Mary Meeker
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62 books
first published
29 Sep 1999
added 19 Jun 2022
an American venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst, known for her annual 'Internet Trends' reports
millennium bug
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36 books
first published
28 Sep 1999
a computer bug related to the rollover into the year 2000. Many feared it would cause failures in computing systems, although the impact was generally mild.
Grace Hopper
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63 books
first published
28 Sep 1999
added 3 Jan 2017
an American computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral, known for pioneering work in computer programming
Admiral Zheng
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45 books
first published
14 Sep 1999
Ming Dynasty admiral, explored and influenced Indian Ocean
Seaside, Florida
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17 books
first published
17 Aug 1999
unincorporated master-planned community in Walton County, Florida
Harry Beck
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27 books
first published
16 Jul 1999
added 21 Aug 2024
RFID
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174 books
first published
15 Feb 1999
technology using electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects
3D printing
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229 books
first published
15 Feb 1999
layer-by-layer additive process used to make a three-dimensional object
McMansion
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171 books
first published
15 Jan 1999
added 15 Oct 2020
large mass-produced dwelling
mega-rich
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63 books
first published
15 Jan 1999
added 13 Feb 2017
Darwin Awards
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20 books
first published
15 Jan 1999
added 6 Jan 2025
X Prize
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64 books
first published
2 Jan 1999
a public competition intended to encourage technological development, often in fields like space travel, energy, and healthcare.
SpaceShipOne
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42 books
first published
2 Jan 1999
added 10 Nov 2021
suborbital, air-launched spaceplane
dirty bomb
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106 books
first published
2 Jan 1999
added 22 Nov 2023
radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives to contaminate an area with radioactive material, serving primarily as an area denial device against civilians
Clay Shirky
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145 books
first published
2 Jan 1999
added 28 Feb 2024
American technology writer
mirror neurons
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93 books
first published
2 Jan 1999
added 23 Oct 2022
Virgin Galactic
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85 books
first published
2 Jan 1999
added 11 Nov 2021
American spaceflight company
worker-owned cooperative
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38 books
first published
1999
added 17 Jun 2024
cooperative that is owned and self-managed by its workers
Ray Oldenburg
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27 books
first published
1999
American sociologist
Brewster Kahle
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39 books
first published
1999
American computer engineer, founder of the Internet Archive
Barry Marshall: ulcers
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21 books
first published
1999
an Australian physician who proved that ulcers are caused by the bacteria H. pylori
biodiversity loss
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90 books
first published
1999
added 3 Oct 2023
extinction of species worldwide, and also the local reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat
carbon credits
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92 books
first published
1999
added 25 Sep 2023
certificates that allow the holder to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide, often traded as part of emissions reduction schemes
space tourism
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76 books
first published
1999
added 23 Nov 2023
space travel for recreational purposes
Law of Accelerating Returns
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48 books
first published
31 Dec 1998
perceived increase in the rate of technological change throughout history
Hans Moravec
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63 books
first published
31 Dec 1998
added 20 Nov 2021
an Austrian-born roboticist and futurist known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the future of non-biological intelligence.
Ted Kaczynski
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40 books
first published
31 Dec 1998
American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
Ray Kurzweil
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241 books
first published
31 Dec 1998
American author, scientist, inventor and futurist
Nick Leeson
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69 books
first published
29 Oct 1998
former derivatives broker
Meghnad Desai
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19 books
first published
29 Oct 1998
added 22 Jun 2023
British economist and politician (born 1940)
Tobin tax
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44 books
first published
29 Oct 1998
a proposed tax on spot currency conversions, named after economist James Tobin, aimed at reducing volatility in foreign exchange markets
invention of the sewing machine
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7 books
first published
29 Oct 1998
added 20 Mar 2018
the development of a machine for stitching fabric, attributed to various inventors but commercialised by Isaac Singer in the 19th century
Mahbub ul Haq
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15 books
first published
29 Oct 1998
added 1 Aug 2021
Pakistani economist (1934-1998)
pensions crisis
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32 books
first published
29 Oct 1998
predicted difficulty in maintaining pensions
everywhere but in the productivity statistics
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30 books
first published
29 Oct 1998
a phrase describing the paradox where technological advancements seem ubiquitous but do not appear to be reflected in improved productivity metrics.
Edward Glaeser
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144 books
first published
29 Oct 1998
American economist (born 1967)
yottabyte
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14 books
first published
31 Aug 1998
added 5 Oct 2023
a unit of digital information storage, equivalent to one septillion bytes
George Akerlof
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154 books
first published
30 Aug 1998
an American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on information asymmetry
Slavoj Žižek
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60 books
first published
30 Aug 1998
a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for his work on psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critical theory
Hyman Minsky
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106 books
first published
30 Aug 1998
American economist
bond market vigilante
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33 books
first published
30 Aug 1998
added 25 Oct 2021
investors who sell bonds, driving up yields, as a protest against fiscal or monetary policies they consider inflationary
microcredit
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113 books
first published
30 Aug 1998
Cheap credit (banks which charge loans at low rate of interest)
Financial Instability Hypothesis
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38 books
first published
30 Aug 1998
an economic theory proposed by Hyman Minsky, suggesting that financial markets are inherently unstable and prone to crises
pension reform
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73 books
first published
30 Aug 1998
changes made to pension systems to ensure long-term sustainability or improved benefits
Kenneth Rogoff
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164 books
first published
11 Jun 1998
Economist and chess player
second-price auction
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24 books
first published
11 Jun 1998
auction priced by second-highest sealed bid
Al Roth
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8 books
first published
11 Jun 1998
an American economist known for his work in game theory, market design, and experimental economics. He is a Nobel laureate in Economics.
market design
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122 books
first published
11 Jun 1998
practical methodology for creation of markets of certain properties, which is partially based on mechanism design
F. W. de Klerk
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27 books
first published
11 May 1998
added 3 Feb 2017
7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
addicted to oil
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45 books
first published
11 May 1998
added 4 Sep 2017
over-reliance on oil as an energy source
type inference
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40 books
first published
12 Apr 1998
automatic detection of the data type of an expression in a programming language
Paul Erdős
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47 books
first published
15 Jan 1998
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
forensic accounting
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74 books
first published
2 Jan 1998
accounting of engagements from disputes or litigation which have or are expected to happen
Bollinger bands
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17 books
first published
1998
added 28 Oct 2023
type of statistical chart characterizing the prices and volatility of a financial instrument or commodity
workplace surveillance
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20 books
first published
1998
added 22 Sep 2023
the use of technology to monitor employees in the workplace, often to improve productivity or security