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Index
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A
Adams, Henry, 280
Age of Google. See Google Era
Alexa, 41–42, 64
Ali, Muneeb, 159–62, 165–69, 171
Alphabet, 26, 29, 167
Amazon, 8, 26, 39–42, 64, 78, 80, 121, 166, 168, 171–72, 187, 189, 193–97, 205–6, 223, 233, 244, 261, 269, 284
Ammous, Saifedean, 154, 253, 255–56
Andreessen, Marc, 2, 124–26, 129, 135, 162, 166–67, 217–18, 243–44
Andresen, Gavin, 129, 147–48, 151–52
Android, 23, 29, 39, 41, 67, 201
Apple, 2, 4–5, 8, 29, 39, 64, 154, 168, 190, 223, 233–34, 269, 284
Arthur, W. Brian, 1
artificial intelligence (AI), 2–4, 7, 20–21, 41–42, 66, 72–73, 89, 94–101, 104, 106–8, 191–92
Asilomar, 93–99, 105–7
Assange, Julian, 131
AT&T, 229, 233–35
Atlas Shrugged, 123
Attention Merchants, The, 235
Ayau, Manuel, 213–16
Ayre, Calvin, 146
B
Back to the Future, xi–xii, xiv, 70
Bagehot, Walter, 88
Baird, Leemon, 150, 245, 266–67
Balaban, Stephen, 117, 189–98, 223–24
Baroque Cycle, 11
Battlestar Galactica, 5
Baum, Leonard E., 77, 80, 90
Beasley, Cole, 272
Bechtolsheim, Andy, 26, 59–60
Belch, Danny, 274
Bell, Gordon, 53–54, 61, 198, 202, 231, 268
Benet, Juan, 204
Berners-Lee, Tim, 164, 168
Berninger, Daniel, 227–31, 233, 235–36
Bezos, Jeff, 26
Bharara, Preet, 145, 244
Bitcoin Magazine, 107, 110, 152
Bitcoin Standard, The, 154, 253
bitcoins, 110, 120, 124, 126–27, 133, 145–46, 216–18, 252, 257, 279
Blade Runner, xii
blockchain, 106–8, 110–11, 129–30, 139, 141, 146–57, 165, 169, 171–76, 184–85, 202–4, 206–11, 217–18, 223–24, 227–28, 231–32, 234, 239–41, 243–47, 255, 258–61, 263–66, 268–69, 277, 279, 281–83, 285
Blockstack, 121, 159–60, 164–65, 169, 172–76, 201–2, 247, 260, 263, 265
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 18, 76, 280
Bostrom, Nick, 7, 93
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 18, 76, 280
Bowyer, Jerry, 37
Bradley, Bill, 110
Bradski, Gary, 191, 194
Brin, Sergey, xv, 4, 7, 25–27, 29–31, 33, 37, 54, 59, 90, 181
Brodsky, Ira, 35
Brynjolfsson, Erik, 93
Buckley, William F., 6
Buffett, Warren, 125, 243
Burning Man, 32–34, 95, 193
Buterin, Vitalik, 106–8, 110–13, 117, 150–54, 156–57, 169, 184, 192, 203, 220, 223–25, 244, 258, 264
C
Calzada, Gabriel, 216
Canizaro, Frank, 68
Carmack, John, 185
Carnap, Rudolf, 15–16
Casado, Martin, 161–62, 165
Chaitin, Gregory, 18–19, 73–874, 247, 277, 280
Chalmers, David, 93
Chandna, Asheem, 5
Chaun Li, 197
Cheriton, Dave, 26
China National Petroleum, 11
Christensen, Clayton, 114, 259
Church, Alonzo, 190, 247
Clark, Jim, 166
Clarkson, Steve, 197
Cleland, Scott, 35
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, xii
Coase, Ronald, 9
Coase’s Law, 259
Cohen, Bram, 132,
Computer and the Brain, The, 70
Cook, Tim, 4, 29
Cortana, 64
cryptocosm, 43, 45–46, 50, 108, 131, 202, 210, 243, 245, 264, 266, 269
cryptography, 107, 202, 217, 259, 268, 282, 284
Cybernetics, 77
D
Dalles, The, 51–54, 56, 58, 61, 69, 82, 195, 199
Dally, Bill, 26, 63–65, 67–72, 195, 209–10
Darwin, Charles, 7, 46, 115
Dawn of the New Everything, 272
Dean, Jeff, 41, 67, 69
Deep Mind, 3, 41, 94
de Grey, Aubrey, 4
Demeester, Tuur, 216, 218
Denton, Michael, 106
Dick, Philip K., 193
Dimon, Jamie, 125, 243
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 193
Doerr, John, 26
Donald, James, 133
Draper, Tim, 244
Dreamscope, 193, 196–98
Drexler, Eric, 93
Drucker, Peter, 12, 86
Dyson, Esther, 63, 183
E
Education of Henry Adams, The, 280
Edwards, Doug, 38
Eich, Brendan, 48, 166, 169, 176, 179–87, 207
Eichenholz, Jason, 115
Einstein, Albert, 72, 76, 79, 89–90
Ethereum, 106–7, 111, 121, 127, 150–55, 157, 173–74, 176, 180, 184, 203–4, 207, 223–24, 244, 263–65, 267–68
Eugene Onegin, 76
Euler, Leonhard, 14–15
Everquest, 127
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 257
Exxon, 11
F
Facebook, 4, 8, 54, 80, 93, 126, 164, 167–69, 172, 182–83, 185, 187, 198, 201, 206, 220, 224, 229, 233–34, 269, 272, 284
Fano, Robert, 81
Ferguson, Niall, 130
1517 Fund, 109, 111–12, 220, 223
Finney, Hal, 119–20, 123–24, 134–35
Firefox, 179
Forthrast, John, 127
Fortune, 5
Fourier, Jean-Baptiste Joseph, 86
Fox, Michael J., xii
Freedman, Michael J., 157, 159, 161, 165, 265
G
Galt, John, 123, 130
Gates, Bill, 26, 124, 224
Gelernter, David,
German Ideology, The, 6
Gibson, Mike, 109–11, 194, 221
Gilder Publishing, xi
Gingrich, Newt, 130
Gmail, 2, 54, 58, 97
Gödel, Kurt, 15–19, 73–74, 84, 100–1, 103, 105–6, 149, 247, 262, 278, 280–81, 283, 286
Goldberg, Ian, 107
Good, I. J., 94
Google, xv, 2–5, 7–8 25–26, 146, 150, 153–54, 157, 164–69, 171–73, 176, 181–84, 187, 189, 191–98, 220, 222–25, 247
“system of the world,” 11–23, 276
philosophy, 25–35
use of advertising, 37–43
rule of communications, 45–46
compared to the cryptocosm, 48–50
data center, 51–61
machine learning/innovation, 63–71
influence of Andrey Markov, 75–92
work with AI, 93–108
cloud technology, 199–211
Internet regulation, 227–41
the “great unbundling,” 259–69
Google Brain, 67–68, 71, 94, 192, 223
Google Era, 13, 45, 49, 57, 63, 75–76, 78, 80, 89, 247, 261–62, 277
Gosling, James, 179
Grainger, Alissa, 205, 207, 209
Grigg, Ian, 153
H
Harari, Yuval Noah, 4, 7
Harik, Georges, 196–98
HashCash, 123, 134
Hassabis, Demis, 41, 93, 99
Hearn, Mike, 153, 245
Hennessy, John, 26, 222
Heyting, Arend, 15
Hilbert, David, 14–17, 247
Hillenmeyer, Hunter, 271–74
Hillis, Danny, 71
Hinton, Geoffrey, 41, 93, 192
Hoffman, Reid, 274
Hölzle, Urs, 53–56, 58, 67, 71, 82, 195, 199–202, 209, 232, 241
Horowitz, Ben, 125, 162
Horowitz, David, 162
Hoskinson, Charles, 153–54, 264–65
How to Create a Mind, 79, 101
I
Ibárgüen, Giancarlo, 215–16
Inception, 192
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, 11
iTunes, 8
Ivan on Tech, 204
J
James, Daniel Colin, 39–40
JavaScript, 48, 166, 176, 179–80, 185–86
Jelinek, Fred, 81, 88
Jobs, Steve, xv, 8, 64, 144
Jouppi, Norm, 65, 69
K
Kelley, Nick, xi
Kelly, Kevin, 184–85, 191
Kendall, Mike, 249–50, 253–58
Khosla, Vinod, 26
King, Mervyn, 263
Kleiman, David, 140, 145–46
Klugmann, Mark, 216
Knuth, Donald, 26
Kolmogorov, Anton, 73
Kowalski, Jeff, 186
Krauss, Lawrence, 93
Krugman, Paul, 126, 136, 243
Kubrick, Stanley, xi
Kurzweil, Raymond, 25, 68, 79, 89, 93, 95–101, 103, 280
L
Langley, Samuel P., 224
Langville, Amy, 75
Lanier, Jaron, xiv, 60, 82–83, 89, 104, 185, 272, 275
Larimer, Dan, 153, 245, 265–66
Laughlin, Robert, 87
LeCun, Yann, 93, 99
Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm, 12
Levandowski, Anthony, 41
Levy, Steven, 30–31
Lewis, C. S., xiv
Life after Television, xiv–xv, 30–31, 182
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 95
Liljeqvist, Ivan, 204
Limbaugh, Rush, 42,
Lombard Street, 88
London Review of Books, 144
Los Angeles Times, 214
Lubin, Joe, 107
Lucas, George, xii
Luther, Martin, 111, 213, 220
M
Machine Learning, 2–3, 6, 64–65, 67–70, 76, 94, 97, 105, 190, 192–93, 195, 204, 209, 247, 265, 276–77, 280, 284
Macintosh, 2–3, 64
Mackay, Charles, 257
Maddow, Rachel, 110
Manning, Peyton, 271
Markov, Andrey, 75–92, 277
Marquand, John P., 131
Marroquín, Franciso, 213–16
Martin, Laura, 38
Master Switch, The, 235
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