William Gibson - ‘Insufficient now to stand on’ - Schicksalgemeinschaft

Alvin Toffler’s ‘Future Shock’ at 40 - Fast Company

Barack Obama, Howard University Commencement Address (2016) - the American Yawp Reader

Is Diabetes Becoming the Biggest Epidemic of the Twenty-first Century? - The National Library of Medicine

Rating and ranking of political and economic transformation (2024) - Transformation Atlas

Alarming average screen time statistics (2025) - Exploding Topics

Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry or scary ones - Nieman Lab

Have We Overburdened Gen Z With Fears of the Future? - Psychology Today

Science Fiction and the future - College English

Science Fiction Book Sales Statistics (2023) - Words Rated

Wikipedia list of best-selling books

Comic book market sizing - Allied Market Research

Box office - Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope (1977) - The Numbers

All Art Is Propaganda Page 23 by George Orwell

10 utopian projects by Soviet avant-gardists - Russkiy Mir Foundation

The Aesthetics of Ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama - University of California Press

Sunday Funnies Blast Off Into the Space Age - Smithsonian Magazine

Walt Disney's Original Plan for EPCOT - Part 2 - YouTube

Box 110: We Just Haven’t Been Capitalisming Hard Enough - Tobias Revell

Who is Faith Popcorn - Faith Popcorn

Scott Smith (Changeist) @ MFW13 - Vimeo

90+ Powerful Virtual Reality Statistics to Know in 2025 - G2

Ferrari reports record $6.4B in revenue in 2023 - Luxury Daily

Socks Market Size, Share, and Growth Analysis - Skyquest

That Mitchell and Webb Look - Send us your reckons - YouTube

A Psychology of Ideology: Unpacking the Psychological Structure of Ideological Thinking - National Library of Medicine

Bay Area Housing Market: Trends and Forecast 2025 - Norada

Most U.S. parents pass along their religion and politics to their children - Pew

Many of the world’s billionaires share a zodiac sign, study finds - Fortune

One in four Americans say they believe in astrology- YouGov

Young people are flocking to astrology - Washington Post

In 30 countries, heads of state must belong to a certain religion - Pew

Religiously unaffiliated people face harassment in a growing number of countries - Pew

Why people with no religion are projected to decline as a share of the world’s population - Pew

Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real - Scientific American

Spurious Correlations - Tyler Vigen

What Percentage Of Trading Is Algorithmic? - The Robust Trader

Stock Market Crash of 1929 - Federal Reserve History

An Oracle of Oil Predicts $200-a-Barrel Crude - New York Times

In 2011, Gartner made this hilarious prediction about the iPhone - Engadget

Eugenics in the Nordic countries - Nordics Info - Aarhus University

Moral Choices Without Moral Language: 1950s Political-Military Wargaming at the RAND Corporation - Texas National Security Review

The man who saw the future - Strategy and Business (PWC)

Fat Man - The New Yorker

Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead - Pierre Wack (Harvard Business Review)

DC-based organizations dominate 2020 list of world’s top think tanks - The Washington Diplomat

Think Tank Scholar or Corporate Consultant? It Depends on the Day - New York Times

Forging the think tank narrative US - Cast from Clay

Supplement III - A Non-Aristotelian System And Its Necessity For Rigour In Mathematics And Physics - Alfred Korzybski

The Missile Gap - Central Intelligence Agency

Living in the Futures - Angela Wilkinson and Roland Kupers - Harvard Business Review

Nokia has cut 11,000 jobs in effort to boost profit - lightreading

How We Make Sense of Time - Scientific American

The 1972 Imperial Press Kit - Chrysler

Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data, poll finds - The Washington Post

Facebook is shrinking - Shirin Ghaffary - Vox

Google Said 'AI' Over 140 Times in Its 2-Hour Google I/O Keynote - CNET

Screenwriting 101: William Goldman - Medium

The love affair between Jeff Bezos and ‘Star Trek’ - The Washington Post

Minority Report made today's technology possible, says production designer Alex McDowell - Dezeen

Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing - Ruthanne Reid - The Write Practice

Children's future-oriented cognition - National Library of Medicine

Design giant Ideo cuts a third of staff and closes offices as the era of design thinking ends - Mark Wilson - Fast company

Insights Into the Multibillion-Dollar Pornography Industry Trends - Gitnux

Internet Pornography by the Numbers - Webroot

OnlyFans owner paid £359m dividend as company’s revenues grow 20% in a year - The Guardian

Global insurance industry - statistics & facts - Statista

The public health impacts of PM2.5 from traffic air pollution - NYC Environment and Health Data Portal

Combustion Car Sales Struggling to Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels - Transport Topics

1900-1930: The years of driving dangerously - Bill Loomis - The Detroit News

STOP THE ROAD - Freeway Revolts in American Cities - Raymond A. Mohl

Electric car sales break new records with momentum expected to continue through 2024 - International Energy Agency

Congo, DR Country Report 2024 - BTI Transformation Index

Energy transition: The dark side of the electric car battery cobalt rush - France 24

EVs are much heavier than gas vehicles, and that's posing safety problems - Axios

Superstudio 1966-1973: From the World Without Objects to the Universal Grid - Fernando Quesada

Faraday Chair - Dunne and Raby

Sir David Attenborough Predicts the ‘Collapse of Civilization’ at UN Climate Summit - Live Science

Statement on AI Risk - Center for AI Safety

Ideo CEO Tim Brown: 'Everyone Is A Designer' - Huffpost