The Future: six drivers of global change Part 21

Scott Horton, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Harper's, December 2007; Cyrus Hamlin, "Faust in Performance: Peter Stein's Production of Goethe's Faust, Parts 1 & 2," Theatre 32 (2002).

32 emergent wisdom and creativity that is on a completely different plane

Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi, "Cognitive Democracy," Three-Toed Sloth, May 23, 2012, http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/917.html.

33 Alfred North Whitehead called the obsession with measurements "the fallacy of misplaced concreteness"

Polak, The Image of the Future, p. 196.

34 4.5 billion years ago would be at the far left end

"History of Life on Earth," BBC Nature.

35 emergence of life 3.8 billion years ago

Ibid.

36 multicellular life 2.8 billion years ago

Ibid.

37 land 475 million years ago

Ibid.

38 first vertebrates more than 400 million years ago

Ibid.

39 primates 65 million years ago

Blythe A. Williams, Richard F. Kay, and E. Christopher Kirk, "New Perspectives on Anthropoid Origins," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 8, 2010.

40 would appear 7.5 billion years from now

David Appell, "The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth-Maybe," Scientific American, September 8, 2008.

CHAPTER 1: EARTH INC.

1 efficacy, utility, and power with each pa.s.sing year

Martin Ford, Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future (N.p.: Acculant, 2009).

2 one million new robots within two years

"Foxconn to Replace Workers with 1 Million Robots in 3 Years," Xinhuanet, July 30, 2011, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/30/c_131018764.htm.

3 New companies have emerged to connect online workers with jobs

Quentin Hardy, "The Global Arbitrage of Online Work," New York Times, October 10, 2012.

4 Narrative Science, a robot reporting company

Joe Fa.s.sler, "Can the Computers at Narrative Science Replace Paid Writers?," Atlantic, April 12, 2012.

5 Latin America is the rare exception

Jonathan Watts, "Latin America's Income Inequality Falling, Says World Bank," Guardian, November 13, 2012.

6 income inequality reached a twenty-year high

Natasha Lennard, "Global Inequality Highest in 20 Years," Salon, November 1, 2012, http://www.salon.com/2012/11/01/global_inequality_highest_in_20_years/.

7 risen in the United States from 35 to 45

"Unbottled Gini," Economist, January 20, 2011; CIA World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2172.html, accessed January 20, 2012.