Numbers in boldface indicate text boxes.
Aboujaoude, Elias, 145
Acheulean hand ax, 227
Adblock Plus, 160
ad hominem attack, 180
Adornato, Anthony C., 108
Africa, 17, 23, 60, 74, 124, 197, 198
Air Force (US), 234
Aldrin, Buzz, 253
algorithms, 45, 46, 53, 55, 74, 75, 76–77, 78, 80, 103, 104, 118, 120, 125, 137, 227, 240, 243, 246, 259, 260, 274, 278, 284, 293–94, 302, 304, 305, 306, 311, 313, 319
organic/biological, 76–77, 304
aliens, 185
alien abductions, 84, 194, 206
“alternative facts,” 110, 111, 292
America/United States, 17, 18, 32, 35, 52, 58, 61, 62, 64, 67, 69, 70, 75, 79, 111, 133, 241, 269, 318
American Academy of Pediatrics, 162
American Airlines, 264
American exceptionalism, 111
American Gods (television show), 316
American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, 31
American News (website), 114
Amnesty International, 97
AM radio talk shows, 93
Andersen, Kurt, 111
Anderson, Ted, 300
Andreassen, Cecilie, 157
Angry Birds, 245
anthropology, 361
anxiety, 44, 81, 147, 155, 164, 167, 192, 210
AOL, 258
Apollo (Moon missions), 89, 318
Apple, 49, 91, 135, 159, 258, 291
apps, 18, 23, 25, 29, 40, 48, 66, 71, 74, 131, 135, 136, 141, 144, 159–60, 164, 170, 225, 245, 256, 266, 267, 284, 290, 292, 316, 317
AR (augmented reality), 24, 25, 163
Armstrong, Neil, 253
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), 27
artificial intelligence (AI), 33–34, 43, 266, 303–304. See also singularity/ technological singularity
Asch, Solomon, 201
Ashley Madison (dating service), 234
Asimov, Isaac, 288
Assad, Bashar al-, 97
astrology, 66, 83, 84, 174, 180, 194
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 186
AT&T, 258
ATAP research group, 287
Atlanta, Georgia, 307
Atlantic (magazine), 20, 33, 69, 139
auroras, 66
Australian (newspaper), 246
Australopithecus afarensis, 60
Awlaki, Anwar al-, 72
Bailenson, Jeremy, 24
Bangladesh, 99
Bargh, John A., 193
Barrett, Lisa Feldman, 199
Beijing Evening News (newspaper), 99
Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, The (Shermer), 213
Ben-Gurion University Cyber Security Research Center, 267
Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, 157–58
Berlin, 306
Best Buy, 264
Bible Belt, 77
Big Data, 72, 110, 278, 293–94, 299, 304, 307
Bigfoot, 84, 117, 121, 180, 206, 217
biometrics, 260
Bitcoin, 305
bleed-over effect, 202
blind spot bias, 221
blockchain, 305
Blur (Kovach and Rosenstiel), 57
Bode, Leticia, 39
Boghossian, Peter, 313
books, 25, 34, 53, 78, 89, 124, 139, 144, 153, 205, 213, 273, 292, 296, 299, 301, 318
Booth, Frances, 149
Borg (of Star Trek), 302
Bosker, Bianca, 139
Boston Marathon, 69
Bowling Alone (Putnam), 62
boyd, danah m., 51
Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err Is Human (Kaplan and Kaplan), 127
brain, 11, 19, 21, 24, 28, 31, 33, 36, 39, 41, 66–67, 83, 90, 118, 124, 126, 127, 131, 133, 135, 142, 143, 144, 145, 148, 150, 151, 154, 155, 159, 166, 171, 173, 175, 188, 191–93, 195–96, 203, 205, 207, 210, 212, 213, 214, 241, 282, 287–88, 293, 296, 300–304, 317, 318, 361
Brain: The Story of You (Eagleman), 213
Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives (Buonomano), 213
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Medina), 213
Brandeis, Justice Louis, 229
Brazil, 56
Brown, Ramsay, 131
Buddhist, 188
Buonomano, Dean, 176, 188, 210, 213
burden of proof, 180
Burnett, Dean, 38
Burnham, David, 46
Burns, Ken, 296
cable TV news, 65, 66, 79, 93, 121, 150
California, 13, 35, 36, 41, 58, 113, 147, 168, 230, 361
California State University, 155
Cardiff University, 38
Carlisle, Herbert J. “Hawk,” 234
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos (Poundstone), 149
Caveman Logic: The Persistence of Primitive Thinking in a Modern World (Davis), 213
CBS, 264
Center for Cognitive Studies, 281
Center for Digital Democracy, 47
Center for Internet Addiction, 145, 146, 156
Central Intelligence Agency, 114, 229, 275
Chasing Shadows: Visons of Our Coming Transparent World (Brin), 228
Chester, Jeff, 47
children, 20, 32, 46, 63, 100, 104, 128, 139, 142, 146, 152, 161, 162, 165, 246, 269–70, 303
Chile, 134
Christianity, 190
circular reasoning, 179
Civil War, 296
Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain), 236
Cline, Susanna, 146
Clinton, Hillary, 92, 95, 98, 106, 107, 112, 113, 115, 117
cognitive biases, 12, 66, 68, 82, 83, 176, 180, 221
Cohen, June, 26
Cold War, 318
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 214
Columbia, University, 94
Comcast, 258
Comet Ping Pong, 106
Comey, James, 69
Common Sense Media, 105
computer games, 137, 139, 147, 159, 296
ComputerWorld (magazine), 137
confirmation bias, 66, 81–91, 206, 297
conformity, 187
Confucius, 185
Connecticut Courant (newspaper), 92
conspiracy theories, 67, 86, 89, 118, 194
Consumer Reports (magazine), 217
Contact (film), 15
creationists, 81
critical thinking, as elitist catchphrase, 177. See also good thinking
CrossFit, 188
cryptocurrencies, 305
Cukier, Kenneth, 279
cyberbullying, 45
cybersecurity, 223, 237, 250, 254, 254, 255, 278
cyberterrorist, 300
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), 281, 287
Dartmouth College, 73, 104, 112, 207, 311
data
data brokers, 225–26, 240, 245, 256, 279
data industry, 307, 225–26, 245
data religion, 305
Data for the People (Weigend), 278, 279
Davies, Robertson, 86
Davis, Hank, 213
Dawkins, Richard, 39
DeAngelo, Robert, 167, 249–50, 278
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Kasparov), 319
Delete Me (privacy program), 251
democracy, 31, 73, 76, 85, 101, 110, 117, 311
Democrats (US political party), 90, 106, 114, 259
Demon-Haunted World, The (Sagan), 213
Department of Defense (DoD), 271
“digital doppelgänger.” See digital profile
digital profile or “digital doppelgänger,” 46, 47, 48, 53, 232, 236
digital serfdom, 169
“direct cortical interface,” 287
Disney World, 276
disordered social networking use, 141
Distraction Trap: How to Focus in a Digital World, The (Booth), 149
Dixon, Chris, 299
Dr. Bo Show (podcast), 82
DoD (Department of Defense), 271
dodder vine, 16
dopamine, 31, 32, 41, 166, 168
Dopamine Labs, 131
Dot Complicated (Zuckerberg), 50
doubt, value of, 118, 201, 216
drones, 301
dscouts, 136
DSM manual (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), 145, 170
Duck Duck Go (search engine), 251
Dugan, Regina, 287
Dunning-Kruger effect, 183, 186
Dylan, Bob, 236
East Germany, 261
Eckles, Dean, 81
Einstein, Albert, 303
Elgan, Mike, 137
Ellison, Nicole B., 51
Ellison, Ralph, 181
Elovici, Yuval, 267
Elvis (Presley), 296
Emory University, 90
emotions, 12, 90, 142, 143, 149, 176, 178, 190, 199, 200, 209, 210, 211, 221, 246, 257, 269, 275, 285, 302, 311
Empire of Mind (Strangelove), 289
Endō, Shuūsaku, 165
Enlightenment, 83
Epstein, Robert, 31
ESP (extrasensory perception), 84
European Union, 276
Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning (Stanford History Education Group), 100–103
evolution, 11, 34, 35, 39, 76, 127, 171, 173, 175, 210, 281, 284, 301, 308
explaining by naming, 179
F8 conference, 287
account deletion policy, 272
and fake news, 112, 116–17, 128
and numbers of friends, 50, 65
as possible credit rating influence, 240
revenue, 53
self-identified addicts of, 138
statistics, 58
and terrorism, 70
Facebook Effect, The (Kirkpatrick), 73, 232
Facebook Messenger, 18, 27, 151
fact-checking/fact-checkers, 96, 102–103, 104, 110, 118, 124, 127
faith healer, 200
fake news (financial), 117
false consensus effect, 193–95
false dilemma, 179
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (Andersen), 67, 111
Faraday cage, 279
Farmville, 140
Farr-Wharton, Jake, 289
Faucet, Farrah, 307
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 69, 114, 115, 126, 223, 226
FCC (Federal Communications Commission), 314
fear, 66, 68, 69, 122, 141, 153, 158, 167, 173, 209–14, 241, 290, 293, 311, 319
Federal Communications Commission. See FCC
Federal Trade Commission. See FTC
Ferrari, 264
Fessler, Daniel, 113
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), 99
Fight Club (Palahniuk), 52, 131
Filter Bubble, The (Pariser), 73, 74
fingerprints, 260
5 Solutions, 245
Flickr, 27
Florida, 37, 54, 79, 146, 167, 229, 234, 245, 249
Flynn, Michael G., 107
Flynn, Michael T., 107
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), 90, 148
Fort Hood, 69
Fox News, 79
France, 17
Frede, Kelly, 41
freedom, 111
Friendster, 27
FTC (Federal Trade Commission), 314
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 102
fungi, 16
Future Crimes (Goodman), 278
Future of Humanity Institute, 281
Future of Work, The (Morgan), 271
Game of Thrones (television show), 298
games (computer/video), 137, 139, 147, 159, 296
Garcia-Martinez, Antonio, 246
Gardner, Howard, 107
gays/members of the LGBT+ community, 228, 233, 259, 260, 261
gazer (spiritual healer), 66
Gazin, Mario, 56
Georgetown University, 39
Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology), 38
Ghostery, 251
ghosts, 66, 84, 106, 126, 194, 218
Gibson, William, 228
good thinking, 12, 85, 90, 106, 115, 118, 124, 144, 173, 175, 177, 190, 192, 210, 211, 212, 213, 215, 216, 221, 317. See also critical thinking
Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser (Harrison), 177, 361
Google, 34, 48, 53, 54, 93, 103, 104, 116, 118, 120, 131, 135, 136, 149, 158, 216, 238, 249, 258, 272, 277, 279, 281, 284, 286, 287, 293, 298, 304
Google Plus, 91
Go Tweet Yourself (Randazza), 21
Grathwohl, Casper, 98
Great Britain, 67
grooming (primate behavior), 41–42
Guardian (magazine), 246
hackers/hacking, 223, 238, 240, 243, 250, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 260, 262, 267, 279, 288, 300, 305
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 296
Hand, Kevin, 239
Harari, Yuval Noah, 76–77, 171, 226, 294, 304, 305–306
harassment (online), 240–43, 242, 255, 271
Hardisty, Miki, 305
Harris, Sam, 171
Harris, Tristan, 135–36, 139, 158, 160
Harvard, 45, 62, 105, 107, 166, 269, 286
Harvard Graduate School of Education, 105
hashtags (overuse of), 38
haunted houses, 67
Hawaii, 24
Head in the Cloud (Poundstone), 50, 149
heart disease, 144
Helfand, David, 94
Hellfire missiles, 72
Hershey, 264
Higginson, John, 166
hiking, 163, 239, 291, 292, 295, 309, 362
Hinduism, 190
Hitler Youth, 182
hoaxes, 96, 97, 113, 116, 118, 125, 129, 216, 318
Holloway-D'Avilar, Joy, 292, 293–94
hollow Earth belief, 106
Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo's Annual Conference for Educators on Human Rights and Genocide Studies, 295
Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit, 106, 200
Homer (bard/author), 296
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Harari), 76, 294
Homo erectus, 23, 60, 212, 296
Hoover, J. Edgar, 261
Hormes, Julia, 141
horoscopes, 83
hostile media effect, 109
How Secure Is My Password? (website), 254
How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (Schick and Vaughn), 213
Huffington Post (newspaper), 113
Humphries, Jacqueline, 16
hunter-gatherer societies, 43, 225, 282
Hutus, 315
ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad, 76
iBrain (Small), 143
iCloud, 300
Igwe, Leo, 162
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (Andrews), 244
illusion-of-truth effect, 180–82
Imaginary Friends Show (podcast), 288
Impact Team, 234
Inca Empire, 23
Indiana University, 268
Indonesia, 19
inflammation, 44
InfoWars (Alex Jones), 119, 202
Instagram, 11, 18, 27, 32, 36, 41, 45, 50, 58, 59, 60, 64, 79, 135, 136, 147, 148, 150, 155, 160, 163, 165, 168, 169, 187, 193, 217, 230, 235, 258, 260, 262, 266, 269, 270, 274, 277, 298, 316
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), 127
International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 55
Internet addiction
Internet addiction disorder, 145
versus substance abuse disorder, 145
See also Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale; Center for Internet Addiction; Internet Addiction Test (IAT); time “wasted” on social media/time-sucks
Internet Addiction Test (IAT), 156–57
Internet of things, 225
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked (Alter), 137
ISIS (Islamic State), 64, 69–72, 113, 115, 182, 234
Italy, 17
Jääskeläinen, Iiro, 148
Jamaicans, 61
James, Carrie, 105–106, 269–70, 286
Jefferson, Thomas, 92
Jeopardy (television game show), 34
Jesus, 200
Jesus, Fabiane Maria de, 128
Jews, 182
journalism, 57, 98, 99, 100, 108, 217, 361
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 142
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 51
Kaplan, Ellen, 127
Kaplan, Michael, 127
Kasasbeh, Muath al-, 71
Kasparov, Gary, 319
KeePass, 252
Kelly, Kevin, 96
KGB, 261
King Jr., Martin Luther, 261
KKK (Ku Klux Klan), 53
Kovach, Bill, 57
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 53
Kurzweil, Ray, 304
Lanier, Jaron, 33, 224, 236–37
LastPass, 252
Latin America, 17
Lee, Nathan, 309
Lehmann, Armin, 182
Lembke, Anne, 143
Levitin, Daniel J., 151
Lewandowsky, Stephan, 78
Liberman, Ian, 91
Lin, Lui yi, 44
Line, 18
LinkedIn, 18, 21, 23, 27, 58, 59, 79, 158, 230, 249
living alone, 62
lizard people belief, 82
loaded questions, 178
Loch Ness monster, 84, 206, 218
Logically Fallacious (Bennett), 182
lone-wolf terrorist, 70
Los Angeles, 36, 67, 85, 101, 113
Losse, Katherine, 126
Louisiana, 166
Louvre (art museum), 283
Lum, Nick, 82
Macedonia, 114
Machines of Loving Grace (Markoff), 284
Macro Connections group, 171
Maher, Bill, 136
Malaysia, 134
malware, 160, 250, 255, 256, 287, 302
Manchester, England, 166
Manding, Bong, 37
Marconi, Guglielmo, 49
Markoff, John, 284
marriage, 63
Mateen, Omar, 69
McCombs School of Business, 154
McGill University, 151
McGinley, Phyliss, 227
media, trust in, 92, 94–95, 202
media literacy, 100, 101–103, 286
Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers Mislead Us (Radford), 124
Medina, John, 213
melatonin, 144
Mendelson, B. J., 15
Messages (app), 159
Metzger, Miriam, 109
micro-targeting, use in political campaigns, 93
Mikkelson, David, 127
mini-brain, 19
Minneapolis, 101
Minority Report (film), 273
Misinformation Age, 94
Missouri, 239
MIT, 21, 131, 133, 150, 235, 261, 300
Mitchell, Jason, 166
MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, 131, 235
Mitnick, Kevin, 223, 250, 252, 253, 255, 259, 272
Moment (app), 159
Morgan, Jacob, 271
Morton, Oliver, 40
Mozart, 66
multitasking, 148
Musical.ly, 269
mycelium, 16
Napster, 307
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Agency), 89, 119, 173
National Security Agency (NSA), 114, 223, 272, 275
natural disasters, 209
Nature Human Behaviour (journal), 123
Navy (US), 164
NBC News, 113
New America (think tank), 71
New Mexico, 194
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 234
New Republic (newspaper), 133
New Scientist (magazine), 43
Newton, Isaac, 203
New York City, 67, 270, 276, 291
New Yorker (magazine), 95
New York Review of Books (magazine), 93
New York Times (newspaper), 92, 106, 113, 119
New York University's Stern School of Business, 137, 163
NFL (National Football League), 185
Nickell, Joe, 219
Nigeria, 162
9/11 attacks, 211
1984 (Orwell), 225
Northeastern University, 191
North Korea, 121
notifications, 29, 136, 141, 151, 158, 159, 169
NSA. See National Security Agency
Nyhan, Brendan, 73, 104, 112, 116, 124, 204, 311–12
O'Connor, Rory, 109
Obama, Barack, 109
Oculus (VR startup), 44
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 114
Onion (satirical newspaper), 99
online questionnaires, 256
Orange Is the New Black (television show), 298
Organized Mind, The (Levitin), 151
Orlando nightclub attack, 69
Orwell, George/Orwellian, 46, 225, 228, 266
Oxford Dictionaries, 98
Oxford University, 28
oxytocin, 41
Panera Bread restaurant, 35
Pasadena, California, 308
Password Safe, 252
Pavlov's dogs, 151
PBS NewsHour (television news program), 103
PC Mag, 223
Peer-2-Peer (P2P) communication, 70
Pennsylvania state government, 133
People (magazine), 115
Persia, 76
personalized/targeted ads, 225, 246, 273, 275, 293
Philippines, 19
Physiological Society, 134
Pinterest, 169
pirated materials, 256
Pizzagate (conspiracy theory), 107
Pleistocene, 171
Podesta e-mails, 107
Poland, 17
Pope Francis, 115
popularity, 42, 119, 178, 189, 190, 296
Portland State University, 308, 313
Postman, Neil, 296
post-truth (2016 International Word of the Year), 98
Poundstone, William, 50, 51–52, 149
Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology (Madrigal), 33
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 127
Prabhakar, Arati, 281
Princeton University, 166
Privacy Badger (privacy program), 251
Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit (Smith), 213
public PC terminals, 255
public space on the Internet, 312–13
Pyramids at Giza, 185
quorum sensing, 16
Rabalago, Lethebo, 198
Radford, Benjamin, 124–25, 128, 219
Randazza, Janelle, 21
Randi, James, 219
Read Across the Aisle (app), 82
Ready Player One (Cline), 308
reality bubble, 85
regulation, 34, 274–75, 300, 311–16
religion, 23, 29, 77, 111, 132, 172, 190, 202, 248, 259, 290, 305, 311, 313
Remnick, David, 95
Republicans (US political party), 90, 94, 95, 109, 115, 259
revenge porn, 269
Rid, Thomas, 39
Rise of the Computer State, The (Burnham), 46
Rise of the Machines (Rid), 39
robots, 34, 42, 43, 121, 199, 266, 288, 300, 362
Rolling Stone (magazine), 111
Rosen, Larry, 155
Rosenstiel, Tom, 57
Roswell myth, 194
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 312
Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, 108
Russell, Angela, 80
Russian government hacking of US election, 114
San Bernardino, 69
San Diego, 16, 19, 41, 46, 121, 147, 361
San Diego State University, 46
Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, 119
Sao Paulo, 121
Saskatoon Regional Health Board, 141
Saydnaya Prison, 97
Schick, Theodore, 213
Schmidt, Eric, 281
Schneier, Bruce, 171
Schull, Natasha Dow, 133
Schulson, Michael, 160
science fiction, 54, 225, 228, 273, 288, 289, 304
“science fictional way of thinking,” 288
Scientific American (magazine), 143
scientific consensus, 190
scientific method, 85, 172, 190, 214–20
Scientologist, 181
Second Life (online game), 308
Securities and Exchange Commission (US), 117
Seinfeld (television show), 298
shadow brain, 191–93, 196, 203, 204, 205, 206, 210, 293
Shakespeare, 31, 111, 186, 296
shortwave blue light, 144
Silence (Endo), 165
Silicon Valley, 22, 77, 139, 278, 283
Silverman, Jacob, 47, 49, 169, 231, 232, 249, 258, 277, 291, 314, 315
singularity/technological singularity, 36, 72, 300, 303–304
Singularity Is Near, The (Kurzweil), 304
Six Degrees, 27
60 Minutes (television show), 155, 245
Skeptic (magazine), 83, 217, 219
Skeptical Inquirer (magazine), 124, 128, 217, 219
skepticism, 30, 66, 68, 85, 96, 118, 124, 125, 127, 128, 152, 172, 174, 185, 361
sleep, 19, 20, 138, 140, 144, 157, 160, 162
slot machines, 12, 132–33, 136
Small, Gary, 143
smartphone
importance compared to sex, alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, shoes, 134–35
mere presence having negative impact on cognitive performance, 154
number of daily interactions with, 18–19, 136
ownership, 18
Smith, Cameron M., 308
Smith, Jonathan C., 213
Snapchat, 11, 18, 23, 27, 32, 36, 69, 79, 135, 139, 141, 147, 150, 163, 228, 264–65, 266, 269, 270, 271, 274, 277, 295
Snap streaks, 295
Snopes.com, 127, 219, 285
Snowden, Edward, 47, 229, 267, 275
Snyder, Timothy, 129
social media platforms, user ratios, 58
social media users, by gender, age, education, income, residence, 59
software updates (as security measure), 256
South America, 294
South Korea, 19, 121, 142, 145
Soviet Union, 318
SpaceX, 287
Spain, 17
special pleading, 180
spirit channeling, 67
Standage, Tom, 25
Stand by Me (film), 167
Stanford History Education Group, 100–101
Stanford's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic, 145
Stanford University, 24
Starbucks, 119
Star Trek (sci-fi franchise), 302
Stasi agents, 261
St. Bonaventure University, 156
Steubenville High School rape case, 286
Stone, Linda, 291
Stoycheff, Elizabeth, 229
Strangelove, Michael, 289
Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, 281, 303
straw person, 178
stress, 20, 45, 134, 145, 148, 164, 189, 238, 295, 296
strokes, 141
Strubhart, John Michael, 80, 292
subconscious, 29, 31, 66, 67, 74, 76, 81, 82, 84, 89, 91, 124, 128, 151, 155, 159, 172, 174, 175, 176, 181, 188, 189, 191–93, 194, 196, 197, 199, 205, 212, 221, 234, 258, 261, 293, 317, 361
substance abuse disorder (compared with Internet addiction), 145
suburban sprawl, 62
suicide, 42, 46, 209, 235, 246, 255
Sullivan, Andrew, 32
Summer Institute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies of Buffalo, 295
Super Bowl, 163
supernatural, 22, 67, 104, 106, 111, 174, 203, 206, 214
surveillance, 46, 47, 49, 223, 225, 227, 228, 229, 232, 233, 257, 261, 263, 266, 273, 275, 293
Swecker, Chris, 223
Sweden, 32
Switzerland, 32
Tactical Technology Collective, 306, 307
Taibbi, Matt, 111
Tamir, Diana, 166
teenagers, 25, 32, 103, 114, 139, 143, 237
Telegraph (newspaper), 92
TeleNav, 134
television (TV), 26, 36, 52, 62, 64, 65, 66, 97, 108, 144, 152, 198, 201, 285, 286, 296, 306, 309
Temptest-Tost (Robertson), 86
Tennessee, 146
Terminators, 311
terms of service, 227, 258, 263–66, 276
Terms of Service (Silverman), 47, 169, 232, 258, 277, 291
terrorists/terrorism, 12, 53, 6, 68–72, 134, 184, 209, 211, 212, 214, 274, 275
Tesla, 287
Texas, 80, 154, 160, 289, 292, 314
Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow (Kahneman), 213
Thoreau, Henry David, 289
Time Machine, The (Wells), 304
time spent on social media, 138–39
time “wasted” on social media/time-sucks, 11, 21, 45, 159, 165
Time Well Spent, 131, 135, 139, 140, 159, 169
Todd, Amanda, 255
tracking, 11, 47, 133, 159, 160, 237, 249, 251, 266, 272, 273, 293, 306, 310
how to defend against, 251
TrackMeNot (privacy program), 251
transparency, 228, 230, 232, 235, 313
trolls, 30, 33, 126, 187, 215, 240–43, 256, 285. See also harassment (online)
Trump, Donald, 80, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 104, 105, 107, 112, 113–16, 119
Tufekci, Zeynep, 116
Tufts University, 281
Turkle, Sherry, 15, 21, 43, 131, 150, 235, 261
Tutsi, 315
Tversky, Amos, 197
Twain, Mark, 236
Twenge, Jean M., 46
Twitter, 11, 18, 21, 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 38, 59, 64, 67, 70, 79, 116, 125, 138, 142, 147, 149, 150, 151, 155, 160, 161, 163, 167, 187, 193, 205, 218, 247, 258, 260, 264, 266, 286, 297, 299
followers, how to increase number of, 38
and terrorism, 70
two-step authentication, 257
2016 US presidential campaign/election, 75, 91, 92, 100, 105, 112–17, 125, 147, 285, 312
UC San Diego, 16
UC Santa Barbara, 109
UFC, 210
UFO belief, 122
Uncomfortable Ideas (Bennett), 316
UNICEF, 190
University of Albany, 141
University of Bergen, 157
University of Bristol, 78
University of Cambridge, 259, 282
University of Connecticut, 110
University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, 116
University of Ottawa, 289
University of Oxford, 281, 303
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 44
University of Southern California, 41
University of Texas at Austin, 154
US Air Force, 234
USB drives (security risk), 256
US Navy, 164
US Securities and Exchange Commission, 117
Utrecht University, 312
Vaughn, Lewis, 213
Venezuela, 19
Viacom, 125
viral, 69, 91, 114, 115, 123, 126, 181, 232, 299
Virginia, 238
virtual private network. See VPN
virtual reality. See VR
Virtual Reality Interaction Lab, 24
visible listening, 105
Voltaire, 91
VPN (virtual private network), 251
VR (virtual reality), 13, 24, 25, 33, 163, 236, 283, 292, 310, 311
Walden (Thoreau), 289
Wales, 38
Wall Street Journal (newspaper), 92
Ward, Adrian, 154
War of the Worlds, The (Wells), 304
War on Drugs, 117
Warren, Earl (former US Supreme Court Chief Justice), 228
Washington, DC, 106
Washington, Denzel, 114
Washington Post (newspaper), 113
Watson (IBM computer), 34
Wayne State University, 229
Weigend, Andreas, 278
Weiner, Anthony, 270
Wells, H. G., 304
West, Kanye, 121
Weston, Drew, 90
Why Information Grows (Hidalgo), 300
Wi-Fi, 237, 251, 253, 255, 289
Williams syndrome, 19
wishful thinking, 179
witch killing, 310
World of Warcraft, 152
World War II, 182
Wozniak, Steve, 34
Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years (Standage), 25
Yahoo, 97
Yale University, 129
Yemen, 72
You Are Not a Gadget (Lanier), 33, 224
You Are Not So Smart (McRaney), 206
YouTube, 12, 18, 27, 42, 67, 138, 160, 232, 319
Zimmerman, Robert, 236
Zuckerberg, Mark, 15, 48, 116–17, 126, 232, 244, 274, 287, 299, 301