Pebble, 201
Pediatrics, 97
perception, 8, 121, 130, 131, 132, 133, 144, 148–51, 201, 214–18, 220, 226, 230
performance, Yerkes-Dodson law and, 96
Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty), 216
philosophers, 119, 143, 144, 148–51, 186, 224
photography, film vs. digital, 230
Piano, Renzo, 138, 141–42
pilots, 1, 2, 32, 43–63, 91, 153
attentional tunneling and, 200–201
capability of the plane vs., 60–61, 154
death of, 53
erosion of expertise of, 54–58, 62–63
human- vs. technology-centered automation and, 168–70, 172–73
income of, 59–60
see also autopilot
place, 131–34, 137, 251n
place cells, 133–34, 136, 219
Plato, 148
Player Piano (Vonnegut), 39
poetry, 211–16, 218, 221–22
Poirier, Richard, 214, 215
Politics (Aristotle), 224
Popular Science, 48
Post, Wiley, 48, 50, 53, 57, 62, 82, 169
power, 21, 37, 65, 151, 175, 204, 217
practice, 82–83
Predator drone, 188
premature fixation, 145
presence, power of, 200
Priestley, Joseph, 160
Prius, 6, 13, 154–55
privacy, 206
probability, 113–24
procedural (tacit) knowledge, 9–11, 83, 105, 113, 144
productivity, 18, 22, 29, 30, 37, 106, 160, 173, 175, 181, 218
professional work, incursion of computers into, 115
profit motive, 17
profits, 18, 22, 28, 30, 33, 95, 159, 171, 172–73, 175
progress, 21, 26, 29, 37, 40, 65, 196, 214
acceleration of, 26
scientific, 31, 123
social, 159–60, 228
progress (continued)
technological, 29, 31, 34, 35, 48–49, 108–9, 159, 160, 161, 173, 174, 222, 223–24, 226, 228, 230
utopian vision of, 25, 26
prosperity, 20, 21, 107
proximal cues, 219–20
psychologists, psychology, 9, 11, 15, 54, 103, 119, 149, 158–59
animal studies, 87–92
cognitive, 72–76, 81, 129–30
psychomotor skills, 56, 57–58, 81, 120
quality of experience, 14–15
Race against the Machine (Brynjolfsson and McAfee), 28–29
RAND Corporation, 93–98
“Rationalism in Politics” (Oakeshott), 124
Rattner, Justin, 203
reading, learning of, 82
Reaper drone, 188
reasoning, reason, 120, 121, 124, 151
recession, 27, 28, 30, 32
Red Dead Redemption, 177–78
“Relation of Strength of Stimulus to Rapidity of Habit-Formation, The” (Yerkes and Dodson), 89
Renslow, Marvin, 43–44
Revit, 146, 147
Rifkin, Jeremy, 28
Robert, David, 45, 169–70
Robert Frost (Poirier), 214
Roberts, J. O., 62
robotics, robots, 2, 6, 13, 19–20, 29, 30, 33, 39–41, 118, 153, 156, 219, 225, 227, 257n
capabilities of, 8, 9
essence of, 36
ethical questions about, 183–93, 204
killer, 187–93, 198, 204
speed of, 186
Rodriguez, Dayron, 103
Roomba, 185
Royal Air Force, 49
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), 170–71
Royal Majesty (ship), 68
Rubin, Charles, 186
Russell, Bertrand, 21, 39
Rybczynski, Witold, 142
safety, 46, 53–59, 61, 91, 154, 169, 170, 184, 207
safety alert for operators (SAFO), 1, 170
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 51, 53
Sarter, Nadine, 162
satisfaction, 14, 16, 17, 85, 132
Scerbo, Mark, 91
Schön, Donald, 143, 144
Schüll, Natasha Dow, 179n
Schulman, Ari, 133
Schumacher, Patrik, 141
Science, 73, 79, 219
scientific management (Taylorism), 107, 114, 158, 207
scientists, science, 46, 151, 155, 159, 160, 214, 217
scythe, 218–19, 221, 222, 224
search engines, 78–80, 206–7
self, 132, 161, 205–6, 216–17, 220
self-consciousness, jail of, 16
self-fulfillment, 24, 85, 157, 161
self-interest, 59–60
self-renewal, 132
senses, 8, 69, 83, 131, 134, 149–51, 201, 217, 219
sensors, sensing mechanism, 8, 36, 38, 46, 52
Shanghai Tower, 167
Shaw, Rebecca, 43–44
ships, 36–37, 68
Shop Class as Soulcraft (Crawford), 147–48
Shushwap tribe, 228–29, 232
Silicon Valley, 7, 33, 133, 194, 226, 227
Simons, Daniel, 201
simplicity, 180, 181
Singhal, Amit, 78–79
60 Minutes (TV show), 29
Sketchpad, 138
SketchUp, 146
Skidelsky, Robert, 31–32
Skiles, Jeffrey, 154
skill fade, 58
skills, 80–85, 161, 216–17, 218, 219
degradation of, 106–12, 125–31, 157
see also specific skills
skill tunneling, 202
Skinner, B. F., 179n
Slamecka, Norman, 72–73, 74
slavery, slaves, 20, 21, 25, 26, 224–26
slot machines, 179n
Small, Willard, 88
smartphones, 12–13, 33, 91, 136, 199–202
smartwatch, 201, 202
Smith, Adam, 21–22, 106–7
social decision-making, 122
social networks, 181–82
society, 159–60, 161, 172, 173, 176
automation’s changing of nature of, 193–99, 202
trade-offs made by, 207–8
sociologists, 109, 158–59
software, 1, 7–8, 12, 27, 28, 30, 33, 40, 52, 66, 67, 90, 108, 114–16, 119, 136, 151–52
architecture and design, 135, 138–47, 167, 229–30
cognitive processes and, 74–77, 80
compelling urgency of, 194
decision support, 70–71
ergonomics and, 164
ethics and, 184, 204
hidden assumptions of, 206
human- vs. technology-centered, 156, 160, 172–76
limits of, 9, 205
medical, 97–100, 114–15
planes and, 52, 54, 57, 168
social adaptations to, 202–8
trust in, 69
video games as model for design of, 178–82
software programmers, 157, 159, 174, 175
space, 129–30, 133–36, 205
Specialmatic, 174–75
speed, 17, 20, 35, 38, 51, 88, 159, 181, 207
of computers, 118–22, 139, 156, 164, 173, 219
of robots, 186
spell checkers, 180–81
Spence, Michael, 30
Sperry, Elmer A., 47
Sperry, Lawrence, 46–47, 50, 53, 232
Sperry Corporation, 49, 58
Spinoza, Baruch, 216
spy agencies, 120
Stanton, Neville, 90–91
Star Trek, 232
steamships, 36–37
stick shift, 3–6, 13
Street View, 136
substitution myth, 67, 97, 98, 129, 193
Sullenberger, Chesley, 154, 170
supersystem, development of, 196
Sutherland, Ivan, 138
tablets, 153, 199, 202
tacit (procedural) knowledge, 9–11, 83, 105, 113, 144
talents, 12, 27, 61, 7
4, 83, 85, 112, 216, 217, 219
of doctors, 105
human, limits to replication of, 9
Talisse, Robert, 85
Tango (mapping technology), 136
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 107, 108, 114, 158, 207
teachers, teaching, 10, 12, 32, 153
technical arrogance, 175
technological momentum, 172–75, 196
technological unemployment, 26, 27, 198
technology, 1–2, 150–51, 215–32
health information, 93–106
invisibility of, 203–4, 208–10
labor-saving, 17, 20, 28, 67
long history of ambivalence to, 21–41
master-slave metaphor and, 224–26
progress and, see progress, technological
TED conference (2013), 199–201
Tesla Motors, 8
tests, medical, 70–71, 99, 102, 245n–46n
Thiel, Peter, 227
thinking, thought, 65, 67, 147–51
artificial intelligence and, 119
drawing as, 142–43, 144
Thinking Hand, The (Pallasmaa), 145
Thomis, Malcolm, 23
THOR (software program), 171
Thrun, Sebastian, 6, 207
tools, 150–51, 158, 174, 185, 195, 215–19, 221–26
To Save Everything, Click Here (Morozov), 225
traders, trading, 77, 115, 171
Tranel, Ben, 167
transport, 48, 49, 132, 173
“Tuft of Flowers, The” (Frost), 221
Turing, Alan, 119–20
Turkle, Sherry, 69
unconscious mind, 121, 148–49
unemployment, 20, 25–29, 38
technological, 26, 27, 198
United Kingdom, 95
University College London, 133
UPS, 117
U.S. Airways, 154
Utah, University of, 130
venture capitalism, 116
Veterans Administration, 103
video games, 177–80, 219
virtualization, 118
visual cortex, 82
vocabulary, generation effect and, 72–73
vocations, computers and, 12
Voltaire, 160
Volvo, 8
Vonnegut, Kurt, 39
Voss, Bill, 53
wages and income, 26, 31, 33
increase in, 22, 24, 30, 37
of pilots, 59–60
Wall Street, 77, 115, 156, 171
Wall Street Journal, 60, 153
warfare, 19, 35–36, 41, 48, 49
killer robots and, 187–93, 198, 204
Washington, University of, 102
Watson (supercomputer), 118–20
Watt, James, 36
wayfinding performance, 130
wealth, 22, 26, 29, 32, 33, 117, 226–27
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 22–23, 106–7
weaving, weavers, 23, 36, 66
Weed, Lawrence, 123, 248n
Weiser, Mark, 194–95
Weizenbaum, Joseph, 194
well-being, 15, 17, 137, 208
Wells, Thomas J., 49
Westinghouse, 175
Whitehead, Alfred North, 65–67, 83, 84
Wiener, Norbert, 37–40, 117, 158, 161
WifiSlam, 136
Wilde, Oscar, 25, 66, 224, 225
Williams, Serena, 82
Williams, William Carlos, xi
Wilson, Timothy, 15
Winner, Langdon, 209, 224
Wired, 136, 153, 225
Woods, David, 162
word-processing programs, 101
Wordsworth, William, 137
work, 14–27, 213–14
paradox of, 14–16
standardization of, 107–8, 114
transfer of, 17–18, 66
see also jobs; labor
world, 121, 123–24, 133, 216–20, 232
World War I, 58
World War II, 35–36, 41, 49, 157, 158, 174
Wright, Orville, 61, 168, 215
Wright, Wilbur, 60, 61, 168, 215
Xerox, 117
Xerox PARC, 194, 195, 202
x-rays, 70, 99
Yerkes, Robert M., 87–88
Yerkes-Dodson law and curve, 89–91, 165
Young, Mark, 90–91
Zaha Hadid, 141
Ziegler, Bernard, 170
Zuckerberg, Mark, 181, 203, 206
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