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mirror neurons — 97 books
first published 2 Jan 1999 added 23 Oct 2022
+91
X Prize — 64 books
first published 2 Jan 1999
a public competition intended to encourage technological development, often in fields like space travel, energy, and healthcare.
+58
Clay Shirky — 151 books
first published 2 Jan 1999 added 28 Feb 2024
American technology writer
person
+145
dirty bomb — 109 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
+103
SpaceShipOne — 40 books
first published 2 Jan 1999 added 10 Nov 2021
suborbital, air-launched spaceplane
+34
space tourism — 81 books
first published 1999 added 23 Nov 2023
space travel for recreational purposes
+75
corporate social responsibility — 199 books
first published 1999
form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model
+193
Metcalfe’s law — 73 books
first published 1999 added 14 Feb 2017
+67
Ray Oldenburg — 29 books
first published 1999
American sociologist
+23
Helicobacter pylori — 45 books
first published 1999 added 26 Oct 2021
+39
worker-owned cooperative — 39 books
first published 1999 added 17 Jun 2024
cooperative that is owned and self-managed by its workers
+33
Brewster Kahle — 41 books
first published 1999
American computer engineer, founder of the Internet Archive
person
+35
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) — 101 books
first published 1999 added 5 Mar 2017
+95
carbon credits — 98 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
+92
internet strangers — 74 books
first published 1999 added 28 Feb 2024
+68
Barry Marshall: ulcers — 25 books
first published 1999
an Australian physician who proved that ulcers are caused by the bacteria H. pylori
+19
narrative nonfiction — 50 books
first published 1999 added 17 Jun 2024
+44
biodiversity loss — 99 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
+93
Metcalfe's law — 73 books
first published 1999
empirical rule that that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of its number of users
+67
regenerative medicine — 63 books
first published 1999 added 23 Nov 2023
+57
There's no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home - Ken Olsen — 14 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 14 Feb 2017
+8
Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem — 54 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
paper by Alan Turing, foundational to theoretical computer science
+48
quantum entanglement — 68 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 5 Oct 2023
+62
Hans Moravec — 65 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.
+59
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers — 18 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
+12
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic — 76 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
+70
Ted Kaczynski — 47 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
+41
Ray Kurzweil — 253 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
American author, scientist, inventor and futurist
person
+247
ought to be enough for anybody — 5 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 13 Feb 2017
punch-card reader — 12 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 25 Apr 2023
+6
Innovator's Dilemma — 151 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
+145
Law of Accelerating Returns — 49 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
perceived increase in the rate of technological change throughout history
+43
Edward Lorenz: Chaos theory — 31 books
first published 1 Dec 1998
+25
surplus humans — 16 books
first published 5 Nov 1998
+10
Livingstone, I presume — 30 books
first published 5 Nov 1998
+24
two tier labour market — 8 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
+2
lump of labour — 18 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
+12
Edward Glaeser — 154 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
American economist (born 1967)
+148
pensions crisis — 32 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
predicted difficulty in maintaining pensions
+26
Nick Leeson — 69 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
former derivatives broker
person
+63
Meghnad Desai — 20 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 22 Jun 2023
British economist and politician (born 1940)
+14
Tobin tax — 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
+38
pension time bomb — 6 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 9 Dec 2022
winner-take-all economy — 95 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
+89
Diane Coyle — 50 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
+44
Mahbub ul Haq — 16 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 1 Aug 2021
Pakistani economist (1934-1998)
+10
invention of the sewing machine — 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
+1
everywhere but in the productivity statistics — 31 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.
+25
yottabyte — 14 books
first published 31 Aug 1998 added 5 Oct 2023
a unit of digital information storage, equivalent to one septillion bytes
+8
bond market vigilante — 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
+27
The Market for Lemons — 61 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
1970 paper by the economist George Akerlof
+55
payday loans — 133 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
+127
System of National Accounts — 31 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 3 Apr 2025
accounting for nations
+25
currency manipulation / currency intervention — 101 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
+95
microcredit — 92 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
Cheap credit (banks which charge loans at low rate of interest)
+86
equity premium — 40 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
+34
liquidationism / Banker’s doctrine / the Treasury view — 22 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
+16
Slavoj Žižek — 65 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for his work on psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critical theory
+59
Hyman Minsky — 110 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
American economist
+104
long and variable lags — 6 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 15 Oct 2022
The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth — 23 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 23 Feb 2017
a quote highlighting the global reach and convenience of modern commerce, often attributed to Keynes
+17
natural interest rate — 10 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 4 Nov 2023
+4
pension reform — 75 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
changes made to pension systems to ensure long-term sustainability or improved benefits
+69
George Akerlof — 158 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
an American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on information asymmetry
person
+152
Financial Instability Hypothesis — 40 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
an economic theory proposed by Hyman Minsky, suggesting that financial markets are inherently unstable and prone to crises
+34
Kenneth Rogoff — 171 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
Economist and chess player
+165
market design — 131 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
practical methodology for creation of markets of certain properties, which is partially based on mechanism design
+125
Al Roth — 10 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.
person
+4
second-price auction — 147 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
auction priced by second-highest sealed bid
+141
addicted to oil — 48 books
first published 11 May 1998 added 4 Sep 2017
over-reliance on oil as an energy source
+42
F. W. de Klerk — 27 books
first published 11 May 1998 added 3 Feb 2017
7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
+21
David Brooks — 241 books
first published 21 Apr 1998
+235
type inference — 40 books
first published 12 Apr 1998
automatic detection of the data type of an expression in a programming language
+34
William Langewiesche — 41 books
first published 15 Feb 1998 added 13 Feb 2017
American journalist
+35
Zipf's Law — 50 books
first published 15 Jan 1998
+44
Paul Erdős — 49 books
first published 15 Jan 1998
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
person
+43
forensic accounting — 77 books
first published 2 Jan 1998
accounting of engagements from disputes or litigation which have or are expected to happen
+71
Bollinger bands — 17 books
first published 1998 added 28 Oct 2023
type of statistical chart characterizing the prices and volatility of a financial instrument or commodity
+11
information asymmetry — 232 books
first published 1998 added 27 Aug 2017
a situation in which one party in a transaction has more or better information than the other, creating an imbalance of power
+226
Carl Malamud — 14 books
first published 1998 added 11 Dec 2025
American technologist, author and public domain advocate (1959-)
person
+8
Extropian — 32 books
first published 1998
+26
workplace surveillance — 21 books
first published 1998 added 22 Sep 2023
the use of technology to monitor employees in the workplace, often to improve productivity or security
+15
mandatory minimum — 69 books
first published 1998 added 26 Feb 2017
+63
The Turner Diaries — 11 books
first published 1998 added 9 Jul 2023
+5
When Old Technologies Were New — 14 books
first published 1998 added 30 Jul 2024 book
+8
error bars — 52 books
first published 1998 added 15 Aug 2024
+46
remunicipalization — 5 books
first published 8 Sep 1997 added 25 Sep 2023
Kuiper Belt — 43 books
first published 8 Sep 1997
area of the Solar System beyond the planetary orbits comprising small bodies
+37
safety bicycle — 24 books
first published 1 Sep 1997 added 20 Aug 2022
archaic term for pedal-driven bicycles with equal-size front and rear wheels, geartrain and tires ("common" bicycle)
+18
avocado toast — 50 books
first published 14 Aug 1997 added 9 Sep 2024
+44
hero’s journey — 83 books
first published 6 Jul 1997 added 25 Mar 2026
+77
mega-yacht — 61 books
first published 14 May 1997 added 10 Jan 2025
+55
Guggenheim Bilbao — 45 books
first published 14 May 1997
Museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Spain
+39
discovery of the americas — 48 books
first published 14 May 1997
the exploration and subsequent colonization of the Americas by European powers, starting with Christopher Columbus in 1492
+42
Blue Zone — 50 books
first published 14 May 1997 added 25 Jan 2024
+44
Islamic Golden Age — 38 books
first published 14 May 1997
period of cultural flourishing in the 8th to 13th centuries
+32
cyber war — 157 books
first published 3 Feb 1997 added 27 Oct 2023
+151
seigniorage — 51 books
first published 3 Feb 1997
profit from minting money
+45
Salesforce — 270 books
first published 18 Jan 1997 added 13 Feb 2022
+264
Kickstarter — 388 books
first published 16 Jan 1997 tech
+382