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David Autor presenting his TED talk on whether automation will take away all our jobs

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Will automation take away all our jobs?

The cover of Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson

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Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

The home of the Dervaes family — they manage to grow all the food they need on 1/10 of an acre, using urban agroecology

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Urban Agroecology

An interactive page from The Guardian showing all the flights worldwide in a 24-hour period

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All the world’s connections

Max Strom presenting his TED talk on how there is no app for happiness — the effect of technology on happiness and relationships

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There is No App for Happiness

A screenshot from Steve Johnson's TED talk on how play can lead to great innovation and invention.

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The Playful Wonderland Behind Great Inventions

Yuval Noah Harari presenting his TED talk explaining the rise of humans

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What explains the rise of humans?

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Evernote

The cover of the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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Sapiens

A infographic showing the balance needed between efficiency and effectiveness when dealing with the environment.

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Efficiency vs. effectiveness in the Circular Economy

A screen capture from Adam Curtis' documentary HyperNormalisation

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HyperNormalisation

A screenshot from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation video on creating a Circular Economy

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Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

Karoliina Korppoo presenting her TED talk on how the video game Cities: Skylines could be used to design better cities

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How a video game might help us build better cities

The cover of the book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

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21 lessons for the 21st century

An infographic from Information is Beautiful showing the size of the codebases of different types of software

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Million Lines of Code

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Precious Plastic

The cover of the DVD for Her, a Spike Jonze love story set in the not-too-distant future

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Her

The cover of the book Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

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Homo Deus

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Screened Out

A man wearing a virtual reality headset — an example of a recent gadget.

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Own your gadgets — don’t let them own you.

The cover of the DVD for The Animatrix, a set of short films detailing the back story to The Matrix

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The Animatrix