Fiction

 Auster, Paul. In the Country of Last Things. 
 Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward: 2000-1887. 
 Clancy, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. 
 Delillo, Don. White Noise. 
 - - -. Underworld.
 LeGuin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness. 
 Pirsig, Robert. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 
 Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow. 
 - - -. Mason and Dixon. 
 Skinner, B.F. Walden Two. 
 Theroux, Paul. Mosquito Coast. 
 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Player Piano. 
 - - -. Slaughterhouse Five. 
 - - -. Timequake. 
 

Non-fiction

 Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Selected Essays. 
 Fukuyama, Francis. The End of History and the Last Man. 
 Flexner, James. "That Wilder Image": The Painting of America’s Native School from
   Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer.
 Gates, Bill. The Road Ahead. 
 Hardison, O.B., Jr. Disappearing through the Skylight. 
 Hughes, Robert. American Visions. 
 Mailer, Norman. Of a Fire on the Moon. 
 McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media. 
 Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden. 
 Mumford, Lewis. The Pentagon of Power. 
 Noble, David F. America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Capitalism. 
 Nye, David E. American Technological Sublime. 

Films and Videos

 Metropolis (1925) 
 Modern Times (1936) 
 Things to Come (1936) 
 The Wizard of Oz (1939) 
 Young Tom Edison (1940) 
 Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1954) 
 Them! (1954) 
 Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) 
 Forbidden Planet (1956) 
 On the Beach (1959) 
 The Time Machine (1960) 
 Dr. Strangelove (1964) 
 Fantastic Voyage (1966) 
 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 
 The Andromeda Strain (1971) 
 Silent Running (1971) 
 Sleeper (1973) 
 Soylent Green (1973) 
 Demon Seed (1977) 
 The China Syndrome (1979) 
 Alien (1979) 
 The Road Warrior (1981) 
 Quest for Fire (1981) 
 Blade Runner (1982, 1993) 
 Return of the Jedi (1983) 
 The Day After (1983) 
 The Terminator (1984) 
 The Emerald Forest (1985) 
 The Quiet Earth (1985) 
 The Mission (1986) 
 Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) 
 Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) 
 Until the End of the World (1991) 
 Black Robe (1991) 
 1492: The Conquest of Paradise (1992) 
 Sneakers (1992) 
 Independence Day (1996) 
 Outbreak (1996) 
 Contact (1997)