Social Machines: How to Develop Connected Products That Change Customers' Lives

Index

A

Abstraction

interface with computers and

location as

Abstraction, history of

binary code and digital computers

computer networks

language and books

social abstraction and information turned to knowledge

telegraph communication

Access, as social machine attribute

Airbnb and

implications for product design

overview

Zipcar and

Accommodation services, Airbnb and

Activity, as social machine attribute

implications for product design

overview

Adafruit

Advanced Circuits

Airbnb

access as social machine attribute and

retrofit business model

Amazon

delivery as primary product of

Elastic Compute Cloud

Kindle

Andreessen, Marc

ANT networks

Apple Computer

Apple II

developer platform and

interfaces and

iPhone and

Application programming interfaces (APIs)

avatar design issues and

benefits of open

HVAC example

Nest and

weather station applications

Applications, as social machine design component

Arduino

ARPANET

Arrow

Asimov, Isaac

Automobiles. See also Transportation services

anthropomorphizing of

computers in

gathering weather data from

ODB ports and

sharing services and

social machine possibilities for

Avatars. See also Social seven attributes

as digital presence of product

interfaces with computers and

as social machine design component

Axeda

B

Battery life, design issues and

Behavioral economics

BERG Team

Bezos, Jeff

Bicycle, social machine possibilities of

data sets available from

government’s benefits

groups of riders’ benefits

individual riders’ benefits

manufacturers’ benefits