The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection (30 page)

Furbies, 29–30

Füssel, Stephan, 103

Gaddam, Sai, 173

Gallup, 123

genes, 41–43

Gentile, Douglas, 118–21

German Ideology, The
(Marx), 12
n

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,
66
n

Gutenberg, Johannes, 11–13, 14, 16, 21, 34, 98

Gutenberg Bible, 83, 103

Gutenberg Galaxy, The
(McLuhan), 179, 201

Gutenberg Revolution, The
(Man), 12
n,
103

GuySpy, 171, 172, 173

Hangul, 12
n

Harari, Haim, 141

Harry Potter series, 66
n

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, 152
n

Justification of Johann Gutenberg, The
(Morrison), 12

Kaiser Foundation, 27, 28
n

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, 12
n,
103

Manguel, Alberto, 16–17, 117, 117
n,
159

Manhunt, 165

maps, 35, 98

Marx, Groucho, 17

Marx, Karl, 12
n

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, 64
n

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, 12
n,
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, 45
n,
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