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<h1>Speculating Futures</h1>
<p><em>Speculating Futures</em> looks at past speculative narratives, like those of Ursula K. Le Guin, and past attempts at creating technological utopia, like Chile's Cybersyn. These readings examine the shortcomings that prevented these visions from being fully realized and how they may have been limited or exclusionary. These texts also tie these visions to the contemporary issues/present dystopias that need to be addressed in subsequent utopian imaginaries. To paraphrase Gibson, "Utopia and dystopia are here, they're just unevenly distributed." Feeling like there's a future is vital for moving through the present, so we'll also envision our own utopian futures to work towards.</p>
<p>This syllabus was first launched in December 2016 for <a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/">The New Inquiry</a>'s <a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/features/editors-note-vol-57-sciencefiction/">Science/Fiction</a> issue. It will probably never be complete; it's always open to suggestions. If you're familiar with GitHub, please don't hesitate to <a href="https://github.com/frnsys/speculating_futures">submit a pull request</a>; if not, <a href="https://twitter.com/frnsys">feel free to send suggestions to me on Twitter (@frnsys)</a>.</p>
<p>For additional readings see the <a href="https://github.com/frnsys/speculating_futures/blob/master/readme.md">text version</a> of this syllabus.</p>
<p><em>NB: Beyond session 1, these sessions aren't in a particular order. There's so much overlap and interaction between these topics that you can jump around as much as you want; the "session" structure is more of a loose guide. Reading "out of order" could lead to interesting connections~</em></p>
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<h3>Session 1</h3>
<h2>What do we have to look forward to?</h2>
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<li>"The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed" - William Gibson</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.longreads.com/2016/02/25/when-the-messiah-came-to-america-she-was-a-woman/">When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman</a>. Chris Jennings.</li>
<li><a href="http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/why-futurism-has-a-cultural-blindspot">Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot</a>. Tom Vanderbilt.</li>
<li><a href="https://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/">The Unexotic Underclass</a>. C.Z. Nnaemeka.</li>
<li><a href="http://futurismic.com/2014/10/12/make-technological-utopia-easier-with-this-one-weird-trick/">Make technological utopia easier with this one weird trick</a>. Paul Raven.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.peterfrase.com/2010/12/social-science-fiction/">Social Science Fiction</a>. Peter Frase.</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180628075056/http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-a-non-euclidean-view-of-california-as-a-cold-place-to-be">A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be</a>. Ursula K. Le Guin.</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/message/postcards-from-the-futch-595796d8a45d#.7x8g0skdj">Postcards from the Futch</a>. Joanne McNeil.</li>
<li><a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40593-016-0096-x">Optimists’ Creed: Brave New Cyberlearning, Evolving Utopias (Circa 2041)</a>. Winslow Burleson, Armanda Lewis.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/24/trouble-with-utopia-free-love-genocide-thomas-more-500-exhibition">Free love or genocide? The trouble with Utopias</a>. Tobias Jones.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_z_KKClBE">Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in "Her"</a>. Edited by Dylan Marron.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.core77.com/posts/25678/the-future-mundane-25678">The Future Mundane</a>. Nick Foster.</li>
<li><a href="http://metropolarity.net/2016/09/style-of-attack-report/">The Propaganda of the Colony</a>. Eighteen & Ras, from Metropolarity's <em>Style of Attack Report</em>.</li>
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<figcaption>Neon sign from a WeWork. <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/31595634861241664/">Source</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 2</h3>
<h2>The Illusive Utopia:<br/>Cultural Hegemony & Ideology</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/">In the Name of Love</a>. Miya Tokumitsu.</li>
<li><a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/sharing-economy-and-self-exploitation/">"Sharing" Economy and Self-Exploitation</a>. Rob Horning.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nyrsf.com/racism-and-science-fiction-.html">Racism and Science Fiction</a>. Samuel R. Delany.</li>
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<figcaption>Viktoria Modesta, self-described "Bionik Woman". <a href="https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/bisr_course/becoming-cyborg-science-and-science-fiction/">Source</a>, originally from <a href="http://instagram.com/viktoriamodesta">the artist's Instagram</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 3</h3>
<h2>Post-Bit:<br/>Gender & Sexuality</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/futurism-sexism-men/400097/">Why Aren't There More Women Futurists?</a> Rose Eveleth.</li>
<li><a href="https://sites.oxy.edu/ron/msi/05/texts/anzaldua-mestizaconsciousness.pdf">La conciencia de la mestiza (Towards a New Consciousness)</a>. Gloria Anzaldúa.</li>
<li><a href="http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Haraway-CyborgManifesto-1.pdf">A Cyborg Manifesto</a>. Donna Haraway.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.laboriacuboniks.net/">Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation</a>. Laboria Cuboniks.</li>
<li><a href="http://poliscifi.pbworks.com/f/leguin.pdf">The Matter of Seggri</a>. Ursula K. Le Guin.</li>
<li><a href="http://strangehorizons.com/2015/20151123/2delany-f.shtml">Aye, and Gomorrah...</a>. Samuel R. Delany.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/MicroSFF/status/720991032079462401">So far we have discovered fourteen genders</a>. @MicroSFF.</li>
<li><a href="http://bookforum.com/inprint/022_05/15583">Technically, a Utopia</a>. Sarah Leonard.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.e-flux.com/journal/44/60141/testo-junkie-sex-drugs-and-biopolitics/">Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics</a>. Paul B. Preciado, translated by Bruce Benderson.</li>
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<figcaption>Panning for gold in the Congo. Photo by <a href="http://www.marcusbleasdale.com/#central-african-republic">Marcus Bleasdale</a> for National Geographic. <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/conflict-minerals/bleasdale-photography#/10-panning-for-gold-670.jpg">Source</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 4</h3>
<h2>How it's Made:<br/>Neocolonialism</h2>
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<li><a href="http://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/11/04/postcapitalist-ecology-a-comment-on-inventing-the-future/">Postcapitalist Ecology: A Comment on Inventing the Future</a>. Joseph Kay.</li>
<li><a href="http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2015/ewaste/index.html">E-waste Republic</a>. Jacopo Ottaviani & Isacco Chiaf.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/beyond-conflict-minerals-the-congos-resource-curse-lives-on">Beyond “Conflict Minerals”: The Congo’s Resource Curse Lives On</a>. Colin Kinniburgh.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation">The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed</a>. Adrian Chen.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/">1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?</a>. Joel Johnson.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html">In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad</a>. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza.</li>
<li><a href="https://backchannel.com/those-entry-level-startup-jobs-they-re-now-mostly-dead-ends-in-the-boondocks-af3b4066f5dd#.gmwwi6lh0">Congratulations, We’re Moving Your Department to Tennessee</a>. Lauren Smiley.</li>
<li><a href="http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf">The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas</a>. Ursula K. Le Guin.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth">The Dystopian Lake Filled by the World's Tech Lust</a>. Tim Maughan.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.vqronline.org/editors-desk/price-paperless-revolution">The Price of the Paperless Revolution</a>. Ted Genoways.</li>
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<figcaption>Some consoles from Chile's Cybersyn. <a href="http://www.vanityfair.fr/actualites/international/articles/cybersyn-la-machine-a-gouverner-le-chili/23947">Source</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 5</h3>
<h2>The Visible Hand:<br/>Economies & Infrastructure</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/allende-chile-beer-medina-cybersyn/">The Cybersyn Revolution</a>. Eden Medina.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qKoaQo9GTw&feature=youtu.be">Big Data Lessons from Our Cybernetic Past</a>. Eden Medina.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/07/red-plenty-francis-spufford-ussr">Red plenty: lessons from the Soviet dream</a>. Francis Spufford.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/business/yourmoney/what-walmart-knows-about-customers-habits.html">What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits</a>. Constance L. Hays.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm">A Few Notes on the Culture</a>. Iain M Banks.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.milesbrundage.com/blog-posts/how-far-to-ai-topia">How Far to AI-topia?</a>. Miles Brundage.</li>
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<figcaption>An industrial robot arm. <a href="http://www.flodraulicgroup.com/automation/">Source</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 6</h3>
<h2>Synthetic Freedom:<br/>The Post-Work Society</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.publicbooks.org//nonfiction/justice-for-data-janitors">Justice for “Data Janitors”</a>. Lilly Irani.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2012/02/the-dialectic-of-technology/">The Dialectic of Technology</a>. Peter Frase.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/holiday-crush/">The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday</a>. Gabriel Thompson.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/10/inventing-the-future/">Inventing the Future (Review)</a>. McKenzie Wark.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.milesbrundage.com/uploads/2/1/6/8/21681226/utopiapaperai.pdf">Utopia, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Justice</a>. Miles Brundage.</li>
<li><a href="http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR25.5/vanparijs.html">A Basic Income for All</a>. Philippe Van Parijs.</li>
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<article id="session-7">
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<figcaption>A 3D printer. <a href="http://theconversation.com/weve-just-started-work-on-the-technology-to-power-a-star-trek-style-replicator-43373">Source.</a></figcaption>
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<h3>Session 7</h3>
<h2>A Sense of Belonging:<br/>The State, Violence, & Property</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E">Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers</a>. Tom Scott.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/">Four Futures</a>. Peter Frase.</li>
<li><a href="https://libcom.org/files/Seeing%20Like%20a%20State%20-%20James%20C.%20Scott.pdf">Seeing Like A State</a> (Chapter 1). James C. Scott.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-intellectual-property-rules-help-the-rich/">How intellectual property rules help the rich and hurt the poor</a>. Dean Baker.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/opinion/why-dakota-is-the-new-keystone.html?_r=0">Why Dakota Is the New Keystone</a>. Bill McKibben.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004642370/jay-z-the-war-on-drugs-is-an-epic-fail.html">The War on Drugs is an Epic Fail</a>. Jay Z, Molly Crabapple, Jim Batt, Kim Boekbinder and dream hampton.</li>
<li><a href="http://fusion.net/story/362575/protest-2020-future-surveillance-activism-police/">This is what it will be like to protest in 2020, when the state is watching your every move</a>. Peter Moskowitz.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/incarceration-capitalism-black-lives-matter/">The Making of the American Police State</a>. Christian Parenti.</li>
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<figcaption>Chinese postcard. <a href="http://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/69649651201/gunsandposes-history-the-source-says-this-is">Source</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 8</h3>
<h2>We Aren't the World:</br>Postwestern Society & Race</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/xia_12_14_reprint/">Tongtong's Summer</a>. Xia Jia (translated by Ken Liu).</li>
<li><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/29/the-end-of-days-is-coming-just-not-to-china-apocalyptic-fiction-movies/">The End of Days Is Coming — Just Not to China</a>. Isaac Stone Fish.</li>
<li><a href="http://gutsmagazine.ca/featured/visual-cultures">Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurisms</a>. Lindsay Nixon.</li>
<li><a href="http://thesigers.com/analysis/2013/7/31/ethnic-futurism-in-the-gulf.html">Ethnic Futurism in the Gulf</a>. Scott Smith & Rahel Aima.</li>
<li><a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-space-ndns-star-map/">The Space NDN’s Star Map</a>. Lou Catherine Cornum.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.noveltymag.co.uk/towards-arabfuturisms/">Towards Arabfuturism/s</a>. Sulaiman Majali.</li>
<li><a href="http://tohumagazine.com/article/afrofuturism-and-arabfuturism-reflections-present-day-diasporic-reader">Afrofuturism and Arabfuturism: Reflections of a Present-day Diasporic Reader</a>. Lama Suleiman.</li>
<li><a href="https://theawl.com/the-afronauts-d429ebd9a677#.u9lt149ly">The Afronauts</a>. Adwoa Afful & Frances Bodomo.</li>
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<article id="session-9">
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<figcaption>Campaign for a fictional artificial heart, by Chantal Ramzy. <a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/10763279/Ascension">Source</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 9</h3>
<h2>Made of Meat:<br/>Bodies & Biology</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith's_Brood">Lilith's Brood</a>. Octavia E. Butler.</li>
<li><a href="http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/jlcds.2015.2">Utopian Possibilities: Disability, Norms, and Eugenics in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis</a>. Claire Curtis.</li>
<li><a href="https://dishuman.com/2015/02/02/rebooting-humanity-through-disability/">Rebooting humanity through disability</a>. Dan Goodley.</li>
<li><a href="http://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/download/23383/21615">Crip Utopia and the Future of Disability</a>. Peter J. Mackey.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.makery.info/en/2016/06/30/gynepunk-les-sorcieres-cyborg-de-la-gynecologie-diy/">GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology</a>. Ewen Chardronnet.</li>
<li><a href="https://anthropology.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/helmreich_what_was_life.pdf">What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies</a>. Stefan Helmreich.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_(film)">Antiviral</a>. Brandon Cronenberg.</li>
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</article>
<article id="session-10">
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<figcaption>Tahrir Square, February 2011. Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drumzo">Jonathan Rashad</a>. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tahrir_Square_on_February11.png">Source</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 10</h3>
<h2>Chaff:<br/>Internet & [Social] Media</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://crowdsociety.org/index.php?title=Cyber-utopianism&oldid=4608">Cyber-Utopianism</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/accelerated-grimace-cyber-utopianism/">An Accelerated Grimace: On Cyber-Utopianism</a>. Chris Lehmann.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/SPOOKS-dystopia-E-M-Quangel-ebook/dp/B00QL15GH4">SPOOKS</a>. EM Quangel</li>
<li><a href="https://commonconf.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/proofs-of-tech-fetish.pdf">Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics</a>. Jodi Dean.</li>
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<figcaption>"5:45 to Santa Monica: now boarding!" by <a href="http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=607013">cienias</a>, (Compton overlooking downtown LA). <a href="http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/life/215749-solarpunk">Source</a>.</figcaption>
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<h3>Session 11</h3>
<h2>All We Have:<br/>Environment & Ecology</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/oct/24/industrial-scars-the-environmental-cost-of-consumption-in-pictures">Industrial scars: The environmental cost of consumption</a>. J Henry Fair.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/alive-in-the-sunshine/">Alive in the Sunshine</a>. Alyssa Battistoni.</li>
<li><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/galaxy-note-7-explosion-environmental-impact-recycling">Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Recall is an Environmental Travesty</a>. Jason Koebler.</li>
<li><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/123217/new-utopians">The New Utopians</a>. Jeet Heer.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/life/215749-solarpunk">Solarpunk wants to save the world</a>. Ben Valentine & Vincent Callebaut.</li>
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<h3>Session 12</h3>
<h2>The Come Down</h2>
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<li><a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/features/tni-vol-38-futures-editors-note/">TNI Vol. 38: Futures Editor's Note</a>. The New Inquiry.</li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1#.oef7thyw0">Everything is Broken</a>. Quinn Norton.</li>
<li><a href="https://libcom.org/blog/fully-automated-luxury-communism-utopian-critique-14062015">Fully automated luxury communism: a utopian critique</a>. mcm_cmc.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed">The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia</a>. Ursula K. Le Guin.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/03/the-regrettable-decline-of-space-utopias">The Regrettable Decline of Space Utopias</a>. Brianna Rennix.</li>
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<h3>The following were taken from Allison Burtch's <a href="https://github.com/allisonburtch/Critical-Theory-of-Technology">Critical Theory of Technology</a>:</h3>
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<li><a href="https://commonconf.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/proofs-of-tech-fetish.pdf">Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics</a>. Jodi Dean.</li>
<li><a href="http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-a-non-euclidean-view-of-california-as-a-cold-place-to-be">A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be</a>. Ursula K. Le Guin.</li>
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<h3>The following were taken from Chris Novello's <a href="http://chrisnovello.com/teaching/risd/computer-utopias/">Computer Utopias</a>:</h3>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_z_KKClBE">Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in "Her"</a>. Edited by Dylan Marron.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.core77.com/posts/25678/the-future-mundane-25678">The Future Mundane</a>. Nick Foster.</li>
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<h3>The following were taken from Matthew Hockenberry's <a href="https://supplystudies.com/syllabus/">Supply Studies Syllabus</a>:</h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth">The Dystopian Lake Filled by the World's Tech Lust</a>. Tim Maughan.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html">In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad</a>. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.vqronline.org/editors-desk/price-paperless-revolution">The Price of the Paperless Revolution</a>. Ted Genoways.</li>
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<h3>This reading list was compiled by <a href="http://frnsys.com/">Francis Tseng</a> (<a href="http://publicscience.co/">Public Science</a>).</h3>
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