artificial intelligence (AI), 79, 82–83, 85, 98, 105–106, 115, 221–222, 226

ASCII characters (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), 51

ASEAN. See Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Asia and Asian nations, 11, 15, 18, 29, 35, 51, 53, 67–68, 251, 255, 344, 365

Association for Computing Machinery, x, xxi

Association of Internet Researchers, x, xxi

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 279

AT&T, xxii, 12

ATM (automated teller machine), 46

Australia, 35–36

authentication of identity and information, 14–15, 22, 24, 32, 39, 43–43, 45–47, 163

automated control, 78, 89, 122

automated trading systems, 122

automation, xxxi, 34, 79, 83–86, 97, 109–110, 117

backlash against technology and technology users, 68–69, 73, 110–112, 139, 162, 169, 174, 246, 284, 327

balkanize and balkanization of the Internet, 5, 13–14, 41, 280, 347

bandwidth, 2, 6, 10, 23, 27, 31–32, 41, 46, 210, 273, 276, 310, 347

bank and banking, 38, 79, 106–107, 114, 156, 166, 219, 345, 354, 362, 366

Battelle, 88

batteries, 14, 82

Big Brother, 39, 90–91, 99, 104, 107, 114, 116, 130, 177, 179–180, 185

billing, 1, 7, 14, 19, 22, 28, 32, 39, 41, 45–47

black market, 40, 141, 362

Blade Runner,, 266

blogs (bloggers, blogging), 60, 101, 137, 146, 149, 169, 184, 196, 226, 233, 264, 328, 372

blurring of boundaries, xxxii, 195, 199, 205, 226, 232, 236–237, 241–243, 245–247, 252–255, 257, 259–265, 268–269, 271–274, 277–279, 281, 283–286, 288–290, 292

Borg, 129

Borneo, 24

bots, 87, 118, 341

Brazil, 13, 70, 146–147

Brightstar, 13

broadband, 19, 26, 56, 193, 203, 349, 369, 386

broadcasting, xiii, 32

bug, xiii, 36, 42, 80, 372

bureaucracy, 115, 182, 345, 361

Bush administration, 97, 147

business, corporations, x, xiii, xxvi, xxix, 5, 8, 17, 24–27, 34, 36, 40, 42, 45, 50, 62, 67–69, 72–73, 82–83, 94, 117, 126, 131–132, 142, 145, 150, 153, 155–156, 160, 172, 174, 191, 206, 215, 219, 228, 245, 248–250, 253, 258, 260, 265, 267, 272, 276, 280–281, 285, 289, 315–316, 324, 340, 359–261, 367–368, 372, 376