1. See Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works – and How It’s Transforming the American Economy (New York: Penguin Press, 2006), or Anthony Bianco, Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Everyday Low Prices Is Hurting America (New York: Currency Doubleday, 2007).
1. http:// nation.foxnews.com/fox-friends/2012/07/24/ lemonade-stand-girls-obama-we-built-our-business.
2. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High Performance Computing Act of 1991.
3. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user license agreement.
1. http:// online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-privacy.html.
2. https:// www.eff.org/issues/privacy/.
3. http:// purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016022352.
4. http:// purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=948639073.
5. http:// www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/tech/web/protect-privacy-google/index.html.
6. http:// bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/google-is-top-tracker-of-surfers-in-study/.
7. www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/ facebook-is-using-you.html.
8. www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/technology/acxiom-the-quiet-giant-of-consumer-database-marketing.html.
9. www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/electronic-scores-rank-consumers-by-potential-value.html.
10. http:// www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/technology/ personaltech/how-to-muddy-your-tracks-on-the-internet. html.
11. http:// www.makeuseof.com/tag/adblock-noscript-ghostery-trifecta-evil-opinion/.
12. http:// www.google.org/rlutrends/.
13. http:// wwwr.nobelprize.org/nobel prizes/economics/ laureates/2001/akerlof-article.html.
14. http:// www.carfax.com/entrycfx.
1. 2012, directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks.
2. Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005).
3. http:// blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2011/12/ boxing-robots-of-the-1930s.
4. http:// wwwshte.com/arhcles/technology/robot invasion/2011/09/ will_robots steal your job.html.
1. Aleksandar Hemon, “Beyond the Matrix,” New Yorker", September 10, 2012.
1. Daniel Kahneman has written foundational works on this topic. His book Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011) is a primary resource. Another relevant book is Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (New York: HarperCollins, 2008).
2. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/yelp-is-sued-after-dispute-over-a-review/ http://www.naturalnews.com/034247 Yelpcom lawsuit. html; http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/03/yelp-sued-for-extortionagain.html; http://pixsym.com/ blog/reputation-management/yelp-extortion-the-lawsuits-dismissed-are-they-back-at-it-in-2012.
3. http:// www.pcworld.com/article/255471/want your facebook status seen_pay up.html.
4. http:// motherboard.vice.com/2011/4/12/on-badoo-the-social-network-for-sex – users-pay-to-get-noticed-and-to-get-other-things-too.
1. http:// www.salon.com/2006/07/24/turks 3/.
2. http:// news.cnet.com/8301-10784 3-9782813-7.html.
3. http:// waxy.org/2008/11/the faces of mechanical turk/.
4. http:// www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study 40 of new mechanical turkers_work requests a.php.
1. http:// www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/09/ square jack dorsey s payments firm is silicon valley s next great company.html.
2. http:// techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/.
3. http:// bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/google-wave-becomes-a-bit-more-public/.
4. http:// techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/deadpool-alert-google-wave-goes-read – only/.
1. http://www.facebook.com/Jesuits/posts/143094992485238.
1. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/04/06/mort-zuckerman-no-easy-solutions-for-big-money-in-politics.
2. http:// sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2012/06/20/big-data-and-the-u-s-presidential-campaign/
1. “The Trickster Guru,” in The Essential Alan Watts (Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 1977).
2. http:// cafegratitude.com/menu.
3. http:// www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/i-am-annoyed-and-isappointed/Content?oid=1370662.
1. Kevin Kelly in his Technium blog, January 31, 2008.
1. http:// www.facebook.com'notes/facebook-data-team'rethinking-information-diversity-in-networks/10150503499618859.
1. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/05/facebook ipo has social neiavorking supplanted real innovation in silicon valley.html.
1. See Tim Wu’s book The Master Stwtch (New York: Knopf,2010).
1. http:// www.firstround.com/our focus/.
2. http:// www.naturalnews.com/036476 smart meters hacking privacy.html.
1. See http://www.fellowgeek.com/a-US-security-firm-hacked-by-Anonymous-tx1113.html and http://www.esecurityplanet.com/ hackers/panda-security-hacked-lulzsec-is-your-website-safe.html.
2. http:// cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html.
3. See http:// totalrecallbook.com/.
1. David Brooks, “The Creative Monopoly,” New York Times, April 23, 2012.
2. http:// blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-4-notes-essay.
3. http:// www.dailydot.com/society/facebook-mourning-jenna-ness-death/.
4. http:// www.slate.com/articles/health and science/human nature/2009/01/night of the living dad.html.
5. http:// www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/tupac-hologram-elvis-presley-marilyn-monroe n 1818715.html.
6. A Russian political party has been founded to further this goal. See http://www.gizmag.com/avatar-project-2045/23454/.
1. http:// www.npr.org/2012/02/22/147261659/gauging-the-reliability-of-facts-on-wikipedia.
1. http:// www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff klout/.