Chatroulette, 167–68
Chicago Sun-Times, 115
children, 25–41, 45–48
brains of, 36–40
iPad and, 26–27, 45
multitasking and, 27–28
phones and, 28–30
Chip Vivant, 61
Chopra, Aneesh, 65
Christian, Brian, 61
Chunyun, 209
Clay, Cynthia, 61
Clementi, Tyler, 63, 67
Cleverbot, 60
clocks, 98–99, 204
Cocteau, Jean, 17
Computer Power and Human Reason (Weizenbaum), 188
computers, 16–17, 29, 108, 120, 188
empathy in, 61, 62, 67
intelligence in, 56–57, 60, 65
memory in, 148, 149, 151, 152, 154–56
computing, affective, 61, 62, 67
confessions, 54, 66, 70, 71
Todd and, 50–52, 72
Conquest of Happiness, The (Russell), 195
continuous partial attention, 10
conversation, 25, 39, 194
Cooper, Anderson, 52, 63
cortisol, 10
CougarLife, 175
Coupland, Douglas, 184–87, 194, 197
Coursera, 95–96, 98, 100
Cowan, Nelson, 154–55, 160
cowbirds, 125
Craigslist, 165, 167, 174
Craven, Dave, 77–78
Cruel Intentions (Valmont), 166
Cult of the Amateur, The (Keen), 88
Danielson, Dennis, 157–59
Darwin, Charles, 41, 42
data mining, 82
Dateline, 52
dating, 164–83
Dawkins, Richard, 41, 42
daydreaming, 8, 47–48, 194, 205
De Beers, 101
“Defend the Web” (Berners-Lee), 152n
Dennett, Daniel, 41
digital immigrants, 15–16, 205
distraction, 30, 36, 113–17, 121, 124–28, 133, 135, 194
Dinakar, Karthik, 62–67, 96
D’Mello, Sidney, 129–30
DragonLance series, 117
dudesnude, 165
Ebert, Roger, 115–18
Economic Journal, 87
education, 94, 96, 183
Coursera, 95–96, 98, 100
dematerialization of, 97
massive open online courses, 95–98
edX, 98
18 Minutes (Bregman), 127
Einstein, Albert, 151
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 12n, 83, 145n, 202
Eliot, T. S., 75
ELIZA, 57–59, 61, 108, 188
Elon University, 40
e-mail, 17, 19, 54, 106, 113–15, 118, 127–28, 156, 169
Harris’s Analog August and, 190–92, 196–97
emotion, 51, 54–56, 60–62, 66, 113, 186
empathy, 30, 38, 67
in computers, 61, 62, 67
Encyclopædia Britannica, 74–75
Enlightenment, 12, 83
EstablishedMen, 175
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 155–56
Evans, James, 86
evolution, 37, 41–43
of technology, 43
Facebook, 9, 19, 24, 31, 64n, 69, 71, 82, 149, 156, 168, 175
activity feed on, 91
moderation of, 63–64
selfies on, 68
surveillance and, 66n
Todd and, 50
facts, 141, 145
Fadiman, Clifton, 75
fame, 69–70
Fast Company, 97, 191
Feldman, Erica, 73–74, 79
Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, 147
Fernyhough, Charles, 154
filter bubbles, 91
Financial Times, 185
Forbes, 90
Forster, E. M., 106–7, 109
4chan, 53–54
Foursquare, 150–51
Frankenstein (Shelley), 56
Frankfurt, Harry G., 92
Franklin, Benjamin, 192
friends, 30–31
Frind, Markus, 182–83
Furbies, 29–30
Füssel, Stephan, 103
Gaddam, Sai, 173
Gallup, 123
genes, 41–43
Gentile, Douglas, 118–21
German Ideology, The (Marx), 12n
Gleick, James, 137
Globe and Mail, 81–82, 89
glossary, 211–16
Google, 3, 8, 18–19, 24, 33, 43, 49, 82, 96, 142, 185
memory and, 143–47
search results on, 85–86, 91
Google AdSense, 85
Google Books, 102–3
Google Glass, 99–100
Google Maps, 91
Google Plus, 31
Gopnik, Alison, 33–34
Gould, Glenn, 200–201, 204
GPS, 35, 59, 68, 171
Greenfield, Susan, 20, 25
Grindr, 165, 167, 171, 173–74, 176
Guardian, 66n
Gutenberg, Johannes, 11–13, 14, 16, 21, 34, 98
Gutenberg Bible, 83, 103
Gutenberg Galaxy, The (McLuhan), 179, 201
Gutenberg Revolution, The (Man), 12n, 103
GuySpy, 171, 172, 173
Hangul, 12n
Harari, Haim, 141
Harry Potter series, 66n
Hazlehurst, Ronnie, 74
Heilman, James, 75–79
Henry, William A., III, 84–85
“He Poos Clouds” (Pallett), 164
History of Reading, A (Manguel), 16, 117, 159
Hollinghurst, Alan, 115
Holmes, Sherlock, 147–48
House at Pooh Corner, The (Milne), 93
Hugo, Victor, 20–21
“Idea of North, The” (Gould), 200–201
In Defense of Elitism (Henry), 84–85
Information, The (Gleick), 137
information retrieval, 141–42
Innis, Harold, 202
In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 160
Instagram, 19, 104, 149
Internet, 19, 20, 21, 23, 26–27, 55, 69, 125, 126, 129, 141, 143, 145, 146, 187, 199, 205
brain and, 37–38, 40, 142, 185
going without, 185, 186, 189–97, 200, 208–9
remembering life before, 7–8, 15–16, 21–22, 48, 55, 203
Internship, The, 89
iPad, 21, 31
children and, 26–27, 45
iPhone, see phones
iPotty, 26
iTunes, 89
Jobs, Steve, 134
Jones, Patrick, 152n
Justification of Johann Gutenberg, The (Morrison), 12
Kaiser Foundation, 27, 28n
Kandel, Eric, 154
Kaufman, Charlie, 155
Keen, Andrew, 88
Kelly, Kevin, 43
Kierkegaard, Søren, 49
Kinsey, Alfred, 173
knowledge, 11–12, 75, 80, 82, 83, 86, 92, 94, 98, 141, 145–46
Google Books and, 102–3
Wikipedia and, 63, 78
Koller, Daphne, 95
Kranzberg, Melvin, 7
Kundera, Milan, 184
Lanier, Jaron, 85, 106–7, 189
latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), 64–65
Leonardo da Vinci, 56
Lewis, R. W. B., 117
LinkedIn, 175
literacy, 13
Loebner, Hugh, 60
Loebner Prize, 60
Long Now Foundation, 204
“Look at ME,” 69
love, 176, 177
Luddites, 18, 207–8, 209
Luther, Martin, 12, 20
“Machine Stops, The” (Forster), 106–7, 109
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 5
magazines, 26–28, 45–46, 102
Malaysia, 1–2, 19
Man, John, 12n, 103
Manguel, Alberto, 16–17, 117, 117n, 159
Manhunt, 165
maps, 35, 98
Marx, Groucho, 17
Marx, Karl, 12n
massive open online courses (MOOCs), 95–98
Matrix, The, 44–45
McGraw, Phil, 63
McLuhan, Marshall, 14, 34–35, 99, 179, 194, 201, 205
memes, 41–43
technology-based, 42–44
memorization, 145, 151–52, 156–59
memory, 32–33, 35, 40, 137–63
of absence, 202–3
brain and, 139, 140, 142, 146, 151–53, 155, 158
computer, 148, 149, 151, 152, 154–56
fear-based, 155–56
Google and, 143–47
group (transactive), 142–43
method of loci and, 146–47, 148
Molaison and, 138
off-loaded, 140–43, 145, 151, 155
of pre-Internet life, 7–8, 15–16, 21–22, 48, 55, 203
reconsolidation and, 154, 155
search engines and, 142–43, 146
Timehop and, 148–51, 160
memory palace, 146–47
Mesopotamia, 81
Microsoft, 64n
Bing, 62
Windows, 43
Miller, Geoffrey, 105
Milne, A. A., 93
Milner, Brenda, 138–39
Milton, John, 133–36, 157–58
MIT, 30, 55, 57, 59, 61
Media Lab, 62, 63, 67
Molaison, Henry, 137–39, 152
Montaigne, Michel de, 12n, 48
Morozov, Evgeny, 55
Morrison, Blake, 12
Most Human Human, The (Christian), 61
movies, 101
multitasking, 31, 119–20, 127
brain and, 119, 121
children and, 27–28
Mumford, Lewis, 141
Myth of the Machine, The (Mumford), 141
Nader, Karim, 155, 160
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 123
National Helpline, 65
National Science Foundation, 39
nature vs. nurture argument, 37
Neruda, Pablo, 178
Net Delusion, The (Morozov), 55
Netflix, 85, 89, 96
neuroplasticity, 36–38, 47, 141, 159, 193
newspapers, 28, 194
correspondence columns in, 83
Newton, Isaac, 83
New Yorker, 52, 92
New York Times, 20, 21, 25
Ng, Andrew, 94–98
Nielsen Media Research, 23, 28
“Night Mail” (Auden), 113–14
1984 (Orwell), 40–41
Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo), 20–21
Ogas, Ogi, 173
On Bullshit (Frankfurt), 92
operant conditioning, 114
Operation Match, 170
opinion, 81, 86, 88, 90–93
“IMHO” and, 92
reviews, 81–84, 87–90, 92–93
scarcity of, 84
orienting responses, 120, 121, 125
Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 41
Orwell, George, 40–41
Pallett, Owen, 164
Paradise Lost (Milton), 136, 157–58
Pariser, Eli, 91
Parker, Dorothy, 92–93
Paro, 104
personalization, 91, 96
Peter the Great, 147
Pew Internet and American Life Project, 40
Pew Research Center, 97, 123, 168
Phaedrus (Plato), 32–33
phones, 17, 19, 22–24, 29–32, 54, 100, 202
children and, 28–30
Harris’s Analog August and, 190–91, 194
texting on, 28, 30–31, 35–36, 100, 169, 192–94
Picasso, Pablo, 17
Plato, 32–33, 45n, 202
PlentyofFish, 177–79, 181–83
poetry, 12
pornography, 83, 88, 168, 169, 174
Postal, 89
Postman, Neil, 98, 188, 208
post-traumatic stress, 155–56
Pound, Ezra, 209
Powers, William, 192
Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 111
Price, Susan, 40
printing press, 11–13, 16, 20–21, 33–34, 43, 83, 98, 145n, 202
Printing Press as an Agent of Change, The (Eisenstein), 12n
Project TACT, 169–71
Proust, Marcel, 159–61
psychiatry and psychology, 65, 96
Pygmalion (Shaw), 57
Qpid, 180
Qrushr Girls, 173
Quadratus, Satellius, 144
Quiet (Cain), 204
radio, 7, 17, 31, 205
railroads, 200–202
Raonic, Milos, 129
Raytheon, 66n
reading, 34, 115–18, 123
brain and, 33–34
Milton and, 133, 135
online, 130–31
of War and Peace, 115, 116, 118, 120, 122–26, 128–29, 131–33, 135, 136
see also books
relationships, 164–83
reviews, 81–84, 87–90, 92–93
rewards, 114
Riley, Pete, 107
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 80
Riot, 66n
Robertson, Ian, 141
robots, 29–30, 56–57
Rogen, Seth, 192
Roman, Elias, 90–91
Rose, Jonathan, 81
Ross, Robert, 169–70
Rotten Tomatoes, 89, 90
Rowling, J. K., 66n
Royal College of Engineering, 107
R.U.R. (Capek), 56–57
Russell, Bertrand, 195
Sabinus, Calvisius, 143–45
Sas, Corina, 156
Science, 142
Scoville, William Beecher, 138
search engines, 142–43, 146
Second Life, 104
Seed, 105
Seife, Charles, 145, 146
Sejong, 12n
self-documentation, 68–71
selfies, 68
Seneca, 118, 143–44, 203–4
senses, 161, 179, 205
synesthesia and, 62–63
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