Chapter References
Chapter 1: Biology and technology
Jon Agar, Turing and the Universal Machine: the making of the modern computer, Icon Books, 2001
Jacob Aron, ‘When Will the Universe End? Not For at Least 2.8 Billion Years’, New Scientist, 25 February 2016, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078851-when-will-the-universe-end-not-for-at-least-2-8-billion-years/
William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’, 1863
Agata Blaszczak-Boxe, ‘Prehistoric High Times: early humans used magic mushrooms, opium’ LiveScience, 2 February 2015, http://www.livescience.com/49666-prehistoric-humans-psychoactive-drugs.html
Janet Browne, Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’: a biography, Grove Atlantic, 2006
Census of Marine Life, ‘How Many Species on Earth? About 8.7 Million, New Estimate Says’, ScienceDaily, 24 August 2011, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823180459.htm
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, John Murray, 1859
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1976
Robin Dunbar, How Many Friends Does One Person Need?, Faber, 2010
Allison Enright, ‘Amazon Sales Climb 22% in Q4 and 20% in 2015’, Digital Commerce 360 website, 28 January 2016, https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2016/01/28/amazon-sales-climb-22-q4-and-20-2015/
Hergé, Objectif Lune, Casterman, 1953
Susan Jones, ‘11,774 Terror Attacks Worldwide in 2015; 28,328 Deaths Due to Terror Attacks’, CNS News, 3 June 2016, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/11774-number-terror-attacks-worldwide-dropped-13-2015
Kambiz Kamrani, ‘Homo Heidelbergensis Ear Anatomy Indicates They Could Have Heard The Same Frequency of Sounds As Modern Humans’, 12 July 2008, https://anthropology.net/2008/07/12/homo-heidelbergensis-ear-anatomy-indicates-they-could-have-heard-the-same-frequency-of-sounds-as-modern-humans/
Elizabeth Kolbert, ‘Our Automated Future: how long will it be before you lose your job to a robot?’, The New Yorker, 19 December 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/our-automated-future
David Leavitt, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007
Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape: a zoologist’s study of the human animal, Jonathan Cape, 1967
Andrew O’Hagan, The Secret Life: three true stories, Faber, 2017
George Orwell, ‘Inside the Whale’, Inside the Whale and Other Essays, Gollancz, 1940
Mark Pagel, ‘What is the latest theory of why humans lost their body hair? Why are we the only hairless primate?’, Scientific American, 4 June 2007, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/latest-theory-human-body-hair/
Karl Popper, ‘Three Worlds’, the Tanner lecture at the University of Michigan, 1978
Jillian Scudder, ‘The sun won’t die for 5 billion years, so why do humans have only 1 billion years left on Earth?’, Phys.org website, 13 February 2015, https://phys.org/news/2015-02-sun-wont-die-billion-years.html
‘Questions and Answers About CRISPR’, Broad Institute website, https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/project-spotlight/questions-and-answers-about-crispr
Chapter 2: Our hyper-complex habitat
Roland Banks, ‘Who needs a landline telephone? 95% of UK households don’t’, Mobile Industry Review website, 1 December 2014, http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2014/12/who-needs-a-landline-telephone.html
Mark Bland, ‘The London Book-Trade in 1600’, A Companion to Shakespeare (ed. David Scott Kastan), Blackwell Publishing, 1999, http://www.academia.edu/4064370/The_London_Book-Trade_in_1600
Kees Boeke, Cosmic View: the universe in 40 jumps, Faber, 1957
‘Books published per country per year’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year
Vannevar Bush, ‘As We May Think’, The Atlantic, July 1945, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
Polly Curtis, ‘Can you really be addicted to the internet?’, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/jan/12/internet-health
Jonathan Fenby, Will China Dominate the 21st Century?, Polity Press, 2014
Jamie Fullerton, ‘Children face night time ban on playing computer games’, The Times, 8 October 2016
Government Office for Science, ‘Innovation: managing risk, not avoiding it’, Gov.uk website, 19 November 2014, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/innovation-managing-risk-not-avoiding-it
Paul Grey, ‘How Many Products Does Amazon Sell?’, Export-X website, 11 December 2015, https://export-x.com/2015/12/11/how-many-products-does-amazon-sell-2015/
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: from the big bang to black holes, Bantam, 1988
Toby Hemenway, ‘Fear and the Three-Day Food Supply’, Toby Hemenway’s website, 2 November 2011, http://tobyhemenway.com/419-fear-and-the-three-day-food-supply-3)
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, Scribner’s Sons, 1964
Roger Highfield, ‘Delays “doubled” foot and mouth toll’, The Telegraph, 2 July 2001, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1332578/Delays-doubled-foot-and-mouth-toll.html
Dominic Hinde, A Utopia Like Any Other: inside the Swedish model, Luath Press, 2016
‘History of Handwritten Letters: a brief history’, Handwrittenletters.com website, http://handwrittenletters.com/history_of_handwritten_letters.html
Richard Holden, ‘digital’, Oxford English Dictionary, http://public.oed.com/aspects-of-english/word-stories/digital/
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
Joao Medeiros, ‘How Intel Gave Stephen Hawking a Voice’, Wired, 13 January 2015, https://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-gave-stephen-hawking-voice/
Natasha Onwuemezi, ‘Amazon.com Book Sales Up 46% in 2017, Says Report’, The Bookseller, 21 August 2017, https://www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-book-sales-45-616171
Stephanie Pappas, ‘How Big Is the Internet, Really?’, Live Science website, 18 March 2016, http://www.livescience.com/54094-how-big-is-the-internet.html
‘Pneumatic Tube’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#History
Max Roser, ‘Books’, Our World in Data website, 2017, https://ourworldindata.org/books/
Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: adventures in the margin of error, Portobello Books, 2011
Kathryn Schulz, ‘On Being Wrong’, TED, March 2011, https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong
‘Statistics and Facts on the Communications Industry Taken From Ofcom Research Publications’, Ofcom website, https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/facts
Gillian Tett, Fool’s Gold: how unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe, Little Brown, 2009
‘The 3D-Printed Clothing That Reacts to Your Environment’, BBC website, 3 August 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-36905314/the-3d-printed-clothing-that-reacts-to-your-environment
‘The Chinese Book Market 2016’, Frankfurt Buchmesse website, 2016, http://www.buchmesse.de/images/fbm/dokumente-ua-pdfs/2016/white_paper_chinese_book_market_report_update_2016_new_58110.pdf
‘The Large Hadron Collider’, CERN website, http://home.cern/topics/large-hadron-collider
‘The Writing’s on the Wall: having turned respectable, graffiti culture is dying’, The Economist, 9 November 2013
Thomas Thwaites, ‘The Toaster Project’, Design Interactions Show 2009 website, http://www.di09.rca.ac.uk/thomas-thwaites/the-toaster-project
Thomas Thwaites, ‘The Toaster Project’, Thomas Thwaites’ website, http://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/
John Urry, Offshoring, Polity Press, 2014
John Vinocur, ‘Paris Pneumatique Is Now a Dead Letter’, The New York Times, 31 March 1984, http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/31/style/paris-pneumatique-is-now-a-dead-letter.html
Gareth Vipers, ‘White vans are clogging up London’s streets, says Boris Johnson’, The Evening Standard, 1 September 2015, http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/white-vans-are-clogging-up-londons-streets-says-boris-johnson-a2925146.html
Andrew S. Zeveney and Jessecae K. Marsh, ‘The Illusion of Explanatory Depth in a Misunderstood Field: the IOED in mental disorders’, 2016, https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2016/papers/0185/paper0185.pdf
Chapter 3: The digital ape emerges
Francisco J. Ayala, The Big Questions: Evolution, Quercus, 2012
Jim Davies, ‘Just Imagining a Workout Can Make You Stronger’, Nautilus website, 15 August 2016, http://nautil.us/blog/just-imagining-a-workout-can-make-you-stronger
Clive Gamble, John Gowlett, and Robin Dunbar, Thinking Big: how the evolution of social life shaped the human mind, Thames and Hudson, 2014
Thibaud Gruber, ‘A Cognitive Approach to the Study of Culture in Great Apes’, Université de Neuchâtel website, https://www.unine.ch/compcog/home/anciens-collaborateurs/thibaud_gruber.html
April Holloway, ‘Scientists are alarmed by shrinking of the human brain’, Ancient Origins website, 14 March 2014, http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/scientists-are-alarmed-shrinking-human-brain-001446
Darryl R. J. Macer, Shaping Genes: ethics, law and science of using new genetic technology in medicine and agriculture, Eubios Ethics Institute, 1990
Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Tomaz Berisa, Felix R. Day, John R. B. Perry, Molly Przeworski, Joseph K. Pickrell, ‘Identifying genetic variants that affect viability in large cohorts’, PLOS Biology, 2017; Volume 15, Issue 9
Kenneth P. Oakley, Man the Toolmaker, British Museum, 1949
Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman, MacGibbon & Kee, 1967
Michael Specter, ‘How the DNA Revolution Is Changing Us’, National Geographic, August 2016
Dietrich Stout, ‘Tales of a Stone Age Neuroscientist’, Scientific American, April 2016
Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Anchor Books, 1999
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Doubleday, 2016
Victoria Woollaston, ‘Ape Escape: how travelling broadens the minds of chimps’, Wired, 19 July 2016, http://www.wired.co.uk/article/chimpanzee-travel-tool-use
Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: how cooking made us human, Basic Books, 2009
Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall, ‘Probings: an interview with Stelarc’, The Cyborg Experiments: the extensions of the body in the media age, Continuum, 2002
Chapter 4: Social machines
Michael Cross, ‘The former insider who became an internet guerrilla’, The Guardian, 23 October 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/oct/23/tom-steinberg-fixmystreet-mysociety
‘DARPA Network Challenge’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge#Winning_strategy
Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution, Simon & Schuster UK, 2014
Larry Hardesty, ‘A social network that ballooned’, MIT News website, 11 December 2009, http://news.mit.edu/2009/red-balloon-challenge-1211
Tim Lewis, ‘Self-Tracking: the people turning their bodies into medical labs’, The Observer, 24 November 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/24/self-tracking-health-wellbeing-smartphones
‘Most Famous Social Network Sites Worldwide’, Statista website, http://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/
‘mySociety’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySociety
‘OpenStreetMap’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
Meghan O’Rourke, ‘Is “The Clock” Worth the Time?, The New Yorker, 18 July 2012, http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/is-the-clock-worth-the-time
‘PatientsLikeMe’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatientsLikeMe
Chris Petit e-mail to Iain Sinclair in The Clock, Museum of Loneliness and Test Centre Books, 2010
Quantified Self website, http://quantifiedself.com/
Gretchen Reynolds, ‘Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts’, The New York Times, 20 September 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/well/activity-trackers-may-undermine-weight-loss-efforts.html
Alex Robbins, ‘Britain’s Pothole “Menace” Costs Drivers £684m in a Year’, The Telegraph, 24 March 2016, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/britains-pothole-problem-costs-drivers-684m-in-a-year/
Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Picador, 2004
Craig Smith, ‘39 Impressive Fitbit Stastics and Facts’, Expanded Ramblings website, 24 November 2017, http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/fitbit-statistics/
Markus Strohmaier, ‘Markus Strohmaier’, Markus Strohmaier’s website, http://markusstrohmaier.info/
Markus Strohmaier, Christoph Carl Kling, Heinrich Hartmann, and Steffen Staab, ‘Voting Behaviour and Power in Online Democracy: a study of LiquidFeedback in Germany’s Pirate Party’, ICWSM, Markus Strohmaier’s website, 2015, http://markusstrohmaier.info/documents/2015_icwsm2015_liquidfeedback.pdf
‘TheyWorkForYou’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheyWorkForYou
Richard M. Titmuss, The Gift Relationship: from human blood to social policy, Allen & Unwin, 1970
Ushahidi website, https://www.ushahidi.com/about
‘What Is Data For Good?’, PatientsLikeMe website, https://www.patientslikeme.com/research/dataforgood
‘Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report’, Wikimedia, https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOverview.htm
‘Wikipedians’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Wikipedians#Number_of_editors
‘WikiProject Fact and Reference Check’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check
Lance Whitney, ‘Fitbit still tops in wearables, but market share slips’, CNet, 23 February 2016, http://www.cnet.com/news/fitbit-still-tops-in-wearables-market/
Chapter 5: Artificial and natural intelligence
Margery Allingham, The Mind Readers, Chatto and Windus, 1965
Yasmin Anwar, ‘Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind’, Berkeley website, 22 September 2011, http://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/
Rodney A. Brooks, ‘Elephants Don’t Play Chess’, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 6, Issues 1–2, June 1990
Karel Čapek, R. U. R., 1920
Ben Cipollini, ‘Deep neural networks help us read your mind’, Neuwrite website, 22 October 2015, https://neuwritesd.org/2015/10/22/deep-neural-networks-help-us-read-your-mind/
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam, 2006
James J. DiCarlo, Davide Zoccolan, Nicole C.Rust, ‘How Does the Brain Solve Visual Object Recognition?’, in Neuron, Volume 73, Issue 3, 2012.
T. Elliott and N.R.Shadbolt, Developmental robotics: Manifesto and application in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A 361, pp. 2187–2206, 2003
Dylan Evans, ‘Robot Wars’, The Guardian, 20 April 2002, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/20/scienceandnature.highereducation1
B. Fischhoff, P. Slovic, and S. Lichtenstein, ‘Knowing with Certainty’, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 3, No 4, 1977
Robbie Gonzalez, ‘Breakthrough: the first sound recordings based on reading people’s minds’, io9 website, 1 February 2012, http://io9.gizmodo.com/5880618/breakthrough-the-first-sound-recordings-based-on-reading-peoples-minds
Alison Gopnik, The Gardener and the Carpenter: what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016
Umut Güçlü and Marcel A. J. van Gerven, ‘Deep Neural Networks Reveal a Gradient in the Complexity of Neural Representations across the Ventral Stream’, Journal of Neuroscience, 8 July 2015, http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/27/10005
E. J. Holmyard, Alchemy, Penguin, 1957
‘Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks’, Churchman website, 19 July 2015, https://churchman.nl/2015/07/19/introduction-to-artificial-neural-networks/
Marcel Kuijsten, ‘Consciousness, Hallucinations, and the Bicameral Mind: three decades of new research’, Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes’s bicameral mind theory revisited, Julian Jaynes Society, 2006
Marcel Kuijsten, ‘Myths vs. Facts About Julian Jaynes’s Theory’, Julianjaynes.org, http://www.julianjaynes.org/myths-vs-facts-about-julian-jaynes-theory.php
Marcel Kuijsten, ‘New Evidence for Jaynes’s Neurological Model: a research update’, The Jaynesian, 2009
Robert F. Luck, ‘Practical Implication of Host Selection by Trichogramma Viewed Through the Perspective of Offspring Quality’, Innovation in Biological Control Research, California Conference on Biological Control, 10–11 June 1998, http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/pdf_X/Luck998b.pdf
Mary Midgley, Beast and Man: roots of human nature, Revised Edition, Routledge, 1995
C.R. Peterson and L.R. Beach, ‘Man as an Intuitive Statistician’, Psychological Bulletin, Volume 68, No 1, 1967
Stephen Pinker, The Language Instinct: how the mind creates language: the new science of language and mind, Penguin, 1994
Richard Powers, A Wild Haruki Chase: reading Murakami around the world, Stone Bridge Press, 2008
‘Schema.org Structured Data’, Moz website, https://moz.com/learn/seo/schema-structured-data (See also: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2857276)
Tom Standage, ‘Facing Realities’, 1843, August/September 2016, https://www.1843magazine.com/technology/facing-realities
Shaun Walker, ‘Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity’, The Guardian, 17 May 2016, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-face-recognition-app-end-public-anonymity-vkontakte?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Rüdiger Wehner, Matthias Wittlinger, Harald Wolf, ‘The desert ant odometer: a stride integrator that accounts for stride length and walking speed’, Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007, Issue 210
Tom Whipple, ‘I’ll Be Back: robot can reinvent itself’, The Times, 13 August 2015, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ill-be-back-robot-can-reinvent-itself-06zk9c9q6jq
Alasdair Wilkins, ‘Amazing video shows us the actual movies that play inside our mind’, io9 website, 22 September 2011, http://io9.gizmodo.com/5842960/amazing-video-shows-us-the-actual-movies-that-play-inside-our-mind
Michael Wood, Alfred Hitchcock: the man who knew too much, New Harvest, 2015
Chapter 6: New companions
Mark Bridge, ‘Good grief: chatbots will let you talk to dead relatives’, The Times, 11 October 2016
Jacqueline Damant, Martin Knapp, Paul Freddolino, and Daniel Lombard, ‘Effects of Digital Engagement on the Quality of Life of Older People’, London School of Economics, 2016
Robin Dunbar, Human Evolution: a Pelican introduction, Pelican, 2014
T. S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, 1915
Luciano Floridi, Information: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2010
Julien Forder, Stephen Allan, ‘Competition in the Care Homes Market: a report for the PHE Commission on Competition in the NHS’, OHE website, August 2011, https://www.ohe.org/sites/default/files/Competition%20in%20care%20home%20market%202011.pdf
‘Ghost in the Machine’, The Times, 11 October 2016
‘History of Wind Power’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wind_power
Felicity Morse, ‘How social media helped me deal with my mental illness’, BBC Newsbeat, 18 February 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35607567/how-social-media-helped-me-deal-with-my-mental-illness
‘Number of monthly active facebook users worldwide as of 3rd quarter 2017’, Statista website, https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide
Malcolm Peltu and Yorick Wilks, ‘Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: key social, psychological, ethical and design issues’, OII / e-Horizons Forum Discussion Paper, Oxford Internet Institute website, 14 January 2008, https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/archive/downloads/publications/FD14.pdf
Julie Ruvolo, ‘How Much of the Internet is Actually for Porn’, Forbes, 7 September 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/julieruvolo/2011/09/07/how-much-of-the-internet-is-actually-for-porn/#37b37b1261f7
Alex Scroxton, ‘Top 10 Internet of Things Stories of 2015’, Computer Weekly, 31 December 2015, http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500260406/Top-10-internet-of-things-stories-of-2015
Aaron Smith, ‘6 New Facts About Facebook’, Pew Research Center website, 3 February 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/03/6-new-facts-about-facebook/
‘Technology Integrated Health Management (TIHM)’, NHS England website, https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/test-beds/tihm/
‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truly,_Madly,_Deeply
Matt Turck, ‘Internet of Things: are we there yet?’, Matt Turck’s website, 28 March 2016, http://mattturck.com/2016/03/28/2016-iot-landscape/
‘Water Wheel’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_wheel
Mark Ward, ‘Web Porn: just how much is there ?’, BBC News, 1 July 2013, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23030090
Catriona White, ‘Is social media making you sad?’, BBC Three, 11 October 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/65c9fe04-4b3d-461b-a3ab-10d0d5f6d9b5
Chapter 7: Big beasts
Anita Balakrishnan, ‘Apple cash pile hits new record of $261.5 billion’, CNBC, 1 August 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/apple-earnings-q2-2017-how-much-cash-does-apple-have.html
A. S. Byatt, ‘Midas in Cyberspace’, The Guardian, 26 July 2003
Andrew Clark, ‘Goldman Sachs breaks record with $16.7bn bonus pot’, The Guardian, 15 October 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/15/goldman-sachs-record-bonus-pot
Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, ‘The Future of Employment: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation?’ Oxford Martin School and University of Oxford, 17 September 2013
‘Google Data Centers’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Data_Centers#Locations
Alexander E. M. Hess, ‘On Holiday: countries with the most vacation days’, USA Today, 8 June 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/06/08/countries-most-vacation-days/2400193/
Tobias Hill, The Cryptographer, Faber, 2003
Alexander Hitchcock, Kate Laycock, and Emilie Sundorph, ‘Work in Progess: towards a leaner, smarter public-sector workforce’, Reform, February 2017, http://www.reform.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Work-in-progress-Reform-report.pdf
Hal Hodson, ‘How to profit from your data and beat Facebook at its own game’, New Scientist, 7 September 2016
Chris Isidore, Tami Luhby, ‘Turns out Americans work really hard … but some want to work harder’, CNN, 9 July 2015, http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/09/news/economy/americans-work-bush/
Tom Kennedy, ‘UK Tourism Facts and Figures’, The Telegraph, 20 June 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/tourism/8587231/UK-Tourism-facts-and-figures.html
John Lanchester, Whoops!, Penguin, 2010, see pp. 136–137.
John Lanchester, ‘How Should We Read Investor Letters?’, The New Yorker, 5 September 2016
John Lanchester, ‘You Are the Product’, London Review of Books, 17 August 2017
Victor Luckerson, ‘Twitter IPO Leads to Sky-High $24 Billion Valuation’, Time, 7 November 2013, http://business.time.com/2013/11/07/twitter-ipo-leads-to-sky-high-24-billion-valuation/
Kevin Maney, ‘How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy’, Newsweek, 30 November 2016
Rachel Nuwer, ‘Each Day, 50 Percent of America Eats a Sandwich’, Smithsonian.com, 8 October 2014, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/each-day-50-percent-america-eats-sandwich-180952972/
‘Public Sector Employment, UK: September 2016’, ONS website, 14 December 2016, https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/publicsectoremployment/september2016
Friedrich Schneider, Dominik Enste, ‘Hiding in the Shadows: the growth of the underground economy’, Economic Issues, March 2002, https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues/issues30/
Rhonda S. Sebastian, Cecilia Wilkinson Enns, Joseph D. Goldman, Mary Katherine Hoy, Alanna J. Moshfegh, ‘Sandwich Consumption by Adults in the U.S.: what we eat in America, NHANES 2009–2012’, Food Surveys Research Group, USDA website, December 2015, https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400530/pdf/DBrief/14_sandwich_consumption_0912.pdf
Heather Somerville, ‘True price of an Uber ride in question as investors assess firm’s value’, Reuters, 23 August 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-profitability/true-price-of-an-uber-ride-in-question-as-investors-assess-firms-value-idUSKCN1B3103
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan, Random House, 2007
‘Travel and Tourism: economic impact’, World Travel & Tourism Council, 2015, https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/economic%20impact%20research/countries%202015/unitedstatesofamerica2015.pdf United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘Employment by Major Industry Sector’, Bureau of Labor Statistics website, https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘Fastest Growing Occupations’, Bureau of Labor Statistics website, https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_103.htm
M. Van Kleek, I. Liccardi, R. Binns, J. Zhao, D. Weitzner, and N. Shadbolt, ‘Better the Devil You Know: Exposing the Data Sharing Practices of Smartphone Apps.’ Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 5208–5220.
Darrell M. West, ‘What happens if robots take the jobs? The impact of emerging technologies on employment and public policy’, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution, October 2015, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/robotwork.pdf
Chapter 8: The challenge of data
Joel Achenbach, ‘The Resistance’, The Washington Post, 26 December 2015, http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/12/26/resistance/
‘Amazon Global Fulfillment Center Network’, MWPVL International website, http://www.mwpvl.com/html/amazon_com.html
Anni, ‘Government … Within a Social Machine Ecosystem’, Intersticia website, 15 February 2014, http://intersticia.com.au/government-within-a-social-machine-ecosystem/
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, ‘The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine’, Stanford, 1998
Gordon Corera, ‘NHS cyber-attack was “launched from North Korea”’, BBC News, 16 June 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40297493
‘Facebook Description of Methodology’, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/business/help/785455638255832
Samuel Gibbs, ‘How Much Are You Worth to Facebook?’, The Guardian, 28 January 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/how-much-are-you-worth-to-facebook
‘Google’s Ad Revenue From 2001 to 2016’, Statista website, http://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-revenue-of-google/
Max Van Kleek, ‘Everyday Surveillance — The 3rd Privacy, Identity & Data Protection Day 2016 Event’, University of Southampton website
‘Obama Budget Proposal Includes $19 Billion for Cybersecurity’, Fortune, 9 February 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/02/09/obama-budget-cybersecurity/
Kieron O’Hara and Nigel Shadbolt, The Spy in the Coffee Machine, OneWorld, 2008
‘Parents “oversharing” family photos online, but lack basic privacy know-how’, Nominet and The Parent Zone, Nominet website, 5 September 2016, http://www.nominet.uk/parents-oversharing-family-photos-online-lack-basic-privacy-know/
Rufus Pollock, ‘Welfare Gains from Opening Up Public Sector Information in the UK’, Rufus Pollock’s website, https://rufuspollock.com/papers/psi_openness_gains.pdf
Andy Pritchard, ‘500 Words Competition: TheySay collaborates with OUP on BBC’s 500 words competition’, TheySay website
Deepa Seetharaman, ‘Facebook Revenue Soars on Ad Growth’, The Wall Street Journal, 28 April 2016, http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-revenue-soars-on-ad-growth-1461787856
Daniel Sgroi, Thomas Hills, Gus O’Donnell, Andrew Oswald, and Eugenio Proto, ‘Understanding Happiness’, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, University of Warwick, The Social Market Foundation, 2017
Philip Sheldrake, ‘Solid: an introduction by MIT CSAIL’s Andrei Sambra’, The Hi-Project website, 9 December 2015, http://hi-project.org/2015/12/solid-introduction-mit-csails-andrei-sambra/
‘Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s next project: a platform that gives users control of their data’, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory website, 2 November 2015
Chapter 9: Augmented wisdom
Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, Lauren Kirchner, ‘Machine Bias: there’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks’, Propublica, 23 May 2016, https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing
Tim Berners-Lee, ‘Three Challenges for the Web, According to its Inventor’, World Wide Web Foundation website, 12 March 2017
David, ‘Wisconsin’s Prison-Sentencing Algorithm Challenged in Court’, Slashdot, 26 June 2016, https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/06/27/0147231/wisconsins-prison-sentencing-algorithm-challenged-in-court
‘Doteveryone: making the internet work for everyone’, Digital Social Innovation website, https://digitalsocial.eu/org/1334/doteveryone
Sydney Ember, ‘The Onion’s Las Vegas Shooting Headline Is Painfully Familiar’, The New York Times, 3 October 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/business/media/the-onion-las-vegas-headline.html
Thomas Gibbons-Neff, ‘ISIS drones are attacking U.S. troops and disrupting airstrikes in Raqqa, officials say’, The Washington Post, 14 June 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/14/isis-drones-are-attacking-u-s-troops-and-disrupting-airstrikes-in-raqqa-officials-say/?utm_term=.1014f450f4bc
Paul Johnson, Darwin: portrait of a genius, Viking, 2012
John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667
‘Open Access Journal’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journal ‘World Prison Populations’, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm
‘You Choose’, Redbridge Council website, https://youchoose.esd.org.uk/redbridge