Further Reading

Introduction

• Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. New York: Harper, 2015.
• Lee, Stan, and Steve Ditko. Doctor Strange Omnibus, vol. 1. New York: Marvel, 2016.
• Menzel, Donald H. A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets: Including the Moon, Satellites, Comets, and Other Features of the Universe. Peterson Field Guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
• Puchner, Martin. The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilization. New York: Random House, 2017.
• Vance, J.D. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York: Harper, 2016.

Chapter 1: When Our Jobs First Went Away

• Abernathy, Gary. “Our Town’s Newspaper Was Mocked for Endorsing Trump. Here’s What We Think Now.” Washington Post, June 7, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-towns-newspaper-was-mocked-for-endorsing-trump-heres-what-we-think-now/2017/06/07/3365e17c-4acb-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html.
• Brandt, Allan M. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
• Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. “SMEs Are Driving Economic Success: Facts and Figures about German SMEs.” Berlin: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, 2018. https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Publikationen/Mittelstand/driving-economic-success-sme.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4.
• Fischer, Paul M., Meyer P. Schwartz, John W. Richards, Adam O. Goldstein, and Tina H. Rojas. “Brand Logo Recognition by Children Aged 3 to 6 Years: Mickey Mouse and Old Joe the Camel.” Journal of the American Medical Association 266, no. 22 (December 1991): 3145–48.
• Hernandez, Daniela. “How to Survive a Robot Apocalypse: Just Close the Door.” Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2017. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-survive-a-robot-apocalypse-just-close-the-door-1510327719.
• “The History of Boydton Virginia.” Town of Boydton, Virginia. 2019. https://boydton.org/history/the-history-of-boydton-virginia/.
• Medeiros, João. “Stephen Hawking: ‘I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether.’” Wired, November 28, 2017. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stephen-hawking-interview-alien-life-climate-change-donald-trump.
• Stone, Peter, Rodney Brooks, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ryan Calo, Oren Etzioni, Greg Hager, Julia Hirschberg, et al. “Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence: Report of the 2015–2016 Study Panel.” Stanford: Stanford University, September 2016. https://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report.
• Vance, J.D. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York: Harper, 2016.

Chapter 2: The Career Choice I Made

• Bartik, Timothy J., and Brad J. Hershbein. “Degrees of Poverty: The Relationship between Family Income Background and the Returns to Education.” Upjohn Institute Working Paper 18-284. W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 2018. https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1302&context=up_workingpapers.
• Carnevale, Anthony P., Jeff Strohl, and Michelle Melton. “What’s It Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors.” Washington, DC: Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University, 2015. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/valueofcollegemajors/.
• Dunbar, Robin I. M. How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks. London: Faber and Faber, 2010.

Chapter 3: Stories of Revival

• Case, Steve. “The Rise of the Rest.” Revolution, September 11, 2012. https://www.revolution.com/the-rise-of-the-rest/.
• Ford, Sam. “Future of Work Initiative in Kentucky.” Lecture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, March 28, 2018. https://www.as.uky.edu/video/future-work-initiative-kentucky-lecture-sam-ford.
• Hoffman, Reid, and Chris Yeh. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. New York: Currency, 2018.
• Moretti, Enrico. The New Geography of Jobs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
• Posner, Tess. “Artificial Intelligence for All: A Call for Equity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Our World, United Nations, October 29, 2018. https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/artificial-intelligence-for-all-a-call-for-equity-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution.
• Reinhart, R. J. “Most Americans Already Using Artificial Intelligence Products.” Gallup, March 6, 2018. https://news.gallup.com/poll/228497/americans-already-using-artificial-intelligence-products.aspx.
• Wykstra, Stephanie. “Developing a More Diverse AI.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 17, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 7.

Chapter 4: The Intelligent Farm

• Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Tom Mitchell. “What Can Machine Learning Do? Workforce Implications.” Science 358, no. 6370 (December 22, 2017): 1530–34. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/pubs/Science_WorkforceDec2017.pdf.
• Economic Graph team. “LinkedIn’s 2017 U.S. Emerging Jobs Report,” December 7, 2017. https://economicgraph.linkedin.com/research/LinkedIns-2017-US-Emerging-Jobs-Report.
• Grisham, Vaughn. Tupelo: The Evolution of a Community. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation Press, 1999.
• Hawksworth, John, and Richard Snook. UK Economic Outlook, PricewaterhouseCoopers, July 2018. https://www.pwc.co.uk/economic-services/ukeo/ukeo-july18-full-report.pdf.
• Neel, Phil A. Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict. London: Reaktion Books, 2018.
• Post, Todd, ed. The Jobs Challenge: Working to End Hunger by 2030. 2018 Hunger Report. Washington, DC: Bread for the World Institute, 2018.

Chapter 5: AI: Why It’s Needed

• Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
• Richardson, Ken. Genes, Brains, and Human Potential: The Science and Ideology of Intelligence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Chapter 7: How Models Learn

• Chiang, Ted. The Lifecycle of Software Objects. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010.
• Clarke, Arthur C. Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
• Gerrish, Sean. How Smart Machines Think. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.
• Hinton, Geoffrey, Simon Osindero, and Yee-Whye Teh. “A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets.” Journal of Neural Computation 18, no. 7 (July 2006): 1527–54.

Chapter 8: AI: A Threat or Boon to Jobs?

• Kofman, Fred. Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2006.
• Kofman, Fred. The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership. New York: Currency, 2018.
• Thiel, Peter A., and Blake Masters. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. New York: Crown Business, 2014.

Chapter 9: Politics and Ethics

• Kennedy, John F. “President Kennedy’s Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs.” Speech delivered before a joint session of the US Congress, Washington, DC, May 25, 1961. https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/united-states-congress-special-message-19610525.
• Pinker, Steven. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. New York: Viking, 2018.
• Rosling, Hans, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—And Why Things Are Better Than You Think. New York: Flatiron Books, 2018.

Additional Reading

• Agrawal, Ajay, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb. Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2018.
• Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Esther Duflo. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.
• Daugherty, Paul R., and H. James Wilson. Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2018.
• Gray, Mary L., and Siddharth Suri. Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass. Boston: Eamon Dolan Books, 2019.
• Jasanoff, Sheila. The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future. New York: Norton, 2016.
• Schwab, Klaus. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. New York: Currency, 2017.