Index

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Hynes, M. (2021), "Index", The Social, Cultural and Environmental Costs of Hyper-Connectivity: Sleeping Through the Revolution, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 167-173. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-976-220211011

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Copyright © 2021 Mike Hynes

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

AboutFace

, 26

Abstract decisions

, 57

Abstract representation system

, 48

Addiction as design feature

, 77–82

Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study (ABCD study)

, 61

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)

, 10–11

Advertisers

, 3

Afrewatch

, 82

African-based start-ups

, 47

Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The

, 99

Airports

, 3–4

Alexa

, 85–86

AltaVista

, 21

Amazon

, 14, 22–25, 110, 116–117, 161

Amazon Echo device

, 86

Amazon. bomb

, 23

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

, 24

American colonies

, 43

American Dream

, 114

Americanisation

, 43–44

Amnesty International

, 82

Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, The

, 21

Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital

, 47

App Store

, 29

Apple

, 14, 27–29, 117

Apple I

, 27

Apple II

, 27

Apple Sales International

, 33

Apple Store

, 29

Artefacts

, 7

Artificial intelligence (AI)

, 3, 57, 123

recruitment system

, 110

surveillance systems

, 99

Artificial intelligence Global Surveillance Index (AIGS Index)

, 99

Atlantic, The

, 44, 78

Attraction

, 75–77

Automation

, 14

impacts

, 66

Avaaz

, 132

BackRub

, 21

Baltimore Sun

, 140

Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS)

, 34n56

Base Transceiver Station (BTS)

, 73n2

Behaviour design

, 78

Behavioural futures markets

, 100

Behavioural surplus

, 100

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

, 99

Bharti Airtel

, 107–108

Big Four tech companies

, 19–20

Big Tech

, 43–47

clandestine role in intensifying climate breakdown

, 130–134

role in economic inequality

, 114–118

Biometric authentication

, 3

Blackberry

, 74–75

‘Call to Minimize Distraction and Respect Users’ Attention, A

, 78

Cambridge Analytica scandal

, 96–100

Capital

, 9

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

, 118

‘Capitalism on steroids’ approach

, 117–118

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

, 99

Censorship

, 86, 101

Center for Humane Technology, The

, 16, 77–78

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

, 91

Ceramics

, 124

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

, 47

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

, 27

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

, 115

Climate change

, 121

Cobalt

, 125

Code-division multiple access (CDMA)

, 72

Cognition

, 58

Colour

, 79

Columbia Journalism Review

, 44

Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)

, 133

Computers

, 10–11, 21, 28, 48, 163

Confirmation bias

, 45

Copper

, 125

Corporate power

, 118

Cortisol

, 79

Costco model

, 24

Coursematch

, 25

Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

, 46, 53, 108, 157

Creative Independent, The

, 51

Cultural commons

, 48

Cultural homogenisation (see also Digitalisation)

digital diversity

, 39–40

Digital Wants Digital Gets

, 47–52

European culture

, 41–43

musical homogenisation

, 52–54

United States and Big Tech

, 43–47

Cultural imperialism

, 44

Cultural values

, 39–40

Cyber-utopianism

, 139

Cyberspace

, 147, 149–150

Dahua

, 99

Data centres

, 16, 128

De-skilling of workforce

, 65

Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, A (Barlow)

, 148

Declarative memory (see Explicit memory)

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

, 125

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

, 82–83

Department of Defence

, 10

Desktop publishing

, 28

Digital Age

, 10–13, 15

insatiable energy demands of

, 127–130

Sloganism

, 36

Digital appendage

, 71–72

Digital Behemoths

Amazon

, 22–25

Apple

, 27–29

Big Four tech companies

, 19–20

Digital Age Sloganism

, 36

Facebook

, 25–27

Google

, 20–22

Digital colonialism

, 47

Digital Commons environmental impacts

, 15–16

Digital democracy

distrust, disinformation and discontent

, 145–147

free and open press

, 143–145

promise

, 137–139

retreat from reality

, 147–150

Showman

, 150–152

watching freedom fail

, 139–141

weaponising internet against liberty

, 141–143

wizards

, 152–153

Digital dependency

, 80

Digital devices

, 60

Digital diversity

, 39–40

Digital divides

, 15, 103

big tech’s role in economic inequality

, 114–118

Digital Gender and Race Divides

, 109–114

digital haves and have-nots

, 104–109

need for inclusivity

, 118–119

Digital ecosystem

, 128

Digital Gender and Race Divides

, 109–114

Digital ICT

, 2, 6, 10, 13, 16, 40, 49, 53, 105, 128, 141, 151

Digital media

, 150

Digital oligopolies

, 33, 159

Digital online platforms

, 51–52

Digital social media

, 161

Digital subscriber line (DSL)

, 105

Digital surveillance states

, 93–96

Digital technology

, 1, 6, 48, 122, 134–135

designers

, 62

human costs of

, 55–56

Digital-based surveillance technology

, 2, 101

Digitalisation

, 48, 66, 69

ecological fallacy of

, 121–123

Dikanga River

, 125–126

Discontent

, 145–147

Disinformation

, 145–147

Distracted Driving Report (2018)

, 76

Distraction

, 75–77

Distrust

, 145–147

‘Don’t be evil’ phrase

, 156

Dopamine

, 78

Double Irish

, 34

DynaTAC8000X

, 72n1

E-waste

, 123–124, 126

Ecological threat

big tech’s clandestine role in intensifying climate breakdown

, 130–134

digital technology

, 134–135

ecological fallacy of digitalisation

, 121–123

ecological reality

, 123–127

insatiable energy demands of Digital Age

, 127–130

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

, 24

Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE)

, 123

European culture

, 41–43

European Economic Area (EEA)

, 90

European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)

, 11

European Union (EU)

, 33, 89, 107

Excite

, 21

Explicit memory

, 59

Facebook

, 4, 14, 25–27, 45, 117

Facemash

, 25

Faceprint

, 4

Facial recognition

, 6

systems

, 5

technology

, 3–4

Fair Tax Mark

, 117

False Promise of the Digital Revolution, The (Bowsers)

, 47

Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)

, 86

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

, 105

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

, 33, 90

Financial Times

, 140

First Industrial Revolution

, 41

Flickr

, 4

Flip phones

, 73

Fogg’s principles

, 78

Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, The

, 32

4chan platforms

, 112

Four Horsemen (see Big Four tech companies)

Free and open press

, 143–145

Free user-generated content

, 50

Freedom of speech

, 86

Future of Life Institute, The

, 16

Galaxy Note 9

, 3

Gambling

, 80

#gamergate hashtag

, 111–112

Gang of Four (see Big Four tech companies)

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

, 89, 160n12

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)

, 74

Generation Effect: Millennials, Employment Precarity and the 21st Century Workplace, The

, 67

Glass Cage: Who Needs Humans?, The

, 61

Global Electronic Components Market 2020 Research Report

, 123

Global investment funds

, 47

Global Science Research (GSR)

, 97

Global system for mobile communications (GSM)

, 72, 73

Goldman Sachs

, 47

Google

, 4, 14, 20–22, 45, 75, 117, 131, 133

Google Ireland Holdings

, 34

Googleplex

, 21

Graffiti

, 74

Graphics processing units (GPUs)

, 4

Great Firewall of China, The

, 94

Great Recession (2008–2012)

, 64

Green movement

, 139–140

Green revolution

, 139

Greenpeace

, 130

Ground zero for digital surveillance

, 91–93

Guardian, The

, 95

Handspring

, 74

HarvardConnection

, 25

High-definition movie (HD movie)

, 129

Hikvision

, 99

Hollywood

, 44

HomeBrew Computer Club

, 27

HotBot

, 21

HTC Dream

, 75

Huawei

, 99

Human as a Service (Prassl)

, 67

Human costs

of digital technologies

, 55–56

of smartphones

, 82–84

HyperNormalisation

, 147

Hypertext transfer protocol (http)

, 11

IBM

, 27

IBM Simon phone

, 73

iMac

, 29

Inclusivity, need for

, 118–119

Industrial Revolution

, 8

Information and communication technology (ICT)

, 2, 40, 55, 88, 103, 122, 138, 155

Infoseek

, 21

Initial Public Offering (IPO)

, 22

Instagram

, 4

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP)

, 14n2

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

, 122

International Harbor Privacy Principles certification programme

, 90–91

International Labour Organisation (ILO)

, 68

Internet

, 19, 46, 50, 57–58, 104

internet-centrism

, 139

internet. org

, 46

Internet of Things (IoT)

, 55, 127

Internet Relay Chat

, 112

Internet Research Agency

, 142–143

iOS

, 29

iPad

, 29

iPhone

, 29, 74–75

iPhone X

, 3

iPod

, 29

Iranian government

, 141

Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)

, 160n12

Irish hub

, 35

Irish Times

, 34

Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains! (Carr)

, 56

iTune

, 29

iTunes Store

, 29

Jevons Paradox

, 128

Job’s NeXT

, 28–29

Kapor Center for Social Impact and Harris Poll

, 113

Lancet

, 83

Learning

, 62

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees (LGBT employees)

, 113

LG G7

, 3

Los Angeles Times

, 140

Lycos

, 21

Machine intelligence

, 100

Machine learning

, 4

Macintosh

, 28

Magellan

, 21

Manage. com

, 25

Marketing departments

, 3

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

, 10

Mega-data centres

, 128

Megacorporations

, 2

Mental disuse

, 63

Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET)

, 10

Micro-target advertisements

, 3

Microsoft

, 117, 131

Millennials

, 77

MIT Technology Review

, 51–52

Mojo Networks

, 107

Moore’s Law

, 13

Move Fast and Break Things (Taplin)

, 31

Mueller Report

, 142

Musical homogenisation

, 52–54

Napoleonic Wars

, 43

National Security Agency (NSA)

, 91

Neoliberalism

, 68

Net Delusion, The

, 96, 139

Netflix

, 117

Network society

, 10

New Atlantis

, 8

New neurons

, 62

New York Times, The

, 93, 140

NeXT

, 28

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation system (NTT system)

, 72

NO MObile PHOne phobia (Nomophobia)

, 76

Non-governmental organisation (NGO)

, 140

Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT)

, 72

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

, 146

Objectivism

, 32

Online privacy and surveillance

, 85–86

Cambridge Analytica Scandal

, 96–100

digital surveillance states

, 93–96

ground zero for digital surveillance

, 91–93

privacy in digital age

, 86–88

privacy matters

, 88–91

privacy protection

, 100–102

Oxycontin

, 81

PageRank

, 21

Palm Computing

, 74

Patriot Act

, 91

Perception management

, 149n29

Personal Device Assistant (PDA)

, 74

Pew Research Center

, 77, 92, 132

Phantom vibrations

, 78

Pinterest

, 4

Plastics

, 124

Playboy magazine

, 27

PLoS One

, 58

Police forces

, 3

Portable Document Format (PDF)

, 28

Prediction products

, 100

Privacy

, 15

in digital age

, 86–88

matters

, 88–91

protection

, 89, 100–102

Private data

, 158

Project BE

, 80

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of Reading Brain

, 57

Public transport

, 46

QAnon

, 151

Race against the Machine

, 64

Rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep)

, 60n13

Real News Network, The

, 131

Rebound effect (see Jevons Paradox)

Reddit platforms

, 112

Reins

covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

, 157

digital

, 155–156

private data

, 158

Renaissance

, 8

Renewable energy credit

, 130

Research and Development (R&D)

, 29

Reskilling

, 66

Retail outlets

, 3

Reuters Institute Digital News Report

, 144

Rolling Stone

, 4

Roman Empire

, 8

Rules-based multilateralism

, 121

SCL Group

, 146

Scoring

, 94

Screen Time

, 80

Search, The

, 22

Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, The (Carr)

, 58–59

Silicon Valley

, 26

Simple Storage Service (S3)

, 24

Siren Servers

, 30

Smartphone Paradox, The (Reid)

, 79

Smartphones

addiction as design feature

, 77–82

attraction and distraction

, 75–77

brief history of mobile phones

, 72–75

digital appendage

, 71–72

human cost

, 82–84

paradox

, 79

Smartphones

, 126

Social credits system

, 94

Social Dilemma, The

, 163

Social media platforms

, 144

Social Studies of Technology (SST)

, 9

Spotify

, 53

Stanford University

, 47

Surveillance

, 15

capitalism

, 100

technologies

, 94

Tablets

, 126

Tax Justice Network

, 117

Taylor Swift’s Rose Bowl concert

, 4

Tech Leavers

, 113

Techno-Fix

, 135

technologies

, 61

Technology

, 7–10, 122

Terrorism Crime and Security Act (2001)

, 91–92

‘Think Different’ advertising campaign

, 29

thisisyourdigitallife (app)

, 97

Time Well Spent

, 78

Touchscreens

, 73

Transfer pricing arrangements

, 35

Transition

, 68–69

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

, 11

Trump2016. ru domain

, 142

Twitter

, 112

2G

networks

, 73

systems

, 73

Underemployment

, 68

Understanding Media: The Extension of Man (McLuhan)

, 60

Unemployment

, 68

Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW)

, 53n37

United States

, 43–47

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

, 88

University of Cambridge’s Psychometrics Centre

, 97

US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

, 5, 11, 31

US Department of Commerce

, 90

US Department of Homeland Security

, 91

US Department of Justice (DOJ)

, 33

US Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

, 35

US Telecommunications Act (1996)

, 148

US television industry

, 44

‘Use it or lose it’ hypothesis

, 62

Value-neutral digital technology

, 164

Vanity Fair

, 32

VisorPhone

, 74

Wall Street Journal

, 140

Web 2.0

, 87

Web-savvy users

, 87

WebCrawler

, 21

Western culture

, 41–42

Western value system

, 48

Wi-Fi hotspots

, 46

Wired magazine

, 46

Wizards

, 152–153

Women in the Digital Age (2018)

, 109

Work

, 66–68

Workplace Stress Continues to Mount (Ferry)

, 63

World Economic Forum

, 46

World Health Organization (WHO)

, 76

World Wide Web (WWW)

, 11, 87

YouTube

, 132

Zero-generation mobile phones (0G mobile phones)

, 72n1

ZTE

, 99