Wikipedia

Writing Technique

• New York Times Style Guide
• AP Style Guide

Astronomical and Physical Context

• Extrasolar Planets

Evolution

• Evolution
• Emergence
• Human Evolution
• Genome
• Proteome
• CRISPR
• Epigenetics
• Sociobiology
• Evolutionary Psychology

Human Population

• Thomas Malthus
• The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich
• Population Growth, extrapolation

Computers

• Deep Learning
• Neural Networks

Robots

Current Status and Near Future

• Flynn Effect
• Clock of the Long Now (10,000 year clock), Danny Hillis

Space Travel

• Anthropic principle
• Fermi problem
• Fermi paradox
• Interstellar travel
• Rare Earth Hypothesis
• The Drake Equation
• Zoo hypothesis
• von Neumann probe

Future

• Bill Joy - Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

Consciousness