she could drink from it: Leigh R. Hochberg, Daniel Bacher, Beata Jarosiewicz, et al., “Reach and Grasp by People with Tetraplegia Using a Neurally Controlled Robotic Arm,” Nature 485, no. 7398 (2012): 372–75.
“skin him afterward”: Scott Sharkey, “Red Dead Redemption Review,” 1Up.com, May 17, 2010.
40 to 50 hours to complete: “Red Dead Redemption,” How Long to Beat, accessed August 11, 2015.
10: TRACKING
200 Quantified Self Meetup groups: “Quantified Self Meetups,” Meetup, accessed August 11, 2015.
he generates an annual report: Nicholas Felton, “2013 Annual Report,” Feltron.com, 2013.
as if he could feel a map: Sunny Bains, “Mixed Feelings,” Wired 15(4), 2007.
“calendar items, to-do lists”: Eric Thomas Freeman, “The Lifestreams Software Architecture” [dissertation], Yale University, May 1997.
“Your entire cyberlife is right there”: Nicholas Carreiro, Scott Fertig, Eric Freeman, and David Gelernter, “Lifestreams: Bigger Than Elvis,” Yale University, March 25, 1996.
Steve Mann in the 1990s: Steve Mann, personal web page, accessed July 29, 2015.
Bell documented every aspect: “MyLifeBits—Microsoft Research,” Microsoft Research, accessed July 29, 2015.
34 billion internet-enabled devices: “The Internet of Things Will Drive Wireless Connected Devices to 40.9 Billion in 2020,” ABI Research, August 20, 2014.
600 percent increase in iPods: “Apple’s Profit Soars Thanks to iPod’s Popularity,” Associated Press, April 14, 2005.
production tanked in 2009: “Infographic: The Decline of iPod,” Infogram, accessed May 3, 2015.
benefits we humans covet: Sean Madden, “Tech That Tracks Your Every Move Can Be Convenient, Not Creepy,” Wired, March 10, 2014.
54 billion sensors every year by 2020: “Connections Counter: The Internet of Everything in Motion,” The Network, Cisco, July 29, 2013.
11: QUESTIONING
35 million articles in 288 languages: “List of Wikipedias,” Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, accessed April 30, 2015.
“how to make people click ads”: Ashlee Vance, “This Tech Bubble Is Different,” Bloomberg Business, April 14, 2014.
4 billion screens lit today: Calculation based on the following: Charles Arthur, “Future Tablet Market Will Outstrip PCs—and Reach 900m People, Forrester Says,” Guardian, August 7, 2013; Michael O’Grady, “Forrester Research World Tablet Adoption Forecast, 2013 to 2018 (Global), Q4 2014 Update,” Forrester, December 19, 2014; and “Smartphones to Drive Double-Digit Growth of Smart Connected Devices in 2014 and Beyond, According to IDC,” IDC, June 17, 2014.
50 billion devices on the internet by 2020: “Connections Counter,” Cisco, 2013.
another 13 billion appliances: “Gartner Says 4.9 Billion Connected ‘Things’ Will Be in Use in 2015,” Gartner, November 11, 2014.
built into connected cars: Ibid.
6 billion times per year: “$4.11: A NARUC Telecommunications Staff Subcommittee Report on Directory Assistance,” National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, 2003, 68.
two lookups per week in the 1990s: Peter Krasilovsky, “Usage Study: 22% Quit Yellow Pages for Net,” Local Onliner, October 11, 2005.
1 billion library visits per year: Adrienne Chute, Elaine Kroe, Patricia Garner, et al., “Public Libraries in the United States: Fiscal Year 1999,” NCES 200230, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, 2002.
$82 billion business: Don Reisinger, “For Google and Search Ad Revenue, It’s a Glass Half Full,” CNET, March 31, 2015.
four questions per day online: Danny Sullivan, “Internet Top Information Resource, Study Finds,” Search Engine Watch, February 5, 2001.
ordinary people might pay for search: Yan Chen, Grace YoungJoo, and Jeon Yong-Mi Kim, “A Day Without a Search Engine: An Experimental Study of Online and Offline Search,” University of Michigan, 2010.
average value of answering a question: Hal Varian, “The Economic Impact of Google,” video, Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, 2011.
INDEX
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accelerometers, 221
accessing and accessibility, 109–33
and clouds, 125–31
and communications, 125
and decentralization, 118–21, 125, 129–31
and dematerialization, 110–14, 125
and emergence of the “holos,” 293–94
as generative quality, 70–71
ownership vs., 70–71
and platform synergy, 122–25
and real-time on demand, 114–17
and renting, 117–18
and right of modification, 124–25
accountability, 260–64
Adobe, 113, 206
advertising, 177–89
aggregated information, 140, 147
Airbnb, 109, 113, 124, 172
algorithms and targeted advertising, 179–82
Alibaba, 109
Amazon
and accessibility vs. ownership, 109
and artificial intelligence, 33
cloud of, 128, 129
and on-demand model of access, 115
as ecosystem, 124
and filtering systems, 171–72
and recommendation engines, 169
and robot technology, 50
and tracking technology, 254
and user reviews, 21, 72–73
anime, 198
annotation systems, 202
anonymity, 263–64
anthropomorphization of technology, 259
Apache software, 69, 141, 143
API (application programming interface), 23
Apple, 1–2, 123, 124, 246
Apple Pay, 65
Apple Watch, 224
Arthur, Brian, 193, 209
artificial intelligence (AI), 29–60
ability to think differently, 42–43, 48, 51–52
as accelerant of change, 30
as alien intelligence, 48
in chess, 41–42
and cloud-based services, 127
and collaboration, 273
and commodity consumer attention, 179
and complex questions, 47
concerns regarding, 44
and consciousness, 42
corporate investment in, 32
costs of, 29, 52–53
data informing, 39
and defining humanity, 48–49
and digital storage capacity, 265, 266–67
and emergence of the “holos,” 291
as enhancement of human intelligence, 41–42
and filtering systems, 175
of Google, 36–37
impact of, 29
learning ability of, 32–33, 40
and lifelogging, 251
networked, 30
and network effect, 40
potential applications for, 34–36
questions arising from, 284
specialized applications of, 42
in tagging book content, 98
technological breakthroughs influencing, 38–40