Articles:
What Is Your DNA Worth? by David Dobbs
Artists:
Contemporary News:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070105003810/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1135368.stm
Games:
Banished
Bioshock
Castle of the Winds - Inventory.
Civilization II - Technology development.
Diablo Series - Inventory, minimap overlay, potentially GUI.
Dungeon Siege Series - Skill development.
Fallout Series - Bartering, setting, guns and ammo.
Kingdom of Loathing - Economy.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - potentially GUI
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares - Domestic management, resource management.
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven - Questing. [Goblinhold, Spider Temple/Cavern]
Nethack - Except for the ridiculous number of shortcuts you need to know.
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Images:
Internet Identities:
Locations:
Atomic dome and Peace Memorial - Hiroshima, Japan.
Aboriginal Australia (Dry scrubland, Shacks of corrugated metal, windmill pumps, didgeridoo)
Media:
2001: A Space Odyssey - Tool development and usage.
Dragonlance Series
The Day the Earth Stood Still - Global issues.
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Community issues.
The Postman - Setting.
Shock Doctrine - Disaster capitalism.
Trigun - Ammunition scarcity, setting.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
http://vimeo.com/38591304
Indian folklore
Music:
Alanis Morisette - All I Really Want
Aurah - The City
Desert Dwellers - Lotus Heart (Kalya Scintilla Remix)
Dubmood
El-P - How to serve man
The Glitch Mob - Fistful of Silence
The Glitch Mob - Starve the Ego, Feed the Soul
The Glitch Mob - Warrior Concerto
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Mad - Magnetic Man
Puffin - Extrad (Intro/narration music)
Teebee - The Gateway (eerie, FO2-like, electronic)
Tropes:
Writing:
Heart of the Comet by David Brin and Gregory Benford
Man After Man: An Anthropolgy of the Future by Dougal Dixon and Philip Hood
Works of Isaac Aasmiov