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Authors: Kevin Kelly
latitude vs.
as long-term trend
see also
choices
choices
Freeland, Stephen
Friedel, Robert
Friend, Tad
Fromm, Erich
Fuller, Buckminster
fur trappers
fuzzy logic
Gaiman, Neil
Galileo Galilei
games, finite vs. infinite
Gardner, James
Garreau, Joel
Gaston, Jerry
Gauss, Karl Friedrich
genes
see also
DNA; mutations
DNA; mutations
gene therapy
genetically modified organisms
banning of
genetic cloning
genetic codes
randomly generated
genetic engineering
genetic information
genetics
Mendelian
genetic testing
genotechnology
Gent, George
geoengineering
Geremek, Bronislaw
Germany
Gift of Good Land, The
(Berry)
(Berry)
Gillooly, James
Gladwell, Malcolm
global warming
Godfrey, Laurie
Goldilocks zones
Goodwin, Brian
Gould, Stephen Jay
grandmother effect
Gray, Elisha
gray goo scenario
Greeks, ancient
crossbows of
Moirae of
warfare of
green anarchy
green cities
green technology
Guide to Technology
(Beckmann)
(Beckmann)
gunpowder
Guns, Germs, and Steel
(Diamond)
(Diamond)
habitat destruction
Hadamard, Jacques
Hagstrom, Warren
Harbord, James
Harry Potter series (Rowling)
Hawken, Paul
heat death
Heidegger, Martin
helmet evolution
Hemple Bay tribe
Henry, Joseph
Henry VIII, king of England
Hillis, Danny
hippie movement
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hobbes, Thomas
Homer
hominins
African origin of
ecological alterations effected by
life expectancy of
live grandparents lacked by
reproductive effectiveness of
tools of
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
as entity vs. tendency
see also
Neanderthals
Neanderthals
Homo sapiens sapiens, see Sapiens
honeyguide bird
Hoover Dam
howler monkey
hunter-gatherers
biophilia of
breast-feeding duration among
child mortality of
deforestation's effect on
diet of
disposable culture of
fertility rate of
gathering by
hungry periods endured by
hunting by
leisure time of
Paleolithic rhythm of
social norms of
social organization of
surplus production avoided by
tools of
tribal warfare of
youthful demographic of
Hurst, Laurence
hydrogen
ice ages
ichthyosaurs
idea factories
ideas
Illich, Ivan
Incas
India
Industrial Revolution
inevitability
evolutionary
forecasting fostered by
hastening vs. postponement of
meanings of
ubiquity in
see also
convergence; inventions, convergence of
convergence; inventions, convergence of
information
computation and
definitions of
genetic
scientific compression of
Innocent II, pope
innovations
Intellectual Ventures
intelligenation
intelligence
of animals
artificial
charismatic
collective
diversity of
internet and
of plants
internet
Amish and
contingent development of
as intelligent superorganism
original purpose of
potential abuses of
search engines of
socializing effect of
technophilia and
uneven diffusion of
wiki engines of
inventions
breakthrough
coevolution of
of early Sapiens
as exaptations
Frankenstein syndrome and
overly futuristic
patenting of
potentially harmful,
see
technology, potential dangers of
see
technology, potential dangers of
as predicted war deterrents
in scientific method
secondary
see also
language
language
inventions, convergence of
acceleration of
ancient, on different continents
archaeological evidence of
archetypal forms of
in arts
choice as contradicted by
contingent details of
developmental sequence in
domestication in
idea factories for
individual geniuses vs.
and intercontinental trade
inverted pyramid of
randomness and
scientists' acknowledgment of
simultaneous parallel inventions in
unreported
Isaacson, Walter
Israel, Paul
Italy
Jaffe, Adam
James, K. D.
Japan
Jenner, Edward
Jensen, Derrick
Jobs, Steve
Joy, Bill
Jupiter
Kaczynski, Ted (Unabomber)
constrained choices of
death toll acknowledged by
lifestyle of
manifesto of
Kadrey, Richard
Kauffman, Stuart
Kay, Alan
Keeley, Lawrence
Kelly, Robert
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord
Kessler, Stephen
Kimura, Motoo
Klein, Richard
knowledge
collective
structured
transmission of
Kroeber, Alfred
Kryder, Mark
Kuhn, Thomas
Kurzweil, Ray
language
written
lasers
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van
Leibniz, Gottfried
Lemley, Mark
Lemonnier, Pierre
Lenski, Richard
Le Verrier, Urbain
life
diversity of
extension of
inevitable emergence of
metabolism ratio of
noncarbon-based
self-generation of
size ratios in
see also
evolution
evolution
life expectancy
of hominins
Lloyd, Seth
logarithms
London
slums of
longbows
longevity, increased
Lorentz, Hendrik
Lucas, George
Luddites
McGavin, George
McGhee, George
McGinnis, Michele
McLuhan, Marshall
malaria
Malthus, Thomas
Maori
Marconi, Guglielmo
Marshall, Craig
Marx, Karl
mass production
Material World
(Menzel)
(Menzel)
Maxim, Hiram
Maximum City
(Mehta)
(Mehta)
Mbuti tribe
Mead, Carver
media
social
Mehta, Suketu
Mendel, Gregor
Menzel, Peter
Merton, Robert
Mesthene, Emmanuel
metabolism ratio
Meucci, Antonio
Middle Ages
minds
bettering of
decentralized, in nature
in progress
of rock ants
as tools
see also
intelligence
intelligence
minimalism
of counterculture dropouts
expanded choices of others constrained by
human nature as viewed by
sense of fulfillment in
of urban homesteading
see also
Amish
Amish
Minsky, Marvin
Mitcham, Carl
Moirae (Fates)
monkeys
Montgomery Ward catalog
Moon
landing on
Moore, Gordon
Moore's Law
plateau of
self-reinforced expectations in
moral progress
More, Max
Mormons
Morris, Simon Conway
Morse, Samuel
movies
convergence of
fantasy evolution in
Mumbai
mutations
nonrandom
rate of
mutualism
Myhrvold, Nathan
nanotechnology
Napier, John
National Geographic
Native Americans
Nature of Technology, The
(Arthur)
(Arthur)
Neanderthals
displacement and extinction of
food sources of
injuries of
negentropy
Neptune
Neuwirth, Rob
New Guinea
Newton, Isaac
New York, N.Y.
slums of
New Yorker
New York Times
New York World's Fair (1964)
New Zealand
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Niepce, Nicephore
Nobel, Alfred
Nonzero (Wright)
Norman, Donald
North America
North Korea
nuclear power
Nye, David
octopuses
Ogburn, William
oil
opportunity
“Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere” (James and Ellington)
Osborn, Henry
Out of Control
(Kelly)
(Kelly)
oxcarts
oxygen
Pace, Norman
Paleolithic rhythm
paper
Paradox of Choice, The
(Schwartz)
(Schwartz)
parasitism
Paris
1900 Great Exposition in
slums of
patents
Perrow, Charles
Petrequin, Pierre
phonograph
photography
processing of
satellite
physics, laws of
picture phones
Picturephones
pixels
plagues
Planet of Slums
(Davis)
(Davis)
plants
chlorophyll of
domestication of
gathering of
insectivorous
intelligence of
Plato
Poincare, Henri
Poisson distribution, statistical
Ponnamperuma, Cyril
Popper, Karl
population growth
food production for
of Sapiens
of hunter-gatherers
Malthusian limits of
negative
negative, future scenarios of
world
see also
fertility rates
fertility rates
Postman, Neil
Precautionary Principle
predator rhythm
Priceline
Priestley, Joseph
printing
Proactionary Principle
Process Theology
progress
critical views of
emotional unease produced by
energy production in
environmental costs of
evolutionary
historical change vs.
human nature and
increased affluence in
increased choices in
increased life expectancy as
indicators of
Industrial Revolution in
as marginally beneficial
meaningfulness vs.
moral
novelty in
origins of
prosperity and
rising curve of
science in
sustainability of
utopianism vs.
and visiting the past
see also
cities; population growth
cities; population growth
progress, acceleration of
corporate structure in
energy requirements as constraint on
future plateaus of
Kryder's Law of
Kurzweil's Law of
Moore's Law of,
see
Moore's Law
see
Moore's Law
performance ratios in
scaling down in
as self-fulfilling prophecy
shifting consumer desires and
speed trend curve in
S-shaped curves of
Progress Paradox, The
(Easterbrook)
(Easterbrook)
proteins
Quammen, David
quantum mechanics
quipu
radio
railroads
electric
Ramdas, Kavita
relativity, theories of
Renaissance
reproductive effectiveness
Rhetoric
(Aristotle)
(Aristotle)
rhodopsin
ribose
Ridley, Matt
Riesman, David
Rio Declaration
Rio de Janeiro, slums of
RNA
roads
Roman, width of
Roberts, Larry
Roberts, Neil
robots
self-replicating
rock ants
Rockefeller, John D.
Romans, ancient
road width established by
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