The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World

  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