The Blind Giant (39 page)

Google Book Settlement,
1.1
,
1.2
,
7.1
,
7.2

Google Music

Google+

Gordon, Peter

government
see
politics and government

Graphical User Interfaces

Gray, Eileen

Greenfield, Susan, Baroness,
4.1
,
4.2

Greenspan, Alan

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Gurr, Ted

Gutenberg, Johannes,
7.1
,
7.2

habeas corpus

hackers,
1.1
,
5.1

Haddon, Mark:
The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time,
5.1

Hagens, Gunther von:
Body World
exhibition,
3.1

Harkaway, Nick,
4.1
;
The Gone-Away World,
7.1
,
8.1

Haskell, Francis:
Patrons and Painters
,
8.1

heart attacks: diagnosis

hearth (home): and outside intrusion,
2.1
,
2.2
; and privacy,
5.1
; as space,
5.2
; inviting others into,
8.1
; rules and etiquette,
8.2

hikikomori
(Japanese withdrawal),
4.1

Hocking, Amanda

Honoré, Carl

horses: behaviour and training

Huizinga, Johan,
5.1
,
5.2

human beings: individuality and place in society,
6.1
; behaviour and habits,
9.1

human body

Human Monitoring and Authentication

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

hypertext,
itr.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

Icarus (mythological figure)

Idle, Nadia and Alex Nunns:
Tweets
from Tahrir
,
6.1

information overload,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Instant Personalization

intellectual property (IP): and law,
1.1
; and protection,
5.1
,
5.2
,
8.1
; publishers and,
7.1

International Congress for Psychology, Third (1896)

Internet: beginnings,
1.1
; development and use,
1.2
; and physical space,
1.3
; and legislation,
1.4
; openness and free speech,
1.5
; ubiquity,
1.6
,
5.1
; and music distribution,
1.7
; online advertising,
1.8
; payments and profits,
1.9
; and attention,
2.1
,
4.1
,
5.2
; and complexity of modern world,
2.2
; addiction,
4.2
; negative view of,
4.3
; and shared experience,
5.3
; as play space,
5.4
; language,
5.5
; and human relationships,
5.6
,
5.7
; free and paid,
5.8
; deindividuation and anonymity,
6.1
; information flow,
6.2
,
6.3
; right of access,
6.4
; and book publishing,
7.1
; and revolutions,
9.1

Internet Relay Chat,
1.1

introspection

intrusion

iOS

iPad

iPhone,
3.1
,
6.1
,
6.2

iPods,
1.1
,
3.1

Iraq,
2.1
,
3.1

Isocrates

iTunes Store

Ives, Sir Jonathan

Japan: and withdrawal (‘
hikikomori
’),
4.1

Jobs, Steve,
6.1
,
6.2

Johnson, Samuel,
4.1
,
8.1

Johnson, Steven:
Everything Bad is

Good for You
,
9.1

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Journal of Mental Health
,
4.1

journalism

Kamitani, Yukiyasu,
10.1
,
10.2

Kapor, Mitch

Kickstarter

Kindle (reading device)

kindness

Kirkpatrick, David

Kish, Daniel

Kissinger, Henry

‘Kitchen Sink’ art

knowledge,
4.1
,
8.1
; glut,
2.1

Kuhn, Michael:
100 Films and a
Funeral
,
7.1

labour: and identity

Labour Party (British): and social unrest,
6.1
; central control,
7.1

Lacan, Jacques

Lacks, Henrietta

Landes, David:
The Wealth and
Poverty of Nations
,
3.1

language: Internet,
5.1
; and human development,
6.1

lawmaking

Lawrence, D.H.:
Lady Chatterley’s
Lover
,
7.1

Leavis, F.R.

Le Bon, Gustave

Leconte, Patrice

Le Corbusier (Charles Édouard Jeanneret)

left-digit bias

Le Guin, Ursula

Leibniz, Gottfried

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

l’Épée, Charles-Michel de

Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner:
Freakonomics
,
2.1
,
7.1

Lewis, Michael:
The Big Short
,
6.1
;
Boomerang
,
6.2

lines and boundaries

Linux

Lisberger, Steven

Lock-in

LOLcats

London: riots (2011),
6.1
,
6.2

Loos, Adolf,
6.1
,
6.2

Lucas, George

Lyotard, Jean-François

Mac OS X

McLuhan, Marshall,
3.1
,
7.1

McNamee, Roger

McRae, Lucy

Major, Sir John

Mansy, Sheref

martial arts

Marx, Karl,
3.1
,
5.1
,
7.1

Mason-Pfizer monkey virus

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Matrix, The
(film),
5.1

Mau, Bruce,
3.1
,
6.1

Memmo, Andrea

memory,
4.1
,
4.2
,
10.1

Meyer, Stephanie

Microsoft,
1.1
,
8.1

Middle East: revolutions,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
9.1

Milgram, Stanley

Millennium Challenge (2002)

mobile phones: switching off

Moglen, Eben,
3.1
,
5.1
,
6.1

money: real and virtual

Mori, Masahiro

MRI scanners

Mubarak, Hosni

music: and Google,
1.1
; digital,
3.1

My Lai massacre (Vietnam)

NASA

National Science Foundation Network

Net Book Agreement

netiquette

neuroplasticity,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
9.1
,
10.1

New Scientist
,
7.1

news

News International

News of the World
,
5.1
,
6.1

newspapers: effect of Google on

Newton, Sir Isaac,
2.1
,
3.1

9/11 (USA)

Norton, Quinn

novel-reading

Nursery Rhymes
,
1.1

Obama, Barack

obscurantism

Occupy movement,
itr.1
,
2.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

oil: scarcity

Omega 3 oils

Open Source movement

Orwell, George:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
,
7.1

Osborne, George

oxytocin (‘love hormone’)

Padua, Sydney:
Lovelace & Babbage
web comic,
5.1

Page, Larry,
1.1
,
1.2

Pariser, Eli:
The Filter Bubble,
5.1

Patel, Raj:
The Value of Nothing
,
3.1

patents

Petrini, Carlo

Picasso, Pablo

Pinker, Steven:
The Blank Slate
,
4.1
,
7.1
,
8.1

Pirate Party

Pirsig, Robert:
Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance
,
8.1

Plato

play,
9.1
; and Internet,
5.1

Plimer, Ian:
Heaven and Earth
,
2.1

Podcast

politicians: popular view of

politics and government: complexity and interconnectedness,
2.1
; and central control,
7.1
; and popular participation,
7.2
,
7.3

Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Potemkin
(Russian battleship),
6.1

pricing

printing: 3D

privacy,
5.1
,
5.2

Prometheus myth

Proust, Marcel

publishing: changes in,
7.1
,
7.2

quantum theory

Querini, Angelo

Rand, Ayn,
5.1
,
6.1

RAND Corporation

reading and writing,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
; and engagement,
8.1
,
9.1

real, the

Reeves, Keanu

revolutions,
6.1
,
6.2
,
9.1

Rheingold, Howard

Richelieu, Cardinal Armand Jean Duplessis, Duc de,
5.1

Ridicule
(film),
5.1

riots (UK 2011),
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
9.1

Roberts, Monty,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Robinson, Andrew

Robinson, Sir Ken

romance

Romantic movement

Rosenberg, Count Philip Joseph Orsini-

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rushkoff, Douglas

Ruskin, John,
5.1
,
6.1

Russia: 1917 revolution,
6.1
,
6.2

Rutherford, Ernest, Baron

Saddam Hussein,
2.1
,
3.1

Said, Khaled,
6.1
,
6.2

Saito, Tamaki

Saudi Arabia: oil reserves

Scalzi, John

Schmidt, Eric,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1

science: and societal perspective,
3.1
; UK hostility to as cultural force,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1

science fiction

Search Engine Optimization

Siri voice interface

Slow Food movement (Italy)

Small, Gary

Smith, Consul Joseph

Snow, C.P.

social behaviour,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

social networks,
1.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
9.1

Socrates,
4.1
,
10.1

Sony

sourdough bread

Sparrow, Betsy

‘spime’

Stallman, Richard,
1.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

Stanford Prison Experiment

Star Wars
(film),
7.1

Stephenson, Neal:
Snow Crash
,
3.1

Sterling, Bruce

Steve Jackson Games (SJG)

Stop Online Piracy Act, 2012 (USA),
8.1

Stratton, George

StreetView

Sturgeon, Theodore

Sun Microsystems

Sun
(newspaper),
5.1

supermarkets

Surowiecki, James:
The Wisdom of
Crowds
,
5.1

swine flu

t’ai chi

tango (dance)

technology: and societal assumptions,
3.1
; future applications,
10.1

Tesco

text (digital), understanding,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

text (written)

Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness,
6.1
,
6.2

They Work for You (website)

Thick of It, The
(TV show),
7.1

38 Degrees (organization),
7.1
,
9.1

Thoreau, Henry David

time: measurement,
3.1
; experience of,
4.1
,
9.1

Time
(magazine),
1.1
,
5.1

time-sickness

Toffler, Alvin

trademarks

Tristan da Cunha: population

Tron
(film),
1.1

Turing, Alan

twentieth century: social and economic changes,
6.1

Twitter: and publication of information,
1.1
; and privacy,
1.2
,
5.1
; role,
3.1
; use of,
4.1
,
9.1
; and information sharing,
5.2
,
5.3
; and revolutions,
6.1
; reciprocal nature,
6.2