NOTE: The references are currently out of date and will be revised shortly

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Wikipedia, 2017

[2] The Most Important Inventors of the Industrial Revolution​

ThoughtCo, 2017

[3] Amazon and the Race to Be the First $1 Trillion Company​

Fortune, 2017

[4] What is a Turing machine?​

University of Cambridge, 2012

[5] Church–Turing thesis​

Wikipedia, 2017

[6] Quantum Computers: the Church-Turing Hypothesis Versus the Turing Principle​

Timpson, Christopher G., 2004

[7] Wright Brothers​

Wikipedia, 2017

[8] British Overseas Airways Corporation​

Wikipedia, 2017

[9] Teaching Machines to Understand Us​

MIT Technology Review, 2015

[10] The Artificially Intelligent Doctor Will Hear You Now​

MIT Technology Review, 2016

[11] The self-driving car logs more miles on new wheels​

Google, 2012

[12] AlphaGo seals 4-1 victory over Go grandmaster Lee Sedol​

The Guardian, 2016

[13] The Beginning of Infinity​

David Deutsch, 2011

[14] Was the Unabomber Correct?​

Fox News, 2013

[15] Saudi king lifts ban on female drivers​

The Week, 2017

[16] Red flag traffic laws​

Wikipedia, 2017

[17] F.C.C. Chairman Pushes Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules​

The New York Times, 2017

[18] Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind​

Harari, Yuval, 2014

[19] Tech Tuesday: Finite State Machines (Continued)​

Wenger, Albert, 2013

[20] An Essay on the Principle of Population​

Malthus, Thomas Robert, 1798

[21] Egalitarian Societies​

Woodburn, James, 1982

[22] Neolithic Revolution​

Wikipedia, 2017

[23] Breitbart reveals owners: CEO Larry Solov, the Mercer family and Susie Breitbart​

Politico, 2017

[24] How much oxygen does a person consume in a day?​

How Stuff Works, 2017

[25] Water: How much should you drink every day?​

Mayo Clinic, 2014

[26] 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 8th Edition​

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2015

[27] Malthusian catastrophe​

Wikipedia, 2017

[28] Current World Population​

Worldometers, 2017

[29] Global Extreme Poverty​

Roser, Max and Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban, 2017

[30] Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review​

Holt-Lunstad, Julianne; Smith, Timothy B.; Layton, J. Bradley, 2010

[31] Land Use in Agriculture​

Roser, Max, 2016

[32] Famine in India​

Wikipedia, 2017

[33] Fertility​

Roser, Max, 2016

[34] Future World Population Growth​

Roser, Max, 2016

[35] Technological Progress​

Roser, Max, 2016

[36] The Island Of Stone Money​

National Public Radio, 2010

[37] $37 to $162: The Strange World of Birth Control Pill Prices​

Yahoo! Finance, 2013

[38] “How Will You Get Robots to Pay Union Dues?” “How Will You Get Robots to Buy Cars?”​

Quote Investigator, 2011

[39] Machine earning​

The Economist, 2016

[40] The Demographics of the U.S. Equine Population​

Kilby, Emily R., 2007

[41] Machines and Man​

Leontief, Wassily, 1952

[42] A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe​

Quartz, 2016

[43] Big Data: 20 Mind-Boggling Facts Everyone Must Read​

Forbes, 2015

[44] YouTube reveals users now upload more than 100 hours of video per minute, as the site turns eight​

The Next Web, 2013

[45] How Much Time Do People Spend on Social Media?​

Social Media Today, 2017

[46] Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash​

Inglehart, Ronald and Norris, Pippa, 2016

[47] Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens​

Gilens, Martin and Page, Benjamin I., 2014

[48] Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices​

The Guardian, 2012

[49] Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?​

Scientific American, 2016

[50] Languages: Why we must save dying tongues​

BBC, 2014

[51] Journey To Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration​

NASA, 2015

[52] Arthur C. Clarke​

WikiQuote, 2017

[53] Constructor Theory​

Constructor Theory, 2016

[54] Wiki​

Wikipedia, 2017

[55] Views of the National Economy are Clouded by Personal Finance and Employment Concerns​

The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 2016

[56] 1 IN 3 AMERICANS HAVE $0 SAVED FOR RETIREMENT​

GoBankingRates, 2016

[57] Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2015​

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2016

[58] Agrarian Justice​

Paine, Thomas, 1797

[59] Air Pollution in China: Mapping of Concentrations and Sources​

Rohde, Robert A. and Muller, Richard A., 2015

[60] Historical Statistics of the United States 1789-1945, p. 295​

U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, 1949

[61] Forecasts of the Population of the United States 1945-1975, p. 44​

U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, 1948

[62] GDP and Other Major NIPA Series, 1929–2012:II​

Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2012

[63] AM Basics​

Additive Manufacturing, 2017

[64] AM Basics​

Additive Manufacturing, 2017

[65] The first on-site house has been printed in Russia​

Apis Cor, 2017

[66] Write a House​

A Writer's Residency, Reimagined, 2017

[67] Asheville Monthly Furnished Rentals​

Greybeard Rentals, 2017

[68] Baby Boomers’ Second Act​

The New York Times, 2017

[69] How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost​

The Atlantic, 2016

[70] National Health Expenditures 2015 Highlights​

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2015

[71] Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up.​

Wired, 2015

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Statista, 2017

[73] [Projections of the Size and Composition of

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U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, 2017

[74] Data - United States​

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/​

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Statista, 2016

[76] Gross Output of All Industries​

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017

[77] [Financial Report of the United States Government - Fiscal Year 2015](https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/finrep/fr/15frusg/02242016_FR(Final).pdf)

Department of the Treasury, 2016

[78] Military Spending in the United States​

National Priorities Project, 2016

[79] US Household Debt Rose To $12.6 Trillion In 2016: Biggest Jump In A Decade​

Zero Hedge, 2017

[80] American car buyers are borrowing like never before—and missing plenty of payments, too​

Quartz, 2017

[81] Student Loan Debt In 2017: A $1.3 Trillion Crisis​

Forbes, 2017

[82] Americans now have the highest credit-card debt in U.S. history​

MarketWatch, 2017

[83] Napster Settlement Offer Rejected​

CBS News, 2001

[84] Internet Users​

Internet Live Stats, 2016

[85] The Cost of Connectivity 2014​

Open Technology Institute, 2014

[86] Broadband Performance OBI Technical Paper No. 4​

Federal Communications Commission, 2010

[87] MIMO​

Wikipedia, 2017

[88] [Filtering in Oz: Australia's Foray into Internet Censorship](https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jil/articles/volume31/issue2/Bambauer31U.Pa.J.Int'lL.493(2009).pdf)

Bambauer, Derek E., 2009

[89] VPNs and Informational Freedom​

Wenger, Albert, 2017

[90] Government Just Gave Your ISP Even More Power: You Can Take it Back!​

Wenger, Albert, 2017

[91] Tim Berners-Lee​

W3C, 2017

[92] Judge rules on taxi industry lawsuit: Compete with Uber or die​

Crain's New York Business, 2015

[93] Cum privilegio: Licensing of the Press Act of 1662​

Nipps, Karen, 2014

[94] Copyright Law for Business People: A Handy Guide​

Hornick, John F., 2003

[95] S. 505 Title I - Copyright Term Extension​

Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress, 1998

[96] The Discovery of an Ancient Mesopotamian Theory of Music​

Kilmer, Anne Draffkorn, 1971

[97] U.S. Sales Database​

The Recording Industry Association of America, 2017

[98] The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t​

Johnson, Steven, 2015

[99] Company Overview of Warner Music Group Corp.​

Bloomberg, 2017

[100] Universal Music Group​

ZoomInfo, 2017

[101] Sony Music Entertainment​

LinkedIn, 2017

[102] History of patent law​

Wikipedia, 2017

[103] Study: Most Important Innovations Are Not Patented​

infojustice, 2013

[104] Illumina Promises To Sequence Human Genome For $100 -- But Not Quite Yet​

Forbes, 2017

[105] Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics - Whole Genome Sequencing​

Science Exchange, 2017

[106] Lyme disease vaccine​

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017

[107] Longitude Prize: The History​

Longitude Prize, 2017

[108] Supreme Court Ruling Could Hinder ‘Patent Trolls’​

The New York Times, 2017

[109] Privacy, what privacy? Many Nordic tax records are a phone call away​

Reuters, 2017

[110] Why this doctor posted his medical history online for anyone to see​

Naked Security, 2015

[111] Culture Shock in China – Bathrooms​

Transparent Blog, 2013

[112] World's Biggest Data Breaches​

Information is Beautiful, 2017

[113] How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body​

The New York Times, 2016

[114] How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life​

Skidelsky, Robert and Skidelsky, Edward, 2012

[115] Orlo Salon Price List​

Orlo Salon, 2017

[116] Why Disappointment Is Crushing: Dopamine, Addiction and the "Hedonic Treadmill"​

The Influence, 2016

[117] Masa NYC Reservations​

Masa NYC, 2017

[118] Mothers asked nearly 300 questions a day, study finds​

The Telegraph, 2013

[119] Global Village or Cyber-Balkans?​

van Alstyne, Marshall and Brynjolfsson, Erik, 2005

[120] The Filter Bubble​

Pariser, Eli, 2012

[121] The spread of true and false news online​

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, Sinan Aral, 2018

[122] Needed: The Opposing View Reader​

Wenger, Albert, 2011

[123] The Incredible Jun: A Town that Runs on Social Media​

MIT Media Lab - Medium, 2015

[124] Flight distance record​

Wikipedia, 2017

[125] World Population Prospects 2017​

United Nations DESA / Population Division, 2017

[126] World Development Indicators​

The World Bank, 2017

[127] Child Mortality Estimates​

UN IGME, 2017

[128] FRED Graph​

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017

[129] Real Median Family Income in the United States​

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017

[130] Households and Nonprofit Organizations; Credit Market Instruments; Liability, Level​

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017

[131] Gross Domestic Product​

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017

[132] Fatal Injury Reports, National, Regional and State, 1981 – 2015​

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​

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2015

[134] Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Durables​

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017

[135] Medical care in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted​

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017

[136] College tuition and fees in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted​

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017

[137] Health expenditure per capita (current US$)​

The World Bank, 2017

[138] Housing Inventory Estimate: Total Housing Units for the United States​

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2017

[139] DNA Sequencing Costs: Data​

National Human Genome Research Institute, 2017

[140] The Mass of the Atmosphere: A Constraint on Global Analyses​

Trenberth, Kevin E and Smith, Lesley, 2003

[141] The Troposphere - overview​

UCAR Center for Science Education, 2011

[142] Thermosphere - overview​

UCAR Center for Science Education, 2008

[143] Earth Fact Sheet​

NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, 2016

[144] Recent Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2​

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2010

[145] BASF’s Port Elizabeth facility produces 50 millionth emissions control catalyst for automotive catalytic converters​

BASF Corporation, 2012

[146] How much water is there on, in, and above the Earth?​

The USGS Water Science School, 2016

[147] Myth of 8 Glasses of Water a Day​

University of Michigan Health System, 2015

[148] Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (billion cubic meters)​

The World Bank, 2014

[149] How much money can I save with a water filter?​

How Stuff Works, 2010

[150] Per capita consumption of bottled water worldwide in 2015, by leading countries (in gallons)​

Statista, 2009

[151] Can we really put a price on meeting the global targets on drinking-water and sanitation?​

The World Bank, 2016

[152] How much food does the world produce in one year​

Hunger Math, 2012

[153] How many calories will feed one billion hungry persons?​

Hunger Math, 2012

[154] U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth: The Past, Challenges, and the Future​

United States Department of Agriculture, 2015

[155] The world's first robot-run farm will harvest 30,000 heads of lettuce daily​

Business Insider, 2016

[156] 120 Years of U.S. Residential Housing Stock and Floor Space​

Moura, Maria Cecilia; Smith, Steven; Belzer, David, 2015

[157] Rooms, Size, and Amenities - All Housing Units (NATIONAL)​

American Housing Survey, 2013

[158] U.S. Textile Manufacturing and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations​

Federation of American Scientists, 2014

[159] Per capita household expenditure on food and clothing and disposable income in European countries​

European Environment Agency, 2014

[160] Per capita expenditure on apparel worldwide in 2015 and 2025, by region (in U.S. dollars)​

Statista, 2015

[161] Global fashion industry statistics - International apparel​

Fashion United, 2012

[162] Robots Will Soon be Making You a Custom-Fitted Sweater​

Newsweek, 2015

[163] Can robotics redefine the future of apparel manufacturing?​

Just Style, 2015

[164] Pocket Guide to Transportation​

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​

ARK Invest, 2014

[166] Percentage of U.S. hospital costs in 2015, by type of expense​

Statista, 2015

[167] Everyone is better off – Life expectancy increased in all countries around the world​

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 ​

International Data Corporation, 2015

[169] Germany just broke its own energy record and generated 85% of electricity from renewables​

World Economic Forum, 2017

[170] Renewables Dominated New U.S. Power Generation in 2016​

EcoWatch, 2017

[171] AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch​

Hassabis, Demis; Silver, David, 2017

[172] Revisiting the Quantum Brain Hypothesis: Toward Quantum (Neuro)biology?​

Jedlicka, Peter, 2017

[FFB] The inside story of Facebook's biggest setback​

Guardian, 2016