Chase Condor was kind enough to send along the following links:

• What happens when there are no limits placed on technology or ingenuity? A look at rally spec racing

• They're made out of meat

• A clip of Alex Jones on Joe Rogan's podcast where they discuss the global elite, technology, and the future of humanity. The whole podcast is 3hrs long and equally entertaining but this is a relevant part. In typical fashion, Alex Jones says some pretty off-the-wall stuff.

• A piece on Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media by Tristan Eldritch

Open Transcripts offers, well, transcripts of talks that often deal with many of the issue we address in class. For example, I've worked a bit with Professor Fuller— Virtual Futures Podcast #3: Transhumanism and Risk, with Professor Steve Fuller.

How worried should we be about artificial intelligence? I asked 17 experts.

"Godzooks," David Berlinski (A Review of Homo Deus).

"To Give A.I. the Gift of Gab,Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You," Metz and Collins, New York Times.

"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation" (A report written by 26 authors from 14 institutions, spanning academia, civil society, and industry).

"The Matrix couldn’t dream up the internet of 2018," Clayton Purdom

NEWS Boston Dynamics’ Unsettling Robodog Can Now Escape Through (Unlocked) Doors

Some millennials aren’t saving for retirement because they don’t think capitalism will exist by then

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ALGORITHM CUTS YOUR HEALTH CARE, Colin Lecher

"The Californian Ideology," Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron

“'The California Ideology'” after twenty years," Bruce Sterling

"A Counter-History of the California Ideology," Edmund Berger