Who Owns the Future? (70 page)

“unintentional manipulation,”
144

United States,
25
,
45
,
54
,
79
–80,
86
,
138
,
199
–204

universities,
92
–97

upper class,
45
,
48

used car market,
118
–19

user interface,
362
–63,
364

utopianism,
13
–18,
21
,
30
,
31
,
37
–38,
45
–46,
96
,
128
,
130
,
167
,
205
,
207
,
265
,
267
,
270
,
283
,
290
,
291
,
308
–9,
316

value, economic,
21
,
33
–35,
52
,
61
,
64
–67,
73
n,
108
,
283
–90,
299
–300,
321
–22,
364

value, information,
1
–3,
15
–16,
20
,
210
,
235
–43,
257
–58,
259
,
261
–63,
271
–75,
321
–24,
358
–60

Values, Attitudes, and Lifestyles (VALS),
215

variables,
149
–50

vendors,
71
–74

venture capital,
66
,
181
,
218
,
277
–78,
298
,
348

videos,
60
,
100
,
162
,
185
–86,
204
,
223
,
225
,
226
,
239
,
240
,
242
,
245
,
277
,
287
,
329
,
335
–36,
349
,
354
,
356

Vietnam War,
353
n

vinyl records,
89

viral videos,
185
–86

Virtual Reality (VR),
12
,
47
–48,
127
,
129
,
132
,
158
,
162
,
214
,
283
–85,
312
–13,
314
,
315
,
325
,
343
,
356
,
362
n

viruses,
132
–33

visibility,
184
,
185
–86,
234
,
355

visual cognition,
111
–12

VitaBop,
100
–106,
284
n

vitamins,
100
–106

Voice, The,
185
–86

“voodoo economics,”
149

voting,
122
,
202
–4,
249

Wachowski, Lana,
165

Wall Street,
49
,
70
,
76
–77,
181
,
184
,
234
,
317
,
331
,
350

Wal-Mart,
69
,
70
–74,
89
,
174
,
187
,
201

Warhol, Andy,
108

War of the Worlds, The
(Wells),
137

water supplies,
17
,
18

Watts, Alan,
211
–12

Wave,
189

wealth:

aggregate or concentration of,
9
,
42
–43,
53
,
60
,
61
,
74
–75,
96
,
97
,
108
,
115
,
148
,
157
–58,
166
,
175
,
201
,
202
,
208
,
234
,
278
–79,
298
,
305
,
335
,
355
,
360

creation of,
32
,
33
–34,
46
–47,
50
–51,
57
,
62
–63,
79
,
92
,
96
,
120
,
148
–49,
210
,
241
–43,
270
–75,
291
–94,
338
–39,
349

inequalities and redistribution of,
20
,
37
–45,
65
–66,
92
,
97
,
144
,
254
,
256
–57,
274
–75,
286
–87,
290
–94,
298
,
299
–300

see also
income levels

weather forecasting,
110
,
120
,
150

weaving,
22
,
23
n,
24

webcams,
99
,
245

websites,
80
,
170
,
200
,
201
,
343

Wells, H. G.,
126
–27,
137
,
261
,
331

Wells’s humor,
126
–27

What the Dormouse Said
(Markoff),
213

Wheeler, John Archibald,
195

Wiener, Norbert,
230

WikiLeaks,
14
,
199
,
205

Wikipedia,
59
n,
93
,
94
,
176
n,
188
–89,
206
,
226
,
235
,
254
,
259
,
291
,
338
,
359

Windows,
349

winner-take-all system,
38
–43,
50
,
54
–55,
204
,
243
,
256
–57,
263
,
329
–30

Wired,
82

wireless connections,
171
–72,
184
–85,
273
,
296
n,
309
,
316
,
331

Wozniak, Steve,
93

writers,
352
–60

Xanadu,
222
,
223
,
225
,
228
–29

Xerox PARC,
229
–30

You Are Not a Gadget
(Lanier),
353

YouTube,
39
,
60
,
101
,
185
,
186
–87,
242
,
259
,
278

zero-sum games,
240
,
297
–98

Zuckerberg, Mark,
93
,
190