Arab Spring, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Ariely, Dan, 7.1; Predictably Irrational, 2.1, 8.1
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
art: and mechanical reproduction, 5.1, 6.1
art nouveau
Arts and Crafts movement
Ashley, Michael
Assange, Julian
assembly, freedom of
AT&T (company)
Athar, Sohaib
attention, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1
Atwood, Margaret
Auletta, Ken
baking
banks and banking, itr.1; crisis, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Barlow, John Perry
Barthes, Roland
Bell, Vaughan
BellSouth
Benjamin, Walter, 5.1, 8.1
Berners-Lee, Tim
Bible, Holy
bin Laden, Osama
Biological Conservation (journal), 6.1
Birkerts, Sven: Gutenberg Elegies, 4.1, 4.2
Blair, Tony, itr.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
Blogger
Bloggess, 7.1, 8.1
body language
Book Search
books, 4.1; publishing, 7.1, 7.2
Boston Tea Party
Bouazizi, Mohamed, 6.1
brain (human): flexibility and adaptability, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; and cognition, 6.1
Brand, Stewart
Breuer, Marcel
Brin, Sergey
Britain: riots (2011), 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 9.1; social pessimism in, 4.2; and economic crisis, 6.7; social change in, 10.1
Brown, Dan: The Da Vinci Code, 5.1
Brown, Gordon
Buffalo, University of, 4.1, 5.1
Buffett, Warren
Burry, Michael
business meetings
Cameron, David, itr.1, 6.1
Campbell, Alastair
capital punishment
Carr, Nicholas: on concentration and distraction, 2.1, 4.1; on deep reading, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 9.1; on Samuel Johnson’s two types of knowledge, 4.4; on decision-making, 4.5, 6.1, 7.1
cellphones
censorship: and the Internet, ; see also copyright; intellectual property
Cherry, Colin: On Human
Communication, 2.1
Chin, Judge Denny
China: science fiction in
Church (Christian): early monopoly
on scholarship, 7.1, 7.2
Churchill, Sir Winston
climate change, 2.1, 3.1
Cline, Ernie: Ready Player One, 4.1
clocks, mechanical
Cloud, the, 3.1, 3.2; see also cyberspace
cognition: and human brain, 6.1; and physical action, 8.1
Cold War
coltan
commodification, 5.1, 6.1
companies: identity and character
competition
computer games
Congo: and coltan production
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, 9.1
Cook County Hospital, Chicago
copyright, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
Crace, Jim
creativity, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9.1
Creepy Line
CrunchGear
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2
culture: scientific–humanist clash, 4.1, 4.2
cyberspace, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1; see also Cloud, the
dancing
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), 1.1, 1.2
Dean, Matt
deindividuation, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1; and design of devices, 6.2
de Kerckhove, Derrick: The Augmented Mind, 6.1
democracy, ; see also politics and government
design: and function
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4.1
Diaspora
Dickens, Charles
Dictator Game
Digital Rights Management, 5.1
digital technology: universal application, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3; limitations, 3.4; human and social effects, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1
disintermediation
DNA
Doctorow, Cory
Dossey, Larry
Douglas, Michael
Dowler, Milly
dreams, lucid
Duggan, Mark
eBay
ebooks, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1
Economist, The: subscription rates, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
Edwards, Douglas
efficiency: in human conduct
Egypt: revolution (2011), 2.1, 8.1
Einstein, Albert, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Eisenstein, Sergei
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 1.1, 1.2
Elmer-DeWitt, Philip, 1.1, 1.2
email: introduced, 1.1; number sent daily, 2.1; addresses, 5.1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
emoticons
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 7.1
engagement (mental), 8.1, 9.1
Enlightenment, the, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1
Evernote
Everquest (computer game)
evolution
Facebook: beginnings, 1.1; and information sharing, 5.1; value, 5.2; payment for, 5.3; and Instant Personalization, 5.4; and revolutions, 6.1; reciprocal nature, 6.2
Farber, David, 1.1, 5.1
feedback, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2
FingerKicks, 8.1
Fishburne, Laurence
Fold.it (game), 5.1, 5.2
food supply, global
Free Software Foundation (FSF), 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2
free speech, itr.1, 1.1, 5.1
Freedom Box Foundation
Fry, Stephen
Fukuyama, Francis
future shock
Gabrieli, John
Gaiman, Neil, 4.1, 7.1
Game Theory
GAMEized, 8.1, 8.2
gangsters
garage bands
Gates, Bill, 1.1, 1.2
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Germany: privacy protection in, 5.1; and creative work, 5.2; and economic crisis, 6.1
Gibbon, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm, 4.1
Gibson, William, 1.1, 1.2; Idoru, 6.1, 6.2
Giddens, Anthony: The Consequences of Modernity, 2.1
gift-giving
Gilmore, John, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
Gladwell, Malcolm: Blink, 2.1
Gleick, James
Glenny, Misha: Dark Market, 5.1, 5.2
global digital library
Gmail
GNU project, 1.1, 5.1
Goetz, Thomas: Decision Tree, 6.1
Google: origins and development, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3; as search engine, 1.4, 4.1; ethos and aims, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7; and the Cloud, 3.1; resists demands for access to search histories, 5.1; trustworthiness, 5.2; and publishing, 7.1; company character, 8.1
Google Book Settlement, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 7.2
Google Music
Google+
Gordon, Peter
government see politics and government
Graphical User Interfaces
Gray, Eileen
Greenfield, Susan, Baroness, 4.1, 4.2
Greenspan, Alan
Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Gurr, Ted
Gutenberg, Johannes, 7.1, 7.2
habeas corpus
hackers, 1.1, 5.1
Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 5.1
Hagens, Gunther von: Body World exhibition, 3.1
Harkaway, Nick, 4.1; The Gone-Away World, 7.1, 8.1
Haskell, Francis: Patrons and Painters, 8.1
heart attacks: diagnosis
hearth (home): and outside intrusion, 2.1, 2.2; and privacy, 5.1; as space, 5.2; inviting others into, 8.1; rules and etiquette, 8.2
hikikomori (Japanese withdrawal), 4.1
Hocking, Amanda
Honoré, Carl
horses: behaviour and training
Huizinga, Johan, 5.1, 5.2
human beings: individuality and place in society, 6.1; behaviour and habi
ts, 9.1
human body
Human Monitoring and Authentication
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
hypertext, itr.1, 4.1, 4.2
Icarus (mythological figure)
Idle, Nadia and Alex Nunns: Tweets from Tahrir, 6.1
information overload, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Instant Personalization
intellectual property (IP): and law, 1.1; and protection, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1; publishers and, 7.1
International Congress for Psychology, Third (1896)
Internet: beginnings, 1.1; development and use, 1.2; and physical space, 1.3; and legislation, 1.4; openness and free speech, 1.5; ubiquity, 1.6, 5.1; and music distribution, 1.7; online advertising, 1.8; payments and profits, 1.9; and attention, 2.1, 4.1, 5.2; and complexity of modern world, 2.2; addiction, 4.2; negative view of, 4.3; and shared experience, 5.3; as play space, 5.4; language, 5.5; and human relationships, 5.6, 5.7; free and paid, 5.8; deindividuation and anonymity, 6.1; information flow, 6.2, 6.3; right of access, 6.4; and book publishing, 7.1; and revolutions, 9.1
Internet Relay Chat, 1.1
introspection
intrusion
iOS
iPad
iPhone, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2
iPods, 1.1, 3.1
Iraq, 2.1, 3.1
Isocrates
iTunes Store
Ives, Sir Jonathan
Japan: and withdrawal (‘hikikomori’), 4.1
Jobs, Steve, 6.1, 6.2
Johnson, Samuel, 4.1, 8.1
Johnson, Steven: Everything Bad is
Good for You, 9.1
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Journal of Mental Health, 4.1
journalism
Kamitani, Yukiyasu, 10.1, 10.2
Kapor, Mitch
Kickstarter
Kindle (reading device)
kindness
Kirkpatrick, David
Kish, Daniel
Kissinger, Henry
‘Kitchen Sink’ art
knowledge, 4.1, 8.1; glut, 2.1
Kuhn, Michael: 100 Films and a Funeral, 7.1
labour: and identity
Labour Party (British): and social unrest, 6.1; central control, 7.1
Lacan, Jacques
Lacks, Henrietta
Landes, David: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, 3.1
language: Internet, 5.1; and human development, 6.1
lawmaking
Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 7.1
Leavis, F.R.
Le Bon, Gustave
Leconte, Patrice
Le Corbusier (Charles Édouard Jeanneret)
left-digit bias
Le Guin, Ursula
Leibniz, Gottfried
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
l’Épée, Charles-Michel de
Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics, 2.1, 7.1
Lewis, Michael: The Big Short, 6.1; Boomerang, 6.2
lines and boundaries
Linux
Lisberger, Steven
Lock-in
LOLcats
London: riots (2011), 6.1, 6.2
Loos, Adolf, 6.1, 6.2
Lucas, George
Lyotard, Jean-François
Mac OS X
McLuhan, Marshall, 3.1, 7.1
McNamee, Roger
McRae, Lucy
Major, Sir John
Mansy, Sheref
martial arts
Marx, Karl, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1
Mason-Pfizer monkey virus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matrix, The (film), 5.1
Mau, Bruce, 3.1, 6.1
Memmo, Andrea
memory, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1
Meyer, Stephanie
Microsoft, 1.1, 8.1
Middle East: revolutions, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1
Milgram, Stanley
Millennium Challenge (2002)
mobile phones: switching off
Moglen, Eben, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1
money: real and virtual
Mori, Masahiro
MRI scanners
Mubarak, Hosni
music: and Google, 1.1; digital, 3.1
My Lai massacre (Vietnam)
NASA
National Science Foundation Network
Net Book Agreement
netiquette
neuroplasticity, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 10.1
New Scientist, 7.1
news
News International
News of the World, 5.1, 6.1
newspapers: effect of Google on
Newton, Sir Isaac, 2.1, 3.1
9/11 (USA)
Norton, Quinn
novel-reading
Nursery Rhymes, 1.1
Obama, Barack
obscurantism
Occupy movement, itr.1, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
oil: scarcity
Omega 3 oils
Open Source movement
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four, 7.1
Osborne, George
oxytocin (‘love hormone’)
Padua, Sydney: Lovelace & Babbage web comic, 5.1
Page, Larry, 1.1, 1.2
Pariser, Eli: The Filter Bubble, 5.1
Patel, Raj: The Value of Nothing, 3.1
patents
Petrini, Carlo
Picasso, Pablo
Pinker, Steven: The Blank Slate, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1
Pirate Party
Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 8.1
Plato
play, 9.1; and Internet, 5.1
Plimer, Ian: Heaven and Earth, 2.1
Podcast
politicians: popular view of
politics and government: complexity and interconnectedness, 2.1; and central control, 7.1; and popular participation, 7.2, 7.3
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Potemkin (Russian battleship), 6.1
pricing
printing: 3D
privacy, 5.1, 5.2
Prometheus myth
Proust, Marcel
publishing: changes in, 7.1, 7.2
quantum theory
Querini, Angelo
Rand, Ayn, 5.1, 6.1
RAND Corporation
reading and writing, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; and engagement, 8.1, 9.1
real, the
Reeves, Keanu
revolutions, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
Rheingold, Howard
Richelieu, Cardinal Armand Jean Duplessis, Duc de, 5.1
Ridicule (film), 5.1
riots (UK 2011), 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 9.1
Roberts, Monty, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Robinson, Andrew
Robinson, Sir Ken
romance
Romantic movement
Rosenberg, Count Philip Joseph Orsini-
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rushkoff, Douglas
Ruskin, John, 5.1, 6.1
Russia: 1917 revolution, 6.1, 6.2
Rutherford, Ernest, Baron
Saddam Hussein, 2.1, 3.1
Said, Khaled, 6.1, 6.2
Saito, Tamaki
Saudi Arabia: oil reserves
Scalzi, John
Schmidt, Eric, itr.1, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
science: and societal perspective, 3.1; UK hostility to as cultural force, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
science fiction
Search Engine Optimization
Siri voice interface
Slow Food movement (Italy)
Small, Gary
Smith, Consul Joseph
Snow, C.P.
social behaviour, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
social networks, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
Socrates, 4.1, 10.1
Sony
sourdough bread
Sparrow, Betsy
‘spime’
Stallman, Richard, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2
Stanford Prison Experiment
Star Wars (film), 7.1
Stephenson, Neal: Snow C
rash, 3.1
Sterling, Bruce
Steve Jackson Games (SJG)
Stop Online Piracy Act, 2012 (USA), 8.1
Stratton, George
StreetView
Sturgeon, Theodore
Sun Microsystems
Sun (newspaper), 5.1
supermarkets
Surowiecki, James: The Wisdom of Crowds, 5.1
swine flu
t’ai chi
tango (dance)
technology: and societal assumptions, 3.1; future applications, 10.1
Tesco
text (digital), understanding, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
text (written)
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 6.1, 6.2
They Work for You (website)
Thick of It, The (TV show), 7.1
38 Degrees (organization), 7.1, 9.1
Thoreau, Henry David
time: measurement, 3.1; experience of, 4.1, 9.1
Time (magazine), 1.1, 5.1
time-sickness
Toffler, Alvin
trademarks
Tristan da Cunha: population
Tron (film), 1.1
Turing, Alan
twentieth century: social and economic changes, 6.1
Twitter: and publication of information, 1.1; and privacy, 1.2, 5.1; role, 3.1; use of, 4.1, 9.1; and information sharing, 5.2, 5.3; and revolutions, 6.1; reciprocal nature, 6.2
Ultimate game, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
unboxing
United Kingdom see Britain
United States: Secret Service, 1.1; and Google challenge, 1.2; government view of Google, 5.1; and intellectual property, 5.2; Depression (1930s), 6.1, 6.2
Usenet
van Riper, Lieutenant General Paul
Vorpal Sword
voting (franchise), itr.1, 10.1
Walkman
Wall Street (film), 6.1
Wall Street Journal, 5.1
Walt Disney Company
War on Terror
Warshow, Robert
Warwick, Kevin
Washington Ideas Forum
WELL, the (Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link), 1.1, 5.1, 7.1
Wells, H.G.
Whole Earth Catalogue, 1.1
Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link see WELL, the
WikiLeaks, 1.1, 7.1
Wikipedia, 1.1, 7.1
Willis, Glee, 1.1, 5.1
Windows, 1.1, 5.1
Winterson, Jeanette
Wired (magazine), 1.1
‘wisdom of crowds’
Wolf, Maryanne, 6.1, 10.1; Proust and the Squid, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1
World of Warcraft, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
World Wide Web, 1.1, 1.2
Wynne, Giustiniana