Trampled by Unicorns

Index

• 1984 (Orwell), 91–2

• A
• A/B testing, integration, 65
• Advanced Technology Review Council, 127
• affective empathy, 106
• Ahmed, Imran, 46
• Airbnb
  • culture bubble, 14
  • voluntary tax arrangements, negative impact, 31
• algorithmic surveillance, 94
• algorithms
  • audits, usage, 167–8
  • standards setting, 166–71
• Amazon
  • activists, firing, 151
  • antitrust investigation, 136
  • employee activism (France), impact, 151–2
  • federal tax rebate, claim, 34
  • pricing attack, 88–9
  • privacy, absence, 92–4
  • productivity targets (reduction), firings (relationship), 39
  • Rekognition facial recognition technology, shareholder pushback, 123
  • secondary corporate headquarters contest, 30–1
  • tax benefits (Luxembourg), 32–3
• Amazon Europe Holding Technologies, revenue funneling, 32
• ambient surveillance, 154
• Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman), 91
• Andreessen, Marc, 77
• anonymity, preservation, 119
• anti-social networks, 43
• Antitrust
  • capability, reinvigoration, 133–9
  • goals, alignment, 133–4
  • investigation (Amazon), 136
  • tool, 143–4
• Apple
  • investigations, 136–7
  • philanthropic efforts, 29
  • sales tax revenue, Cupertino share, 30
  • work violations, 41–2
• Arab Spring, 43
• Arreola, Lupe, 27–8
• artificial intelligence (AI), 139
  • Big Tech claims, 62
  • capabilities (Google), usage, 97
  • dangers, warning, 167
  • ethics board (Google), 101–2
  • inadequacies, 56
  • products, problems, 167
  • standards setting, 166–71
  • usage, 8, 10, 53
• Ascension, Google (partnership), 97–8
• Asimov, Isaac, 168
• attention economy, 11
• attention, monetization, 65–6
• automation, ...