The Blind Giant (38 page)
Authors: Nick Harkaway
11.
How Social Influence can Undermine the Wisdom of Crowd Effect – edited by Burton H. Singer, University of Florida, 13 April 2011
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/10/1008636108.abstract
Chapter 6: Tahrir and London
1.
Egyptian Activists’ Action Plan – translated by Alexis Madrigal, 27 January 2011
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/01/egyptian-activists-action-plan-translated/70388/
2.
BBC News online: Analysis: the riots data so far – Dominic Casciani, 15 September 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14931987
3.
New Scientist:
Language may Shape Human Thought – Celeste Biever, 19 August 2004
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6303-language-may-shape-human-thought.html
4.
New Scientist:
Language may be Key to Theory of Mind – Anil Ananthaswamy, 23 June 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17352-language-may-be-key-to-theory-of-mind.html
5.
The Riots: What are the Lessons from the JRF’s Work in Communities? – John Low, 7 September 2011
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/riots-what-are-the-lessons
Chapter 7: The Old, the Modern and the New
1.
YouTube: How George Lucas Got the Rights to the
Star Wars
Sequels – George Lucas, 6 Nov 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJ2gQdKXqk
2.
HM Government: How e-petitions work – Directgov, undated
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/how-it-works
3.
Weasel-necked Pencils. Part I Hope the Last – Neil Gaiman, 5 May 2011
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/05/weasel-necked-pencils-part-i-hope-last.html
4.
Discover
magazine: Twitter as a Giant Global Mood Ring – Ed Yong, 29 September 2011
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/29/twitter-as-a-giant-global-mood-ring/
Chapter 8: Engagement
1.
Neural Responses to Taxation and Voluntary Giving Reveal Motives for Charitable Donations – William T. Harbaugh, Ulrich Mayr, Daniel R. Burghart, 15 June 2007
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/316/5831/1622.full
2.
News Focus: The Theory? Diet Causes Violence. The Lab? Prison – John Bohannon, 25 September 2009
http://www.ifbb.org.uk/files/Science-25-9-09.PDF
3.
New Scientist:
Your Clever Body: thinking from Head to Toe – David Robson, 21 October 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228341.500-your-clever-body-thinking-from-head-to-toe.html
Chapter 9: Being Human in a Digital World (Or Any Other)
1.
New Scientist:
Natural Brain State is Primed to Learn – Jessica Hamzelou, 19 August 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228341.500-your-clever-body-thinking-from-head-to-toe.html
2.
New York Times:
Come On, I Thought I Knew That! – Benedict Carey, 18 April 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/health/19mind.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all
Chapter 10: Coda
1.
A Sixth Sense for a Wired World – Quinn Norton, 7 June 2006
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087?currentPage=all
2.
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at our Fingertips – Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner, 2 May 11
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/07/13/science.1207745#aff-2
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
advertisements: online,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
; and intrusion,
2.1
; and human moods,
7.1
; methods,
7.2
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Apple: dominance,
1.1
; and operating systems,
1.2
; profits,
1.3
; and iPhone,
3.1
; as gateway to the Cloud,
3.2
; stores,
3.3
; opposes free movement,
5.1
; addresses,
5.2
; design,
6.1
; and publishing,
7.1
; GameCenter,
8.1
; company character,
8.2
Ariely, Dan,
7.1
;
Predictably
Irrational
,
2.1
,
8.1
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
art: and mechanical reproduction,
5.1
,
6.1
banks and banking,
itr.1
; crisis,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
Biological Conservation
(journal),
6.1
Birkerts, Sven:
Gutenberg Elegies
,
4.1
,
4.2
Bouazizi, Mohamed,
6.1
brain (human): flexibility and adaptability,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
; and cognition,
6.1
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
Buffalo, University of,
4.1
,
5.1
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
censorship: and the Internet
, ;
see
also
copyright; intellectual property
Cherry, Colin:
On Human
Communication
,
2.1
Church (Christian): early monopoly
Cline, Ernie:
Ready Player One
,
4.1
Cloud, the,
3.1
,
3.2
;
see also
cyberspace
cognition: and human brain,
6.1
; and physical action,
8.1
companies: identity and character
Conrad, Joseph:
Heart of Darkness
,
9.1
copyright,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
8.1
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
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency),
1.1
,
1.2
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
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
,
4.1
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
Economist, The:
subscription rates,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
9.1
Egypt: revolution (2011),
2.1
,
8.1
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
1.1
,
1.2
email: introduced,
1.1
; number sent daily,
2.1
; addresses,
5.1
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
7.1
Enlightenment, the,
2.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
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
FingerKicks
,
8.1
Free Software Foundation (FSF),
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1
,
5.2
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
Gladwell, Malcolm:
Blink
,
2.1
Glenny, Misha:
Dark Market
,
5.1
,
5.2
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
