INDEX
Abrams, Jonathan
AdSense
advertising
consumer information on the Internet and ads displayed in
Google’s systems for
memory and
TV infomercials and
algorithms in search engines
Google’s use of
intelligent approaches coded into
AltaVista
American Express
America OnLine (AOL)
amygdala, and forward thinking
Anderson, Jim
anticipation, and brain processing
Ariely, Dan
artificial intelligence
game playing by computers and
use of term
Ask Jeeves
axons, and information processing in the brain
Babbage, Charles
BackRub search engine
Back to the Future series (films)
Bell Telephone Systems
Berliner, Hans
Berners-Lee, Tim
Bezos, Jeff
Bisciglia, Christopher
Black Swan, The (Taleb)
Blink (Gladwell)
Boolean algebra
Boston Globe
brain
calculations performed by
categorization errors and
computer not like a brain
connections between information in
evolution of
forward thinking by
“Internet is a brain” concept
Internet processing similar to processing by
Internet structure similar to infrastructure of
intuition and
loopy, iterative process of thinking and
memory creation and destruction in
neurons and processing in
parallel processing in
physically linking Internet and
as a prediction machine
as a thinking machine
BrainGate
Brin, Sergey
Brown University business
Internet and
similarities between brain and Internet understood by
user search data kept and
BusinessWeek
caching
Carnegie, Dale
Carnegie Institute
Centers for Disease Control
cerebral cortex
evolution of
parallel processing by neurons in
Chase
Chertoff, Michael
Christensen, Clayton
Cinematch, Netflix
Clapton, Eric
cloud computing
Google’s research on
Internet and
CNN
collective consciousness, and Internet
computers
brain infrastructure similar to Internet structure with
brain not like a computer
Google’s cloud computing efforts involving
Internet development and introduction of
Conrads, Randy
Consciousness Explained (Dennett)
Darwin, Charles
Dateline NBC
Dawkins, Richard
Dean, Mark
decision making
amount of information in
buying decisions on the Internet and
Monty Hall Dilemma and
Deep Blue (computer)
dendrites, and information processing in the brain
Dennett, Daniel
Descartes
DNA
domain name assignment
Donoghue, John
Drucker, Peter
Dryad
Dunbar number
du Pont, Pierre
dynamic portals
eBay
Economist
education, online
EDVAC (computer)
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight
Emergence (Johnson)
Emotiv
Enigma (computer)
Ersatz Brain Project
Ethernet
eUniverse
evolution
of brain
of technology
Expedia
eye-trackers, for computer screen usage studies
fakesters
forecasting
forward thinking, in brain
Founder’s Fund
Franklin, Benjamin
Freud, Sigmund
Friendster
Full House (Gould)
game playing by computers
Gammonoid (robot)
Gates, Bill
Gigerenzer, Gerd
Gilder, George
Gladwell, Malcolm
Goldberg, Elkhonon
Goleman, Daniel
advertising systems of
Answers.com’s use of links and searches by
cloud computing at
intelligent approaches coded into search engines by
multiprocessor farm at
page-ranking software from
search engine algorithms used by
spiders used by
Gordon, Barry
Gore, Al
Gould, Stephen Jay
heuristics
Hofstadter, Douglas
Hogan, James
Home Shopping Network
Hooker, Joe
HSBC
hypertext documents
I Am a Strange Loop (Hofstadter)
IBM
infomercials, TV
Innovator’s Dilemma, The (Christensen)
intelligence, animal
intelligence, human
calculation ability and
Dennett on
loopy, iterative process of thinking and
intelligence, Internet
calculation ability and
evolution of
Internet
brain infrastructure similar to structure of
brain processing similar to processing by
business on
collective consciousness and
evolution of intelligence on
implosion theories on
“Internet is a brain” concept
language and searches on
memory creation and destruction in
networking laws and
physically linking brain to
prediction and
technology evolution paving way for
Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Internet service providers (ISPs)
intuition
iPhones
iTunes
Jacobs, Jane
James, William
Johnson, Steven
Juno
language, and Internet searches
Language as a Cognitive Process (Winograd)
Lee, Robert E.
Lenat, Doug
Leroi-Gourhan, André
Mahalo
MapReducer
Margolis, Howard
marketing
advertising display systems and
buying decisions on the Internet and
Markoff, John
Mark 1 (computer)
McCarthy, John
Mead, Margaret
mechanism of anticipation
medical companies
memory
advertising and understanding of
brain neurons and
caching on the Internet and
creation and destruction of
von Neumann’s theories of
metatags
Metcalfe, Bob
Metcalfe’s law
Microsoft
Miller, George
Miller’s magic number
Mind Wide Open (Johnson)
Minsky, Marvin
Montague, Reed
Monty Hall Dilemma
Moore, Gordon
MSN
multiprocessor farm
Mumford, Lewis
Murdoch, Rupert
MySpace
neocortex, and forward thinking
Netcom
Netflix
Netscape
NetZero
neurons
mechanisms of
memory and
number of, in brain
parallel processing by
software modeling networks of
Newell, Allen
News Corp
New York Times
online education
Outliers (Gladwell)
Page, Larry
PageRank
Palmisano, Ken
parallel processing
brain processing of information similar to
Google’s multiprocessor farm for
pattern recognition and
Patchett, Ken
pattern recognition
Pinker, Steven
Plato
Pólya, George
Pope, Alexander
Portal Software
Potter, Gavin
prediction
advertising display systems and
amount of information in decision making and
brain as a prediction machine
buying decisions on the Internet and
forecasting and
Internet and
PSINet
Robinson (computer)
Rosenblatt, Richard
Schmidt, Eric
Schumpeter, Joseph Alois
Search Agency, The
searches, Internet
ambiguity of words and
intelligent algorithms used by search engines in
language and
links and results listing in
ranking of pages in
spiders used in
user data kept in
Second Life
Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins)
selfish memes
Shortcuts
Simon, Herbert
Sloan, Alfred
Smith, Adam
social networks
soma, and information processing in the brain
spiders
Spielberg, Steven
spreading activation
supercomputers
SuperPages
synsets
Taleb, Nassim
technology
Internet and evolution of innovations in
telegraph, and Internet processing
Theory of Economic Development, The (Schumpeter)
“Theory of Forms” (Plato)
thinking
brain and
loopy, iterative process of
thinking machine
brain and
computer technology development into
Thomas, Lowell
Thomson, Jan
3Com
Turing, Alan
Tversky, Amos
TV infomercials
Understanding Computers (Winograd)
Understanding Natural Language (Winograd)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control
University of Phoenix
UUNET
Vail, Theodore
Venn diagrams
Verizon
Vila, Bob
Villa, Luigi
visual cortex, and forward thinking
von, Neumann, John
WebMD
Web sites. See World Wide Web
Wi-Fi
Wikipedia
Williams, Brad
Winograd, Terry
Wired (magazine)
Wisdom Paradox, The (Goldberg)
WordNet
World Wide Web
brain infrastructure similar to Internet structure with
hypertext documents used on
Zeo
Zipf’s law
Zuckerberg, Mark