAA}
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2010
[145] BASF’s Port Elizabeth facility produces 50 millionth emissions control catalyst for automotive catalytic converters {#ref-BASF}
BASF Corporation, 2012
[146] How much water is there on, in, and above the Earth? {#ref-USGS}
The USGS Water Science School, 2016
[147] Myth of 8 Glasses of Water a Day {#ref-MICH}
University of Michigan Health System, 2015
[148] Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (billion cubic meters) {#ref-TWB3}
The World Bank, 2014
[149] How much money can I save with a water filter? {#ref-HSW}
How Stuff Works, 2010
[150] Per capita consumption of bottled water worldwide in 2015, by leading countries (in gallons) {#ref-STAT}
Statista, 2009
[151] Can we really put a price on meeting the global targets on drinking-water and sanitation? {#ref-TWB}
The World Bank, 2016
[152] How much food does the world produce in one year {#ref-HM}
Hunger Math, 2012
[153] How many calories will feed one billion hungry persons? {#ref-HM2}
Hunger Math, 2012
United States Department of Agriculture, 2015
Business Insider, 2016
[156] 120 Years of U.S. Residential Housing Stock and Floor Space {#ref-PLOS2}
Moura, Maria Cecilia; Smith, Steven; Belzer, David, 2015
[157] Rooms, Size, and Amenities - All Housing Units (NATIONAL) {#ref-AHS}
American Housing Survey, 2013
Federation of American Scientists, 2014
[159] Per capita household expenditure on food and clothing and disposable income in European countries {#ref-EEA}
European Environment Agency, 2014
[160] Per capita expenditure on apparel worldwide in 2015 and 2025, by region (in U.S. dollars) {#ref-STAT1}
Statista, 2015
[161] Global fashion industry statistics - International apparel {#ref-FU}
Fashion United, 2012
[162] Robots Will Soon be Making You a Custom-Fitted Sweater {#ref-NW}
Newsweek, 2015
[163] Can robotics redefine the future of apparel manufacturing? {#ref-JS}
Just Style, 2015
[164] Pocket Guide to Transportation {#ref-RITA}
U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 2015
[165] How Many Cars can One Zipcar Replace: Zipcar and the Impact of Car Sharing on Auto Sales {#ref-ARK}
ARK Invest, 2014
[166] Percentage of U.S. hospital costs in 2015, by type of expense {#ref-STAT4}
Statista, 2015
[167] Everyone is better off – Life expectancy increased in all countries around the world {#ref-ROSER}
Roser, Max, 2016
[168] Smartphone Shipments Reach Second Highest Level for a Single Quarter as Worldwide Volumes Reach 355.2 Million in the Third Quarter, According to IDC {#ref-IDC}
International Data Corporation, 2015
[169] Germany just broke its own energy record and generated 85% of electricity from renewables {#ref-WEF}
World Economic Forum, 2017
[170] Renewables Dominated New U.S. Power Generation in 2016 {#ref-ECOWAT}
EcoWatch, 2017
[171] AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch {#ref-HASSABISSILVER}
Hassabis, Demis; Silver, David, 2017
[172] Revisiting the Quantum Brain Hypothesis: Toward Quantum (Neuro)biology? {#ref-JEDLICKA}
Jedlicka, Peter, 2017
[FFB] The inside story of Facebook's biggest setback {#ref-FFB}
Guardian, 2016