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Index 453Falun Gong 111, 113family relations 27, 223–4Farley, Reynolds 250, 264feminism 18–19financial marketsglobal 24, 28, 31, 37, 198–9, 208–9money 428–9reverses 65social networks 211n4see also trading pitFinlandeducation 49, 70entrepreneurialism 69, 77–80global networks 80–81hacker culture 71–2, 76–7ICT 66–7immigration 80inclusion 52–3information society 68informationalism 50innovation 67–70, 72–3, 74–7IT 66–7mobile telecommunications 67, 69,74–5national identity 82Science and Technology PolicyCouncil 67, 69, 70start-up activity 79–80state support 49, 67, 69, 72–3, 79–80UN Technology Achievement Index49, 51universities 70, 74, 77, 81venture capital 72welfare state 49, 67, 69–70, 79–80,81, 82World Economic Forum 49, 51Fischer, Claude 210n2, 219flexibilityemployment 175, 177, 180–83ICT 9, 11labor 63, 175, 176–83networks 5–6risk 192work 27, 177, 178–80Florida, Richard 425Foot, K. A. 368Forbes, Steve 367Ford, Henry 27–8, 442Foresight exercises 129–30, 139Forrester Research 309FORTA 392France 387, 390, 396Franklin, Benjamin 420Freeman, Christopher 8Friedman, Milton 17FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas)344fundamentalism 34futures 199–201G8 Genoa summit 344Galicia 391, 392Galison, Peter 433Gandhi, Indira 413Gandhi, Mohandas 415Gandhi, Rajiv 404Garcia Canclini, N. 386Garfinkel, Harold 127–8GATT 389–90GDP 64Gellner, E. 387Gemini TV 408, 409gender gapChina 103, 119n15digital divide 235Internet 89, 103, 253, 258online health information 311–12genetic engineering 7, 12–13Gerlach, Luther P. 349German fixed-term bonds 206Gibson, R. K. 370Giddens, Anthony 36, 352, 402global justice movements 342–5Catalonia 349–50computer networks 346–9diversity 356global 345–6Internet 347globalization 16, 18communication 389culture 385electronic technologies 132–3, 204–5ICT 386information flows 163Internet 226localization 391network society 39–40glocalization 347Gorbachev, Mikhail 17Gordon, Richard 59