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Index

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Académie Française, 180

Ackoff, Russell, 34

aeolipile, 185

Age of Spiritual Machines, The, 64

Agnew, Spiro, 76

air pollution, 140–41, 197

air travel early, 204–5

human-powered, 190

jet lag and, 145–46

record speeds for, 68–69

supersonic, 76, 78, 195

transatlantic, 191–92

Alexandria, library at, 49

Alice in Wonderland, 141

altitude sickness, 145

Amara, Roy, 25

Amara’s Law, 25

Amazon, 186

American Express, 89

American Sign Language, 181

America Online (AOL), 89, 186, 187

Anderson, Poul, 31

Ansari X Prize, 190–91

answering machines, 89

Apollo program, 78, 158

Appleseed, Johnny, 36

Ariane 5, 54

Arkwright, Richard, 204

Armstrong, Edwin, 206–7

Around the World in Eighty Days, 145

artificial intelligence (AI), 16, 74, 75–76

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