grassroots, 82, 154, 355

Gratis, 140

Greece, 251

Gresham’s law, xii

grid (off the grid), x, xxv, 29, 81, 86, 157, 173, 295, 298, 305–306, 308–309, 311, 313–314, 317, 319, 322–331, 333

Guatemala, 57

Gutenberg, Johannes, 218

hacker (hacked, hacking), 7, 23, 38, 42–43, 101, 108, 122, 141, 299, 313, 316, 326, 332

HAL, 103, 105

Halo (Halo 2), 207

handheld devices, 19, 26, 208

haptic capabilities, 227

hardware, xxx, 4, 29, 38, 46, 108, 140, 201, 276, 340, 355, 360–361, 364

health (health care), 9, 67, 145, 149, 156, 218, 277, 364

hegemony, 51, 175, 268

high definition (hi-def), 212

high-speed networks (connections and links), 7, 20–21, 27, 202, 240, 270, 291

Hindi, 53, 70, 74

Hollywood, 72, 98

holodeck, 208, 216

hologram, 228

Homeland Security, Department of, 106, 136, 156, 342

homogenize (homogenization), 51, 57, 133, 240, 266, 268, 289

human rights, xxxiii, 101, 132, 147, 172, 182, 324, 339, 342–344, 351, 366, 377

Hungarian language, 69

Hurricane Katrina, 81

Hutterites, 327

hype (overhype), 111, 119, 121, 224, 297, 361

hyper-realism, 197

ICANN. See Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

ICT. See information and communications technologies

identity (ID), 6, 20, 27, 67, 104, 107, 120, 131–133, 138, 144, 155–156, 166, 173, 178, 196, 238, 248, 254, 256, 258, 253, 266, 269–270, 283, 313–314, 329, 331

theft, 15, 40, 92, 111, 132, 166–168, 175, 341, 345, 349, 357

illiteracy. See literacy

IImagining the Internet,, xiv, xvi, xx

IMAX theaters, 203

immersion (immersive environments), 190, 193, 200, 203–204, 209, 224, 228–229

immigrant, 138, 284

India, 11, 13, 19, 26, 30, 44, 53, 70, 73, 238, 245, 251, 255, 268, 272, 275, 286, 376

Indian language, 66–67

industrial revolution, 301, 325

information. See also Informing Ourselves to Death

age, xxxiii, 242, 251, 258

and communications technologies (ICT), xxxiii, 35, 37, 57, 164, 231, 243, 261, 315, 327, 334, 337, 343–344, 347, 349, 354, 361, 363