Murthy, Vivek
Muse (Somali pirate)
Muslim Brotherhood
mutation
mutual assured destruction (MAD)
Myers, Richard
Namib desert beetle
Namibia
nanotechnology
Naranya
NASSCOM
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Geographic Channel
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Public Radio
national security
Native Americans
NATO
natural selection
Nature
Navarro, Joe
Naylor, Kit
NBD Nano
Ndiaeye, Mayoro
Ndiamaguene, Senegal
Ndiaye, Ndiougua
Ndiaye, Ousmane
neo-Nazis
Neota Logic
.NET
Netflix
Netscape
networking; fiber optics and; latency in; Moore’s law and; software-enabled; wireless
Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
New Deal
New Media Inc. (Yeni Medya)
NewScientist.com
New Yorker
New York Times; author’s column in; human vs. algorithm quiz in
New York Times Book Review
Nice, France, Bastille Day terrorist attack in
Nicklaus, Jack
Niger; population growth in
Nigeria; population growth in
1959: The Year Everything Changed (Kaplan)
Niskayuna, N.Y.
nitrogen, nitrogen cycle
NobelPrize.org
No Country for Old Men (film)
Node.js
Nolan, Rick
Nomani, Asra Q.
Norman, Greg
Norman, Jeff
North American Free Trade Agreement
North Korea; nuclear program of
Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ)
Noyce, Robert
nuclear testing moratorium
nuclear weapons
Nutch (search engine)
Obama, Barack; foreign policy of; gay marriage and
Obama, Michelle
Obama, Sasha and Malia
obesity
Occupy Central movement
oceans, acidification of
Odanabi.com
oil prices
Olin College of Engineering
1G wireless networks
123D Catch
ONOS (Open Network Operating System)
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
open-source community
open-source software
OpenStack
opinion writing, craft of
Opportunity@Work
Oracle SQL
Orenstein, Peggy
Origin of Wealth, The (Beinhocker)
Ornstein, Norm
Oromo people
Osofsky, Justin
Ottoman Empire
outsourcing
ownership; political innovation and; resilience and
ozone layer
Packard, Wayne
Pakistan
Palantir Technologies
Paleolithic era
Palestine
Palestine Liberation Organization
Palmer, Arnold
Palm Pilot
Paprocki, Loren
Parenti, Christian
Paris climate agreement (2016)
Park Nicollet Health Services
passwords
patents, technological change and
patience
pausing, importance of
Pawlenty, Tim
PayPal; Working Capital of
Peace Corps, expansion of
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on
peer-to-peer payment system
Periscope (app)
Perry, Matthew
Persian Gulf
personal drones
Personal Genetics Program
pesticides, overuse of
Peter Hobart Elementary School
Petritsch, Wolfgang
phase changes, supernova and
Philippines
Phillips, Richard
phosphorus
“Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light” (Nature)
“ping” command
PINs
Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley (Clodd)
Pires, Clint
Placed Inc.
PlaceIQ Inc.
planetary boundaries
PlayStation 3
Pleistocene epoch
pluralism
Pluralism Project
politics: bipartisanship in; compromise in; disruption in; dogmatism in; money in; polarization in; trust and; see also geopolitics
politics, innovation in; adaptability and; diversity and; entrepreneurial mindset in; federal-local balance in; Mother Nature as mentor for; need for organization in; ownership in; “races to the top” in; resilience in; specific reforms in
pollution
Pol Pot
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Popular Science
population growth; climate change and; political instability and; poverty and; in weak states
Population Institute
poverty; advances in connectivity and; chickens and; global flows and; population growth and
power of flows
power of machines
power of many; Mother Nature and; supernova and; see also population growth
power of one; ethics and; supernova and
Prabhu, Krish
prairie, as complex ecosystem
Present at the Creation (Acheson)
Preston-Werner, Tom
Prickett, Glenn
privacy, big data and
Private Photo Vault
Production and Operations Management Society Conference (2014)
productivity, supernova and
Profil
Progressive Policy Institute
progressivism; economic growth and
Prohibition
Project Dreamcatcher
Project Syndicate
public spaces
Putin, Vladimir
Putnam, Robert
Quad
Qualcomm; maintenance workers at
Qualcomm pdQ 1900
Quednau, Rachel
Queen Rania Teacher Academy
Quiz Bowl (TV show)
QuoteInvestigator.com (QI)
racism
rain forests
Rain Room
ransomware
Rattray, Ben
ReadWrite.com
Reagan, Ronald
Real Time Talent
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke)
regulation, technological change and
Regulatory Improvement Commission (proposed)
Reilly Tar & Chemical Corporation
Rejoiner.com
relationships, human, connectivity and
Republican Party, Republicans: climate change denial by; dogmatism of; implosion of; liberal; polycultural heritage of
resilience; in Mother Nature; ownership and; political innovation and
retailing: big data and; supernova and
Reuters
ride-sharing
Rifai, Salim al-
Ringwald, Alexis
Rise and Fall of American Growth, The (Gordon)
Rise of the West, The (McNeill)
“Rising Menace from Disintegrating Yemen, The” (Henderson)
Roberts, Keith
robotics
“Robots Are Coming, The” (Lanchester)
Rockström, Johan
Rodríguez, Chi Chi
rogue states
Rosenstein, Wendi Zelkin
&nbs
p; Royal Ontario Museum
Rugby World Cup (1995)
Ruh, Bill
Russ, Pam
Russell, Richard B.
Russert, Tim
Russia; aggressive foreign policy of; as authoritarian state; and collapse of communism; drought in; nationalism in; NATO and; nuclear weapons of; U.S. relations with
Rutter, Brad
Sabbath (Muller)
Sagliani, Anthony
Sahara desert
Said, Khaled
St. Louis Park, Minn.: author’s childhood and adolescence in; blacks in; diversity in; failed solar Wi-Fi project in; harsh climate of; inclusive ethos of; industrial pollution in; Japanese Americans in; Jewish community in; neighborhood associations in; public-private collaboration in; public schools in; sense of community in; Somalis in
St. Louis Park High School; diversity in; student leadership in
St. Louis Park Historical Society
St. Louis Park Middle School
St. Louis Park Public Schools Foundation
St. Louis Park School Board
St. Louis Park Talmud Torah Hebrew school
St. Paul, Minn.
Salina, Kans.
Salisbury, Harrison
Samuels, Sondra
Sandel, Michael
Sanders, Bernie
Sandy, Superstorm
Sanford, Stefanie
San Francisco, Calif.
Sani, Haysem
Santorelli, Steve
Sarao, Navinder Singh
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
SAT/PSAT, Khan Academy and
Saudi Arabia
Schleicher, Andreas
Schulman, Dan
Schwartz, Nelson
Schwietering, Kari
Science
ScienceViews.com
scientific progress, acceleration of
sea levels
sea life
search engines
Search Institute
Second Industrial Revolution
Second Machine Age, The (Brynjolfsson and McAfee)
Secret Service, U.S.
Seidman, Dov
Seitz, Nick
self-motivation
self-reinvention
Senate, U.S.; Armed Services Committee of
Senegal
sensors; in consumer electronics; in dairy farming; definition of; locomotives and
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Serious Man, A (film)
Serra Cafema Camp, Namibia
Sevareid, Eric
sexism
Shankar, Sadasivan
Sharef, Eleonora
sharing economy, trust and
Sharon, Ariel
Shehata, Zyad
Shimizu, Diana
Showtime
Silver Shirts
Sims, Zach
Singapore
Singh, Prabhjot
Sirosh, Joseph
skill sets: basic; college degrees and; intelligent assistance and; intelligent assistants and; social; workforce and
Skype
Slack (messaging app)
Sleiman, Ghada
Smart Cities project
smart machines
smartphones
Smith, Lee
“SMOP” problems
social capital, trust as
social media; constructive vs. destructive aspects; flow of information on; see also specific platforms
social safety net, portability of
Social Security
social skills
social technologies; in age of accelerations; global flows and; innovation in; technological change and; trust and
software; APIs and; function of; networking and; open-source, see open-source software
software innovation: big data and; collaboration and; computer memory and; integrated circuits and; Microsoft and; Moore’s law and
solar energy
Solidarity movement
Soloway, Jill
Solyndra
Somalis: in Minnesota; as pirates
Somé, Batamaka
“Someone Like You” (song)
Sony
SourceForge
South Africa
South Carolina
South China Sea
Southeast Asia
South Korea
South Vietnam
Soviet Union; collapse of
space race
Spano, Jake
Spengler, Oswald
spoofing
spread spectrum
stability, stasis vs.
Star Trek (TV show)
Star Wars: Jedi Knight (video game)
Stashick, Randy
stasis, stability vs.
Steffen, Konrad
Steffen, Will
Steinberg, Hattie M.
STEP (St. Louis Park Emergency Program)
Stephenson, Randall
stewardship
stock market: high-frequency trading in; interdependence and
Stone, Debra
Stone, Michael
storage, computer, see memory, computer
Strobel, Margaret
Sudan
suicide bombers
Sulaimaniya, Iraq
Summers, Lawrence
Sunni Triangle
Sun Sailor (St. Louis Park)
supernova (cloud computing); adolescents and; big data and; complexity and; designers and; education and; encryption in; financial flows and; as force multiplier; freedom in; global flows and; God and; growth of; hospitality industry and; innovation and; machines and; Moore’s law and; phase changes and; and power of many; and power of one; productivity and; retailing and; social change in; terrorists and; transformational power of; Watson and
supernova (stellar)
sustainability
Sweeney, Latanya
Sweidan, Adam
Sydney, Australia, Martin Place siege in
Syria; civil war in; drought in; as geopolitical superstorm
tablets
Tambor, Jeffrey
Tandy laptops
Target
taxes, value-added
taxicabs
tax reform
Tea Party
TechCrunch.com
TechHire.org
Technion university
technological change; acceleration of; adoption rates of; author’s experience of; designers and; disruptions and; the Machine and; patents and; physical vs. social; platforms and; regulation and; social technologies and; stepped increments in; supernova in, see supernova (cloud computing); 2007 as inflection point in; unintended consequences of; workforce and; see also Moore’s law
Tel Abyad, Syria
Tel Aviv, Israel
telecommunications, “last mile” in
Telegram (app)
TeleRam Portabubble
telex
Teller, Edward
Teller, Eric “Astro”
Telog Hydrant Pressure Recorder
TensorFlow
terrorists, terrorism; connectivity and; Islamist; “loner”; U.S. strategy for combating; videos by; as “wound collectors”
Texas Instruments
Teymur, Ekrem
That Used to Be Us (Friedman and Mandelbaum)
The-City-Space.com
“thinking without a box”
Thompson, Chris
3-D digital models
3-D inking
3-D printing
3G wireless networks
3-2-1 Service
Thrivent Financial
Thrun, Sebastian
Thurmond, Strom
Tigris River
Tilman, G. David
Time
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
Tipirneni, Ashok
Tocqueville, Alexis de
topsoil
“topsoil of trust”
Torvalds, Linus
Toynbee, Arnold
Transat
lantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
translation software
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
transparency, in workplace
Transparent (TV series)
Trestman, Marc
tribalism
Tropic of Chaos (Parenti)
Truman, Harry
Trump, Donald
trust: community and; financial flows and; as human quality; politics and; sharing economy and; as social capital; social technologies and
Trust (Fukuyama)
truth, live video and
Tunisia
TurboTax
Turki, Karim
Turner, Adair
24/7 Customer
Twenty-Fourth Marine Expeditionary Unit
Twin Cities Business
Twin Cities Metropolitan Council
Twitter
2G wireless networks
typewriters
Uber; surge pricing algorithms of
Udacity
Uganda, population growth in
Ukraine; 2014 uprising in
unemployment, political instability and
Unesco
United Bearing
United Nations; Human Development Report Office of; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of; Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of; Population Division of; Refugee Agency (UNHCR) of
United Press International (UPI)
United States: China’s relations with; global dependence on; illegal immigration into; immigrant entrepreneurs in; Madagascar and; Middle East policy of; population growth in; post–Cold War hegemony of; Russia’s relations with
UPS
USA Today
value sets: of author; community and; cultural identity and; in opinion writing; sustainable vs. situational; see also ethics, innovation in
van Agtmael, Antoine
Vedantam, Shankar
Venezuela
Venmo
Ventura, Jesse
Veritas Genetics
Verizon
version control systems
Vestberg, Hans
video, live, empathy and
video games
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Visa
Vital Signs of the Planet (NASA report)
voice prints
Volkswagen Beetle
Vox.com
wage insurance
Wakefield Research
Walensky, Norm
Walker, Robert
Wall Street Journal
Walmart, online operations of
Wanamaker, John
Wanstrath, Chris
Warburg, Bettina
Waryan, Don
Washington Post
Waters, Colin
water scarcity
Watson, Thomas
Watson (computer)
Watson (software): medical applications of
weak signals, detection of
weak states: in age of accelerations; biodiversity loss in; breakers and; building stability in; civil wars in; climate change and; in Cold War era; contrived borders of; dwindling foreign aid to; global flows and; infrastructure in; Internet and; population growth in; risk to interdependent world of
We Are All Khaled Said (Facebook page)
Webster University
WeChat
Weekend Edition (radio show)
Weiner, Jeff
Weisman, Alan
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