Geek Heresy (63 page)
Authors: Kentaro Toyama
Telecenters,
104–108
,
123
,
125
,
234(n24)
.
See also
Internet cafés
Television,
7–8
,
47
,
134
,
230(n13)
,
253(n18)
Theories of technology and society.
See
Technology and society
Things Fall Apart
(Achebe),
62–63
Thompson, John B.,
75–76
Thought experiments
failing company,
31
future learning machine,
54
Law of Amplification,
48–49
technology prediction,
52–53
Singer’s drowning child and variation,
212–213
wealth versus wisdom,
170–171
Toms Shoes,
84–87
,
242(nn28
,
29
,
30)
Transactional relationships, mentorship versus,
203–204
Transparency, governmental,
31–32
.
See also
Democracy
Tunisia: Arab Spring,
32–33
,
36–37
,
62
Tunstall, Tricia,
270(n2)
,
273(n3)
Turkle, Sherry,
40
Twenge, Jean,
262(n33)
Twitter,
35–36
,
51
.
See also
Social media
UNICEF,
193–194
Unilever Corporation,
83
Unintended consequences,
23
,
55–56
,
231(n27)
United States
American Revolution,
35
,
232(n45)
compassionate class,
189
creative class,
186
credit and debt,
60–61
educational technology,
x
,
9–14
,
114–121
electricity usage,
230(n16)
entrepreneurial spirit,
177–178
Internet censorship and spying,
52
modernization,
266–267(n11)
racial and gender equality,
63–64
role model for developing countries,
215–216
women’s status,
178
United States Agency for International Development (USAID),
86
,
272(n12)
Universal suffrage,
63
Untouchables, India’s,
64
Urban migration,
268(n21)
Uruguay: One Laptop Per Child,
8
Usury,
58
.
See also
Microcredit
Utilitarianism,
88
Utopians, technological,
20–22
Arab Spring as Facebook revolution,
33
characteristics and views,
21–22
faith in future technologies,
21–22
indiscriminate dissemination of technology,
108–109
technology as savior,
56
,
216–218
,
234(n17)
technology’s effect on personal relationships,
46
See also
Technology and society
Vaccines
heart, mind, and will of participants,
111–112
packaged interventions,
64–65
philanthropic role in,
212
polio eradication,
238(n28)
Value neutrality and value engagement,
93
Van Alstyne, Marshall,
47
Veeraraghavan, Rajesh,
104–106
,
109
,
112–113
Venal corruption,
266(n10)
.
See also
Corruption
Venezuela: El Sistema music program,
193–194
,
207–208
,
270(n2)
,
273(n23)
Video-based instruction.
See
Digital Green
Video games
Chinese Internet censorship,
50
cognitive skills developed by,
227(n10)
educational gains from,
228(n20)
educational software competing with,
114–115
,
247–248(n20)
Hole-in-the-Wall project,
12
Internet cafés,
246–247(n8)
nurturing children,
232(n34)
See also
Prensky, Marc
;
McGonigal, Jane
Video teleconferencing,
105
,
109–110
Village Health Works,
207
Virtue ethics,
213–214
,
274–275(n4)
Voting rights,
63
Voucher programs,
94
Wages and salaries
gender-based wage gap,
63–64
,
238(n25)
India’s NREGA guaranteeing income,
112–114
See also
Employment
Walmart,
42–43
Warschauer, Mark,
9
,
15
,
117
,
228(n15)
Willpower.
See
Self-control
Wilson, E. O.,
277(n17)
Wireless,
x
.
See also
Mobile phones
.
Wireless access: technology strategy for schools,
120
Wisdom,
133–136
.
See also
Heart, mind, and will
;
Intrinsic growth
.
Women and girls
computer literacy training in India,
17–20
Digital Green,
195–196
education’s benefits to,
142–144
Ghana’s Soronko education programs,
152
global change in women’s status,
178–179
,
267(n16)
India’s labor market,
258(n54)
Kelsa+ project for adults,
123–124
liberation of,
267(n15)
literacy and computer literacy,
27–28
mobile phones and Indian women,
28
self-actualization and individual aspirations,
188–191
See also
Inequality
Work ethic,
176
.
See also
Self-control
World Health Organization (WHO),
65
World Summit on the Information Society,
5
World Values Survey,
97
,
179–180
,
190
,
267(n17)
,
267–268(n18)
,
268(n19)
Xenophon,
209
Yeddyurappa, B.S.,
237(n20)
Your ordinary American agency (YOAA),
70
Youth development, mentorship in,
272(n16)
Yunus, Muhammad,
58–59
,
66–68
,
71–72
,
84
Zinman, Jonathan,
59–60
Zuckerberg, Mark,
33
.
See also
Facebook
Kentaro Toyama
is W. K. Kellogg Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information and a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until 2009, he was assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, which he cofounded in 2005, and where he researched how the world’s poorer communities interact with electronic technology and invented new ways for technology to support their socioeconomic development. He lives in Ann Arbor.
PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.
I. F. S
TONE
, proprietor of
I. F. Stone’s Weekly
, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published
The Trial of Socrates
, which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
B
ENJAMIN
C. B
RADLEE
was for nearly thirty years the charismatic editorial leader of
The Washington Post
. It was Ben who gave the
Post
the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.
