Who Owns the Future? (64 page)

Morlocks,
137

morning-after pill,
104

morphing,
162

mortality,
193
,
218
,
253
,
263
–64,
325
–31,
367

mortgages,
33
,
46
,
49
–52,
61
,
78
,
95
–96,
99
,
224
,
227
,
239
,
245
,
255
,
274
n,
289
n,
296
,
300

motivation,
7
–18,
85
–86,
97
–98,
216

motivational speakers,
216

movies,
111
–12,
130
,
137
,
165
,
192
,
193
,
204
,
206
,
256
,
261
–62,
277
–78,
310

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
23
n

MRI,
111
n

music industry,
11
,
18
,
22
,
23
–24,
42
,
47
–51,
54
,
61
,
66
,
74
,
78
,
86
,
88
,
89
,
92
,
94
,
95
–96,
97
,
129
,
132
,
134
–35,
154
,
157
,
159
–62,
186
–87,
192
,
206
–7,
224
,
227
,
239
,
253
,
266
–67,
281
,
318
,
347
,
353
,
354
,
355
,
357

Myspace,
180

Nancarrow, Conlon,
159
–62

Nancarrow, Yoko,
161

nanopayments,
20
,
226
,
274
–75,
286
–87,
317
,
337
–38,
365

nanorobots,
11
,
12
,
17

nanotechnology,
11
,
12
,
17
,
87
,
162

Napster,
92

narcissism,
153
–56,
188
,
201

narratives,
165
–66,
199

National Security Agency (NSA),
199
–200

natural medicine,
131

Nelson, Ted,
128
,
221
,
228
,
245
,
349
–50

Nelsonian systems,
221
–30,
335

Nelson’s humor,
128

Netflix,
192
,
223

“net neutrality,”
172

networked cameras,
309
–11,
319

networks,
see
digital networks

neutrinos,
110
n

New Age,
211
–17

Newmark, Craig,
177
n

New Mexico,
159
,
203

newspapers,
109
,
135
,
177
n,
225
,
284
,
285
n

New York, N.Y.,
75
,
91
,
266
–67

New York Times,
109

Nobel Prize,
40
,
118
,
143
n

nodes, network,
156
,
227
,
230
,
241
–43,
350

“no free lunch” principle,
55
–56,
59
–60

nondeterministic music,
23
n

nonlinear solutions,
149
–50

nonprofit share sites,
59
n,
94
–95

nostalgia,
129
–32

NRO,
199
–200

nuclear power,
133

nuclear weapons,
127
,
296

nursing,
97
–100,
123
,
296
n

nursing homes,
97
–100,
269

Obama, Barack,
79
,
100

“Obamacare,”
100
n

obsolescence,
89
,
95

oil resources,
43
,
133

online stores,
171

Ono, Yoko,
212

ontologies,
124
n,
196

open-source applications,
206
,
207
,
272
,
310
–11

optical illusions,
121

optimism,
32
–35,
45
,
130
,
138
–40,
218
,
230
n,
295

optimization,
144
–47,
148
,
153
,
154
–55,
167
,
202
,
203

Oracle,
265

Orbitz,
63
,
64
,
65

organ donors,
190
,
191

ouroboros,
154

outcomes, economic,
40
–41,
144
–45

outsourcing,
177
–78,
185

Owens, Buck,
256

packet switching,
228
–29

Palmer, Amanda,
186
–87

Pandora,
192

panopticons,
308

papacy,
190

paper money,
34
n

parallel computers,
147
–48,
149
,
151

paranoia,
309

Parrish, Maxfield,
214

particle interactions,
196

party machines,
202

Pascal, Blaise,
132
,
139

Pascal’s Wager,
139

passwords,
307
,
309

“past-oriented money,”
29
–31,
35
,
284
–85

patterns, information,
178
,
183
,
184
,
188
–89

Paul, Ron,
33
n

Pauli exclusion principle,
181
,
202

PayPal,
60
,
93
,
326

peasants, 565

pensions,
95
,
99

Perestroika
(Kushner),
165

“perfect investments,”
59
–67,
77
–78

performances, musical,
47
–48,
51
,
186
–87,
253

perpetual motion,
55

Persian Gulf,
86

personal computers (PCs),
158
,
182
n,
214
,
223
,
229

personal information systems,
110
,
312
–16,
317

Pfizer,
265

pharmaceuticals industry,
66
–67,
100
–106,
123
,
136
,
203