The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (60 page)

as tracking tool,
245

Two Treatises of Government
(Locke),
60

Udacity,
115

unemployment

and blue-collar workers,123–124

due to technological advancement,
7
,
121
–128

and repercussions of job loss,
132

and white-collar workers,
126

United Nations,
21
,
213

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
274

Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO),
285

Internet Governance Forum (IGF),
196

United States

Centers for Disease Control,
245

Department of Defense,
96
,
125
,
142
,
294
–295

Department of Energy,
87
,
295

Energy Information Administration (EIA),
87

Federal Trade Commission,
202
,
291

Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
122
,
219

income disparity in the,
277
–278

Justice Department,
129

National Academy of Sciences,
293
–294

National Center for Atmospheric Research,
288

Patents and Trademark Office (PTO),
165
–166

postal service,
45
–46,
113
,
125
–126,
163
–164

transmission grid, vulnerability of,
293
–296

Treasury,
259
,
291

upcycling,
91
,
236

UPS, uses Big Data,
11
–12

urbanization, caused by printing/rail industry,
53

Urbee,
98
–99

utilitarian value, Hume and Bentham’s theory of,
62
–63

Utopia
(More),
31

Vail, Theodore Newton,
49
–50

vehicle(s).
see
automobile(s)

Verizon,
51
,
54
,
148
,
198

Vernadsky, Vladimir,
183

vertical integration/vertically integrated companies

and centralized management of production and distribution,
46
–47

and removal of costly middle men,
23
,
46
,
232

see also
Collaborative Commons

Vietor, Richard H. K.,
50

Walljasper, Jay,
189

watermill,
33
–34,
40
–41

Watson,
130

Watt, James,
41

The Wealth of Nations
(Smith),
3
,
306

The Wealth of Networks
(Benkler),
193

Weber, Max,
43
–44,
59
,
61

Weiner, Gary,
127

Werbach, Adam,
237
–238

Werbach, Kevin,
151
,
194

Whitacre, Ed,
198

White, Lynn,
34
–35

The Whole Earth Catalog
(Brand),
100

Wikipedia,
170
,
177
,
180
,
199
–200,
243
,
309

Williams, Stuart,
246
–247

windmill,
34
,
40

wired carriers/communications,
149

Wired
(magazine),
5

work/worker(s).
see
last worker standing

World Trade Organization (WTO),
187
–188

World Watch Institute,
275

Wu, Tim,
202

Yerdle,
237
–238

Youth Employment Partnership (YEP),
257

YouTube,
76
,
170
,
180
,
198
,
234
,
248
,
250
,
292

Yumkella, Dr. Kandeh,
285

Zetsche, Dieter,
230
–231

Zopa,
256

Zuckerberg, Mark, and Zuckerberg’s law,
145