1/ I am trying to generate a reference list of consequential non-fiction essays, help me out. Eg #1: As We May Think
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2/ To count it must satisfy 3 conditions: i) the essay must produce a consequential idea internally, not merely convey consequential news
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3/ It must ii) "disturb the peace" in some sense, outside the predictable institutional boundaries where it nominally has currency
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Do long essays (aka "books") count?
Natural Born Cyborgs e1020.pbworks.com/f/ClarkNBC.pdf
Introduction is a standalone essay faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory
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Coase's Nature of the Firm 1937 essay would mos def make the list
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Doug Engelbart's Augmenting Human Intellect 1962 paper should make the cut too
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Dude, Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson more or less invented American individualism
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