Endnotes for Vital Foresight

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1. “Definitions of Transhumanism” collected by Anders Sandberg, 1997 https://web.archive.org/web/19970712091927/http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Intro/definitions.html
2. “Humanity+: What We Do” https://humanityplus.org/
3. “Natasha Vita-More PhD” https://natashavita-more.com/
4. One example is from August 2001: “Towards the 100 millionth Symbian OS phone” available at https://deltawisdom.com/insight/august-2001/
5. As covered in my 2014 book Smartphones and Beyond: The remarkable rise and fall of Symbian https://smartphonesandbeyond.com/
6. In Technology, Management and Society by Peter F. Drucker, Harper and Row, 1970
7. “Welcome to London Futurists” https://londonfuturists.com/
8. “Futurism Is Dead” by Hope Cristol, Wired, 2003 https://www.wired.com/2003/12/futurism-is-dead/; “Bullshit Jobs – Futurist, Thought Leader, Leader… if you call yourself this, you’re most probably not” by Donald Clark, 2018 http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2018/09/bullshit-jobs-forget-technology-and.html; “Predictions are shit (& calling yourself a Futurist is silly)” by Bruce McTague, Enlightened Conflict, 2019 http://brucemctague.com/tag/futurists-are-just-full-of-shit
9. For the importance of narrative in transforming our future, see The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough by Alex Evans, Transworld Digital, 2017, and “ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future” by Nikola Danaylov, Singularity Weblog, 2021 https://www.singularityweblog.com/rewriting-the-human-story-how-our-story-determines-our-future/
10. “The Mont Fleur Scenarios” by Adam Kahane, Pieter le Roux, Vincent Maphai, et al, Deeper News, Global Business Network, 1992 https://reospartners.com/wp-content/uploads/old/Mont%20Fleur.pdf
11. “Mont Fleur Conference Centre” https://www.montfleur.co.za/about/
12. Excerpt from Transformative Scenario Planning by Adam Kahane, Penguin Random House, 2012 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/575191/transformative-scenario-planning-by-adam-kahane/9781609944902/excerpt
13. “Bio: Adam Kahane” https://reospartners.com/reos-management/adam-kahane/
14. Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu by John Allen, Free Press, 2006
15. Breaking the Mould, The Role of Scenarios in Shaping South Africa’s Future by Nick Segal, Sun Press, 2007
16. The scenarios can be viewed in video format: “Mont Fleur Scenarios” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f92RYCZMwEk
17. “The Icarus Scenario” by Clem Sunter, News 24, 2010 https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/clemsunter/The-Icarus-Scenario-20100120
18. “Statement by Mr Mboweni at his inauguration as new Governor of the Reserve Bank of South Africa”, Bank for International Settlements, 1999 https://www.bis.org/review/r990812c.pdf
19. “An Essay on Criticism” by Alexander Pope, 1711, in Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o3675-w0010.shtml
20. “A Little Learning”, Poets’ Graves https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope/a_little_learning.htm
21. “The Neuroses of the Railway” by Ralph Harrington, History Today, July 1994 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/neuroses-railway
22. “There is No Reason for Any Individual To Have a Computer in Their Home” by Garson O’Toole, Quote Investigator, 2017 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/14/home-computer/
23. Association of Professional Futurists https://www.apf.org/
24. The Foresight Institute https://foresight.org/
25. The Millennium Project http://www.millennium-project.org/
26. The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) https://ieet.org/
27. Chapter 29, verse 18, in the King James translation
28. The reference is to the interpretation by Joseph of the dreams of the Pharaoh, from Chapter 41 of the Book of Genesis
29. “Social cycle theory”, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory
30. The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman, St. Martin’s Press, 2013
31. “Ignaz Semmelweis and the birth of infection control” by M Best and D Neuhauser, BMJ Quality and Safety, 2004 https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/13/3/233
32. “Continental Drift: Theory & Definition” by Becky Oskin, Live Science, 2017 https://www.livescience.com/37529-continental-drift.html
33. “Shape the future: Our vision” https://web.archive.org/web/20200930041646/https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/careers/working-at-cisco/executive.html
34. “Be moved” http://corporate.sony.ca/html/sonyinfo/index.html
35. “The mission and history of Dell Computers” https://www.thebalancesmb.com/dell-computer-company-profile-2892813
36. “A computer in every home: How a crazy ‘shared mission’ drove Microsoft’s early days” from Microsoft Secrets: An Insider’s View of the Rocket Ride from Worst to First and Lessons Learned on the Journey by Dave Jaworski, Tech In Asia, 2018 https://www.techinasia.com/computer-home-crazy-shared-mission-drove-microsofts-early-days
37. “From the garage to the Googleplex” https://about.google/our-story/
38. “About Tesla” https://www.tesla.com/about
39. “BHAG – Big Hairy Audacious Goal” from Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, 1994 https://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/BHAG.html
40. “We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN” by Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report
41. Human Extinction: A History of Thinking About the End of the World by Phil Torres, forthcoming, 2021
42. Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich, Ballantyne Books, New York, 1968, revised 1971 and 1978. Later editions of the book changed “in the 1970s” in that quote to “in the 1970s and 1980s”
43. “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor” by Garrett Hardin, Psychology Today, 1974 https://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_ethics_case_against_helping_poor.html
44. What to Expect when No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster by Jonathan V. Last, Encounter Books, 2013, page 7
45. “The Real Causes of Famine” by Jeffrey Sach, Time Magazine, 1998 https://www.earth.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/Sachs%20Writing/1998/Time_1998_TheRealCausesofFamine_10_26_98.pdf
46. More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources by Andrew McAfee, Scribner, 2019
47. “The Father of the Green Revolution” by Henry I. Miller, Hoover Institution, 2012 https://www.hoover.org/research/father-green-revolution
48. How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley, 4th Estate, 2020, section “Dwarfing Genes from Japan”
49. “The Population Bomb Revisited” by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, 2009 http://www.populationmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Population-Bomb-Revisited-Paul-Ehrlich-20096.pdf
50. “The Swine Flu Panic of 2009” by Philip Bethge et al, Spiegel International, 2010 https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/reconstruction-of-a-mass-hysteria-the-swine-flu-panic-of-2009-a-682613.html
51. “2009 swine flu pandemic by country”, Wikipedia summary of official reports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_by_country
52. “Director-General Statement following the first meeting of the Emergency Committee”, World Health Organization, 2009 https://www.who.int/news/item/25-04-2009-director-general-statement-following-the-first-meeting-of-the-emergency-committee
53. “World now at the start of 2009 influenza pandemic” by Margaret Chan, World Health Organization, 2009 https://reliefweb.int/report/world/world-now-start-2009-influenza-pandemic-statement-press-who-director-general-dr
54. “The Swine Flu Panic of 2009” by Philip Bethge et al, Spiegel International, 2010 https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/reconstruction-of-a-mass-hysteria-the-swine-flu-panic-of-2009-a-682613.html
55. “Global Estimates of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Mortality Released by CDC-Led Collaboration”, CDC, 2012 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/pandemic-global-estimates.htm
56. “Interview: Dr. Richard Schabas” by Meagan Fitzpatrick, Canwest News Service, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091214081830/http://www.canada.com/health/interview+richard+schabas/2221030/story.html
57. “Council of Europe will investigate and debate on ‘Faked Pandemic’” by Wolfgang Wodarg, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100215080904/http://www.wodarg.de/english/2948146.html
58. “Conflicts of interest and pandemic flu” by Fiona Godlee, BMJ, 2010 http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2947.full
59. “We Go From Hysteria to Hysteria” by Dennis Prager, Real Clear Politics, 2020 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/03/we_go_from_hysteria_to_hysteria_142552.html
60. “Exercise Cygnus uncovered: the pandemic warnings buried by the government” by Paul Nuki and Bill Gardner, Daily Telegraph, 2020 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/28/exercise-cygnus-uncovered-pandemic-warnings-buried-government/
61. “Revealed: the secret report that gave ministers warning of care home coronavirus crisis” by David Pegg, Robert Booth, and David Conn, The Guardian, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/revealed-the-secret-report-that-gave-ministers-warning-of-care-home-coronavirus-crisis
62. COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One by Debora MacKenzie, Hachette Books, 2020
63. “What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s?” SkepticalScience https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm
64. “Newsweek’s ‘Global Cooling’ Article From April 28, 1975” by Peter Gwynne https://www.scribd.com/doc/225798861/Newsweek-s-Global-Cooling-Article-From-April-28-1975
65. “The Editor’s Desk”, Newsweek, 2007 https://www.newsweek.com/editors-desk-98979
66. “From Global Cooling to Global Cooling” by Steve Taylor, The View From Mid-America, 2010 http://viewfrommidamerica.blogspot.com/2010/09/from-global-cooling-to-global-cooling.html
67. “Sorry, a TIME Magazine Cover Did Not Predict a Coming Ice Age” by Bryan Walsh, Time, 2013 https://science.time.com/2013/06/06/sorry-a-time-magazine-cover-did-not-predict-a-coming-ice-age/
68. “The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus” by Thomas C. Peterson et al, Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, 2008 https://journals.ametsoc.org/bams/article/89/9/1325/59455/THE-MYTH-OF-THE-1970s-GLOBAL-COOLING-SCIENTIFIC
69. “Reid Bryson: University of Wisconsin Climatologist and Meteorologist”, by Bill Hanley, Mother Earth News, 1976 https://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/reid-bryson-zmaz76mazraw
70. “My 1975 ‘Cooling World’ Story Doesn’t Make Today’s Climate Scientists Wrong” by Peter Gwynne, Inside Science, 2014 https://www.insidescience.org/news/my-1975-cooling-world-story-doesnt-make-todays-climate-scientists-wrong
71. “Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note”, Bank of England, 2019 https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announcement
72. “This Is Only a Foretaste of What Is To Come, and Only the Shadow of What Is Going To Be”, Quote Investigator, 2019 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/10/12/ai-shadow/
73. “The Turing Digital Archive” http://www.turingarchive.org/browse.php/b/4
74. “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing, Mind, 1950 https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf
75. “A proposal for the Dartmouth summer research project on Artificial Intelligence” by J. McCarthy et al, August 31, 1955 http://raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/boxa/dart564props.pdf
76. “Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research” by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, Operations Research, 1958 https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/opre.6.1.1
77. “Allen Newell, 1975” by Hunter Heyck, ACM Awards https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/newell_3167755.cfm
78. “Press Release”, The Nobel Prize, 1978 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1978/press-release/
79. “Chess Championship: Machines Play, People Watch” by Craig Stinson, Softline, January 1982 http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/softline_1.3.pdf
80. Computer Chess by Monroe Newborn, Academic Press, 1975
81. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall, 1995
82. “The Drosophila of AI”, Chess Programming Wiki article about Stephen Coles https://www.chessprogramming.org/L._Stephen_Coles#The_Drosophila_of_AI
83. “The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win” by Alan Levinovitz, Wired, 2014 https://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go/
84. “What the AI behind AlphaGo can teach us about being human”, by Cade Metz, Wired, 2016 https://www.wired.com/2016/05/google-alpha-go-ai/
85. “Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm”, David Silver et al, arXiv, 2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815
86. “No plan survives contact with the enemy”, Boot Camp & Military Fitness Institute https://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com/military-and-outdoor-fitness-articles/no-plan-survives-contact-with-the-enemy/
87. “Plans Are Worthless, But Planning Is Everything”, Quote Investigator, 2017 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/18/planning/
88. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ooFGl74WbXsC&pg=PT209
89. “The Maginot Line – 11 Fascinating Facts About France’s Great Wall” Military History Now, 2017 https://militaryhistorynow.com/2017/05/07/the-great-wall-of-france-11-remarkable-facts-about-the-maginot-line/
90. See references quoted in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France#Popular_reaction_in_Germany
91. “Mein Kampf”, Wikiquote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf
92. “Stalin’s Intelligence”, by Niall Ferguson, New York Times, 2005 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/books/arts/stalins-intelligence.html
93. “The Eastern Front”, The National WW2 Museum https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/eastern-front
94. “Fooling Hitler: The Elaborate Ruse Behind D-Day” by Christopher Klein, History Stories, 2014 https://www.history.com/news/fooling-hitler-the-elaborate-ruse-behind-d-day
95. “Famous Deceptions of World War 2” by Stephanie Huesler, History Undusted, 2014 https://historyundusted.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/famous-deceptions-of-world-war-2/
96. The Great Illusion by Norman Angell, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910
97. “World War One: First war was impossible, then inevitable” by Anatole Kaletsky, Reuters, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140701010006/http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/06/27/world-war-one-first-war-was-impossible-then-inevitable/
98. Quote included in “A mirror on the crisis” by Hamish McRae, The Independent, 2008 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-ascent-of-money-by-niall-ferguson-980013.html
99. “Flight 8969: GIGN’s Greatest Hour” by Mike Perry, SOFREP, 2012 https://sofrep.com/news/flight-8969-gign/
100. “Swatting Hijackers Away: The Hijacking of Air France 8969 and the GIGN Intervention” by Massimo Catusi and Daniela Tardo, Aviation Security International, 2019 https://www.asi-mag.com/swatting-hijackers-away-the-hijacking-of-air-france-8969-and-the-gign-intervention/
101. “Operation Bojinka’s bombshell” by Matthew Brzezinski, The Star, 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20020614124327/http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1009926464027
102. “Echoes of ’95 Manila Plot” by Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 2006 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-11-na-manila11-story.html
103. “Yousef bombs Philippines Airlines Flight 434”, Global Security https://web.archive.org/web/20061128034427/https://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/yousef_bombs_philippines_airlines_flight_434.htm
104. “The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?” by Rex A. Hudson, Library of Congress, 1999 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/Soc_Psych_of_Terrorism.pdf
105. “A Review of the FBI’s Handling of Intelligence Information Prior to the September 11 Attacks, Chapter 3”, Office of the Inspector General, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20051205061924/http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/0506/chapter3.htm
106. “What the CIA knew before 9/11: New details” by Chris Whipple, Politico, 2015 https://www.politico.eu/article/attacks-will-be-spectacular-cia-war-on-terror-bush-bin-laden/
107. “The Twentieth Hijacker” by Jason Zengerle, New York Magazine, 2011 https://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/twentieth-hijacker/
108. “The FBI’s Handling of the Phoenix Electronic Communication and Investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui Prior to September 11, 2001” by Eleanor Hill, 2002 https://fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/092402hill.html
109. “Damning evidence highlights FBI bungles” by Jerry Markon and Timothy Dwyer, Washington Post, 2006 https://www.smh.com.au/world/damning-evidence-highlights-fbi-bungles-20060322-gdn7hz.html
110. “Government Terrorist Trackers Before 9/11: Higher Ups Wouldn’t Listen” by Sean Naylor, History, 2017 https://www.history.com/news/government-terrorist-trackers-before-911-higher-ups-wouldnt-listen
111. “Traces of Terrorism: The Warnings, F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training” by Philip Shenon, New York Times, 2002 https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/18/us/traces-of-terrorism-the-warnings-fbi-knew-for-years-about-terror-pilot-training.html
112. “Proof that life is getting better for humanity, in 5 charts” by Max Roser, Vox, 2016 https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/23/14062168/history-global-conditions-charts-life-span-poverty
113. “Global Inequality of Opportunity”, Our World In Data by Max Roser, 2019 https://ourworldindata.org/global-inequality-of-opportunity
114. “Top 1% net personal wealth share, United Kingdom, 1896-2012”, World Inequality Database, https://wid.world/country/united-kingdom/
115. “Top 1% net personal wealth share, USA, 1913-2016”, World Inequality Database, https://wid.world/country/usa/
116. “Trends in income and wealth inequality” by Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Ruth Igielnik, and Rakesh Kochhar, Pew Research Center, 2020 https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/
117. “Statement from the new Prime Minister Theresa May”, 13 July 2016 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/statement-from-the-new-prime-minister-theresa-may
118. “Social care services: funding cuts are biting hard” by Simon Bottery, The Kings Fund, 2020 https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2020/01/social-care-funding-cuts-are-biting-hard
119. “‘Deaths of despair’: The deadly epidemic that predated coronavirus” by Roge Karma, Vox, 2020 https://www.vox.com/2020/4/15/21214734/deaths-of-despair-coronavirus-covid-19-angus-deaton-anne-case-americans-deaths
120. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class by Guy Standing, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011
121. “Germanwings crash: Who was co-pilot Andreas Lubitz?”, BBC News, 2017 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32072220
122. “An Accurate Look at Timothy McVeigh’s Beliefs” by Bruce Prescott, Good Faith Media, 2010 https://goodfaithmedia.org/an-accurate-look-at-timothy-mcveighs-beliefs-cms-15532/
123. “Aum Shinrikyo: The Japanese cult behind the Tokyo Sarin attack”, BBC News, 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35975069
124. “The Next Wave of Extremists Will Be Green” by Jamie Bartlett, Foreign Policy, 2017 https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/01/the-green-radicals-are-coming-environmental-extremism/
125. “Accidental Nuclear War: A Timeline of Close Calls”, Future of Life Institute http://futureoflife.org/background/nuclear-close-calls-a-timeline/
126. “Mike Pompeo, Trump’s pick for secretary of state, talks about politics as a battle of good and evil”, by Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 2018 https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/15/17117298/mike-pompeo-trump-secretary-of-state-politics-battle-evangelical-holy-war-christian
127. “Reasons for the increase in emerging and re-emerging viral infectious diseases” by Eric Ka-Wai Hui, Microbes and Infection, 2006 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110580/
128. “‘Wet markets’ likely launched the coronavirus. Here’s what you need to know” by Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic, 2020 https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2020/04/wet-markets-likely-launched-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-know
129. “Biologists are trying to make bird flu easier to spread. Can we not?” by Kelsey Piper, Vox, 2019 https://www.vox.com/2019/2/17/18225938/biologists-are-trying-to-make-bird-flu-easier-to-spread-can-we-not
130. “How smallpox claimed its final victim” by Monica Rimmer, BBC News, 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-45101091
131. “Threatened pandemics and laboratory escapes: Self-fulfilling prophecies” by Martin Furmanski, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2014 https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/threatened-pandemics-and-laboratory-escapes-self-fulfilling-prophecies/
132. “How deadly pathogens have escaped the lab – over and over again” by Kelsey Piper, Vox, 2019 https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/20/18260669/deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu
133. “Taiwan’s new SARS case raises questions about sloppy procedures” USA Today, 2003 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-12-17-singapore-sars_x.htm
134. “How a Cult Used Salad Bars to Orchestrate the Worst Bioterror Attack in US History” by Mayukh Sen, Vice, 2018 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzp4n9/wild-wild-country-netflix-salad-bar-bioterror-attack
135. “Bacillus anthracis Bioterrorism Incident, Kameido, Tokyo, 1993”, by Hiroshi Takahashi et al, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/1/03-0238_article
136. “How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam” by Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Benjamin Haas, The Guardian, 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/how-north-korea-got-away-with-the-assassination-of-kim-jong-nam
137. Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shocked the Business World by Charles Arthur, Kogan Page, 2018
138. “WH: Kim Jong Un behind massive WannaCry malware attack” by Joe Uchill, The Hill, 2017 https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/365580-wh-kim-jong-un-ordered-release-of-disastrous-wannacry-malware
139. “U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism” by Christopher Bing, Reuters, 2021 https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-us-give-ransomware-hacks-similar-priority-terrorism-official-says-2021-06-03/
140. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter, Crown, 2014
141. “The inside story of the biggest hack in history” by Jose Pagliery, CNN Business, 2015 https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/05/technology/aramco-hack/index.html
142. “Sony Cyberattack, First a Nuisance, Swiftly Grew Into a Firestorm” by Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/business/media/sony-attack-first-a-nuisance-swiftly-grew-into-a-firestorm-.html
143. “More deaths linked to Ashley Madison hack as scammers move in” by Iain Thomson, The Register, 2015 https://www.theregister.com/2015/08/24/death_toll_ashley_madison/
144. “Equifax data breach FAQ: What happened, who was affected, what was the impact?” by Josh Fruhlinger, CSO, 2020 https://www.csoonline.com/article/3444488/equifax-data-breach-faq-what-happened-who-was-affected-what-was-the-impact.html
145. “A new data leak hits Aadhaar, India’s national ID database” by Zack Whittaker, ZDNet, 2018 https://www.zdnet.com/article/another-data-leak-hits-india-aadhaar-biometric-database/
146. “When cyberwar struck its first civilian target” by Brian Nussbaum, Nature, 2019 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03457-9
147. Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff, Public Affairs, 2018
148. “Venezuela data offer rare glimpse of economic chaos” by Gideon Long, Financial Times, 2019 https://www.ft.com/content/5cb83c1c-821b-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b
149. “IMF sees Venezuela inflation at 10 million percent in 2019”, Reuters, 2018 https://in.reuters.com/article/venezuela-economy-idINKCN1MJ1YX
150. “On the Measurement of Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation” by Steve H. Hanke and Alex Kwok, Cato Journal, 2009 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2264895
151. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, Princeton University Press, 2009
152. “1927-1933 Chart of Pompous Prognosticators” by Colin J. Seymour, Gold-Eagle, 2001 http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/1927-1933-chart-pompous-prognosticators
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645. “Next-Generation Sequencing Methods” by T. Rajesh and M. Jaya, Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2017 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444636676000079
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647. “The Hallmarks of Aging” by Carlos López-Otín et al, Cell, 2013 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836174/
648. Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele, Doubleday Books, 2020
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650. “The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine” by David S. Jones et al, New England Journal of Medicine, 2012 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1113569
651. “Juvenescence raises another $100m to invest in longevity” by Clive Cookson, Financial Times, 2019 https://www.ft.com/content/ddec6a10-c046-11e9-b350-db00d509634e
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653. “Is artificial intelligence set to become art’s next medium?” Christies, 2018 https://www.christies.com/features/A-collaboration-between-two-artists-one-human-one-a-machine-9332-1.aspx
654. “How AI-Generated Music Is Changing The Way Hits Are Made” by Dani Deahl, The Verge, 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17777008/artificial-intelligence-taryn-southern-amper-music
655. “An album in the style of The Beatles, generated by OpenAI Jukebox” YouTube, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZu24pddzwk
656. “Alpha Zero’s ‘Alien’ Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI” by Will Knight, MIT Technology Review, 2017 https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/12/08/147199/alpha-zeros-alien-chess-shows-the-power-and-the-peculiarity-of-ai/
657. “AlphaZero: How Intuition Demolished Logic” by Carloz Perez, Intuition Machine, 2017 https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/alphazero-how-intuition-demolished-logic-66a4841e6810
658. “Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue)” by Cade Metz, New York Times, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/science/artificial-intelligence-ai-gpt3.html
659. “It seems that GPT-3 has its own sense of humor, more of an anti-humor in fact” By nullc, Y Combinator Hacker News, 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24007784
660. “18 Impressive Applications of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)” by Jason Brownlee, Machine Learning Mastery, 2019 https://machinelearningmastery.com/impressive-applications-of-generative-adversarial-networks/
661. “Combining GANs and reinforcement learning for drug discovery” by Insilico Medicine, EurekAlert, 2018 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/imi-cga050918.php
662. “The incredible life of DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis” by Sam Shead, Business Insider, 2017 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-life-of-deepmind-cofounder-demis-hassabis-2017-5
663. “Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence” by Demis Hassabis et al, DeepMind, 2017 https://deepmind.com/research/publications/neuroscience-inspired-artificial-intelligence
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665. “Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?” by Liqun Luo, Nautilus, 2018 http://nautil.us/issue/59/connections/why-is-the-human-brain-so-efficient
666. “Neuromorphic Computing”, Intel https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/research/neuromorphic-computing.html
667. “Quantum computing should supercharge this machine-learning technique” by Will Knight, MIT Technology Review, 2019 https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/13/136628/quantum-computing-should-supercharge-this-machine-learning-technique/
668. “How may quantum computing affect Artificial Intelligence?”, BBVA, 2020 https://www.bbva.com/en/how-may-quantum-computing-affect-artificial-intelligence/
669. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness by Mark Solms, WW Norton Company, 2021
670. Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind by Susan Schneider, Princeton University Press, 2019
671. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, Allen Lane, 2018
672. “Probabilistic Programming and the Art of the Possible” by Michael Kozlov and Ashish Kulkarni, World Quant, 2019 https://www.weareworldquant.com/en/thought-leadership/probabilistic-programming-and-the-art-of-the-possible/
673. “The next wave: Probabilistic programming” by Stuart Russell, CogX YouTube, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYFbPQiLlxk
674. “About SingularityNET” https://singularitynet.io/aboutus/
675. “Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s Future” by Steven Levy, Wired, 2014 https://www.wired.com/2014/04/zuckerberg-f8-interview/
676. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, Viking, 2019
677. “Jean M. Hebert, Ph.D.” Albert Einstein College of Medicine https://www.einsteinmed.org/faculty/9069/jean-hebert
678. “How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control” by Lisa McClain, The Conversation, 2018 https://theconversation.com/how-the-catholic-church-came-to-oppose-birth-control-95694
679. Proverbs 13:24
680. A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural by Peter L. Berger, Doubleday, 1969
681. Leviticus 20:9
682. “The relevance of Gandhi in the capitalism debate” by Oliver Balch, The Guardian, 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/relevance-gandhi-capitalism-debate-rajni-bakshi
683. “Red in tooth and claw” by Gary Martin, The Phrase Finder https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/red-in-tooth-and-claw.html
684. “To Asa Gray, 22 May” by Charles Darwin, 1860 https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2814.xml
685. “All Things Dull And Ugly Lyrics”, Lyrics Depot http://www.lyricsdepot.com/monty-python/all-things-dull-and-ugly.html
686. “About Humanists International” https://humanists.international/about/
687. “What is humanism?” Humanists International https://humanists.international/what-is-humanism/
688. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Pantheon, 2012
689. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris, Free Press, 2010
690. “The Transhumanist FAQ, v2.1” by Nick Bostrom, World Transhumanist Association, 2003 https://www.nickbostrom.com/views/transhumanist.pdf
691. “Transhumanist Values” by Nick Bostrom, Ethical Issues for the 21st Century, 2003 https://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/values.html
692. “Overpopulation and Near-Future Tech” by Nicola Bagalà, Lifespan IO, 2021 https://www.lifespan.io/news/lifextenshow-overpopulation-and-near-future-tech/
693. “Transhumanist Declaration”, Humanity+, 2009 https://humanityplus.org/philosophy/transhumanist-declaration/
694. This banner has been removed from that particular site, but a Google image search for the phrase “Victory of transhumanism is inevitable” will find other examples. See also the commentary in “Transhumanism has never been modern” by Richard Jones, Soft Machines, 2014 http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=1549
695. “Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045” by Christianna Reedy, Futurism, 2017 https://futurism.com/kurzweil-claims-that-the-singularity-will-happen-by-2045
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697. “Reject the Deadly Precautionary Principle: Approve All Covid-19 Vaccines Immediately!” by Gennady Stolyarov II, U.S. Transhumanist Party, 2020 https://transhumanist-party.org/2020/12/15/reject-precautionary-principle/
698. Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson, Riverhead, 2021
699. “In Praise of Industrial Policy” by Francis Fukuyama, American Purpose, 2021 https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/in-praise-of-industrial-policy/
700. “What Would It Mean for Humans to Become Data?” by Joelle Renstrom, Slate, 2019 https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/years-and-years-finale-bethany-transhumanist.html
701. “Principle 15”, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1992 https://www.jus.uio.no/lm/environmental.development.rio.declaration.1992/15.html
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703. “The Proactionary Principle, Version 1.2” by Max More, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20110709213137/http://www.maxmore.com/proactionary.htm
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706. “Book Review Symposium: Steve Fuller and Veronika Lipińska, The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism” by Matthew David and Dora Meredith, Sociology, 2015 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038038515611312
707. “21 Historical Figures You Didn’t Know Supported the Eugenics Movement” by Kara Goldfarb, All That’s Interesting, 2018 https://allthatsinteresting.com/eugenics-movement
708. “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases (July 14, 1933)”, German History in Documents and Images http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English30.pdf
709. “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/deadly-medicine-creating-the-master-race
710. “Julian Huxley and the Continuity of Eugenics in Twentieth-century Britain” by Paul Weindling, Journal of Modern European History, 2012 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366572/
711. “The irrationality of transhumanists” by Susan B. Levin, IAI News, 2021 https://iai.tv/articles/the-irrationality-of-transhumanists-auid-1701
712. “Playing to lose: transhumanism, autonomy, and liberal democracy” by Susan B. Levin, OUP Blog, 2021 https://blog.oup.com/2021/01/playing-to-lose-transhumanism-autonomy-and-liberal-democracy-long-read/
713. “Beyond Transhumanism: The Dangers of Transhumanist Philosophies on Human and Nonhuman Beings” by Benjamin Shane Evans, Iowa State University, 2017 https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6307&context=etd
714. The Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan, self-published, 2013
715. “Book review | The Transhumanist Wager” by Giulio Prisco, Kurzweil AI, 2013 https://www.kurzweilai.net/book-review-the-transhumanist-wager
716. “NEWS FLASH: The Transhumanist Wager is NOT Zoltan Istvan’s Political Manifesto” by Chris T. Armstrong, Continuity of Consciousness, 2016 https://carmstrong1959blog.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/news-flash-the-transhumanist-wager-is-not-zoltan-istvans-political-manifesto/
717. “A muscular new kid on the block” by David Wood, dw2blog, 2013 https://dw2blog.com/2013/12/22/a-muscular-new-kid-on-the-block/
718. “Six Signs of Scientism” by Susan Haack, Logos and Episteme, 2012 https://philpapers.org/rec/HAASSO
719. “Steven Poole takes issue with linguist Steven Pinker’s language” by Steven Poole, The Guardian, 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/23/steven-pinker-language-poole
720. “Philosophy”, Humanity+ https://humanityplus.org/philosophy/
721. “Definitions of Transhumanism” collected by Anders Sandberg, https://www.aleph.se/Trans/Intro/definitions.html
722. “I’ll speak at TransVision 2019, July 6–7 in London” by Giulio Prisco, Turing Church, 2019 https://turingchurch.net/ill-speak-at-transvision-2019-july-6-7-in-london-f033ea85377f
723. Available at https://goertzel.org/CosmistManifesto_July2010.pdf
724. “Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses” by Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 2018 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/
725. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre, Fourth Estate, 2012
726. “The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists” by Julia Belluz, Brad Plumer, and Brian Resnick, Vox, 2016 https://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12016710/science-challeges-research-funding-peer-review-process
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732. “The problem with utopias” by Michael Shermer, Aeon, 2018 https://theweek.com/articles/760689/problem-utopias
733. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly, Viking, 2016
734. “Extropy Magazines” https://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Extropy_Magazines
735. “The Extropian Principles version 3.0” https://web.archive.org/web/20170415055109/http://vency.com/EXtropian3.htm
736. “Principles of Extropy version 3.11” https://web.archive.org/web/20110806105153/http://www.extropy.org/principles.htm
737. “H+: True Transhumanism” http://www.metanexus.net/essay/h-true-transhumanism
738. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, Harvill Secker, 2016
739. “Transhumanism” by Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Policy, 2009 https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/23/transhumanism/
740. “Do Amish use technology?” Amish America https://amishamerica.com/do-amish-use-technology/
741. “Prospects for a transhuman mind?” Leda Cosmides in conversation with Natasha Mitchell, ABC All in the Mind, 2007 https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/prospects-for-a-transhuman-mind/3391110
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744. “Pleiotropy, Natural Selection, and the Evolution of Senescence” by George C. Williams, Evolution, 1957 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2406060
745. “Genetic syndromes in man with potential relevance to the pathobiology of aging” by George M. Martin, Birth Defects Original Article Series, 1978 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/147113/
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748. “Unfit for the future: The urgent need for moral enhancement” by Julian Savulescu and Ingmar Persson, Philosophy Now, 2012 https://blog.oup.com/2012/08/unfit-future-moral-enhancement/
749. “Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Philosophical, Religious, and Ethical Considerations” by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Metanexus, 2007 https://www.metanexus.net/facing-challenges-transhumanism-philosophical-religious-and-ethical-considerations/
750. “The Hedonistic Imperative” by David Pearce https://www.hedweb.com/
751. “Transforming Transhumanism” by David North, University of Chicago Philosophy Review, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20201128013418/https://ucpr.blog/2019/06/06/transforming-transhumanism/
752. “Artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and rival salvations” by Ted Peters, Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology, 2019 https://luthscitech.org/artificial-intelligence-transhumanism-and-rival-salvations/
753. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” by Bill Joy, Wired, 2000 https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
754. “H-: Transhumanism and the Posthuman Future: Will Technological Progress Get Us There?” by Ted Peters, Metanexus, 2011 https://www.metanexus.net/h-transhumanism-and-posthuman-future-will-technological-progress-get-us-there/
755. “H+: Trite Truths About Technology: A Reply to Ted Peters” by Russell Blackford, Metanexus, 2011 https://metanexus.net/h-trite-truths-about-technology-reply-ted-peters/
756. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark, Knopf, 2017
757. Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind by Susan Schneider, Princeton University Press, 2019
758. “The New Eugenics of Transhumanism: A Feminist Assessment” by Nikila Lakshmanan, Gender Forum, 2018 http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/5_Lakshmanan_Transhumanism.pdf
759. “Killings of police and polio workers halt Pakistan vaccine drive” by Lucy Lamble, The Guardian, 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/30/killings-of-police-and-polio-workers-halt-vaccine-drive-in-pakistan
760. “Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital” by Lizzie Wade, Science, 2018 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/feeding-gods-hundreds-skulls-reveal-massive-scale-human-sacrifice-aztec-capital
761. “The Four Noble Truths”, BBC, 2009 https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/beliefs/fournobletruths_1.shtml
762. Discourses of Epictetus, https://archive.org/stream/epictetus02epicuoft#page/140/mode/2up/search/freedom
763. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations
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765. “Acceptance is the first step toward change” by Sunada Takagi, Mindful Purpose, 2010 http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/personal-change/acceptance-is-the-first-step-toward-change
766. “The Stoic: 9 Principles to Help You Keep Calm in Chaos” by Paul Jun, 99u http://99u.com/articles/24401/a-makers-guidebook-9-stoic-principles-to-nurture-your-life-and-work
767. Luke 10:25-37
768. New Bottles for New Wine by Julian Huxley, Chatto and Windus, 1957 https://archive.org/details/NewBottlesForNewWine
769. “History of ‘transhumanism’” by Peter Harrison and Joseph Wolyniak, Notes and Queries, 2015 https://www.academia.edu/13997038/History_of_transhumanism
770. “Knowledge, Morality, and Destiny” by Julian Huxley, Psychiatry, 1951 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00332747.1951.11022818?journalCode=upsy20
771. “WTA changes its image” by Russell Blackford, 2008, Metamagician and The Hellfire Club http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com/2008/07/wta-changes-its-image.html
772. “Rapture of the nerds: will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race?” by Ben Popper, The Verge, 2012 https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3535518/singularity-rapture-of-the-nerds-gods-end-human-race
773. Two examples are the Christian Transhumanist Association, https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/, and the Mormon Transhumanist Association, https://transfigurism.org/
774. “Democracy is The Worst Form of Government” by Richard M. Langworth https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
775. “We didn’t think much of Lincoln at Gettysburg” by Rose Wild, The Times, 2017 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-didn-t-think-much-of-lincoln-at-gettysburg-b9tptwfvw
776. “Constitution du 4 octobre 1958” https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000006527453/
777. “10 of the best Tony Benn quotes – as picked by our readers” by James Walsh, The Guardian, 2014 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/15/10-of-the-best-tony-benn-quotes-as-picked-by-our-readers
778. “Tony Benn and the Five Essential Questions of Democracy” by John Nichols, The Nation, 2014 https://www.thenation.com/article/tony-benn-and-five-essential-questions-democracy/
779. “Famous Words Churchill Never Said” by Michael Richards https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-141/history-detectives-red-herrings-famous-words-churchill-never-said
780. “German federal election, March 1933” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933
781. “Was Hitler democratically elected?” by Eike Pierstorff, Die Beste Aller Zeiten, 2009 http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/2009/02/19/was-hitler-democratically-elected/
782. “German referendum, 1934” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1934
783. “Hitler Was Elected President in a Democratic Election: Myth” by Thomas DeMichele, Fact/Myth, 2016 http://factmyth.com/factoids/hitler-was-elected-in-a-democratic-election/
784. “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing” by Garson O’Toole, Quote Investigator, 2010 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/
785. “Benjamin Franklin”, Wikiquote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
786. “Leviathan”, Chapter XIII: http://www.bartleby.com/34/5/13.html
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