Geek Heresy (56 page)

      
corollaries of,
38–56

      
cost containment,
42–44

      
defining,
29–31

      
democracy,
62–63
,
70–71
,
73
,
113–114

      
Digital Green,
107–108

      
education,
29–31
,
78–81
,
115–121
,
119–121
,
248(n25)

      
educational inequalities,
116–118

      
elections,
62–63
,
70–71
,
73

      
entertainment,
230(n13)

      
existentialism,
56

      
fear of missing out,
41

      
heart, mind, and will qualities,
111–112
,
129–132

      
human intentions shaping technology use,
29

      
inequality,
63–64

      
interpersonal communications,
46–47

      
knowledge management and personnel management,
45

      
latent desires and behaviors,
40–42

      
law and policy,
63–64

      
microcredit,
57–61
,
66–68
,
71–72

      
music,
38–40

      
packaged interventions,
57–73
,
116
,
273–274(n25)

      
politics and governance,
23
,
31–37
,
46–47
,
67
,
69
,
113–114

      
positive side of,
107–108

      
practical application of,
106–111
,
114–121

      
prediction,
52–55
,
233(n54)

      
psychological basis of,
111–112
,
129–132

      
randomized controlled trials,
77–82

      
social basis of,
108–109

      
social media in revolutions,
32–37

      
technology strategy for schools,
119–121
,
248(n25)

      
vaccines,
64–65
,
67

Anandan, P.,
183–184

Angelucci, Manuela,
60

Annan, Kofi,
5

“The ant and the grasshopper,”
89–90

Antipoverty programs.
See
Poverty alleviation

Arab Spring,
32–37
,
62–63
,
232(n43)

Aristotle,
91
,
204
,
214
,
274–275(n4)

Armstrong, Neil,
103–104

Arora, Payal,
12

Ashesi University, Ghana,
125–131
,
138
,
149–150
,
152–153
,
157
,
159–160
,
223
,
259(n12)

Asimov, Isaac,
216–218
,
276–277(n16)

Aspirations,
156–159

      
Ashesi University,
151–171

      
aspiration assessment,
200

      
compassionate class,
189–191

      
driver of economic growth,
174–177

      
education,
146

      
evolution of,
157–158
,
165–168

      
examples of,
151–155
,
159–162

      
hierarchy of,
165–168

      
India’s environmental efforts,
215

      
internalized,
211–212

      
Kenya survey of,
156–157
,
258–259(n4)

      
national changes and individual aspirations,
187–188

      
needs,
200

      
voluntary life change,
156–159
,
263(n40)

      
World Values Survey data,
179–182

Astronauts,
103–104
,
146

Awuah, Patrick,
125
,
149
,
159–162
,
164–166
,
168
,
215
,
259(nn12
,
14)
,
263(n40)

Azerbaijan: political use of social media,
23

Azim Premji Foundation,
8

Backward Class, India’s,
139
.
See also
Caste system

Bahrain: Arab Spring,
34
,
37

Bain Capital,
85–86

Bales, Kevin,
166–167

Banerjee, Abhijit,
68
,
236–237(n14)

Banking sector.
See
Microcredit

Barnes & Noble,
75–77

Bauerlein, Mark,
10

Baumeister, Roy,
132
,
251–252(n15)

Behar, Anurag,
8

Behavior change, manipulative nature of,
161
,
197

Behavioral economics,
144–145
,
258(n2)

Beneficiaries of packaged interventions,
26
,
61
,
66–69
,
111–112

Bentham, Jeremy,
88

Berlin Wall,
36

The Better Angels of Our Nature
(Pinker),
191
,
270(n48)

Bhutan,
87–88

Blagsvedt, Sean,
122

Blake, William,
174

Blaming victims,
170
,
172–174
,
202
,
256(n42)

Book industry,
74–77
,
240(n1)
,
246(n67)

Bookshops,
74–75

Bornstein, David,
190

Bottom of the pyramid.
See
Social enterprise

Bourdieu, Pierre,
250(n11)

Brain drain and brain circulation,
183–184

Brazil,
182
,
190

Brynjolfsson, Erik,
47

Business and entrepreneurship

      
book publishing,
74–77

      
bottom of the pyramid,
82–84

      
cost containment through technology,
42–44

      
for-profit approach to social causes,
82–84

      
India’s high-tech economy,
182–185

      
knowledge management,
44–46

      
marketing personal music,
39

      
social enterprise,
84–87

      
telecenters and Internet cafés,
19
,
105
,
246–247(n8)

      
Walkman,
38–40

      
See also
Economics
;
Microcredit
;
Nonprofit organizations

Cairncross, Frances,
46

Cambodia: One Laptop Per Child,
15

Cameron, David,
89

Capacity building,
124

      
Digital Green,
108–109
,
206

      
health care,
136–137

      
packaged interventions,
66–68

      
See also
Education and training
;
Mentorship

Capitalism,
176
,
243(n35)
.
See also
Economics

Carlin, George,
275(n8)

Carr, Nicholas,
23

Caste system,
64
,
139

Cause and correlation,
35

Censorship

      
Arab Spring uprising,
33

      
Chinese Internet,
49–52

      
limiting technology use in the classroom,
119

Changing Lives
(Tunstall),
270(n2)

Character

      
human maturation and,
161

      
learning,
165
,
262(n29)

      
strengths,
253(n20)

      
See also
Heart, mind, and will

Charity

      
compared with mentorship,
205

      
percentage of GDP,
269(n40)

      
See also
Nonprofit organizations
;
Poverty alleviation

Charter schools,
62
,
73
,
239–240(n51)

Check dams,
199

Children

      
child-rearing,
192–193
,
270(n1)

      
commitment to save,
212–214

      
digital natives,
10–11

      
educational technology,
114–121

      
natural learners,
11

      
self-control,
265(n3)

      
sexual abuse,
148
,
257(n53)

      
teaching and parenting,
202–203

      
text-messaging,
56

      
vaccines,
64–65

      
video games,
12
,
114–115
,
117
,
122
,
228(n20)

      
See also
Education and training

China

      
agricultural extension programs,
207
,
273(n20)

      
carbon reduction,
215–216

      
education,
13
,
145
,
229(n29)

      
Internet censorship,
49–52

      
Max Weber,
176
,
255(n7)

      
one-child law,
205

      
PISA results,
229(n29)

      
social media censorship,
23
,
49–52

      
Toms Shoes manufacturing,
243(n31)

      
See also
Confucianism

Choudhury, Abdul Mannan,
196–201

Civil Rights Act,
63–64

Civil society, Arab Spring and,
32–35
,
37

Classroom management,
115–116
,
118–119

Climate change,
23
,
134
,
215–216

Clinton, Bill,
49
,
85

Clinton, Hillary,
x
,
35–36
,
152

Coaching,
205

Cobb-Douglas function,
273–274(n25)

Coerced partnership arrangements,
198
,
205
,
270(n1)

Cognitive capacity,
28
,
227(n10)
,
263(n43)

Cognitive dissonance,
234(n19)

Cognitive Surplus
(Shirky),
230(n17)

Cohen, Jared,
21
,
229(n5)