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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). ●●

20 February 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War 0 cit. no story Russia seizes Crimea and backs separatists in the Donbas in 2014, then launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Europe's largest war since 1945 has killed hundreds of thousands and continues. politics / war ●●●●●

21 September 2014 Yemeni Civil War 0 cit. no story Houthi rebels seize the capital Sanaa, and a Saudi-led coalition intervenes against them from 2015. War, blockade, and famine create one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with hundreds of thousands dead. war ●●●

16 May 2014 to 23 October 2020 Second Libyan Civil War 0 cit. no story Rival governments in Tripoli and the east fight for control of Libya, drawing in Turkey, Russia, Egypt, and the UAE. A 2020 ceasefire freezes the division of the country. politics / war ●●

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 ●●

2015 Uber has unilaterally raised its share of driver revenue from 20 percent to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2015 Uber has unilaterally raised its share of driver revenue from 20 percent to 25 percent, translating into an extra $3 billion for the company ●●

2015 article “The Invisible Hand of Law: Private Regulation and the Rule of Law” rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2015 article “The Invisible Hand of Law: Private Regulation and the Rule of Law” in the Cornell International Law Journal ●●

2015 Ecuador takes nearly $6 billion in Chinese loans ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins says Ecuador accepts nearly $6 billion from China, comprising about 30% of external debt ●●

2015 Christopher Eberts sentenced for wire fraud ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Filmmaker Christopher Eberts, known for Lord of War and The Punisher, was sentenced to four years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering related to a never-completed film. ●●

2015 Sociometric Solutions rebrands as Humanyze ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents the 2015 rebranding of Sociometric Solutions to Humanyze, which uses euphemistic language like people analytics while expanding behavioral workplace surveillance. ●●

2015 Carnegie Mellon study demonstrates user vulnerability to behavioral influence on social media candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff cites a 2015 Carnegie Mellon review by Acquisti, Brandimarte, and Loewenstein showing users are easily influenced in disclosure and their emotions and behaviors can be shaped. ●●

2016 candidate who truly reflected his progressive values rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 candidate who truly reflected his progressive values ●●

2016 Full Year Results Conference Call Transcript,” at 6, Nestlé, February 16, 2 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 Full Year Results Conference Call Transcript,” at 6, Nestlé, February 16, 2017, https://www ●●

2016 Nestlé in Society Creating Shared Value and Meeting Our Commitments Report, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 Nestlé in Society Creating Shared Value and Meeting Our Commitments Report,” 3BL Media, March 7, 2017, https://www ●●

2016 and 2020 (despite the outcomes) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 and 2020 (despite the outcomes) ●●

2016 for his book, Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, as reported rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 for his book, Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, as reported by Emine Saner, “Employers Are Monitoring Computers, Toilet Breaks—Even Emotions ●●

2016 Xi Jinping visits Ecuador, signs energy deals ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins claims Chinese President Xi meets with Correa in November, signing major energy and trade agreements ●●

2017 with 93 percent of the vote and vowed upon taking office to continue his fa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2017 with 93 percent of the vote and vowed upon taking office to continue his father’s work ●●

2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on June 14, 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, a twenty-four-story apartment block in London ●●

2017 It is a sad story candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It is a sad story.”2017 Bohr wrote Churchill on May 22; the letter was circumspect but political after all and conveyed what he had not been allowed to convey at the meeting: “that the President is deeply concerned in his own mind with the stupendous consequences of the project, in which he sees grave dangers, but also unique opportunities.” Bohr did not spell out these opportunities. ●●

2017 American Made film released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American Made, starring Tom Cruise as CIA drug-trafficker Barry Seal, was released, depicting Iran-Contra activities with cameos including a young W Bush and Bill Clinton. ●●

2017 Narcos location scout Carlos Munoz killed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Netflix's Narcos lost one of its scouting crew in Mexico in 2017, with Carlos Munoz's murder having unclear motives. ●●

2017 Facebook's 2017 developers conference positions surveillance as liberation for creative expression rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff critiques Zuckerberg's utopian rhetoric at Facebook's 2017 conference, where surveillance is framed as freeing humanity for creative pursuits and community. ●●

2017 Apple Generated More Profit Than Any US Company in Previous Century rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A 2017 study concluded Apple had generated more profit for investors than any other US company in the previous century. ●●

2017 Smart Home Market Projections rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The smart-home device market was $14.7 billion in 2017, up from $6.8 billion the year prior, expected to reach over $101 billion by 2021. ●●

2017 Zuckerberg articulates Facebook's mission as spiritual fulfillment and global community candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents Zuckerberg's 2017 assertion that Facebook will solve modernity's anxieties by providing purpose, hope, moral validation, and addressing feelings of isolation through its platform. ●●

2018 meeting, set about “working through the list as needed for the 2-for-1 offs rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2018 meeting, set about “working through the list as needed for the 2-for-1 offsets ●●

2018 On September 26, Fausto Luna, an Uber driver, died when he jumped in front candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On September 26, 2018, Fausto Luna, an Uber driver, died when he jumped in front of an A train at the 175th Street station in Washington Heights ●●

2018 and more than ten times the number from 2014—which, according to Gutelius, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2018 and more than ten times the number from 2014—which, according to Gutelius, adds more work, increases pressure on workers to speed up their tasks, and contributes to worker burnout ●●

2018 WHO annual budget established at minimal level rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story WHO operates with inadequate resources; annual budget of only $4.2 billion limits global pandemic preparedness. ●●

2018 Ecuador's Chinese-financed dam tied to corruption scandal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins cites New York Times reporting that Ecuador's Chinese-financed dam becomes part of national corruption scandal ●●

2018 The scientists who are brought into confidence can only offer the statesmen all rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The scientists who are brought into confidence can only offer the statesmen all such information about technical matters as may be of importance for their decisions.”2018 Those technical matters, however, Bohr made sure to note, included the probability of proliferation and of bigger bombs—he had learned of the Super at Los Alamos. ●●

2018 Nest thermostat merged into Google ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Nest thermostat, owned by Alphabet, was merged with Google, integrating smart home surveillance with Google's artificial intelligence. ●●

1 December 2019 COVID-19 pandemic wikidata 0 cit. no story pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (2019-2023) ●●●

2019 US ends the Predict pandemic-prevention program ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 termination of Predict, a scientific program designed to predict and prevent pandemics (the program was temporarily extended when the coronavirus pandemic hit) ●●

2019 UN climate conference in Madrid, “is when politicians and CEOs are making i rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 UN climate conference in Madrid, “is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done, apart from clever accounting and creati ●●

2019 Litigation,” Expert Institute, April 4, https://www rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 Litigation,” Expert Institute, April 4, 2019, https://www ●●

2019 list, along with Apple, Walmart, IBM, and Ernst & Young, among others) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 list, along with Apple, Walmart, IBM, and Ernst & Young, among others) ●●

2019 on October 11, see the Climate Deregulation Tracker at the Sabin Center fo rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on October 11, 2019, see the Climate Deregulation Tracker at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School, http://columbiaclimatelaw ●●

24 January 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Europe wikidata 0 cit. no story ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Europe ●●●

2020 Budget Proposal Seriously Cuts the Nation’s Safety Net,” Vox, March 11, 201 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 Budget Proposal Seriously Cuts the Nation’s Safety Net,” Vox, March 11, 2019, https://www ●●

2020 primary: the people chose Bernie Sanders, so that was his choice rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 primary: the people chose Bernie Sanders, so that was his choice ●●

2020 letter to CEOs, for example, Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, the world’s lar rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story 2020 letter to CEOs, for example, Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager (managing nearly $7 trillion in assets), promised action on climate change ●●

2020 budget plans bear out Stiglitz’s concerns, with projected cuts of trillions rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 budget plans bear out Stiglitz’s concerns, with projected cuts of trillions of dollars from health care, social services, and education over a ten-year period and deep cuts to environmental prote ●●

2020 Killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed at the hands of four police officers in Minneapolis ●●

2020 Simultaneously published in the United States by Vintage Books, a divisio rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 Simultaneously published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York Copyright © 2020 by Joel Bakan All rights reserved ●●

2020 was, as the World Economic Forum described it, “renewing the concept of sta rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 was, as the World Economic Forum described it, “renewing the concept of stakeholder capitalism to overcome income inequality, societal division and the climate crisis ●●

2020 The Seeker's Guide published rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Seeker's Guide to The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Mitch Horowitz was published in 2020 by Gildan Media LLC (G&D Media), serving as a companion and practical guide to Manly P. Hall's legendary esoteric compendium. ●●

2020 Exponential growth of COVID-19 cases in March 2020 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pandemic spreads at unprecedented rate; cases double every 2-5 days in March 2020, overwhelming public health systems. ●●

2020 COVID-19 statistics: 2.3 million cases, 121,000 deaths by June 24 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Johns Hopkins reports over 2.3 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and almost 121,000 deaths globally. ●●

2020 China-US relations reach worst level since formal ties rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Political and ideological fracture between US and China deepens; bilateral economic and technological decoupling becomes irreversible. ●●

2020 Amsterdam adopts the doughnut economics framework ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Municipality formally adopts framework balancing human needs with planetary boundaries as basis for public policy decisions. ●●

2020 1,100 experts release degrowth manifesto rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story International coalition of experts proposes planned downscaling of economy to achieve sustainability and equity. ●●

2020 Jacob Wallenberg warns of social unrest from prolonged crisis rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Swedish industrialist predicts unemployment of 20-30%, economic contraction, and violent social unrest if crisis extends. ●●

2020 Black mortality rate from COVID-19 exceeds white Americans rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story End of June mortality rate for African Americans from COVID-19 is 2.4 times higher than for white Americans. ●●

2020 African American unemployment spikes to 16.8 percent rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pandemic-driven job losses disproportionately affect Black Americans, reaching 16.8% unemployment versus national 13.3%. ●●

2020 Jin Qi predicts long-term human coexistence with COVID-19 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Leading Chinese scientist warns that COVID-19 will likely persist as seasonal epidemic affecting humans for prolonged period. ●●

2020 Apple and Google partner on contact tracing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Tech giants announce partnership to develop privacy-preserving digital contact tracing app for COVID-19. ●●

2020 Fewer than 30 countries implement contact tracing apps rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite urgent need, global adoption of digital contact tracing lags; most countries face technical and privacy challenges. ●●

2020 UK abandons homegrown contact tracing app ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Following technical failures and privacy activism, UK replaces domestic app with Apple-Google system. ●●

2020 France launches StopCovid app to weak uptake ai_extracted 1 cit. no story StopCovid app launched with poor uptake; only 1.9 million people adopted three weeks after launch, followed by uninstalls. ●●

2020 Zoom valuation surpasses major US airlines ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Videoconferencing company valuation exceeds that of major US airlines as remote work accelerates. ●●

2020 Amazon and Walmart hire 250,000 workers ai_extracted 1 cit. no story E-commerce giants rapidly expand workforce during lockdowns to meet surge in online shopping demand. ●●

2020 British medical consultations shift to virtual delivery rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In Britain, telemedicine adoption jumps from less than 1% of consultations pre-pandemic to 100% during lockdown. ●●

2020 Hertz files for bankruptcy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Car rental company with 700,000 vehicles collapses under weight of lockdowns and pandemic economic disruption. ●●