Calculators and computers -- Great brain -- Grace Hopper -- Evolution of the computer -- Vision of the future -- Early home computing -- Laptop -- Networks -- Inventing the World Wide Web -- Undersea cables -- Internet traffic -- Silicon Valley -- Bill Gates -- How Apple grew -- What's behind a website -- What do search engines do? -- Who invented Google? -- Server farm -- Our time online -- Social networking -- Mark Zuckerberg -- Growth of the Web -- Access all areas -- How the Web is run -- Good side of the Web -- Bad side of the Web -- Keeping us safe -- Making money online -- E-buying and selling -- World without wires -- Smartphone -- Text talk -- Eye in the sky -- Where do you want to go? -- What's a wiki? -- Age of the Internet -- Shift to digital media -- E-reader -- Augmented reality -- From arcades to consoles -- Early games -- Tomohiro Nishikado -- Story of Nintendo -- Evolution of game controllers -- Kinect -- Playing together -- How video games are made -- What do you want to play? -- Console wars -- Virtual worlds -- Video games arrive -- Digital camera -- Digital photography -- Clive Sinclair -- Wired cities -- Interacting with new technology -- Supercomputers -- Artificial intelligence -- What makes a robot? -- Types of robots -- Cynthia Breazeal -- Mars Rover -- Robot hospital -- Robot explorers -- Advance of the robots -- What next? -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgments.