NAT (Network Address Translation), 401

national security, 301, 306, 322, 326

National Security Agency, 326

nation-state, 399

Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves The, 365

NBC (television), xxiii, 411

Nelson, Ted, 84

netbook (notebook and tablet computers), 73, 76, 82, 85, 95–96, 101, 370, 373, 385, 390, 393, 416

Netflix, 73, 250

netiquette, 200, 204, 445

netizen, 126, 407

Network Nation, The, 145

network neutrality (Net neutrality), 206, 229, 266, 325, 395–435

network society, 141, 197

Neuromancer, 388

news, xiii, 19, 30, 35, 49, 57, 76, 81, 120, 126, 142, 159, 166, 170, 175, 193, 241, 258, 261, 271, 284, 309, 315, 346, 424–425, 428

Next Generation Identification (NGI), 313

Nexus One (phone), 65

Ning, 383

Nintendo, 386

Nokia, xxii, 65, 73, 76, 146, 173, 211, 269, 287, 326, 377, 399, 433

norms (social norms), vi, xiii, xxvii, 28, 35, 77, 101, 109, 111, 115, 132–135, 160, 181–232, 285, 292, 294, 307–308, 312, 315, 323, 325–326, 339, 349, 356, 387, 432

North America, 142, 248, 373

notebook (computers). See netbook

Obama (Barack), Obama administration, 238, 251, 265, 279, 287, 310, 327, 428

obsolete, 56, 94, 211, 215, 244, 273

oligopoly, oligopolist, 374

On the Media, 240

ontology, ontologies, 331, 344, 347–348, 359

open access, openness (network architecture), vi, 71, 78–80, 133, 395–433

open information (transparency of institutions), 237–239, 248, 257, 262, 322, 367, 374

open sharing (openness of private individuals’ personal details), 107–148, 181–233, 309

open source (software, technologies, movement), 48, 78, 80, 272–273, 365

open standards, 80, 95, 413

OpenCalais, 352–353

OpenID, 294, 298

Opera Unite, 377

operating system (OS), xxv, 69–109, 419, 424

opt in, xxiii

opt out, 311

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 266

Orwell, George (Orwellian), 239, 284, 305–306

otaku, 117

Outland, 239

OWL, 335

Palfrey, John, 225

Palm Pilot, 390