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2010 Event of 2010 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story eviations from the true faith and because jihadists have a duty to transform dar al-harb, the world of unbelievers. Purity, not stability, is the guiding principle of this conception of world order. THE ARAB SPRING AND THE SYRIAN CATACLYSM For a flee ●●

2010 Information history in 2010 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story h an honorable history. I barely twitter myself, but even this odd medium, microblogging so quirky and confined, has its uses and its enchantment. ●●

2010 a computer with a billion transistors for the inflation-adju rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2010 you could buy a computer with a billion transistors for the inflation-adjusted cost of a transistor radio in 1956 ●●

2010 Greece and Italy, by contrast, have been known for high levels of clientelistic and corrupt governme rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Greece and Italy, by contrast, have been known for high levels of clientelistic and corrupt government, and both have had problematic public finances that erupted during the 2010 euro crisis. ●●

2010 European sovereign debt crisis ai_extracted 2 cit. no story These weaknesses were made painfully evident in the European debt crisis of 2010–2013. ●●

2010 Instead, the Orange Coalition wasted its energy on internal squabbling and shady deals, paving the w rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Instead, the Orange Coalition wasted its energy on internal squabbling and shady deals, paving the way for Yanukovich’s return in 2010 and the crisis following on his departure in 2014. ●●

2010 For a broader account of how politics affected banking regulation after the financial crisis, see Si rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story For a broader account of how politics affected banking regulation after the financial crisis, see Simon Johnson and James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (New York: Pantheon, 2010). ●●

2010 Peter Cunliffe-Jones, My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Peter Cunliffe-Jones, My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. ●●

2010 Sociometric Solutions founded for workplace surveillance ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents that Pentland and colleagues founded Sociometric Solutions to bring Skinner's longed-for behavioral instruments and methods to marketplace as people analytics. ●●

2010 Between 1970 and 2010, the number of democracies around the world increased from about 35 to nearly rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Between 1970 and 2010, the number of democracies around the world increased from about 35 to nearly 120, or some 60 percent of the world’s countries, in what Samuel Huntington called the Third Wave of democratization. ●●

2010 To avoid this problem, some economists choose an absolute level of consumption, ranging from a low o rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To avoid this problem, some economists choose an absolute level of consumption, ranging from a low of US$5 a day, or $1,800 in parity purchasing power per year, up to a range of $6,000–$31,000 annual income in 2010 U. ●●

2010 Affordable Care Act passed under Obama ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Barack Obama was able to get the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010 only because he abdicated virtually any role in shaping the legislation, leaving the final bill in the hands of multiple congressional committees. ●●

2011 Monti and Papademos installed as prime ministers ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2011, amid the European debt crisis, Mario Monti was installed as prime minister of Italy and Lukas Papademos as prime minister of Greece. Wood notes both were Trilateral Commission members widely described in the press as technocrats. ●●

2011 and 2012 was claimed back by banks, including JPMorgan Chase, in the form o rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2011 and 2012 was claimed back by banks, including JPMorgan Chase, in the form of penalties for having defaulted on loans ●●

2011 on May 15, Colau, heeding social media calls to “take the cities, take the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on May 15, 2011, Colau, heeding social media calls to “take the cities, take the squares,” joined thousands of others in Barcelona to protest government corruption and austerity ●●

2011 Arab Spring uprisings begin ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Political and social upheavals spread across Arab world; few political scientists predicted their emergence. ●●

2011 2011: Steve Jobs (1955–2011) and Steve Wozniak (1950– ) in 1976. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Steve Jobs (1955–2011) and Steve Wozniak (1950– ) in 1976. Jobs graphic on the original Macintosh in 1984. Richard Stallman (1953– ). Linus Torvalds (1969– ). ●●

2011 2011: When Wales and his new wife had a daughter in 2011, they nam... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story er of computers being woven together like a tapestry. When Wales and his new wife had a daughter in 2011, they named her Ada, after Lady Lovelace. 112 LARRY PAGE, SERGEY BRIN, AND SEARCH When Justin H ●●

2011 2011: At his last such appearance, for the iPad 2 in 2011, he stoo... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story the intersection of the Liberal Arts and Technology. At his last such appearance, for the iPad 2 in 2011, he stood in front of that image and declared, “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is no ●●

2011 2011: 2011; Stephen Lukasik oral history, conducted by Judy O’Neil... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story . 82. Stephen Lukasik, “Why the ARPANET Was Built,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing , Mar. 2011; Stephen Lukasik oral history, conducted by Judy O’Neill, Charles Babbage Institute, Oct. 17, 19 ●●

2011 2011: es were really crucial in learning how to program.” 35 Shortly before rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story es were really crucial in learning how to program.” 35 Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all th ●●

2011 2011: le exceptions, toward a more proprietary approach. In 2011 a milestone rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story le exceptions, toward a more proprietary approach. In 2011 a milestone was reached: Apple and Google spent more on lawsuits and payments involving pat ●●

2011 2011: Steve Jobs (1955–2011) and Steve Wozniak (1950– ) in 1976. Jobs graphi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Steve Jobs (1955–2011) and Steve Wozniak (1950– ) in 1976. Jobs graphic on the original Macintosh in 1984. ●●

2011 2011: of computers being woven together like a tapestry. When Wales and his rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story of computers being woven together like a tapestry. When Wales and his new wife had a daughter in 2011, they named her Ada, after Lady Lovelace. 112 LA ●●

2011 2011: e intersection of the Liberal Arts and Technology. At his last such ap rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story e intersection of the Liberal Arts and Technology. At his last such appearance, for the iPad 2 in 2011, he stood in front of that image and declared, ●●

2011 2011: t,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing , Mar. 2011; Stephen Lukas rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story t,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing , Mar. 2011; Stephen Lukasik oral history, conducted by Judy O’Neill, Charles Babbage Institute, Oct. 17, ●●

2011 Information history in 2011 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Copyright © 2011 by James Gleick All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. ●●

2011 Pentland describes ubiquitous sensing as world-spanning living organism monitoring all behavior rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff analyzes Pentland's vision of Big Other as a self-regulating system where mobile networks, security sensors, and wearables combine into intelligent reactive systems. ●●

2011 Zuboff Resumes Research After Fire rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Early in 2011, Zuboff resumed research after losing field data in a house fire, recognizing surveillance capitalism's new turn. ●●

2011 London Riots and Multiple Global Protests candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On August 9, 2011, three events occurred: Apple surpassed Exxon as world's most capitalized corporation, London riots erupted, and Spanish citizens demanded right to be forgotten. ●●

2011 Indignados movement mobilizes in Madrid ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Indignados movement emerged in Madrid with large-scale public mobilization in May 2011. ●●

2011 NATO helps oust Qaddafi in Libya ai_extracted 1 cit. no story These militias were formed in various parts of the country in opposition to Libya’s longtime dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, whom they ousted, with significant help from NATO, in the first year of the Arab Spring in 2011. ●●

2011 South Sudan gains independence from Sudan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sudan fought a long war with its own south, which finally became an independent country in 2011, while committing atrocities against the population of Darfur. ●●

2011 Any simple arguments that the Arabs were exceptional and would passively accept dictatorship ended w rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Any simple arguments that the Arabs were exceptional and would passively accept dictatorship ended with the events of early 2011. ●●

2011 Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invente rejected legendary ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012); Josef Joffe, The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies (New York: Liveright, 2014). ●●

2011 Wenzhou high-speed rail crash and cover-up ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Following the highly publicized crash of a new high-speed rail train near Wenzhou in mid-2011, the ministry tried to hide evidence of malfeasance by burying the cars involved, until discussions on China’s microblogs forced it to unbury them. ●●

2011 29 FROM 1848 TO THE ARAB SPRING Origins of the Arab Spring; differences and similarities between t rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 29 FROM 1848 TO THE ARAB SPRING Origins of the Arab Spring; differences and similarities between the contemporary Middle East and nineteenth-century Europe; religion and nationalism as alternative routes to politicalmobilization The Arab Spring be ●●

2011 Government Revenue, Spending, and Deficits as a Percentage of GDP, 2011 SOURCE: World Bank; OECD (F rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Government Revenue, Spending, and Deficits as a Percentage of GDP, 2011 SOURCE: World Bank; OECD (Figures for Australia, New Zealand, and OECD exclude subnational revenues) Focusing only on the United States for the moment, the apparently irreversi ●●

2011 Governor Rod Blagojevich convicted of corruption ai_extracted 1 cit. no story There have of course been egregious cases of outright individual corruption, such as those leading to the convictions of California congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham in 2006, and Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich in 2011. ●●

2011 Pentland proposes a planetary nervous system ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff details Pentland's 2011 paper proposing that ubiquitous sensing and Big Data create a planetary nervous system for monitoring all human behavior to ensure stability and efficiency. ●●

2012 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) was held in Rio de Janeiro on June 20-22, 2012, producing the document The Future We Want. ●●

2012 Obama directs DHS non-deportation policy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2012 President Obama directed the Department of Homeland Security to adopt a non-deportation policy through regulation, prompting a lawsuit by ICE agents. ●●

2012 138 cities cut ties with ICLEI ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Between January 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012, 138 US cities severed relations with ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability), the international sponsor of Agenda 21. Wood cites this as a growing citizen resistance to sustainable-development programs. ●●

2012 it had become abundantly clear that movement goals of greater democracy and rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2012 it had become abundantly clear that movement goals of greater democracy and economic equality would not be realized ●●

2012 Ecuador signs Mirador mining contract with EcuaCorriente ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ecuador government signs contract with Chinese firm EcuaCorriente for open-pit mining project ●●

2012 2012: In the 2012 election, President Barack Obama stirred up cont... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story prefer a greater government role, or exalt private enterprise, or romanticize peer sharing. In the 2012 election, President Barack Obama stirred up controversy by saying to people who owned businesses ●●

2012 2012: t private enterprise, or romanticize peer sharing. In the 2012 electio rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story t private enterprise, or romanticize peer sharing. In the 2012 election, President Barack Obama stirred up controversy by saying to people who owned b ●●

2012 Event of 2012 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story e often in a position to shape the outcome. The temptation to foster unity by merging nationalism and fundamentalism overwhelmed the original slogans of the uprising. Mohammed Morsi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood backed by a coalition of even mo ●●

2012 6.17.D97 2012 004’.09—dc23 2011030265 www.pantheonbooks.com rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story QA76.17.D97 2012 004’.09—dc23 2011030265 www.pantheonbooks.com Cover design by Peter Mendelsund v3.1 ●●

2012 The Chinese constitution specifies that senior leaders will serve maximum terms of ten years, and si rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Chinese constitution specifies that senior leaders will serve maximum terms of ten years, and since Deng Xiaoping’s retirement there have already been two ten-year cycles of leadership replacement at the 16th and 18th Party Congresses in 2002 and ●●

2012 This happened most recently following the 18th Party Congress in 2012 in the early pronouncements of candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This happened most recently following the 18th Party Congress in 2012 in the early pronouncements of the new leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping and Wang Qishan, head of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission responsible for rooting out ●●

2012 Ginni Rometty becomes CEO of IBM ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rometty, an engineer with an AI background, took over as IBM's chief executive. ●●

2013 NSA completes $1.5 billion Utah data center ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the fall of 2013 the National Security Agency finished a $1.5 billion data center in Utah with a reported capacity of about 5 zettabytes. Wood notes it is formally the executive agent facility of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ●●

2013 and Ada Colau stands in the ornate lobby of a Barcelona bank shouting throu rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2013 and Ada Colau stands in the ornate lobby of a Barcelona bank shouting through a megaphone to the crowd of activists she’s led to occupy it ●●

2013 Sustainability Report,” Triple Pundit, May 26, 2014, http://www rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2013 Sustainability Report,” Triple Pundit, May 26, 2014, http://www ●●

2013 report highlights that in the majority of cases, improved sanitation and wa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2013 report highlights that in the majority of cases, improved sanitation and water access actually results in an increase in local water use ●●

2013 FBI runs United Pacific Studios sting front ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The FBI created a film studio front titled United Pacific Studios producing B-grade martial arts films, used for a sting operation to investigate state Senator Ron Calderone. ●●

2013 UK film executives charged in tax fraud scheme ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Five UK film executives were charged with 125 million pounds in tax fraud related to filmmakers and directors under the auspices of a fake film titled Landscape of Lies. ●●

2013 2013: Doug Engelbart (1925–2013). rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Doug Engelbart (1925–2013). Englebart’s first mouse. Stewart Brand (center ) assisting at the Mother of All Demos in 1968. ●●

2013 2013: ” 51 In 2013 Berners-Lee began reviving some of the activit... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story e. We tried hard, but it was so painful to deal with those guys. It was cosmically painful.” 51 In 2013 Berners-Lee began reviving some of the activities of the W3C’s Micropayments Markup Working Grou ●●

2013 2013: 15 At the end of 2013, the New York Times reported on “a de... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story apses. I The human brain has 86 billion neurons and up to 150 trillion synapses. 15 At the end of 2013, the New York Times reported on “a development that is about to turn the digital world on its hea ●●

2013 2013: 16. John Markoff, “Brainlike Computers, Learning from Experi... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 16. John Markoff, “Brainlike Computers, Learning from Experience,” New York Times, Dec. 28, 2013. Markoff, who has long done thoughtful reporting on this field, is writing a book that explores the imp ●●

2013 2013: 7, 2014; Klint Finley, “Computer Chips That Work Like a Brai... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 14; Klint Finley, “Computer Chips That Work Like a Brain Are Coming—Just Not Yet,” Wired , Dec. 31, 2013. Beau Cronin of O’Reilly Media has proposed a drinking game: “take a shot every time you find a ●●

2013 2013: Doug Engelbart (1925–2013). Englebart’s first mouse. Stewart Brand (ce rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Doug Engelbart (1925–2013). Englebart’s first mouse. Stewart Brand (center ●●

2013 2013: o deal with those guys. It was cosmically painful.” 51 In 2013 Berners rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story o deal with those guys. It was cosmically painful.” 51 In 2013 Berners-Lee began reviving some of the activities of the W3C’s Micropayments Markup Wor ●●

2013 2013: 6 billion neurons and up to 150 trillion synapses. 15 At the end of 20 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 6 billion neurons and up to 150 trillion synapses. 15 At the end of 2013, the New York Times reported on “a development that is about to turn the digi ●●

2013 2013: s, Learning from Experience,” New York Times, Dec. 28, 2013. Markoff, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story s, Learning from Experience,” New York Times, Dec. 28, 2013. Markoff, who has long done thoughtful reporting o ●●

2013 2013: ike a Brain Are Coming—Just Not Yet,” Wired , Dec. 31, 2013. Beau Cron rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ike a Brain Are Coming—Just Not Yet,” Wired , Dec. 31, 2013. Beau Cronin of O’Reilly Media has proposed a drin ●●

2013 Event of 2013 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story aging the apocalypse. When the United States declined to tip the balance, they judged that it either had an ulterior motive that it was skillfully concealing—perhaps an ultimate deal with Iran—or was not attuned to the imperatives of the Middle East ●●

2013 Sociometric badge adopted by dozens of Fortune 1000 companies for workforce surveillance rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff notes that by 2013, Pentland's sociometric devices had been deployed by dozens of major corporations and research groups as standard workplace surveillance tools. ●●

2013 iTunes downloads reach 25 billion ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 2013, iTunes downloads reached 25 billion, six years after Apple became world's largest music retailer. ●●

2013 UK Poverty Research Shows Exclusion rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Research showed that by 2013, poverty had excluded nearly a third of UK population from routine social participation. ●●

2013 Google acquires Waze in bidding war with Facebook ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Google won a reported bidding war with Facebook for Israeli social mapping startup Waze. ●●

2013 Harrison, Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism (Lanha rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Harrison, Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013). ●●

2013 25 Uhuru Kenyatta, son of the country’s founder, was elected president in 2013 but is under indictme rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 25 Uhuru Kenyatta, son of the country’s founder, was elected president in 2013 but is under indictment by the International Criminal Court for his role in the 2007 communal violence. ●●

2013 Egyptian military ousts President Morsi ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In Egypt, the formerly banned Muslim Brotherhood was elected and dominated the new parliament and presidency for a year, until the military pushed its president, Mohamed Morsi, out of power in the summer of 2013. ●●

2013 These weaknesses were made painfully evident in the European debt crisis of 2010–2013 candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story These weaknesses were made painfully evident in the European debt crisis of 2010–2013. ●●

2013 : American Enterprise Institute, 2013) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story : American Enterprise Institute, 2013). ●●

2013 See Gail Radford, The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twenti rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story See Gail Radford, The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). ●●

2014 Texas legislators ask Obama to enforce immigration law ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On July 28, 2014 all Republican members of the Texas House and Senate signed a letter asking President Obama to enforce existing immigration law. ●●

2014 Interfaith Summit on Climate Change held at the UN ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 2014 the World Council of Churches and the United Nations co-sponsored an Interfaith Summit on Climate Change, to which Patriarch Bartholomew sent an official message. Wood presents this as evidence that churches were being drawn into the sustainable-development agenda. ●●

2014 that “environmental considerations are factored into every decision we make rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2014 that “environmental considerations are factored into every decision we make” and promised it would become “the world’s most environmentally compatible automaker” by 2018 ●●

2014 Global oil prices collapse ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Global oil prices drop significantly and remain low, challenging resource-based economies ●●

2014 2014: IV By 2014 there would be 847 million blogs in the world. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story y saying he was going to use the phrase we blog . The word blog entered the common parlance. IV By 2014 there would be 847 million blogs in the world. It was a social phenomenon that was not fully app ●●

2014 2014: Also: Rebecca Lowen, Creating the Cold War University: The T... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on of Stanford (University of California, 1997); Michael Malone, The Intel Trinity (HarperBusiness, 2014), Infinite Loop (Doubleday, 1999), The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (D ●●

2014 2014: 27, 2014; Klint Finley, “Computer Chips That Work Like a Bra... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ennie Mols, “Brainy Computer Chip Ditches Digital for Analog,” Communications of the ACM , Feb. 27, 2014; Klint Finley, “Computer Chips That Work Like a Brain Are Coming—Just Not Yet,” Wired , Dec. 31 ●●

2014 2014: com Copyright © 2014 by Walter Isaacson All rights reserve... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2014 by Walter Isaacson All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions there ●●

2014 2014: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition October 2014 SIMON... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition October 2014 SIMON & SCHUSTER and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Excerpts from “ ●●

2014 2014: blog . The word blog entered the common parlance. IV By 2014 there wou rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story blog . The word blog entered the common parlance. IV By 2014 there would be 847 million blogs in the world. It was a social phenomenon that was not fu ●●

2014 2014: d is writing a book on the rise of Silicon Valley. Also: Rebecca Lowen rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story d is writing a book on the rise of Silicon Valley. Also: Rebecca Lowen, Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford (University o ●●

2014 2014: ital for Analog,” Communications of the ACM , Feb. 27, 2014; Klint Fin rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ital for Analog,” Communications of the ACM , Feb. 27, 2014; Klint Finley, “Computer Chips That Work Like a Brain Are Coming—Just Not Yet,” Wired , De ●●

2014 2014: mericas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2014 b rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story mericas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2014 by Walter Isaacson All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this boo ●●

2014 2014: , 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First Simon & Schus rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition October 2014 SIMON & SCHUSTER and colophon are registered ●●

2014 Google acquires Skybox satellite imaging startup ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Google acquired real-time satellite imaging startup Skybox as US lifted restrictions on high-resolution satellite imagery. ●●

2014 A third of 2014 Indian election winners face charges ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The system is rife with corruption and patronage; 34 percent of the winners of India’s 2014 elections have criminal indictments pending against them, including serious charges like murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault. ●●

2014 Harvard-Northeastern announce capability to actively instrument human behavior at scale rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff highlights a 2014 research announcement that it is now possible to actively instrument human behavior and collect detailed data continuously while remaining unobtrusive. ●●

2014 YP acquires Sense Networks ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents that Pentland's Sense Networks was acquired in 2014 to enable sophisticated location data processing for behavioral targeting and behavioral surplus extraction. ●●

2015 Raghuram Rajan warns of crony capitalism ai_extracted 1 cit. no story India's central bank governor Raghuram Rajan gave a speech in Mumbai warning that corporate money was eroding the integrity of parliament. His worries echoed those voiced in Britain over three centuries earlier about the Company. ●●

2015 Ada Colau elected Barcelona's first woman mayor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2015 Barcelona election and Colau won, becoming Barcelona’s first woman mayor ●●