Well, you know, I like a hustler.

Here are a few links to the resources in the video — these are affiliate links that while they cost you nothing, I get a little less nothing.

I could tell you the story of the Edison quote but honestly you need to read David Lipsky’s The Parrot and the Igloo; Climate and the Science of Denial. I found a copy at my local library. I am actually ordering a physical copy because I am a big fan of marginalia and this book is fantastic.

“Technologies are like stars: They hang around the lot waiting for the right story, the proper vehicle. Electricity became a star with the telegraph. The telegraph needed a crime.”

Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics, Jens Beckert

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Yuval Noah Harari