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A
- Abraham, Ralph, Reversals
- abstractions
- disappearance of world and, Nothing to Teach
- in economics, Flights of Abstraction, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- restoring context of, A Strengthened Inner Activity
- accidents
- and human destiny, Of Accident and Destiny
- advertising, A Taste for Number Magic
- Agre, Phil, Toward Greater Standardization
- Alexander, Sybille, Dignity and Laughter
- Alexandra, John, Pianists and Video Game Players
- Amazon jungle, Rousing Ourselves
- anonymity
- not the same as privacy, The Life of a Vibrant Neighborhood
- anthropocentrism, Where Does the Wild Live?
- Aphrodite, Devices of the Mind
- aquarium, virtual, Living in a Virtual World
- Ares, Devices of the Mind
- artificial intelligence. See also computers; robots
- conversation with, Nothing to Teach, The Computer in Context
- learning and, Learning from Kismet
- loss of consciousness and, Losing Consciousness
- arts and crafts, and computers, Remembering the Alternatives
- Athena, The Deceiving Virtues of Technology, The Man of Many Devices
- atomic energy, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- Auca Indians, Hold a Blossom to the Light
- attitude to environment, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- missionaries and, Rousing Ourselves, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- automatic behavior and art, Pianists and Video Game Players
- automation
- countered by our highest capacities, A Strengthened Inner Activity
- on principle, Automating on Principle
- automobile, The Automobile
B
- baby walkers, Beware the Baby Walker
- Bamford, Christopher, The Human Being as a Developing Potential
- Barfield, Owen, Where Does the Wild Live?, The Computer in Context
- Beck, Adam, From And There Was Light
- Beck, John, Falling Apart, Coming Together, At Harvard, On the New Eugenics
- Beck, Martha, From And There Was Light , On the New Eugenics, On the New Eugenics, On the New Eugenics
- Berry, Wendell, Toward Creative Responsibility
- biometric encryption, The Privacy of Community
- blindness, Hearing with More Than Ears
- gift for hearing and, Hearing with More Than Ears
- memory and, Hearing with More Than Ears
- seeing with, Dangers
- blowgun, Hold a Blossom to the Light, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- Borgmann, Albert, Reversals, Buying an Education More Cheaply
- Breazeal, Cynthia, Turnabout Is Fair Play, Learning from Kismet
- Brooks, Rodney, Nothing to Teach, Losing Consciousness, Turnabout Is Fair Play, Turnabout Is Fair Play, Learning from Kismet
- Brown, Tom Jr., Living in a Virtual World
- Buchenwald, Hearing with More Than Ears, Saving Illnesses
- business. See also corporation; capitalism
- influencing education, When Business Embraces the Academy
- profits vs. goals of, The Privacy of Community
- spreadsheets and, We Need to Recognize Our Own Assumptions, Automating on Principle
C
- Camphill villages, Dignity and Laughter
- capitalism
- frictionless, Vacant Efficiency, Personalizing Our Transactions
- greed and, The Privacy of Community
- importance of choice under, The Importance of Capitalism, All You Need Is Numbers
- possibility of change and, Cutting Ourselves Off from Change
- car, The Automobile
- cell phones, Do Cell Phones Make Us Safer?
- Cherokees, Learning the Language of Horses
- chickadees, Toward an Ecological Conversation, A Word Unasked For, A Chickadee Lesson
- children. See also education
- blessed and devilish, Reversals
- need for protection of, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform
- Cobb, John Jr., Flights of Abstraction
- Cog (robot), Learning from Kismet
- color
- response of organism to, Attending to the World with New Eyes
- computer-mediated communication, Learning the Language of Horses
- computers. See also artificial intelligence; information; robots; technology
- advice for classroom use of, Looking for the Benefits
- as authority for children, Remembering the Alternatives
- as educational gimmick, Remembering the Alternatives
- can’t add two plus two, Automating on Principle
- character of work and, Seeking a New Balance
- class size and, Remembering the Alternatives
- classroom alternatives to, Remembering the Alternatives
- displacing arts and crafts, Remembering the Alternatives
- early development and, Beware the Baby Walker
- economic abstraction and, Flights of Abstraction
- education and, A Chickadee Lesson, A Chickadee Lesson, A Chickadee Lesson
- emotions and, Conversing with Ella, The Human Response, Learning from Kismet
- fears of parents and, Remembering the Alternatives
- for math instruction, A Chickadee Lesson
- for reading instruction, A Chickadee Lesson
- glitches can be valuable, The Computer in Context, Press “1” for Frustration, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- higher education and, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform
- human context of, The Computer in Context
- literacy and, Remembering the Alternatives
- obesity and, Remembering the Alternatives
- play and, Remembering the Alternatives
- sabotage of, The Computer in Context, Personalizing Our Transactions
- stimulation and, Remembering the Alternatives
- teacher training and, Remembering the Alternatives
- concentration camp, Addendum: The Living and the Dead
- lies by prisoners in, Addendum: The Living and the Dead
- consciousness
- birth of, The Man of Many Devices
- disappearance of, Losing Consciousness
- importance of secrets for, The Man of Many Devices
- opposed to outer devices, Triumph of the Contrivance
- consumption
- as an economic good, The Privacy of Community
- conversation
- characteristics of, We Converse to Become Ourselves
- computer-mediated communication and, Learning the Language of Horses
- mechanization of in society, Nothing to Teach
- vs. problem-solving, Not Solutions, But a Strengthening of the “I”
- with computer, Nothing to Teach, The Computer in Context
- with life circumstances, Listening
- with nature, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills, Learning the Language of Horses
- Cornacchia, Joe, The Life of a Vibrant Neighborhood, The Privacy of Community
- corporation. See also business
- influencing education, When Business Embraces the Academy
- mechanization of, Seeking a New Balance
- possibility of change in, Cutting Ourselves Off from Change
- stakeholders of, All You Need Is Numbers
- values of, All You Need Is Numbers
- cows, de-horning, Permission and Responsibility
- Crichton, Michael, Living in a Virtual World
- Crick, Francis, Losing Consciousness
- cryptography, The Privacy of Community
- Cullen, Joe, The Credentialed Society
- cultural relativism, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- cultures
- must grow up, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- curare, Puzzling Knowledge
- currency trading, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- cyborg, Turnabout Is Fair Play
- Cyclopes, What’s Ahead, The Man of Many Devices, Rousing Ourselves
- eye of, The Man of Many Devices
D
- D-tubocurarine, Seeking a New Balance
- Daly, Herman, Flights of Abstraction
- Dasmann, Raymond, Where Does the Wild Live?
- data. See also information
- incompatible with privacy, A Strengthened Inner Activity, The Privacy of Community
- Davis, Wade, Rousing Ourselves
- Dawkins, Richard, Losing Consciousness
- deafness, The Human Being as a Developing Potential
- death
- organism’s resistance to, Order and Form
- devices
- opposed to consciousness, Triumph of the Contrivance
- Dimock, George, The Man of Many Devices
- disability
- blindness and technology, Hearing with More Than Ears, The Human Being as a Developing Potential, Saving Illnesses
- Camphill villages and, Dignity and Laughter
- communication and, Trying to Communicate
- Down Syndrome, From And There Was Light
- genetic engineering and, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves
- gifts to community of, Gift-Bearers
- human destiny and, Of Accident and Destiny
- parents’ role in, Lost Sight, Second Sight, Dangers
- prostheses and, Saving Illnesses
- technology and, A Word Unasked For
- “abnormality” of, On the New Eugenics
- disease
- balance and, Seeking a New Balance
- symptom-masking and, There Are No Solutions
- distance-conquering technologies
- destroy places, Movable Places
- increase distance between us, The Automobile
- DNA, Toward an Ecological Conversation
- as effect, not cause, Order and Form
- language of, Nothing to Teach
- Down Syndrome, From And There Was Light , Dignity and Laughter
- dolphins and, Enjoying Life
- genetic screening and, At Harvard
- social skills and, At Harvard
- “abnormality” of, On the New Eugenics
E
- economics, The Privacy of Community
- externalities of, All You Need Is Numbers
- ecosystems
- unpredictable complexity of, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- education
- child’s need for protection and, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform
- corporate role in, When Business Embraces the Academy
- cost of, Buying an Education More Cheaply
- credentials and, The Credentialed Society
- diversity and, Toward Greater Standardization
- higher, Who’s Killing Higher Education?(Or Is It Suicide?)
- individual recognition and, Becoming Qualified
- Internet pornography and, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform, Movable Places
- role of nature in, Living in a Virtual World, Remembering the Alternatives
- safe places and, Movable Places
- educational assessment, Serving the Other, Becoming Qualified
- Edwards, Rose, Gift-Bearers
- efficiency
- of Internet, Vacant Efficiency
- responsibility and, A Hope Beyond Technology
- vs. intrinsic appeal of object, On Reading One’s Environment
- ELIZA, Turnabout Is Fair Play
- email, Seeking a New Balance, A Strengthened Inner Activity
- emotions
- investing computers with, Nothing to Teach, The Human Response, Learning from Kismet
- entropic heat decay, Order and Form
- environment. See also nature
- automobile and, The Automobile
- conversational engagement with, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- domestic vs. wild, Toward Creative Responsibility
- human participation in, Where Does the Wild Live?
- ignorance and, We Converse to Become Ourselves
- management vs. preservation, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- native peoples and, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- reading qualitatively, On Reading One’s Environment, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- responsibility for, Cutting Ourselves Off from Change
- stability of, We Converse to Become Ourselves
- ethnobotany, The Powers of Recognition
- Everglades, The Loss of Significance
- evil
- good and, The Man of Many Devices, Evil
- marketplace and, The Privacy of Community
F
- Fagan, Perry, All You Need Is Numbers
- farming and gardening, A Word Unasked For
- Feynman, Richard, Order and Form
- Fletcher, Joseph, On the New Eugenics
- Fogg, B. J., Learning from Kismet
- form
- maintenance of in organism, Order and Form
- French Resistance, Hearing with More Than Ears, Saving Illnesses
G
- Galilei, Galileo, Where Does the Wild Live?
- gambling
- Internet and, Programming Levity
- investment as, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- Gandhi, Mohandas, We Converse to Become Ourselves, A Parent’s Disconcerting Revelation
- Gates, Bill, Digital Servants Everywhere
- genetic code
- information and, Nothing to Teach
- genetic engineering, Approaching Mystery
- human enhancement and, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves
- human hybrids and, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves
- love and, On the New Eugenics
- Genghis (robot), Nothing to Teach, How Do You Simulate Life?
- German invasion of France, Saving Illnesses
- Gestapo, Hearing with More Than Ears
- Gilder, George, The Importance of Capitalism
- glitches, value of, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- Goldstein, Kurt, Attending to the World with New Eyes
- good
- evil and, The Man of Many Devices, The Computer in Context
- marketplace and, The Privacy of Community
- government
- checks and balances, Evil
- Great Technological Deceit, The Computer in Context
- greed, supposed virtues of, The Privacy of Community
- gross domestic product, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- Grove, Chris, Programming Levity
- Güggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf, Personalizing Our Transactions
H
- HAL, From HAL to Kismet, The Human Response
- hallucinogens, Puzzling Knowledge
- hand-eye coordination, Pianists and Video Game Players
- Harvard University, Falling Apart, Coming Together, At Harvard
- Hawley, Michael, Being Positive by Being Negative
- health
- balance and, Seeking a New Balance
- symptom-masking and, There Are No Solutions
- Healy, Jane, A Chickadee Lesson
- Heisenberg, Werner, Order and Form
- Hephaestus, Devices of the Mind, Triumph of the Contrivance
- Hillis, Danny, Reversals
- Holdrege, Craig, Permission and Responsibility, Permission and Responsibility, Where Does the Wild Live?
- Homer, What’s Ahead, The Man of Many Devices, The Man of Many Devices, Reversals, Triumph of the Contrivance
- horses, listening to, Learning the Language of Horses
- Hughes, James, On the New Eugenics
- human destiny, Saving Illnesses, From And There Was Light , Listening, On the New Eugenics, Of Accident and Destiny, Nothing to Teach, Movable Places
I
- idealism
- rooted in human being, A Hope Beyond Technology
- ignorance
- ecological conversation and, We Converse to Become Ourselves
- illness
- redeeming value of, Saving Illnesses
- individual
- birth of self-conscious, The Man of Many Devices
- development of, Reversals, Reversals, Serving the Other, Beware the Baby Walker
- education and, Becoming Qualified
- standardized testing and, Serving the Other
- information
- causing disappearance of educational content, Nothing to Teach
- computers as source of, A Chickadee Lesson
- education and, Remembering the Alternatives
- genetic code and, Nothing to Teach
- higher education and, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform
- managing, An Information Arms Race
- no understanding of, Nothing to Teach
- temptation of, The Man of Many Devices
- information highway, The Man of Many Devices, Reversals
- Internet, Why Is the Moon Getting Farther Away?
- as frictionless medium, Vacant Efficiency
- dysfunction of, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- gambling and, Programming Levity
- idealism and, A Hope Beyond Technology
- lack of places on, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform, Movable Places
- multicultural education and, Remembering the Alternatives
- personalizing transactions on, Personalizing Our Transactions
- sex and, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform, The Life of a Vibrant Neighborhood
- invisibility of technology, Learning from Kismet
- Invisible Hand, A Taste for Number Magic, All You Need Is Numbers
- Ithaca, The Deceiving Virtues of Technology
J
- Jacobs, Jane, The Life of a Vibrant Neighborhood
- Jensen, Michael, All You Need Is Numbers
- Jung, Carl, A Word Unasked For, Losing Consciousness
- just-in-time learning, Who’s Killing Higher Education?(Or Is It Suicide?)
K
- Kahn, Alfred, Flights of Abstraction
- Kalypso, Reversals
- kanbrain, Who’s Killing Higher Education?(Or Is It Suicide?)
- Kismet (robot), Turnabout Is Fair Play, Personalizing Our Transactions
- kitchen, automation of, Being Positive by Being Negative
- knowledge
- in body before intellect, Beware the Baby Walker
- temptation of, The Man of Many Devices
- König, Karl, Gift-Bearers
- Kurzweil, Ray, A Word Unasked For, Saving Illnesses, Nothing to Teach
L
- labor-saving devices, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- language
- as dead weight, The Computer in Context
- learning
- just-in-time, Who’s Killing Higher Education?(Or Is It Suicide?)
- robots and, Learning from Kismet
- Leontief, Wassily, Flights of Abstraction
- Leopold, Aldo, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills, We Converse to Become Ourselves
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- Lewis, C. S., The Loss of Significance
- Lewis, Michael, Flights of Abstraction
- Lewontin, Richard, Losing Consciousness
- lie detectors, Will Lie-Detecting Software Make Us More Trustworthy?
- literacy
- sources of, Remembering the Alternatives
- Loebner Turing Test, Nothing to Teach
- Lombardo, Stanley, The Man of Many Devices
- love, role of in learning, Learning the Language of Horses
- Luke, Helen, Reversals
- Lusseyran, Jacques, A Word Unasked For, Not Solutions, But a Strengthening of the “I”
M
- McKibben, Bill, Living in a Virtual World
- mechane, Devices of the Mind
- mechanism
- as economic rationality, All You Need Is Numbers
- as Invisible Hand, The Privacy of Community, All You Need Is Numbers
- humans, robots and, Nothing to Teach
- Media Lab (MIT), Being Positive by Being Negative, Automating on Principle
- Mencken, H. L., The Credentialed Society
- Metaman, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves, On the New Eugenics
- missionaries
- and the Waorani, Rousing Ourselves, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- Mitchell, John Hanson, The Loss of Significance
- models
- disappearing from physics, Searching for the Bottom
- money, spiritual value of, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- Monod, Jacques, Losing Consciousness
- moon 111-13, Learning the Language of Horses
- morals, legislation of, All You Need Is Numbers
- Moss, Lenny, Order and Form
- Mozart, Of Accident and Destiny
- multicultural education
- computers and, Remembering the Alternatives
- Murray, A. T., What’s Ahead
N
- Nash, Roderick Frazier, Where Does the Wild Live?
- Nass, Clifford, Learning from Kismet
- nature. See also environment
- artistic character of, Pianists and Video Game Players
- education and, Living in a Virtual World, A Chickadee Lesson, Remembering the Alternatives
- human detachment from, Where Does the Wild Live?, A Parent’s Disconcerting Revelation
- loss of, Balance and Separation, Reversals, Nothing to Teach
- sources of love for, Remembering the Alternatives
- speech of, Approaching Mystery
- video games and, Pianists and Video Game Players
- Nobody, Odysseus as, What’s Ahead, The Man of Many Devices, Rousing Ourselves
O
- obesity and computers, Remembering the Alternatives
- Odysseus, The Deceiving Virtues of Technology
- as Nobody, What’s Ahead, The Man of Many Devices, Rousing Ourselves
- Cyclops and, What’s Ahead
- homecoming of, The Man of Many Devices
- man of many devices, What’s Ahead, Triumph of the Contrivance
- Sirens and, The Man of Many Devices
- trickery of, What’s Ahead
- Trojan horse and, The Man of Many Devices, The Man of Many Devices
- organism
- integrity of, Permission and Responsibility, Where Does the Wild Live?, Attending to the World with New Eyes
- nature of, Approaching Mystery
- order and form in, Order and Form
P
- Padilla, Elena, The Life of a Vibrant Neighborhood
- paradise, loss of, Reckoning with the Scoundrel, Reversals
- paranormal experiences, Falling Apart, Coming Together, Listening
- Patton, George, Lost Sight, Second Sight
- Pence, Gregory, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves
- Perelman, Lewis, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform
- personalizing Internet transactions, Personalizing Our Transactions
- physics
- lack of models in, Searching for the Bottom
- pianist and video game player, Pianists and Video Game Players
- Pietzner, Carlo, A Parent’s Disconcerting Revelation
- places
- distance-collapsing technologies and, Movable Places
- friction required for, The Virtue of Friction in the Landscape
- lacking on Internet, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform, Movable Places
- play and computers, Remembering the Alternatives
- pornography
- Poseidon, The Deceiving Virtues of Technology
- Postman, Neil, Reversals
- precaution
- principle of, Toward an Ecological Conversation
- responsibility and, Permission and Responsibility
- privacy, The Man of Many Devices, Privacy in an Age of Data
- protein folding, Order and Form
- pseudonyms, digital, The Privacy of Community
- psychic inflation, Losing Consciousness
- psychoactive compounds, Puzzling Knowledge
Q
- qualitative environment
- quantum weirdness, Searching for the Bottom
R
- Rarey, Solomon, Learning the Language of Horses
- reductionism, Nothing to Teach, Losing Consciousness, Personalizing Our Transactions
- reproductive technologies, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves
- resisting technology, Triumph of the Contrivance, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills, The Computer in Context, Not Solutions, But a Strengthening of the “I”
- responsibility
- of humans, for creation, Toward Creative Responsibility
- of humans, for mechanisms, The Computer in Context
- precaution and, Permission and Responsibility
- Roberts, Monty, Learning the Language of Horses
- robots. See also artificial intelligence; computers
- as learners, Learning from Kismet
- as living things, How Do You Simulate Life?
- as mechanisms like us, Nothing to Teach
- Cog, Learning from Kismet
- Genghis, Flesh and Machines:The Mere Assertions of Rodney Brooks, How Do You Simulate Life?
- HAL and Kismet, Turnabout Is Fair Play
- investing with emotions, The Human Response
- Romanyshyn, Robert, A Parent’s Disconcerting Revelation
S
- Schneiderman, Ben, We Need to Recognize Our Own Assumptions
- Schultes, Richard Evans, The Powers of Recognition
- Schultze, Charles, The Privacy of Community, All You Need Is Numbers
- Screpanti, Ernesto, Flights of Abstraction
- secrets
- self-consciousness and, The Man of Many Devices
- Segal, Tamir, Will Lie-Detecting Software Make Us More Trustworthy?
- self. See also consciousness
- abandonment of, On Reading One’s Environment
- as power to originate, Rousing Ourselves
- birth of, The Man of Many Devices
- strengthening, Not Solutions, But a Strengthening of the “I”
- Serkin, Peter, Dignity and Laughter
- shotgun, On Reading One’s Environment, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- Silicon Valley, Triumph of the Contrivance, Gift-Bearers, A Parent’s Disconcerting Revelation
- Silver, Lee, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves
- Singularity, the Great, Reversals
- Sirens, The Man of Many Devices
- skill, and technology, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- Snell, Bruno, Where Does the Wild Live?
- Snyder, Gary, Toward Creative Responsibility
- Sobel, David, Remembering the Alternatives
- society
- as context for privacy, A Strengthened Inner Activity
- as mechanism, Invisible Authors
- software
- as dead hand of the past, The Computer in Context
- solutions
- technology and, There Are No Solutions
- spam
- speech recognition
- lie detectors and, Will Lie-Detecting Software Make Us More Trustworthy?
- opposite potentials of, Press “1” for Frustration
- speech vs. speaker, Invisible Authors, The Automobile
- spreadsheets, We Need to Recognize Our Own Assumptions, Automating on Principle
- stakeholders of corporation, All You Need Is Numbers
- Stalking Wolf, Living in a Virtual World
- standardization, The Computer in Context
- standardized testing, The Credentialed Society
- disabilities and, Serving the Other
- stimulation and computers, Remembering the Alternatives
- Stock, Gregory, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves
- synchronicity, A Word Unasked For
T
- taxonomic eye, The Powers of Recognition
- techne, Devices of the Mind, The Man of Many Devices
- technology. See also genetic engineering; information; Internet; computers
- addresses well-behaved problems, There Are No Solutions
- artifact vs. artificer, Invisible Authors, Complementary Errors
- as a solution, There Are No Solutions
- as abandonment of self, On Reading One’s Environment
- balance of risks and benefits, Press “1” for Frustration
- balance required by, Balance and Separation, Seeking a New Balance, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills, A Chickadee Lesson, A Chickadee Lesson, Remembering the Alternatives
- birth of individual and, The Man of Many Devices
- changing character of work and, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- conceals human actor, Invisible Authors
- dangers when it works well, The Computer in Context
- distance-conquering, The Automobile, Movable Places
- distances us from world, A Parent’s Disconcerting Revelation
- distractions of, Reversals
- doesn’t free us for higher tasks, Automating on Principle
- double-edged improvements in, Press “1” for Frustration
- glitches of are valuable, Beyond the Gambling Hall
- human intentions built into, We Need to Recognize Our Own Assumptions
- in kitchens, Being Positive by Being Negative
- in nursing homes, The Computer in Context
- inner vs. outer, Triumph of the Contrivance
- intrinsic value of, There Are No Solutions
- labor-saving devices and, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- loss of nature and, Reckoning with the Scoundrel, Reversals
- necessity to resist, Triumph of the Contrivance, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills, The Computer in Context, Not Solutions, But a Strengthening of the “I”
- privacy and, A Strengthened Inner Activity
- projecting good and evil upon, The Computer in Context
- qualitative consciousness and, Seeking a New Balance
- reversal of its role for humans, Reversals
- risks and benefits of, Being Positive by Being Negative
- safety and, Do Cell Phones Make Us Safer?
- salesmen for, Remembering the Alternatives
- secrets and, The Man of Many Devices
- self-consciousness and, The Man of Many Devices
- time-saving, There Are No Solutions
- transformation of culture and, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- telephone answering systems, Press “1” for Frustration
- telescope, Approaching Mystery, Why Is the Moon Getting Farther Away?, Learning the Language of Horses
- television, Reversals, The Loss of Significance, Living in a Virtual World, A Chickadee Lesson, Educational Provocations, Educational Provocations, Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform, The Ideal of Ubiquitous Technology, There Are No Solutions, Programming Levity
- time-saving technology, There Are No Solutions
- Tolkien, J. R. R., Toward Creative Responsibility
- trickery
- of Odysseus, What’s Ahead
- Trojan Horse, Devices of the Mind, The Man of Many Devices
- trust
- lie-detectors and, Will Lie-Detecting Software Make Us More Trustworthy?
- Turing Test, Conversing with Ella
- Turner, Jack, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills, We Converse to Become Ourselves, We Converse to Become Ourselves, Toward Creative Responsibility
U
- ubiquitous computing, Digital Servants Everywhere
V
- values, in economics, The Privacy of Community
- van den Berg, J. H., The Loss of Significance
- video games, Pianists and Video Game Players
- video screens, Remembering the Alternatives
- virtuality, The Loss of Significance
- as a responsibility, Living in a Virtual World
W
- Waldorf schools, Dignity and Laughter, Serving the Other
- Waorani, Hold a Blossom to the Light
- attitude to environment, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- missionaries and, Rousing Ourselves, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- Watson, James, Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves, On the New Eugenics
- Watts, Andre, Dignity and Laughter
- Weinberg, Steven, Searching for the Bottom
- Weizenbaum, Joseph, Turnabout Is Fair Play
- wilderness. See also environment
- farming and, A Word Unasked For
- human responsibility for, Where Does the Wild Live?
- reversal of our relation to, Reversals
- Wilson, E. O., Losing Consciousness
- work
- technological transformation of, Don’t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills, Automating on Principle
Y
- yagé, Puzzling Knowledge
- yoco, Puzzling Knowledge
- Yost, Jim, The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
Z
- Zamagni, Stefano, Flights of Abstraction
- Zingman, Vadim, Programming Levity
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