The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (41 page)

Bernstein, Jared

Bezos, Jeff

Bhutan

BigDog

Black Death

Blecharczyk, Nathan

Blogger

books:

digitization of

Internet retailing of

Boskin Commission

Boston Dynamics

Boudreaux, Donald

bounty

digitization and

productivity growth and

spread vs.

Brabham, Daren

Brain Gain: Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy
(West)

breast cancer

Bresnahan, Tim

Brin, Sergey

broadband

Brookings Institution

Brooks, Rodney

browsers

Brynjolfsson, Erik

Buddha

Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. (BEA)

business:

burdens and mandates on

computer use in;
see also
information technology (IT)

Moore’s Law in

process changes in

regulation of

robot use in;
see also
automation

see also
manufacturing

business cycles

Busque, Leah

Byrne, Donald

California, University of, at Berkeley

call centers

Canada, immigrant entrepreneurship in

Capek, Karel

capital:

bargaining power associated with

intangible

labor’s replacement by

nonhuman

capital, human

see also
superstars

capital, organizational

capitalism

Card, David

Carlsberg breweries

Carnegie Mellon University

Case, Steve

Cato Institute

Cavallo, Alberto

Center for American Progress

Chesky, Brian

chess

Chetty, Raj

Chile, immigrant entrepreneurship in

China:

automation in

capitalism in

manufacturing employment in

Chinn, Menzie

choice modeling

Christmas Carol, A
(Dickens)

Chunara, Rumi

Churchill, Winston

circuits, integrated

Cisco Systems

cities, plunder and conquest of

Clark, John Bates

Clarke, Arthur C.

Cleveland Clinic

Clifton, Jim

Clinton, Bill

cochlear implants

Cohen, Jared

Cohen, Peter

Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA)

Columbus, Christopher

Coming Apart
(Murray)

Coming Jobs War, The
(Clifton)

Commerce Department, U.S.

communication, complex

communications, engineering breakthroughs in

computer grading

computers:

business use of;
see also
information technology (IT)

complex communication by

consumer surplus associated with

early economic arguments about

evolution of

information processing by

language translation by

M2M communication by

Moore’s Law application to

pattern recognition by

personal

productivity gains linked to

real-world capabilities of

skill acquisition and

writing by

see also
artificial intelligence (AI); automation; digitization

computer search

computer viruses

Confucius

consumer products

consumer surplus

content, user-generated

see also
social media

Cook, Philip

Cook, Scott

copyrights

cotton gin

Cowen, Tyler

C-Path

Cragin, Bruce

Craigslist

“Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits” (Moore)

Cray-2 supercomputer

creativity

see also
innovation

crowdsourcing

Cuba

culturomics

Curtis, William

CVS

David, Paul

DeBacker, Jason

Deep Blue

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA):

driverless car challenge of

robotics challenge of

Defense Department, U.S.

Demographic and Health Surveys

Dershowitz, Alan

developing world:

effect of automation on

productivity improvement in

technology in

Diamond, Peter

digitization:

beneficial effects of

of books

bounty created by

challenges of

competitive effects of

constraints in

economic consequences of;
see also
bounty; goods, digital, economics of; spread

economic data made available by

economic properties of

in education

executive pay linked to

as general purpose technology

innovation debate about

labor complements to

labor market effects of;
see also
“winner-take-all” markets

logarithmic scaling of

market domination due to;
see also
“winner-take-all” markets

metrics of

network effects in

niche services created by

physical goods’ improvement and

and Pigovian taxes

rapid progress in;
see also
technological progress

recombinant innovation and

scientific benefits of

ubiquity of

wealth associated with;
see also
superstars

see also
global digital network; second machine age

Doerr, John

Donner, Jan Hein

Dorn, David

Double, telepresence provided by

Double Robotics

Drive
(Pink)

driving:

digitization of

see also
Google driverless car

Dropbox

Dyer, Jeffrey

Dyson, Freeman

Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

Eastman, George

Eastman Kodak

economic growth:

acceleration of

debates concerning

effects of

employment linked to

government role in

limitations on

recombinant innovation and

and tax rates

see also
gross domestic product (GDP); productivity

economic rents

economics, common ground in

Economics: An Introductory Analysis
(Samuelson)

Economist

Edison, Thomas

education

college

feedback in

inequality and

teacher salaries and accountability in

technology in

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight

electrical power

Electronics

El-Ouazzane, Remi

e-mail

empires

employment:

benefits of

of college graduates

and entrepreneurship

globalization and

historical data on

productivity decoupled from

searching for

technological implications for

see also
labor

Encyclopaedia Britannica

energy:

demand elasticity for

falling prices in

Engadget

engineering

entrepreneurship

Europe, productivity improvement in

European Union

exponential growth

eyes:

digital

see also
vision, computer-aided

Facebook

factor price equalization

Fairlie, Robert

FDA

fiber-optic cable

Field, Alexander

Final Jeopardy!
(Baker)

FindTheBest.com

Finland, income inequality in

first machine age,
see
Industrial Revolution

Fischer, Bobby

Fitoussi, Jean-Paul

Fleck, Susan

Flickr

floating point operations

Forbes

Forbes

Forbes.com

Ford, Henry

Foxconn

Frank, Robert

Fraumeni, Barbara

Friedberg, Rachel

Friedman, John

Friedman, Milton

Friendster

Fryer, Roland

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index

Gallup organization

Gandhi, Mahatma

Gates, Bill

Gebbia, Joe

General Conference on Weights and Measures

“General Problem Solver,”

general purpose technologies (GPTs)

genetic engineering

GeoFluent

George, Henry

Germany, income inequality in

Gibson, William

Gizmodo

Glaser, John

global digital network

entertainment on

information access via

innovation fostered by

weaknesses of

see also
Internet; World Wide Web

globalization

Goldin, Claudia

goods, digital:

economics of

GDP’s omission of

reproduction costs of

goods, non-rival

goods, physical, effect of digitization on

Google

search terms on

Google driverless car

Google Translate

Gordon, Robert

Gou, Terry

government, U.S.:

GPS satellites maintained by

see also
economic growth, government role in

GPS

Graetz, Michael

graphics, digital

graphs, logarithmic

Great Depression

Great Recession

Great Stagnation, The
(Cowen)

Greenspan, Alan

Greenstein, Shane

Greenwood, Jeremy

Gregersen, Hal

Grimbergen

gross domestic product (GDP):

alternative metrics to

effect of Great Recession on

increases in

omissions from

U.S. growth in

see also
economic growth; productivity

Guo, Terry

Hall, David

Haltiwanger, John

Hanson, Gordon

Hanushek, Eric

Hayek, Friedrich

health, human:

improvements in

measurements of

Health Affairs

health care coverage

hearing, computer-aided

Heim, Bradley

Hemingway, Ernest

Hendren, Nathaniel

Hendy, Barry

Hewlett Foundation

HireArt

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The
(Adams)

Hitt, Lorin

Holmstrom, Bengt

Homo sapiens

Honda

Hoover, Herbert

housing, online data on

How College Affects Students
(Pascarella and Terenzini)

HTML

Hu, Jeffrey

Hubbard, Elbert

Huberman, Bernardo

Hulu

human development index

humanity, social development of

Hyatt, Henry

IBM

iChat

IDC

ideation,
see
creativity

immigration

income:

average

basic

negative taxes on

normal distributions in

see also
wages

Industrial Revolution

negative consequences of

see also
Second Industrial Revolution

inequality:

consequences of

education and

political

see also
spread

inflation indexes

information, control of

information and communication technology (ICT)

see also
global digital network

Information Rules
(Shapiro and Varian)

information technology (IT):

demand elasticity in

intangible assets associated with

productivity correlated with

infrastructure

technological

Innocentive

innovation

benefits of

complementary

economic measurement of

effect of digitization on

entrepreneurship’s role in

government support of

impact of spread on

open;
see also
crowdsourcing

organizational

population growth and

prizes for

productivity linked to

recombinant

slowing down of

unstable competitive effects of

see also
creativity

Instagram

Intel

intellectual property

International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering

Internet

collective projects on

comparison sites on

consumer surplus created by

creation of

education on

housing data on

retailing on

sharing economy on

time accounting for

traffic on

user costs of

user-generated content on;
see also
social media

see also
global digital network; World Wide Web

Intuit

iOS

iPad

iPhone

iRobot

Israel

iTunes

Jaimovich, Nir

Japan, productivity improvement in

Jaspers, Karl

Jelinek, Frederick

Jennings, Ken

Jensen, Robert

Jeopardy!

Jeppesen, Lars Bo

Jevons paradox

Jobs, Steve

Johnson, Lyndon

Jorgenson, Dale

Joy, Bill

Kaggle

Kalil, Tom

Kane, Tim

Kaplan, Steve

Karabarbounis, Loukas

Karpov, Anatoly

Kasparov, Garry

Katz, Lawrence

Kauffman Foundation

Kayak

Kelly, Kevin

Kelvin, Lord

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kerala, India

Keynes, John Maynard

Khan, Salman

Khan Academy

Kia

Kim, Heekyung

Kinect

KinectFusion