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Index

Aaker, Jennifer L.,
281

Abramovitz, Moses,
71

abundance

defining,
274
–276

does not lead to utopia,
284

economy of,
9
,
11
,
93
,
109
,
271
–303

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA),
294

advertising

the end of traditional,
247
–252

Internet,
251

and the materialist,
279
–280

Agarwal, Anant,
116

The Age of Access
(Rifkin),
231
–232,
252

agricultural output, and climate change,
288
–289

Airbnb,
234
–235,
237

algorithm(s)

assessment in movies and music,
130

energy,
143

healthcare.
see
healthcare

increasing sophistication of,
129
,
220

manipulation,
203

and marketing,
249

neutrality,
203

predictive,
11
,
73
–74,
121
,
129

TrustCloud,
258

Amazon,
126
–127,
186
,
199
–205,
232
,
256
,
262

American Economic Association,
71
,
87

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T),
49
–51,
54
,
148
,
198
,
202
,
204

Anderson, Chris,
5
,
48
,
238

Anderson, Robert,
48

Apple,
85
,
145
,
198
,
202

Appropriate Technology Movement,
100
–101

apocalypse, two wild cards of,
286

Aquinas, St. Thomas,
58
,
178

artificial intelligence (AI),
20
,
114
,
121
,
129
–131,
267
,
269

Ashoka,
265
–266

Ashton, Kevin,
74

automobile(s)

driverless,
126
,
230
–231

importance of,
52
–53,
225
–226

sharing,
226
–231

see also
Ford, Henry; oil

Ayres, Robert,
71

Baran, Paul,
294

Barnes, Peter,
191
–192

Basulto, Dominic,
147

Bell, Alexander Graham,
49
–51

“benefit corporation,”
263
,
265

Benkler, Yochai,
151
,
185
,
191
,
193
–194

Bentham, Jeremy,
62
,
308

Bergan, Mike,
190

BerkShares social currency,
261

Berners-Lee, Tim,
199
–201

Bevin, Ernest,
53

Big Data

and algorithm(s).
see
algorithms(s)

and the CleanWeb movement,
146

and healthcare,
74
,
130
,
243
–247

and the Internet of Things,
11
–14,
73
,
142
–146,
181
,
195

replacing human labor,
121
,
129
,
267

and social media,
199
–200

UPS uses,
11
–12

and Watson,
130

bike sharing,
227

biocapacity,
274
–275,
286

bioinformatics,
86
,
169
–171,
182

biosphere lifestyle,
297
–303

Biosphere Politics
(Rifkin),
167

The Biotech Century
(Rifkin),
170

bitcoin,
262

Bok, Bernhard,
215

Botsman, Rachel,
234

Boyle, James,
181
–182,
185

BP,
49
,
54
,
83

BrainTalk Communities,
244

Brand, Stewart,
100

brick and mortar

classroom(s), decline of,
113
–119

retailer(s), decline of,
127
–128,
238
–239,
253

Brin, Sergey,
230
–231

Brock, Gerald,
51

Brown, Jerry,
230

Brown, Lester,
275

burgher class,
33
–34,
58

Burleson, Albert S.,
50

Burns, Lawrence D.,
229

Businessweek,
198

Cadwalladr, Carole,
116
–117

Cahn, Edgar,
261

Calvin, John,
59

capitalism

the birth of,
39
–41

and a coal-powered steam infrastructure,
41
–47

coming of,
61
–62

and courtship with vertical integration,
39
–55

Darwin unhappy with his ideas being used to support,
63
–64

differences between free markets and,
39

the eclipse of,
2
–9

father of modern.
see
Smith, Adam

historical background of,
22
,
27
–65

and human nature through a capitalist lens,
57
–59

incapability of,
221

logic that drives,
41

and monopoly/oligopoly.
see
monopoly or oligopoly

as a peculiar form of enterprise,
43

and shift to the Collaborative Commons.
see
Collaborative Commons

under siege,
9
–10

and utilitarian doctrine,
62
–63

Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
(Barnes),
191
–192

Carey, Kevin,
118
–119

car-sharing,
226
–231

Carus-Wilson, E. M.,
34

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),
292

Cha, Ariana Eunjung,
169

Chakrabarty, Ananda,
165

Chandler, Alfred,
44
,
46

Chronicle of Higher Education
(Carey),
118
–119

Church, George,
86

Cisco,
14
–15,
73
,
149

clean IT.
see
Cleanweb Movement

Cleanweb Movement,
145
–147,
172

Clemens, Eric,
250
–251

climate change,
286
–291

Clinton, President Bill,
7
,
164
,
188

Coase, Ronald,
137
,
150
–151,
207
–208,
211

collaborative

age,
76
–77,
86
,
107
–110,
131
,
151
,
217
,
230
,
302
,
311
classrooms.
see
massive open online courses (MOOCs)

consumption,
234
–238,
253
,
282

etymology of,
18
–19

freedom,
226

rise in collaborative innovation,
21

Collaborative Commons,
153
–222

collaboratists prepare for battle,
173
–192

and comedy of the commons,
155
–172

and the communications commons,
195
–205

and the cooperatives’ renaissance,
211
–217

definition of,
16

and healthcare.
see
healthcare

historical background of,
16
–17

importance of,
17
–18

and logistics commons,
217
–221

and managing temporal resources,
221
–222

the medium is the domain,
177
–181

and a new commons narrative,
181
–187

and the new deal’s greatest success,
206
–211

and protests to reclaim the public,
187
–188

rise of the,
16
–25

as a self-managing economic enterprise,
16

shift from exchange value to sharable value,
19
–20

and the struggle to define and control the intelligent infrastructure,
193
–222

as technological soul mate of the IoT,
18

see also
the comedy of the commons; social capital and the sharing economy

the comedy of the commons,
155
–172

design principles of effective commons,
161
–162

rediscovering,
156
–165

and Törbel Commons covenant agreement of 1483,
160
–161

see also
Hardin, Garrett; Rose, Carol

“Commons affliction,”
187

Community supported agriculture (CSA),
239
–240

computer-aided design (CAD),
124

computer(s), cost(s) of,
80

concentration patterns,
54
–55

conservation easement(s),
186

consumer(s)

and access over ownership,
20

society,
22
,
208
,
233
,
247
,
299

contour crafting,
96

contradiction between intellectual-property rights and open-source access,
100
–101

copyright(s),
175
,
178
–181,
188

and “copyleft,”
175
,
179
,
253

see also
patent(s)

Couchsurfing,
235
,
237
,
258

Coursera,
115
–118

currencies, alternative,
259
–262

Craigslist,
249

Crane, David,
83

Creative Common licenses,
94
,
179
–180,
186

crowdfunding,
19
,
146
,
256
–257,
269

crowdsourcing approach to research,
116
,
242
–243

cyber attacks/cyberterrorism,
286
,
291
–296

cyber thieves,
76

Darwin, Charles,
63
–64,
183

data security and privacy, associated with IoT,14

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
125

Dell, Adam,
239

DeLong, J. Bradford,
7
–9

De Kestelier, Xavier,
97

Demetri, Dr. George,
242

The Descent of Man
(Darwin),
63

Deutsche Telekom,
54
,
101
,
198

Dini, Erico,
97

DIY culture,
90
,
94
–95,
99
–100

Dobb, Maurice,
40

Doctorow, Cory,
95

dominance of social media,
201

see also
Facebook; Friendster; Myspace; Twitter

driverless vehicle(s),
126
,
230
–231

Drucker, Peter,
264

Duffy, John,
137

eBay

becoming an online monopoly,
201
–205

cuts out the middlemen,
232

and free currency,
262

as a profit-seeking enterprise,
252

ecological footprint,
107
,
274
–276,
284
,
286
,
302

Econofly,
145

economic need for greener/cleaner energy,
10

“Economic Policy for the Information Economy” (Summers and DeLong),
7
–9

“Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” (Keynes),
6
–7

The Economist,
5
,
77
–78,
121
–122,
251
,
259
,
265

economy of abundance,
297
–303

and a biosphere lifestyle,
297
–303

circular, idea of a,
236
–237

and the sustainable cornucopia,
273
–296

education, higher.
see
massive open online courses (MOOCs)

edX,
115
–116

Eisenstein, Elizabeth,
179

electricity

importance of,
51
–53

liberates women,
285

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI),
142
,
293
–294

electromagnetic spectrum,
148
,
165
,
167
,
185
,
189
–190

electronic healthcare records,
13
,
130
,
244

Elkington, John,
264

The Empathetic Civilization
(Hegel),
301

employment, new kinds of,
266
–269

Enclosure Movement,
17
,
31
,
169

The End of Work
(Rifkin),
121
–122

energy

adaptive computing,
85

Commons,
205
–206

cooperatives,
215
–217

costs at data centers,
84
–86

and economics,
10
–11

and fossil fuel(s).
see
fossil fuel(s)

free,
81
–84

and Germany.
see
Germany

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