The New Digital Age

INDEX

Aadhaar

Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2.1, 5.1

Abkhaz nationalists

Abuja, Nigeria

Academi, LLC

accountability, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

activist groups

additive manufacturing

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), n

Afghanistan, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

reconstruction of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Africa, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

African Americans

African National Congress (ANC)

African Sahel

African Union

Age of Spiritual Machines, The: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (Kurzweil), con.1

Agha-Soltan, Neda

Agie, Mullah Akbar

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994)

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud

al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

al-Assad, Bashar

Alcatel-Lucent

AlertNet

Algeria, 3.1, 4.1

alienation

Al Jazeera

al-Qaeda, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, con.1

al-Shabaab, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2

Amazon, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2

data safeguarded by

Amazon Web Services

American Sentinel drone

Android

anonymity, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1

Anonymous, 5.1, 5.2

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

antiradicalization

antiterrorism units, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

Apple, itr.1, 5.1

data safeguarded by

apps, 2.1, 5.1

Arab Spring, itr.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

AR.Drone quadricopter

Argentina

Armenia

arms-for-minerals trade

arrests

artificial intelligence (AI), itr.1, 1.1

artificial pacemakers

Asia

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Assange, Julian, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.1

Astroturfing

Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal, 3.1, 3.2

Athar, Sohaib, n, 269

ATMs

augmented reality (AR), itr.1, 2.1

autocracies, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2

data revolution in

dissent in

information shared by

online discussions in

Ayalon, Danny

Baghdad

Baghdad Museum

Bahrain

Baidu.com, n

Bamiyan Buddhas

Bangladesh

bank loans

Basque separatists

Batbold, Sukhbaatar

battery life

Bechtel

Belarus

Belgium

Ben Ali, Zine el-Abidine, 4.1, 4.2

Berezovsky, Boris

Better Angels of Our Nature, The (Pinker), 6.1

big data challenge

Bill of Guarantees

bin Laden, Osama, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1

biometric information, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

Bitcoin, 2.1, nts.1

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1

Black Hat

Blackwater

Blockbuster, n

Bloomberg News

Bluetooth, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1

body scan

body temperatures

Boko Haram

Bosnia

brand

Brand, Stewart, n

Brazil, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

Bush, George H. W., n

Bush, George W.

Cain, Herman

calendar reminders

California

camera phones

Cameron, David

Canada

Carnegie Mellon

Carvin, Andy

celebrities, 2.1, 2.2

cell towers

censorship, 5.1, 6.1

censorship-circumvention applications

Central Asia

centralized authority

Chalabi, Ahmed

charities

Charity Navigator, 7.1, nts.1

Chavez, Hugo

Chechnya, 3.1, 3.2

Chemical Weapons Convention

Cherry, Steven, n

Chery Automobiles

Chile, 3.1, 6.1

China, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3n, 141, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

censorship in

cyber attacks of, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2

“human-flesh search engines” in, 6.1, 6.2

intellectual property in

Internet in, 3.1, 4.1

news covered up in

shanzhai network in, 1.1

choices

cholera

Christian Science Monitor, 209

Church of Scientology

CIA, 5.1, con.1

circulatory system

Cisco

citizen journalism

citizen participation

citizenship

Clarke, Richard

Clean-Slate Design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts (CRASH)

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary, itr.1, 4.1

closed-circuit television (CCTV)

cloud-based data storage, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

cloud storage

CNN Effect, n

Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)

Code War

Cohen, Rebecca

Colao, Vittorio, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

Cold War, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2

collaboration

collective editing

Colombia, 5.1, 7.1

commerce, 2.1, 6.1

commercial opportunities

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

communications

communication technologies

advance of

cultural breakthroughs and

Comodohacker

computer modeling, n

computer theft

computer viruses, in Syria

computer worms

confirmation bias

conflict-related internal migration

Congo, 1.1, nts.1

warlords in

connectivity, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, con.1

and decline of warfare, 6.1, 6.2

education and

and end of control

exiles and

and government maneuverability

health and

news enhanced by

obstacles to

reconstruction and, 7.1, 7.2

revolutions and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

for states and citizens

states’ power enhanced by

terrorism aided by

and WikiLeaks-like platforms

Constantine, Larry, n

Constitutional Democratic Rally

copper cables

copyright, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1

Copyright Act (1987)

Copyright Treaty (1996)

corporations, coping strategies for privacy and security concerns

corruption

Côte d’Ivoire

counter-radicalization. See antiradicalization

counterterrorism, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

criminals, 2.1, con.1

criminal syndicates

cross-border weapon-smuggling networks

crowd-sourcing

Cruise, Tom

crystal chips

Cuba

cultural nuance

Currygate

cyber attacks, 3.1, 3.2n, 105, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1

lack of attribution in

cyber-bullying

Cyber Fast Track

cybersecurity

cyber terrorism, 3.1n, 153–5, 5.1

cyber warfare, itr.1, 3.1

see also Code War

Dagan, Meir, n

Dalai Lama, 3.1, 3.2

Danger Room blog

Danish cartoon controversy

data, 1.1, con.1

alleged deletion of

databases

data-mining, n, 77

data permanence, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2

data remanence

data revolution, 2.1, 2.2

deep-packet inspection

deep think

Def Con

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

Defense Department, U.S., 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

democracy, 2.1, 2.2

protests in

wisdom of crowds in

denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, 3.1, 5.1

Der Spiegel, 179

developing countries

development

diasporas

Dictator’s Learning Curve, The (Dobson), 2.1

Digicel

DigiNotar

digital activism

digital currency

digital marketing, 6.1, 6.2

digital textbooks

digital verification

digital watermarking, 2.1, 6.1

diplomacy, itr.1, 2.1

direct attacks

disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) program

discretionary power

discrimination

disease detection

disinformation campaigns

dissidents, 2.1, con.1

distributed denial-of-service (DDoS attacks), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3n, 162, 6.1

DNA, 1.1, 2.1

Dobson, William J.

document loss

documents

domain name system (DNS), 3.1, 3.2

Downey, Tom

“driver-assist” approach

driverless cars, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2

drones, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6

drugs, negative reactions to

Dubner, Stephen J.

Dugan, Regina, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1

Duggan, Mark

DuPont

East Africa

Eastern Europe

East India Company

e-banking, 3.1, 3.2

e-commerce, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1

economic crash, 2008, 2.1

economics, data about

Economist, 96–7

education, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2

data about

privacy in

security in

efficiency

e-government

Egypt, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 6.1n

Egyptian Credit Bureau, n

Egyptian Stock Exchange, n

El Al Airlines

election irregularity

elections, U.S., 2012, 4.1

elections, Venezuela

electricity

Emergency Information Service

empathy

encryption, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1

Ennahda party

entertainment

Equatorial Guinea

Ericsson, 3.1, 3.2

Eritrea

Estonia, 3.1, 6.1

Ethiopia

Etisalat

Etisalat Misr

European Commission

European Union, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1

evolution, 3.1, con.1

exiles

expectations gap

explosive-ordnance-disposal (EOD) robots

extortionists

Facebook, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

data safeguarded by

facial-recognition software, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, con.1

failed states

FARC

Farmer, Paul

FBI, 2.1, 5.1

Ferrari, Bruno

fiber-optic cables, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

filtering, 2.1, 3.1

financial blockades

fingerprinting

Finland

Fixing Failed States (Lockhart and Ghani), 7.1n

Flame virus, 3.1, 3.2

Food and Drug Administration

food prices

foreign aid

forgetfulness

Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)

Foster-Miller

4G, 7.1, 7.2

France, 6.1, 7.1, nts.1

Freakonomics (Levitt and Dubner), 2.1

Fred

freedom of assembly

free expression

free information

French Data Network

Fukushima nuclear crisis, n

gacaca, 249–50

Gadhafi, Muammar, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

Gallic Wars

“Gangnam Style,” 24n

Gates, Robert

Gaza

General Motors

genocide

virtual

genome sequencing

geography

Georgia (country)

Georgia (state)

Germany

gesture-recognition technology

Ghana

Ghani, Ashraf, n

GiveWell

globalization, 1.1, 3.1

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)

Goldsmith, Jack, n

Google, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3n, 163, 5.1, 7.1

Chinese cyber attacks on, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2

data safeguarded by

driverless cars of

Project Glass in

tweet-by-phone service of

Google App Engine

Google Earth

Google Ideas

Google Map Maker

Google Maps, 6.1, nts.1

Google+

Google Voice

GPS, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

GPS data

Great Firewall of China, 3.1, 3.2

GreatNonprofits

Green Revolution

GuideStar

hackers, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

Hackers’ Conference, n

hacktivists

Hague, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

haircuts

Haiti, itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Haiti After the Earthquake (Farmer), 7.1

Hama, Syria

Hamas, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

Han Chinese

handheld mobile devices

Hanseatic League

haptic technology, 1.1, 2.1n, 203–4

harassment, 6.1, 6.2

hard-drive crashes

hawala, 69

Hayden, Michael V.

health, 1.1, 1.2

data about

health care, 2.1, 2.2

heart rate

Hezbollah, 5.1, 5.2

hidden people

high-quality LCD screens

hijacking accounts

hive mind

Hizb ut-Tahrir

Holbrooke, Richard

Holocaust denial

holographic “avatars,” 29

holographic projections, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1

holographic “tablets,” 29

Homeland Security Department, U.S.

Hormuud

https encryption protocols

Huawei

human rights, 1.1, 3.1

humiliation

Hussein, Saddam, itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

Hutus

Identity Cards Act

identity theft

identity-theft protection, 2.1, 2.2

IEDs (improvised explosive devices), 5.1, 6.1

IEEE Spectrum, 107n

income inequality, 1.1, 4.1

India, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1

individuals, transfer of power to

Indonesia

infiltration

information

blackouts of

exchange of

free movement of

see also specific information technologies

Information and Communications Technologies Authority

Information Awareness Office

information-technology (IT) security experts

infrastructure, 2.1, 7.1

Innocence of Muslims (video), 4.1, 6.1

innovation

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, n

insurance, for online reputation

integrated clothing machine

intellectual property, 2.1, 3.1

intelligence

intelligent pills

internally displaced persons (IDP), 7.1, 7.2

International Criminal Court, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

internationalized domain names (IDN)

International Telecommunications Union

Internet, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

Balkanization of

as becoming cheaper

and changing understanding of life

impact of

as network of networks

Internet asylum seekers

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

internet protocol (IP) activity logs

internet protocol (IP) address, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

Internet service provider (ISP), 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 7.1

Iran, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1

cyber warfare on

“halal Internet” in

Iraq, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2

reconstruction of, 7.1, 7.2

Ireland

iRobot

Islam

Israel, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

iTunes

Japan, 3.1, 6.1n, 246

earthquake in

Jasmine Revolution

JavaOne Conference

Jebali, Hamadi

Jibril, Mahmoud

Jim’ale, Ali Ahmed Nur

Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World (Rosenberg), 4.1

Joint Tactical Networking Center

Joint Tactical Radio System

Julius Caesar

justice system

Kabul

Kagame, Paul, 7.1, 7.2

Kansas State University

Karzai, Hamid

Kashgari, Hamza

Kaspersky Lab

Kenya, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2

Khan Academy

Khartoum

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail

Khomeini, Ayatollah

Kickstarter

kidnapping, 2.1, 5.1

virtual

Kinect

Kissinger, Henry, 4.1, 4.2

Kiva, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Klein, Naomi, n

Kony 2012, 7.1

Koran

Koryolink

“kosher Internet,” 187

Kosovo

Kurds, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1

Kurzweil, Ray

Kyrgyzstan

Laârayedh, Ali

Lagos

language translation, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2

laptops

Latin America, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

law enforcement

Law of Accelerating Returns

Lebanon, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2

Lee Hsien Loong

legal options, coping strategies for privacy and security concerns

legal prosecution

Lenin, Vladimir

Levitt, Steven D.

Libya, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

life expectancy

Lindhout, Amanda

LinkedIn

Link Egypt

litigation

lobbying groups

Lockhart, Clare, n

Lockheed Martin

Lord’s Resistance Army

loyalties, 2.1, 2.2

LulzSec

Maasai, 1.1, nts.1

McAfee, John

McChrystal, Stanley

Malaysia, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1n

Mali, 2.1, 7.1

malware

state-initiated, 2.1, 2.2

Mandela, Nelson

“man-in-the-middle” attacks

Manning, Bradley

Mao Zedong

MasterCard, 5.1, 5.2

Mauritania, 3.1, 3.2

Mbeki, Thabo

MCI

Mechanical Turk

media:

disaggregated

mainstream

media cycles

medicine

Megaupload

Mehr, 95

memory prosthetics

Mexico, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1

microblogs

microphones

Microsoft, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

Middle East

military-industrial complex

Milošević, Slobodan

mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles

Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, North Korea

minority groups, 6.1, con.1

Minority Report (film), 1.1

misinformation, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

MIT Media Lab

Mitnick, Kevin, n

Mobile Giving Foundation

“mobile health” revolution

mobile money credits

mobile phones, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, con.1

banned in Iraq

in Congo

education and

health and

see also smart phones

Money for Good report, nts.1

Mongolia

Monopoly (film), 4.1

monuments

Moore’s Law, itr.1, con.1

moral sense

Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Morsi, Mohamed

Motorola

MTC-Vodafone

Mubarak, Hosni, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1

Mugabe, Robert

multilayer backup systems

Mumbai attacks

Mundie, Craig, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Muslim Brotherhood, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Mutua, Anthony

myths

names, 2.1, nts.1

Napster

narco-terrorists, 5.1, 5.2

nasal implants

Natanz nuclear enrichment facility

National Security Agency (NSA)

National Security Law

National Transitional Council (NTC)

NATO, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

Navalny, Alexei

Navy SEAL Team Six, 5.1, 5.2

Nawaz, Maajid

near-permanent data storage

Neda video, 6.1, 6.2

Netflix

Netherlands

net neutrality

Nevada

New York City subway, n

New York Times, 33, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1

New York Times Magazine, 197

NGO Ratings

Nigeria

Nightmare

Nixon, Richard

noise

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)

nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, con.1, nts.1

nonprofits

non-state actors, coping strategies for privacy and security concerns

Noor Group, n

North Korea, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Northrop Grumman

Norway

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Obama, Barack, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

unauthorized leaks and

official profiles

Ohio State University

Olympic Games (attack code name)

One World Trust

online cadastral systems

online reputations

active management of

black markets in

insurance for

open networks

open-source movement

open-source software, 6.1, 7.1

Operation Avenge Assange

optimism

options

Orascom, 3.1, 3.2

Otpor

Ottoman empire, 6.1, 7.1

outsourcing

oversights

OxOmar

PackBot

Pakistan, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1

Palestinian Islamic Jihad

paparazzi

Paraguay

parents

Parrot

passwords, 2.1, 2.2

patents

PayPal, 5.1, 5.2

peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, 2.1, 4.1, nts.1

Philanthropedia

philanthropic organizations

Philippines, 3.1, 4.1

photographs

photonics

photos

physical infrastructure

Picciolini, Christian

Pinker, Steven

piracy (online)

Pirate Bay, 2.1, 3.1

pirates

Plataforma México

Poland, 4.1, 7.1

police

police brutality

police cars

popular uprisings

pornography

postcrisis societies, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10

poverty

power, centralization of

power grids

Powers, Jonathan

power vacuums

precision geo-location

Predator drones

predictive analytics

Presidential Records Act

privacy, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

in autocracies

company policy on, 2.1, 2.2

litigation and

in schools

security vs., itr.1, 5.1, 5.2

private telecommunications companies

processors

productivity, 1.1, 1.2

Project Glass

property rights

Proteus Digital Health

proxy servers

Psy, n

PTSD

Pul-e-Charkhi prison

Putin, Vladimir

Qatar

quality of life, 1.1, 1.2

Queen Boat, n

racism

radio frequency identification (RFID) chips

Raytheon

real-time collective editing

Reaper drones

reconstruction

connectivity and, 7.1, 7.2

of telecommunications

Red Cross, 7.1, 7.2

refugee camps

REM cycle

remote warfare

Renesys, n

renrou sousuo yinqing, 197

Reporters Without Borders

Reputation.com

Research in Motion (RIM), 2.1, 2.2

Resource 207

Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) doctrine

restraining orders

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

revolutions, itr.1, 4.1

connectivity and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

finish of

public awareness of

start of

robotic surgical suites, n

robots, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5

Rodong Sinmun, 97

Roma, 6.1, nts.1

Romania

Roomba, 1.1, 6.1

Rosenberg, Tina

Roshan

Ross, Alec

routers

RQ-170 Sentinel

Rubin, Andy

Russia, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6

liberal opposition in

revolution in

state-owned media in

Rwanda

genocide in, 6.1, 7.1

safe zones

sakoku, 93

Salafis, n

Saleh, Ali Abdullah

Salem, Mahmoud

Samasource

Sanger, David E.

Sarkozy, Nicolas

satellite positioning

Saud, Alwaleed bin Talal al-

Saudi Arabia, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1

“Saudi People Demand Hamza Kashgari’s Execution, The” (Facebook group)

Save the Children

scale effects

Schengen Agreement

Scott-Railton, John

search-engine optimization (SEO), n

secession movements

secure sockets layer (SSL)

security, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

in autocracies

censorship and

company policy on, 2.1, 2.2

privacy vs., itr.1, 5.1, 5.2

in schools

selective memory

self-control

self-driving cars, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of, 3.1, 5.1

Serbia, 4.1, 6.1

servers

Shafik, Ahmed

shanzhai network, 1.1

sharia

Shia Islam

Shia uprising

Shiites

Shock Doctrine, The (Klein), 7.1n

short-message-service (SMS) platform, 4.1, 7.1

Shukla, Prakash

Sichuan Hongda

SIM cards, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1

Singapore, 2.1, 4.1

Singer, Peter, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8

singularity

SkyGrabber

Skype, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 5.1

sleeping rhythms

Slim Helú, Carlos

smart phones, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1

in failed states

peer-to-peer capability on

Snapchat

Snoad, Nigel

social networking, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1

social-networking profiles

social prosthetics

social robots

“socioeconomically at risk” people

Solidarity

Somalia, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1n, 210, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Sony

South Africa, 4.1, 7.1

South Central Los Angeles

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

South Korea, 3.1, 3.2

South Sudan

Soviet Union, 4.1, 6.1

Spain

Speak2Tweet

Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System (SWORDS), 6.1, 6.2

speech-recognition technology

spoofing

Spotify

Sputnik

spyware, 3.1, 6.1

Stanford University

statecraft

State Department, U.S., 5.1, 7.1

states:

ambition of

future of

Storyful, n

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

Stuxnet worm, 3.1, 3.2

suborbital space travel

Sudan

suggestion engines

Summit Against Violent Extremism

Sunni Web

supersonic tube commutes

supplements

supply chains

Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)

surveillance cameras

Sweden

switches

Switzerland

synthetic skin grafts

Syria, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

uprising in

Syrian Telecommunications Establishment

tablets, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1

holographic

Tacocopter

Tahrir Square, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Taiwan

Taliban, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1

TALON

Tanzania

technology companies, 2.1, 3.1

Tehran

Telecom Egypt

telecommunications, reconstruction of

telecommunications companies

Télécoms Sans Frontières

television

terrorism, terrorists, 4.1, 5.1, con.1

chat rooms of

connectivity and

cyber, 3.1n, 153–5, 5.1

hacking by

Thailand

Thomson Reuters Foundation

thought-controlled robotic motion

3-D printing, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1

thumbprints

Tiananmen Square protest, 3.1, 4.1

Tibet

time zones

tissue engineers

to-do lists

Tor service, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 5.1n

Total Information Awareness (TIA)

trade

transmission towers

transparency, 2.1, 4.1

“trespass to chattels” tort, n

Trojan horse viruses, 2.1, 3.1

tsunami

Tuareg fighters

Tumblr

Tunisia, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Turkey, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

Tutsis

Twa

Twitter, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1

Uganda

Uighurs, 3.1, 6.1

Ukraine

unemployment

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

unique identification (UID) program

United Arab Emirates, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

United Kingdom, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1

United Nations, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

United Nations Security Council, 3.1n, 214, 7.1

United Russia party

United States, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1

engineering sector in

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)

unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5

Ürümqi riots

user-generated content

Ushahidi

vacuuming, 1.1, 1.2

Valspar Corporation

Venezuela, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1

verification

video cameras

video chats

video games

videos

Vietcong

Vietnam

vigilantism

violence

virtual espionage

virtual governance

virtual identities, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2

virtual juvenile records

virtual kidnapping

virtual private networks (VPNs), 2.1, 3.1

virtual reality

virtual statehood

viruses

vitamins

Vodafone, 4.1, 7.1

Vodafone/Raya

voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) calls, 2.1, 5.1

voice-recognition software, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1

Voilà

VPAA statute, n

Walesa, Lech

walled garden

Wall Street Journal, 97

war, itr.1, itr.2, 6.1

decline in

Wardak, Abdul Rahim

warfare:

automated

remote

warlords, 2.1, 2.2

Watergate

Watergate break-in

Waters, Carol

weapons of mass destruction

wearable technology

weibos, 62

Wen Jiabao

Wenzhou, China

West Africa

whistle-blowers

whistle-blowing websites

Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World (Goldsmith and Wu), 3.1n

Whole Earth Catalog (Brand), 2.1n

Wi-Fi networks

WikiLeaks, itr.1, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2

Wikipedia, 1.1, 6.1

wikis

Windows operating system

Wingo, Harry

Wired, 203

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Singer), 6.1, 6.2

wisdom of the crowds, 2.1, 6.1

women

Women2Drive Campaign

women’s rights

World Food Program (WFP)

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 3.1, 3.2

World Trade Organization (WTO), 3.1, 3.2

World War I

World War II

World Wide Web, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

worms, 3.1, 6.1

Wu, Tim, n

Xbox 360 video-game console

Xi Jinping

Yahoo!

Yemen, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

youthful indiscretions

YouTube, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3n, 195

Zaeim Electronic Industries Co.

ZANU-PF party

Zimbabwe, 3.1, 4.1

Zuma, Jacob