References

Much of what I write here is cobbled together from random thoughts that have popped into my head, but where I have a clear understanding of where those ideas originated I try to cite the reference. References appear as footnotes on individual posts, but a full list of works cited on this blog follows:

  1. Asimov, Isaac. (1954). The Caves of Steel.
  2. Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. https://joelbakan.com/the-corporation-book/.
  3. Beato, Rick. (2026). The Internet Is Dead…And Nobody Cares. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUSY6mtqQDI.
  4. Bellefontaine, Michelle. (2026). Meta building its first Canadian data centre northeast of Edmonton. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/meta-data-centre-sturgeon-county-alberta-9.7263271.
  5. Doctorow, Cory. (2026). The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late. Verso Books.
  6. Friends of Attention, The. (2026). Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement. Crown. https://friendsofattention.org/.
  7. Giants Software. (2024). Farming Simulator 25. https://www.farming-simulator.com/.
  8. Hawley, Michelle. (2024). Exploring Air Canada's AI Chatbot Dilemma. CMSWIRE. https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/exploring-air-canadas-ai-chatbot-dilemma/.
  9. Joy; Nolan. (2001). Westworld. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/.
  10. Moore; Larson. (2004). Battlestar Galactica. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/.
  11. Oldenburg, Ray. (1989). The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You through the Day. Berkshire Publishing Group.
  12. Plato; Socrates. Phaedrus (370 BC). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue).
  13. Roddenberry, Gene. (1987). Star Trek: The Next Generation. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/.
  14. Smith, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling. Nature Communications. 8(1853). https://rdcu.be/fqDbX.
  15. Sony Playstation. (2026). State of Play | June 2, 2026 [English]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvh0xXmu0bs.
  16. this ecommerce life. (2026). History's greatest thinkers… with AI. https://www.patreon.com/thisecommercelife/posts/historys-with-ai-160191739.
  17. Torvolds, Linus. (2026). Keynote, Open Source Summit North America 2026.
  18. Ullrich, Volker. (2016). Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
  19. University of California, Berkeley. (1999). SETI@Home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home.
  20. Wachowski, Lana; Wachowski, Lilly. (1999). The Matrix. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/.

Note: I add citation references to articles when I write and schedule them, not when the article is actually published. There may be referenced listed on this page for unpublished articles ( and in some cases this is a week or two ahead.)