# Histories & Speculations: Further Reading The wider selection brings together earlier technological visions, media histories, archives and speculative accounts of emerging futures.  Historical examples, from writing and mechanical computation to the internet and personal computing, sit alongside resources concerned with memory, preservation and obsolete media.  Readings on speculative design, fictional robots, the metaverse and the future value of human work invite comparison between technological promises and the choices that shape what follows. ·  [A history of the Internet, part 1: An ARPA dream takes form](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/a-history-of-the-internet-part-1-an-arpa-dream-takes-form/) ·  [Business Daily - The internet’s memory problem - BBC Sounds](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5zpf) ·  [Charles Babbage’s Difference Engines and the Science Museum](https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/charles-babbages-difference-engines-and-science-museum) ·  [Electric Dreams - BBC Documentary - The 1990s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EHDVvx-dQs) _(Video)_ ·  [First Macintosh Press Release](https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/pr1.html) ·  [Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI](https://platforms.substack.com/p/humans-as-luxury-goods-in-the-age) ·  [Socrates on the Invention of Writing and the Relationship of Writing to Memory](https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3439) ·  [Speculative everything: random notes](https://reflectionsofaninteractiondesigner.home.blog/2019/06/03/speculative-everything-random-notes/) ·  [The Gentle Singularity](https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity) ·  [The Loading Museum](https://sheets.works/data-viz/the-loading-museum) ·  [The man trying to capture the internet before it disappears](https://apple.news/AWOJI2k1wSlyiNhOq1Np3NQ) ·  [The Media Archeology Lab](https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/) ·  [The Metaverse Fever Dream](https://pxlnv.com/blog/metaverse-fever-dream/) ·  [The Promise of Memex Revisited](https://www.cbtnuggets.com/blog/cbt-nuggets/the-promise-of-memex-revisited) ·  [What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-isaac-asimov-reveals-about-living-with-ai)