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Alphabet Banks, Iain M., 87 archive fever, and, 94–96 Bataille, George, 55 assets, diagram of, 60 Bayesian probability, 171 assets, list of, 56 Benatar, David, 173 corporate social responsibility Bengio, Yoshua, 104 concerns, 61–65 Benkler, Yochai, 51–52, 109, 148 formation, 2, 54–60 Big Tech, 1–2 founders See Brin, Sergey; and Page, bioconservatives, 120–122 Larry biological naturalism, 125 infinite times, and, 5 Black Mirror, 139 lobbying, 61 Black Power Mixtape, The, 110, 112 median salary of employees, 189 Borges, Jorge Luis, 97, 102, 105 monopoly, 60–61, 65, 187–189 Boston Dynamics, 66 political-economic hybrid, 65–67, Bostrom, Nick, 120, 122, 142, 151, 186 164, 169, 172, 175, 182 AlphaGo See DeepMind: AlphaGo Botstein, David, 127 AltaVista, 61 Bourdieu, Pierre, 81 Amazon, 1–2 boyd, danah, 73 amoral analysis, 4 brain uploading, 130 Anderson, Chris, 105 Braudel, Fernand, 98, 100, 103 anti-natalism, 173 bricolage, 107 Apple, 1–2, 45 Brin, Sergey, 43, 47–48, 50–51, 54, 97, archive drowning, 97 144 archive fever, 93 Buddhism, 85 ARPANET (Advanced Research Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 81 Projects Agency Network), 46 bullshit, 137 artificial intelligence, 129, 165, Burke, Edmund, 36–39 178–179 Burke, Kenneth, 100, 112 ascensionists (ready to die), 117–119 Burning Man, 48 Ashley Madison, 77 business and society Asiatic Society of Bengal, 40 definition of field, 6 authoritarian social future, 137–138 ethical theory, and, 6–7 communal level, 140–142 philosophy, and, 10–12 environmental level, 142–146 political theory, and, 7–9 individual level, 138–139 socio-economic theory, and, 9–10 autonomous social future, 146 communal level, 148–152 Calico, 76, 126 environmental level, 154 solve death, 3, 116, 127 individual level, 147–148 Callender, Courtney, 112 Avi-Yonah, Reuven S., 23–25 Cantone, Tiziana, 76, 83

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carefree approach to personal past, 84 data mining and curation, 106 concept of self (disintegrated), 85 Dawkins, Richard, 139 post-disclosure management de Certeau, Michel, 107–108 (possible), 82–84 Deep Blue, 176–177 social norms (capricious), 86–87 deepfakes, 76, 88, 132 target risk (low), 87–89 DeepMind, 65, 142, 151 careful approach to personal past, 78 AlphaGo, 178–179 concept of self (integrated), 78–79 Ethics & Society Research Unit, 121, post-disclosure management 152, 170, 175 (difficult), 82–84 defective action, 133 social norms (predictable), 80–81 Deleuze, Gilles, 151 target risk (high), 81–82 Dennett, Daniel, 106 Carson, Rachel, 169 Derrida, Jacques, 93–94 Carter, Brandon, 170 Dewey, John, 13 Centre for Humane Technology, the, Diamond, Skin (aka Raylin Joy), 85, 90 168 digital dossier, 130, 138 Cerf, Vint, 71–72, 96, 183 contribution by chaebol, 3 corporations, 76–77 Chalmers, David, 130 others, 75–76 chess, 176 yourself, 73–75 chilling effects, 83 definition, 72–73 Chinese Communist Party, 63–64, 142 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 51 Chinese room argument, 126, 131 digital vellum, 96 Christianity, 93, 117 Don’t be Evil, 51, 63, 185 civilization collapse, 164 Donaldson, Thomas, 7 climate change, 147, 152 doomsday, Carter–Leslie argument, Clinton, Bill, 82 170–172 Clinton, Hillary, 64 doxxing, 76, 88–89 Clive, Robert, 38 Dreyfus, Hubert L., 72 Cockell, Charles S., 142, 144, 152 Cohen, Jared, 65–66, 72, 89, 138 Earthrise, 154 Cold Equations, The, 145–146 East India Company, Dutch (Verenigde Comenius, John Amos, 102 Oostindische Compagnie), 35 consciousness, 125 East India Company, English corporate citizenship, 8–9 China’s Century of Humiliation, and, corporate social responsibility 35, 64 political, 8 concept of the firm, and, 40 three drivers of, 30–31 formation, 34 corporations Indian Mutiny, 34 bribery and lobbying, 31 megacorporation characteristics historical conceptions, 23–24 corporate social responsibility multinational, 25–26 concerns, 36–37 normal, 24–25 existential impacts, 39–41 total, 26–28 monopoly, 35–36 Creative Commons, 110 political-economic hybrid, 37–39 opium, and, 35 Dalrymple, William, 34–35 tea, and, 36 Damore, James, 62–63 egalatarians (ready to die), 119–120 Danaher, John, 179 Eggers, David, 22, 60 Darwin, Charles, 96 ennuists (ready to die), 122–124

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ESA (European Space Agency), 153 Greimas, Algirdas J., 4, 159–161 Etzioni, Amitai, 72, 140 GV (Google Ventures), 116, 126, 150, Ex Machina, 132 185 existence is fucked (extinction ideology), 172 Habermas, Jürgen, 8, 11, 100 existential impacts, 34 Harari, Yuval Noah, 118, 120, 126, 128, 181 Facebook, 1–2 Hardin, Garrett, 140 faceswap, 76 heaven, 117 Federal Telegraph Corporation, 44 Hennessey, John L., 48 Feyerabend, Paul, 86 Hinton, Geoffrey, 104 Figes, Orlando, 74–75 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the, Floridi, Luciano, 88, 97, 181 176 Foer, Franklin, 2 Hobsbawm, Eric, 111 Foucault, Michel, 12, 33–34, 85, 102 horrible humans (extinction ideology), 172 Gates, Bill, 53, 116 Hsu, Feng-hsiung, 176–179 Gibson, William, 22–23, 60 Hume, David, 79, 84–85 Global Network Initiative, 65 Go, 177 IBM See Deep Blue Goffman, Erving, 26, 80 ideology, 4 Google extinction, 169 advertising, and, 50–51, 77 Alphabet-created threat, 166–169 censorship in China, 63–65 other-created threat, 174 copyright, and, 51–52 future primitive, 164 corporate social responsibility Alphabet-created threat, 164–166 concerns See Alphabet; other-created threat, 166–169 corporate social responsibility singularity, the, 116, 175 concerns Alphabet-created threat, 175–180 formation, 47 other-created threat, 180–182 founders See Brin, Sergey; and Page, Impossible Foods, 150 Larry infinite times IPO (Initial Public Offering), 53 analytic benefits of, 5 mission statement, 54 definition, 4, 162 monopoly See Alphabet; monopoly semiotic square formulation, 161 trade secrets, and, 49 invented traditions, 111 Google Arts & Culture, 108, 163 Islam, 117 Google Books, 53, 99, 103–104, 163 ISS (International Space Station), 154 Google Cultural Institute, 95 Google.org, 53, 152 Jameson, Fredric, 4, 159 Google Duplex, 130, 132 Jigsaw, 65, 72 Google Earth Engine, 152, 163 Jonas, Hans, 141, 169 Google Environmental Insight Jones, William, 40 Explorer, 147 Joy, Bill, 175, 180 Google News Initiative, 147 Judaism, 93, 117 Google Photos, 163 Google Street View, 53 Kant, Immanuel, 6, 11, 33, 100 Gray, John, 172 Kardashian, Kim, 133 great library, 96–97, 141 Kasparov, Garry, 176–178 green authoritarianism, 140 Kass, Leon, 121

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Ke, Jie, 178 definition, 2 keiretsu, 3 fiction, in, 21–23 Khan, Lina, 187 Mekelburg, Amy Jane, 88 Kierkegaard, Soren, 133 mélange history, 106 Kieslowski, Krzystof, 133 data (appropriate), 106–108 Kobek, Jarret, 22, 84, 116 goals (development), 111–113 Korsgaard, Christine M., 79, 85, 133 tools and techniques (remix), Kuhn, Thomas, 86 109–111 Kurzweil, Ray, 115–116, 124, 126, world view (contextual), 108–109 129, 131, 175 method, purpose-driven, 13 Microsoft, 1–2, 61 Lachmann, Ludwig, 86–87 Mill, John Stuart, 41, 88 Lajeunesse, Ross, 185 monopolies, types of, 29–30 Lakatos, Imre, 86 moonshots, 3, 53 LeCun, Yann, 104 Moretti, Franco, 96, 99, 103–104, 106 Lee, Sedol, 178 Morozov, Evgeny, 2, 53–54, 138 Leslie, John, 170 Murdoch, Rupert, 52 Lessig, Lawrence, 109 Musk, Elon, 143 Levandowski, Anthony, 180–182 Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 107 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Lewinsky, Monica, 82 Administration), 148, 153 life expectancy, global inequality, national business systems, 9 119 Nest, 3–4, 95, 113 Ngram Viewer, 100, 106 machine learning, 103, 106, 151 Nisbett, Robert, 80, 162 Makropolus Case, the, 122 Nozick, Robert, 151 Maris, Bill, 116, 126, 128 Nussbaum, Martha, 123, 128 Mars, 143–144 Marx, Karl, 32, 111 Obama, Barack, 188 Massachusetts Bay Company, 13 Olson, Bree, 89–90 massive history, 98 Olsson, Göran, 110, 112 data (all of it), 98–100 Orbital Insight, 3, 94, 113, 153 goals (description and explanation), orientalism See East India Company, 104–106 English; megacorporation tools and techniques (count and characteristics; existential learn), 103–104 impacts world view (objective), 100–103 Other Bets, 55, 163 Mayer, Marissa, 53 Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor, 72 Page, Larry, 43, 47–48, 50–51, 54, 97, Mearsheimer, John J., 21, 190 115–116, 144, 163, 183 meatsack, 126, 129 PageRank, 47, 49 megacorporations Parfit, Derek, 6, 79, 85, 132, 170 characteristics of Pascal’s wager, 118 corporate social responsibility Peirce, Charles S., 105 concerns, 31 Pichai, Sundar, 47 existential impacts, 33 Popper, Karl, 81 monopoly, 30 pornography, 73–74, 81, 85, 89–91 political-economic hybrid, 33 post-humanism, 122, 181 comparison to other corporate types, post-truth, 88 28–29 President’s Council on Bioethics, the, 121

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privacy, proposed death of, 71–72 Stanford University Private Eye, The (Digital Comic), Centre for Internet and Society, 110 77–78 Google, and, 47–48 private military, 32 Silicon Valley, and, 43–45 progress, the idea of, 80 US Military, and, 46 Pullman Company and Stephenson, Neal, 101 Neighbourhood, 26–27 Superintelligence, 175, 182 sustainable development, 136 reversal test, 121 right to be forgotten, 3, 81 Tainter, Joseph, 164 Ritzer, Goerge, 33 TensorFlow, 76 Robinson, Kim S., 154 Terman, Frederick, 44 Rorty, Richard, 109 Thrun, Sebastian, 53 Royal Society, 101 tragedy of the commons, 140 Trump, Donald, 186, 188 Said, Edward, 40–41 Turing test, 131 Schmidt, Eric, 47–48, 65–67, 72, 89 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 34, 173–174 Uber, 180 Scott-Heron, Gil, 119 Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski), 166–167 Searle, John R., 125 US Defense Innovation Board, 66 Second Life, 144 Selﬁsh Ledger, The, 139, 142 Varian, Hal, 91, 138, 142 semiotic square, 160 Verily, 127 sequential yous, 125 VHMET (Voluntary Human Extinction personal projection (orderly), 128–129 Movement), 174 substrate (dependent), 125–128 virtual, societies, 150 sexual fetish, 81 von Neumann, John, 46 Shameless Maya, 108 Sidewalk Labs, 95, 113, 137 Way of the Future, See Levandowski, Sidgwick, Henry, 85 Anthony Silicon Valley Waymo, 180 entrepreneurs and venture capital, 46 Weber, Max, 21, 33 history, 43–44 Weiner, Anthony, 82 US Military, and, 46–47 Whitey on the Moon, 119 simultaneous yous, 129 Wikipedia, 148 personal projection (portfolio), Wilkins, John, 101 132–134 Williams, Bernard, 122, 128 substrate (independent), pages before World Commission on Environment personal projection (portfolio) and Development, 136 130–132 World of Warcraft, 144 Singer, Peter, 63 Wu, Tim, 2 Singularity University, 116, 175 singularity, the See ideology: X, 53–54, 139, 141, 180 singularity, the Six Wakes, 130 Yahoo!, 61 Smith, Adam, 36–38, 165 YouTube, 76, 95, 110, 113, 187 Solove, Daniel J., 72, 75–76 solve death See Calico: solve death Zerzan, John, 164, 167–168 SpaceX, 4, 143 Zuboff, Shoshana, 2, 66, 77, 91, 138, stakeholder theory, 8 163