Thank You for Being Late
export systems
Express, L’
extreme weather
“Eye, The” (song)
Facebook
Facebook Messenger
Fadell, Tony
Fairchild Semiconductor
family planning
FAO Food Price Index
Fargo (film)
Farook, Syed Rizwan
Fast Company
Faten (Syrian drought refugee)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Trade Commission
Feldon, Barbara
Fendrik, Ármin
Ferguson, Mo.
Ferrucci, David
fertility rates
fertilizers, overuse of
fiber optics
FICO scores
financial crashes
financial flows
financial reform
financial services: big data and; democratization of
Financial Times
Fitbit
5G wireless networks
Florida, Richard
flows: of knowledge; power of; see also financial flows; global flows
Fofana, Mohamed
Foldit
food labeling
food prices
Foreign Affairs
foreign aid; gender equality and; military vs. educational and social
Foreign Policy
“40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents”
fossil fuels
fossil record
4G wireless networks
Francis I, Pope
Franken, Al
Franken, Owen
Fraser, Don
Fredericks, Frank
Freedman, Andrew
freedom: advances toward; in cyberspace; ethics and; inequality of
Freeman, Orville
Free Syrian Army
free trade agreements
Frenzel, Bill
freshwater use
Friedman, George
Friedman, Harold
Friedman, Jane
Friedman, Margaret
Friedman, Shelley
Fujitsu
Fukuyama, Francis
Funda, Ndumie
F. W. Olin Foundation
Gaffney, Owen
Gallup
Galor, Oded
Galston, Bill
Galván, Arturo
Gambia
Garber, Jake
Garten, Jeffrey
Gates, Bill
Gates Foundation
gays, gay rights; violence against
Gaznay, Karwan
GDP (gross domestic product); Internet penetration and
Gebbia, Joe
gender equality
gene drives
gene editing, as weapon
General Electric (GE); Additive Manufacturing Lab of; engineering-design contests of; Niskayuna research center of
General Mills
generative design
genetic engineering
genetics, human manipulation of
Genome.gov
GeopoliticalFutures.com
geopolitics: climate change and; Cold War in, see Cold War; foreign aid in; innovation in; interdependence in; post–Cold War; post–World War I; post–World War II; U.S. hegemony in
geopolitics, post–post–Cold War era in: accelerated pace of; ADD (amplify, deter, degrade) policy in; breakers in, see breakers, super-empowered; climate change and; great-power competition in; innovation in; interdependence in; low-wage jobs in; weak states in, see weak states
Georgia Tech
gerrymandering
Get Smart (TV series)
Ghana
Ghonim, Wael
ghost apps
GI Bill
gig economy
Gil, Dario
Gilhousen, Klein
GitHub
Global Change and the Earth System (Steffen, et al.)
global flows; bandwidth and; destructive aspects of; developing world and; digitalization of; education and; human relationships and; infrastructure and; innovation and; Internet of Things and; the Market and; as percentage of world GDP; population growth and; power of; push vs. pull in; social technologies and; supernova and; weak states and; see also connectivity, advances in
Globality.com
globalization: acceleration of; Moore’s law and; traditional definition of; see also Market, the
global warming, see climate change
Go
God: cyberspace and; Jewish postbiblical view of
Goldberg, Jay
Golden Globes
Golden Rule
Goldwasser, Lesley
golf, author and
Golf Digest
Goodwin, Tom
Google; MapReduce of; proprietary systems of; search engine of; self-driving cars of
Google Apps
Google File System (GFS)
Google Maps
Google News
Google Photos
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gorbis, Marina
Gordon, John Steele
Gordon, Robert
Gorman, Michael
Governing the World (Mazower)
Government Accountability Office
GPS
Grantham, Jeremy
Great Acceleration; see also age of accelerations
Great Barrier Reef
Great Britain; EU exit of
Great Depression
“Great Green Wall”
Great Recession of 2008
Greece
“Green Corps”
Greenland, ice sheets of
Grinstein, Gidi
Gross, Susan
GSM (Global System for Mobile)
Guardian
Guatemala
gun reform
Hadoop
Hagel, John, III
Hagstrom, Jane Pratt
Haick, Hossam
Haidt, Jonathan
Haigazian University
Hang, MayKao Y.
Hanks, Tom
Hans-Adam II, prince of Liechtenstein
Hanseroth, Tim
Harlem Children’s Zone
Harmening, Tom
Harrison, Lawrence E.
Hartman, David
Harvard Business Review
Harvey, Hal
Hautman, Pete
Hautman family
Hawaii
Hazeltine National Golf Club
HBO
health care
HealthPartners
Heifetz, Ronald
“Hello” (song)
help desks
Henderson, Simon
Henry, Buck
Hessel, Andrew
Hewitt, Brad
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
high-frequency trading
Hillel, Rabbi
HipChat
Hiroshima, atomic bombing of
history: Eurocentric view of; inflection points in, see inflection points; McNeill’s view of
HistoryofInformation.com
Hitler, Adolf
Hmong people
Hoffman, Reid
Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Georg
Hollande, François
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, ransomware attack on
Holmstrom, Carl
Holocaust
Holocene epoch; planetary boundaries of
Holt, Bill
Honduras
Hong Kong
Horn, Michael
hospitality industry, supernova and
House of Representatives, U.S., Homeland Security Committee of
Huffington Post
Hughes Aircraft
human adaptability, in age of accelerations
human capital; investment in
human networks, see intelligent algorithms
Human Resources Development Ministry, India
Human Rights Campaign
human
s: godlike powers of; tribalism of
humiliation: adaptability and; as geopolitical emotion
Humphrey, Hubert H.
hunger, population growth and
Hunting Terrorism (Navarro)
Hutchison Telecom
Hyatt, Joel
Hyett, P. J.
IBM
ice sheets; shrinking of
identity, proof of
IEDs (improvised explosive devices)
IEX
illiteracy
Ilulissat, Greenland
Immelt, Jeff
immigrants, immigration; diversity and; as entrepreneurs; into Europe; integration of; policy reform for
imperialism, fading of
inclusion, ethos of
India; connectivity in
Indian Institute of Technology
Indonesia
Industrial Revolution; Second
inflection points; age of accelerations; year 2000; year 2007
information technology revolution
infrastructure; in weak states
innovation: in geopolitics; global flows and; in India; lag between consequences and; in Mexico; in post–post–Cold War geopolitics; as response to change; in social technologies; supernova and; see also education, innovation in; ethics, innovation in; politics, innovation in; software innovation; technological change; workforce, innovation in
Institute for the Future
integrated circuits; Moore’s law and
Intel
intelligent algorithms
intelligent assistance; AT&T and; skill sets and
intelligent assistants; education and; job seekers and; workforce and
interdependence; in ecosystems; in financial flow; in geopolitics; healthy vs. unhealthy; of natural systems
International Commission on Stratigraphy
International Institute for Strategic Studies
International Journal of Business, Humanities, and Technology
International Organization for Migration
International Rescue Committee
Internet; cloud and, see supernova (cloud computing); digital divide and; GDP and; government policy on; mobile phones and; weak states and
Internet of Things
Internet of Things Foundry
intuition, and detection of weak signals
Invictus (film)
Iorio, Luana
iOS
iPhones; AT&T’s gamble on
Iran
Iraq
Iraq War
Isbin, Sharon
Islam
Islamic State (ISIS); videos by
Islamists
Islamist terrorism
isolation, as disease
Israel
Israeli-Palestinian War (1982)
Istanbul
Itasca Project
Ixigo.com
Jabr, Jumana
Jacklin, Tony
Jackson, Wes
Jacobs, Irwin
Jacobs, Jeff
Jacobs, Lawrence
Jacobs, Paul
Japan
Japanese Americans
Jennings, Ken
Jennings, Peter
Jeopardy!
Jerry Maguire (film)
Jersey Boys (musical)
Jerusalem
Jet (company)
Jewish Mafia
jihadists, see Islamist terrorism
jobs, see workforce, innovation in
Jobs, Steve
“Jobs Crisis, The: Bigger Than You Think” (Mead)
job seekers: credentials and; intelligent algorithms and; intelligent assistants and
Johnson, John
Johnson, Lyndon
Joint IED Defeat Organization
journalism: author’s career in; explanatory; opinion writing vs.
Journal of History and Theory
Kagol, Miriam
Kalra, Prem
Kalra, Urmila
Kanagawa, Treaty of (1854)
Kannan, P. V.
Kaplan, Fred
KARE (TV station)
Karp, Alexander
Karsner, Andy
Kauffman Foundation
kayaking
Kelly, John E., III
Kennedy, David
Kennedy, John F.
Kernza
Khan, Salman “Sal”
Khan Academy
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Kiev
Kilby, Jack
Kindle
King, Jeremy
Kissinger, Henry
Knight Capital
knowledge, stocks vs. flows of
knowledge economy
Koch, Hannes
Kreisky, Bruno
Krishna, Arvind
Krzanich, Brian
Kshirsagar, Alok
Kunene River
Kurdistan
Kurniawan, M. Arie
Kurzweil, Ray
labor market, see workforce, innovation in
Labour Party, British
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Mohamed
Lancet
Lanchester, John
Land, Edwin
Land Institute
laser science
latency
Latin America; emigration from
Latinos
LaunchCode.org
Lavie, Peretz
leadership; definition of; ethics and
learned behavior
Learning by Doing (Bessen)
LearnUp.com
Lebanese American University
Lebanese PTT
Lebanon; U.S. educational aid to
LED lighting
Lee Kuan Yew
Leuthardt, Eric C.
Levesque, Anna
Lewis, B. Robert
Lewis, LaShana
Lexus and the Olive Tree, The (Friedman)
liberty: impossibility of transplanting from outside; positive vs. negative
Libya
lifelong learning; in Mother Nature; workplace and
Lincoln Delicatessen, St. Louis Park
Lindley-French, Julian
Linkabit
LinkedIn
Linnee, Jane
Linnee, Paul
Linnee, Susan
Linux
Liss, Jeff
Lithium Corporation of America
Litwak, Robert
locomotives, sensors on
London, Iranian Embassy in
London Review of Books
Long, Mark
Lord, John
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lovejoy, Tom
Lovins, Amory
Lucene (search engine)
Ludwig, Cornelia
Lyft
Macalester College
MacGregor, Clark
Machine, the; in age of accelerations; definition of; impact on people and cultures of; inflection points and; technological change and
machine learning
machines: sensors on; supernova and
Madagascar
Maersk, sensors for
Maersk Alabama
maintenance, new modes of
makers, political, see geopolitics, innovation in
Malagasy Armed Forces
Malawi
Maldonado, Raúl
Malik, Khalid
Maltzman, Jonathan
Mandela, Nelson
Mandelbaum, Michael
Mann, Thomas E.
manufacturing, jobs in
Manyika, James
Marcus, David
Market, the; connectivity and; financial flows in, see financial flows; global flows and; interdependence in; Moore’s law and; positive and negative aspects of
Markoff, John
Marshall, Will
Martian, The (film)
Marx, Tzvi
massive open online courses (MOOCs)
MasterCard
Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii
Maur
itania
Mazower, Mark
McAfee, Andrew
McAfee, David
McCarthy, Eugene
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey Global Institute; Connectedness Index of
McMillon, Doug
McNeill, William H.
McWilliams, Carey
Mead, Carver
Mead, Chuck
Mead, Walter Russell
Meadows, Dana
medicine, Watson software and
Megginson, Leon C.
Meiji Restoration
memory, computer; Moore’s law and
mentors
messaging apps
Metalloy
Metz, Rob
Mexico; innovation in
Meyer, John C., III
Meyers, Scott
microprocessors, see integrated circuits
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Office 365
middle class: jobs and; postwar growth of
Middle East; agriculture in; cultural diversity in; education in; emigration from; ethos of commonality as absent from; U.S. policy toward; weak states in
Miliband, David
Military Balance, The (International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Millard, Brooke
Miller, Claire Cain
Miller, Richard K.
Minneapolis, Minn.: anti-Semitism in; blacks in; economy of; Jewish community in; poverty in; schools in
“Minneapolis: The Curious Twin” (McWilliams)
Minneapolis Journal
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minnesota: anti-Semitism in; blacks in; business community in; economic disparity in; Ethiopians in; harsh weather in; Hmong in; inclusive ethos of; political leadership in; progressivism in; public-private collaboration in; racism in; Somalis in
Minnesota, University of
“Minnesota nice”
Minnesota Twins
Minuteman ICBM
Mission Failure (Mandelbaum)
MIT, OpenCourseWare platform of
Mitchell, Joni
MIT Technology Review
Mittermeier, Russ
mobile phones; adoption of; as IEDs; Internet and; Moore’s law and; people’s attachment to; see also smartphones
Mobile Revolution, The (Boston Consulting Group)
Mohamed, Qassim
Mohamed bin Rashid al Maktoum, emir of Dubai
Mohasen, Syria
Mondale, Walter
Monterrey, Mexico
Montreal Protocol
MOOCs (massive open online courses)
Moore, Gordon E.
Moore’s law; climate change and; computing power and; financial flows and; the Market and
morality, see ethics, innovation in
Morning Edition (radio show)
mortality rates
Mortenson, David
Mother Nature; adaptability of; as complex system; as entrepreneurial; interdependence in; as political mentor; resilience of
Mother Nature, human impact on; black elephants in; deniers of; Great Acceleration in; natural buffers and adaptive responses to; novel entities introduced by; planetary boundaries of, see planetary boundaries; stewardship and; see also biodiversity loss; climate change; population growth
Mubarak, Hosni
Mukunda, Gautam
Muller, Wayne
Mundie, Craig
Muñoz, Andrés, Jr.