electricity, 13, 21–22, 27, 42, 44, 47–48, 81, 362

electronic medical records (EMRs), 18

electronic networks, 20, 218

ELF. See Earth Liberation Front

elites, 68, 119, 132, 157, 185, 199, 264, 269, 329, 356–357

e-mail, 19–20, 24, 27, 64, 87, 137, 139–140, 142, 159, 161, 181, 184, 195, 198, 208, 235–236, 255, 267, 305, 310, 315

embedded computing, 78, 89

EMRs. See electronic medical records

encrypt (encryption), 24, 136, 169, 182, 185, 293

end users, 48, 97, 190

end-to-end model of open Internet, v, xii, 291, 353

energy, 22, 196, 270, 299, 302, 316, 376

English language, xxvii, xxxi, xxxiv, 40, 49–75, 236, 278, 383

English as a second language (ESL), 59

Enron, 316

entertainment, 21, 30, 69, 134, 190–192, 195, 201, 203, 223, 225

entrepreneur (entrepreneurial), xxii, 9, 45, 132, 250, 268, 275, 283

epidemic, 196

equality, 35, 134, 283, 286, 329

ESL. See English as a second language

ethnic groups (ethnicity), xxxiii, 34, 165, 251, 254, 264, 266–267, 270, 274, 281, 286

etiquette, xiii

Europe (European Union), 17, 23, 35–36, 63, 67–68, 85, 94, 100, 132, 161–162, 186, 241, 250–251, 259, 267, 271, 281, 286, 344

European Commission, 85

EverQuest,, 215, 221, 223

extensible markup language. See XML

external control systems, 140

face-to-face encounters, 49, 199, 209, 213, 215, 221, 224, 230, 233

facial recognition, 81, 120, 122

family (families), 18, 171, 202, 215, 234

fanatics, 96, 321, 332

fantasy, 204, 213

fashion, 207

FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation

FCC. See Federal Communications Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 138–139

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 12, 18

filter (filtering), 138

findability, 288

Firefox browser, 326

The World Is Flat (flattening world),, 237–238, 242, 255, 257

Flickr, 375

Forecasting the Telephone,, xx

Foresight Nanotech Institute, 88

fragmentation of culture and society, xxxii, 194

France, 138, 161, 248

Frankenstein,, xxxi, 78, 80, 112