20. The Domesday Device
The Story of Nowhere – Studies in Utopianism and Humanity
The Story of Nowhere (available as eBook, Audiobook, & Paperback): https://storyofnowhere.com/book/
The Story of Nowhere Podcast Introductory Episode—“Episode Zero”: https://storyofnowhere.com/zero/
A Brief History of Critical Thinking Full Series
Myth, Empire, & Utopia: The Rise & Rule of Britannia Full Series
CONQUEST
“Domesday Book” – British National Archives
“Domesday Book” – World History Encyclopedia Online
- “Domesday Book was a comprehensive survey and record of all the landowners, property, tenants and serfs of medieval Norman England. It was compiled in 1086-7 under the orders of William the Conqueror (r. 1066-87). The record is unique in European history and is packed full of statistics and snippets which reveal details of life in medieval England.”
“William I, King of England” (William the Conqueror) – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- “In the spring of 1082 William had his son Henry knighted, and in August at Salisbury he took oaths of fealty from all the important landowners in England. In 1085 he returned with a large army to meet the threat of an invasion by Canute IV (Canute the Holy) of Denmark. When this came to nothing, owing to Canute’s death in 1086, William ordered an economic and tenurial survey to be made of the kingdom, the results of which are summarized in the two volumes of Domesday Book, one of the greatest administrative accomplishments of the Middle Ages.”
“A History of Britain” Documentary Series
“Vicar of Christ” – Catholic Answers
WORLD
“Mapping the Future of Our Forests with Microsoft AI” – Microsoft
“Norbert Wiener: Complete Biography, History, and Inventions” – History Computer
“Norbert Wiener Invents Cybernetics” – Living Internet
- “Wiener’s vision of cybernetics had a powerful influence on later generations of scientists, and inspired research into the potential to extend human capabilities with interfaces to sophisticated electronics, such as the user interface studies conducted by the SAGE program. Wiener changed the way everyone thought about computer technology, influencing several later developers of the Internet, most notably J.C.R. Licklider.”
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) – Norbert Wiener
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (1950) – Norbert Wiener
“Cargill: The Worst Company in the World” – Mighty Earth
“Soya – Gates Foundation & Cargill Paper” (2010) – African Center for Biosafety
“Why is the Gates Foundation Investing in GM Giant Monsanto?” (2010) – The Guardian
“Future Earth: Agenda 21’s ‘Forbidden Zones'” – Truth Stream Media
“Land Cover Mapping” – Microsoft
“FarmBeats: AI, Edge, & IoT for Agriculture” – Microsoft
“Can the Wi-Fi Chip in Your Phone Help Feed the World?” – GatesNotes
“Microsoft Premonition” – Microsoft
CITY
Technocracy Study Course (1934) – Technocracy, Inc.
- Lesson 22: Technocracy: The Design – Requirements:
- “Register on a continuous 24-hour time period basis the total net conversion of energy, which would determine (a) the availability of energy for Continental plant construction and maintenance, (b) the amount of physical wealth available in the form of consumable goods and services for consumption by the total population during the balanced load period.
- “By means of the registration of energy converted and consumed, make possible a balanced load.
- “Provide a continuous 24-hour inventory of all production and consumption.
- “Provide a specific registration of the type, kind, etc., of all goods and services, where produced, and where used.
- “Provide specific registration of the consumption of each individual, plus a record and description of the individual.
- “Allow the citizen the widest latitude of choice in consuming his individual share of Continental physical wealth.
- “Distribute goods and services to every member of the population.”
“What is the Smart Grid?” – SmartGrid.Gov
“Smart Grid: A Beginner’s Guide” – NIST
Jesse Schell at DICE 2010: Gamification of Life and the Internet of Things
“Smart Cities: Cities of the Future” – Microsoft
MAN
Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life (1960) – Maxwell Maltz
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History (2017) – Thomas Rid
Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life (1982) – Jeremy Campbell
“Sir Julian Huxley” – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
“Transhumanism” (1968) – Julian Huxley
- “The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself – not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature. ‘I believe in transhumanism’: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.”
“The Purpose of Life and Evolution is to ‘Become Like God'” – Ray Kurzweil
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (2000) – Ray Kurzweil
“Gregory Bateson” – The International Bateson Institute
“Gregory Bateson” – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
“Cyberthon Video Documentation” (1990) – DailyMotion
The Archaic Revival (1992) – Terence McKenna
“On the ‘Archaic Revival'” – Terence McKenna
“The Transcendental Object at the End of Time” (YouTube documentary) – Terence McKenna
“NeuraLink: Elon Musk’s Entire Brain Chip Presentation in 14 Minutes (Supercut)” – CNET
“Elon Musk on Artificial Intelligence” – The Joe Rogan Experience
