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158 took less than eight millennia

Graeme Barker, The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why Did Foragers Become Farmers? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. v (”Ten thousand years ago there were few if any societies which can properly be described as agricultural. Five thousand years ago large numbers of the world's population were farmers....”).

159 from 90 to 2 percent of the workforce

Ibid.; Claude Fischer, ”Can You Compete with A.I. for the Next Job?,” Fiscal Times, April 14, 2011; Carolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson Conklin, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, ”The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy,” June 2005, puter of Yore,” New York Times, May 9, 2011.

165 jobs of weavers obsolete

Steven E. Jones, Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 5455.

166 ”Luddite fallacy”

Ford, Lights in the Tunnel, pp. 95100.

167 technologies as ”extensions” of basic human capacities

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994).

CHAPTER 2: THE GLOBAL MIND.