- Accidental archiving provided by search engine caches, xiv
- Affective computing, xi, xxviii, 224, 264, 265–272
- Affective prosthesis, 271
- Affective technologies, 271
- Affordance, 126, 129, 144
- Age-old craft of stonework, 121
- AI agents, 348, 356
- AI algorithms, 348
- AI effect, 352
- AI evaluation, 347
- Alchemy of innovation, 97
- Algorithmic information theory, 343, 344, 345, 347
- Algorithms for fuzzy string searching, 192
- An Inconvenient Truth, 60
- Anthill, intelligence of, 261, 293, 294, 321, 322
- Antiglobalization building, 95
- Anytime intelligence test, 349
- Arduino, 26
- Arecibo message, 132
- Artificial consciousness, 302
- Artificial General Intelligence conference, 348
- Artificial intelligence (AI), xxiii, 142, 158, 171, 177, 224, 243, 244, 247, 257, 261, 262, 264, 306, 307, 308–312, 344, 347, 348
- Artificial populations, 355
- Assigned Names and Numbers, Internet Corporation for (ICANN), 175
- Atomic clocks, 105, 106
- Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), 2, 3
- Augmented reality, 127
- Automatic inferences, 170
- Automatic vehicles, 112
- Autonomous machines, 263
- Beauty, idea of, 383
- Beauty ≠ truth, xxviii, 381–383, 390
- Big Data technology, 198, 212, 219, 221
- Black body, ix, 3, 43, 49, 50
- Black body radiation limit, 49, 50, 51
- Bose-Einstein condensation, 15, 20
- Brain-machine interface, 264, 295, 296, 297, 299, 300–302
- Brain network dynamics, 274
- Brain plasticity, 274, 282, 283, 299, 300–303
- Brain’s “dark energy
- Brain’s expectation chains, 279
- Broken time-reversal symmetry, 27, 31
- Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, 23
- Bureaucratization, 169, 176
- Carbon dioxide emissions, 94, 98
- Carbon footprint, 98
- Carbon nanotubes, 70, 71, 73
- Casimir effect, 50, 54, 387
- Casimir-Polder force, 54, 387
- Cerebral networks, 279
- CERN Open Hardware License (CERN OHL), 26
- Changing the past, 384
- Chaos/Order dichotomy, 372, 383
- Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), 57
- Climate change, ix, 55–64
- Codification of human intelligence, 181
- Cognitive abilities of machines, 344
- Collaborative creation, 142
- Collaborative environment on the Internet, 151, 172
- Collaborative innovation, xi, 264, 285–294
- Collective audiovisual narration, 143
- Collective ecosystem of knowledge, 371
- Collective intelligence, 140, 212, 217, 219, 321, 338, 339
- Common knowledge, xiv, 277
- Computational idea patents, 252, 254
- Concept of “original,” 359, 364
- Conceptual vision of intelligence, 345
- Condensed matter physics, 16, 66, 74, 75, 83
- Connectomics, 262
- Conscious abilities, 270
- Consciousness, xxvi, 189, 261, 270, 302, 388
- Convergence culture, x, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 143–146
- Convergence technology, xxvi
- Copernican revolution, 23, 24
- Copyleft, 250, 258
- Copyright, 160, 161, 226, 243, 245, 257
- Corporatocrazy, 249
- Cosmology of the primordial universe, ix, 3, 21–32
- Cracker, 248
- Creative Commons, iv, 158, 159, 160, 161, 256
- Cross-fertilization, xxii, 80, 140
- Crowdsourced, xiii
- Cyberspace, x, 119, 224, 227, 231, 234, 235–240, 256, 341
- Dark energy, 21, 24, 28, 281, 282, 283, 387
- Dark matter, xxvi, 21, 24, 28, 32
- Data-to-knowledge process, 344
- Declarative models, 344
- Deep learning, 262
- Deterministic technological model, 144
- Digital ethics, 137
- Digital games, 142
- Digital humanities, 138, 207
- Digital privacy, 228
- Digital revolution, 157, 159, 165, 171, 172, 192, 316, 319, 320, 325
- Digital space, 115, 119
- Digitalization, 159, 316, 318, 323, 325, 338
- Digitally augmented objects, 127
- Digitization, 317
- Drake equation, 132, 133, 354
- Economy of ideas, xxvii, 237, 238
- Electromagnetic fluctuations, 48, 50
- Electronic Frontier, 158, 167, 212, 236, 237, 240
- Electronic means of production, xiv
- Embedded kinetic memory, 128
- Emergent phenomenon, 271
- Emergent properties of the brain, 270, 271, 278
- Emotion centers of the brain, 270
- Emotional communication, 268
- Emotional intelligence, 269, 321
- Energy of the void, 387
- Enlightenment, 375, 379, 381
- Entropy, 30, 46, 383
- Eternal present, 384
- Ethical AI, 355
- Evolutionary biology, 344
- Exoplanets, ix, 3, 33–35, 36
- Extraterrestrial intelligence, 132, 354
- Extraterrestrial life, 132
- Faraday’s laws of induction, 275
- Feeling of being, 270
- Feeling of knowing, 270
- Feeling of significance, 270
- Flying structures, 375, 378, 380
- “404,” xiv
- Free software, xi, 158, 166, 211, 213, 233, 241, 243, 247–259
- Free will, xxvi, 5, 6, 7, 19
- Galileo system time notion, 101
- Geodetic reference, 105
- Geometries of fractals, 380
- Global warming, xxv, 3, 60, 216
- GPS coverage, 112
- GPS navigation device, 106, 113
- Grammars of creation, 371, 373
- Granular Internet, 185
- Graphene, ix, xxv, 65–76, 193
- Graphical user interface (GUI), 124
- Hack/hacking, 11, 177, 247–249, 258, 377, 390
- Hacker, xi, 171, 172, 173, 213, 232, 241–259
- Hacker community, 245, 257
- Happiness Formula, 349, 351
- Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, 46, 47
- Higgs boson, xix, xxiii, xxvii, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 113
- High-energy theoretical physics, 66, 148
- High-frequency trading (HFT), 348
- Homo quaerens, 371
- Homo sapiens, xxv, 37, 181, 196, 321, 346, 371
- Hubble Space Telescope, xvii, 2, 3, 17, 29
- Human-computer interactions, 124, 126, 127, 148
- Human-computer interface, 127, 129
- Human level AI, 354
- Human visual center, 306
- Hyperpicture, 389
- Hyperpolyhedrons, 380
- Hypertext, 149, 150
- Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), 149,153
- Hypothetical generation of materials, 124
- Ideology of progress, 93, 95
- Illusion of intelligence, 352, 356
- Image processing, 306
- Immateriality, 388
- Impossible Structures, 380
- Inattentional blindness, 277
- Ineffable feelings, 270
- Ineffable nature of art, 378
- Information Age, 131, 133, 142, 258
- Information retrieval, 174, 191, 192
- Inner life, 278
- Intellectual property, 26, 142, 160, 237
- Intelligence distribution, 355
- Intelligent entity/community, 293, 321
- International Space Station (ISS), 52
- Internet Archive, xiv, 19, 216, 257
- Internet of Things, xxvii, 182, 185, 186, 189, 200, 219
- Interplanetary Internet, 185
- Ion traps, 13, 19
- Irrational aspects of creativity, 378
- Kibernos of Internet cybernetics, 195, 201
- Knowledge representation, 170, 171, 174
- Kyoto Protocol, 61, 64
- Large Hadron Collider (LHC), xix, 24
- Laws of Thermodynamics, 77–87, 383
- Laws of thermodynamics, ix, 77, 82, 83
- Leibniz’s paradigm, 132
- Lethal autonomous weapons, 263, 354, 357
- “Likes,” xiv
- Linked Open Data, 148
- Location-based services (LBS), 112
- Long tail of human behavior, 191, 192, 193
- Low-dimensional materials, 66, 69
- Low-energy building, 95
- Machine intelligence, 262, 337, 339, 344, 347, 354
- Machine-intelligence evaluation, 344
- Machine learning, 197, 262, 306, 313, 352
- Mass surveillance over the Internet, 196, 227, 230, 233
- Massive data mining, 191, 206, 344
- Materiality, 118, 121
- Mathematized happiness, 349
- Maximum degree of aestheticism in a work of art, 379
- Measuring universal intelligence, 349, 356
- Meritocracy, x, 157, 162, 163, 292, 293
- Metaphysical world, 121
- Metaphysics of art, 372, 380
- Microscopic determinism, 7, 68
- Mind’s eye, 363
- MIT OpenCourseWare, 90, 99, 158, 167, 204, 206, 210
- MITUPV Exchange, xx, 90, 99, 138, 145, 167
- Mixed media ecology, 143, 146
- Molecular recognition, 79
- Moore’s Law, xxii, xxv, 6, 16, 62, 72, 209, 215, 216
- Multiverse theory, 41, 42, 323, 324
- Naïve realism in science, 1, 2, 3
- Nanomaterials, 83, 85, 287
- Natural language processing, and interface, 126, 127, 170, 174, 298, 354, 355
- Net neutrality, 228, 234, 256
- Network effects, 207, 210, 217
- Network society, 131
- Neural dust, 301, 302, 303
- Neural interface, 301
- Neural model of momentary subjective well-being, 349
- Neurotechnology, 295, 296, 302
- New media landscape, 139, 145
- New media literacies, 136, 138
- New social skills, 133, 137, 145
- Newton’s mechanics, 10
- Newtonian mechanics, 46
- Non-carbon-based biological evolution, 181
- Nonanthropocentric view of intelligence, 343, 346
- Nonbiological intelligence, x, xxv, 37, 133, 179–189, 196, 197, 321, 345, 346, 353, 354
- Nonhuman intelligence, 179, 181, 321
- Nonhuman rights project, 355, 357
- Noninvasive brain stimulation, 273, 274, 283
- Notion of emptiness, 378, 380, 381, 385, 386, 387, 388
- Offensive autonomous arms, 263
- On-demand economy, 212
- Online communities, 137, 140
- Online Social Network, 152, 154, 185, 188, 200, 209, 288
- Ontology based technologies, 170, 171, 175
- Open collaborative processes, 214
- Open Internet, xxvii, 150, 151, 238
- Open knowledge, x, xxvii, 133, 159, 214, 292, 333
- Openness, 163, 175, 204, 217, 226
- Optoelectronics, 66, 69
- Order versus chaos, 372, 383
- Ozone hole, 58
- Ozone layer, 55, 57, 58, 60
- Paleoclimatology, 62
- Participation gap, 137
- Patents trolls, 252
- Pathways of attention, xiv
- Peer-to-peer effect, 188, 289
- Pentaquark, xix, xxiii
- Perfect material, 71
- Photocatalysis, 80
- Physics of the primordial universe, 29
- Planned obsolescence, 209
- Planning uncertainty, 101, 110
- Platonic solids, 383
- Positron, the antiparticle of the electron, 47
- Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), 232
- Probabilistic reasoning, 263
- Proprietary software, 245, 246, 249, 255, 256
- Q-learning, 348
- Quadrivia, xviii, xxiii
- Quantum bit functions, 3
- Quantum computer, xxvii, 6, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 197
- Quantum computing, 5, 13, 14, 18
- Quantum electrodynamics, 8
- Quantum electronic transport, 66, 69
- Quantum field theory, 54, 387
- Quantum fluctuations, 48
- Quantum Forces, 45, 54
- Quantum Information Theory, 6, 11
- Quantum mechanics, 6–10, 31, 45, 46, 47, 67–71, 74, 75, 76, 83, 189, 375, 386
- Quantum physics, ix, xxviii, 5–20, 45, 69, 70, 74, 75, 202, 273, 287, 375, 380, 382, 386, 388, 389
- Quantum simulator, 16, 17
- Quantum superposition, 12, 13, 19
- Quantum teleportation, 11
- Quantum theory, 5, 6, 12, 19
- Quantum and thermal fluctuations, ix, 3, 43, 50, 51
- Quantum transport of electrons, 69, 70
- Quantum void, 387
- Qubits (quantum bits), 13, 14, 16
- “Radical Atoms
- Remembering the future, xxvii, 133, 192
- Right to encrypt, 224, 225, 227, 231–233
- Sampling, 160
- Schrödinger equation, 70
- Schrödinger’s cat, 19
- Scientific reductionism, 372, 388, 389
- Search engines, xiv
- Search technologies, x, xxvii, 191, 192, 210
- Second law of thermodynamics, 30, 383
- Self-destructive intelligence, 354
- Self-reference effect, 282
- Semantic tags, 175, 306
- Semantic Web, xxvii, 170, 171, 174, 176, 177, 194, 218
- “Sentient” (emotional) knowledge, 379
- Sky art, 378, 390
- Social media, xiv
- Sociology of nanoparticles, 84
- Software patents, 251, 252, 255, 259
- Solid-state physics, 70
- Spreading knowledge, 133, 143, 165, 213
- Standard Model of particle physics, 10, 27, 28, 31
- Super-intelligence, 354
- Superintelligent machines, 355
- Superstring theory, 388
- Synthesis of ammonia, 85
- Tangible Bits, 123, 124, 126, 129
- Teletransportation, 11, 12
- Theory of evolution, 1, 34, 343, 345
- Theory of relativity, xxviii, 5, 10, 31, 387
- Theory of thermal emission, 48
- Thermophotovoltaic energy, 51, 54
- Thermophotovoltaic energy conversion, 54
- Third Culture, xxii, xxiii
- 3D Scan Laser, 92
- Timbrel vault, 94
- Time reversal, 27, 30, 31, 32
- Time-reversal violation, 31, 32
- Topological insulators, 66, 69
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), 274, 276
- Transparent society, 226, 227, 228, 234
- Triangulation principle, 104
- Turing’s imitation game, 347
- Ubiquitous Internet, 218
- Ubiquitous learning, 208
- Ultrarelativistic properties, 71, 72
- Unconsciousness, 302, 321
- United search for beauty, 382
- Universal artwork, 362
- Universal Intelligence Test, 349, 350
- Universal measurer of intelligence, 345
- Universal psychometrics, 343, 345, 346, 348, 353
- Universal timeframe, 107
- Van der Waals interactions, 85
- Viral storms of discovery and sharing, xiv
- Virtual photons, 46
- Void/vacuum, xxvii, 23, 45, 50, 52, 385, 386, 387
- Web technology, 148, 149, 150
- Wiki/Wikipedia, 20, 31, 132, 142, 151, 172, 173, 200, 215, 218, 219, 336
- Wireless access technologies, 183
- Wisdom of crowds, 264
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 152–154, 175, 176
- Zero point energy, 386, 387