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2,714 concepts

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic — 75 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
Ray Kurzweil — 247 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
American author, scientist, inventor and futurist
Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem — 53 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
paper by Alan Turing, foundational to theoretical computer science
punch-card reader — 13 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 25 Apr 2023
world market for maybe five computers — 25 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 28 Sep 2023
quantum entanglement — 66 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 5 Oct 2023
There's no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home - Ken Olsen — 10 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 14 Feb 2017
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.
Ted Kaczynski — 45 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
ought to be enough for anybody — 5 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 13 Feb 2017
Law of Accelerating Returns — 49 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
perceived increase in the rate of technological change throughout history
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers — 17 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
Edward Lorenz: Chaos theory — 30 books
first published 1 Dec 1998
Livingstone, I presume — 30 books
first published 5 Nov 1998
surplus humans — 13 books
first published 5 Nov 1998
winner-take-all economy — 93 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
two tier labour market — 8 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
Mahbub ul Haq — 17 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 1 Aug 2021
Pakistani economist (1934-1998)
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
lump of labour — 18 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
Diane Coyle — 49 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
Edward Glaeser — 151 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
American economist (born 1967)
pension time bomb — 6 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 9 Dec 2022
Nick Leeson — 69 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
former derivatives broker
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
pensions crisis — 32 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
predicted difficulty in maintaining pensions
Meghnad Desai — 20 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 22 Jun 2023
British economist and politician (born 1940)
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.
yottabyte — 14 books
first published 31 Aug 1998 added 5 Oct 2023
a unit of digital information storage, equivalent to one septillion bytes
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
microcredit — 116 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
Cheap credit (banks which charge loans at low rate of interest)
George Akerlof — 157 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
an American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on information asymmetry
liquidationism / Banker’s doctrine / the Treasury view — 22 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
equity premium — 40 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
natural interest rate — 10 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 4 Nov 2023
System of National Accounts — 31 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 3 Apr 2025
accounting for nations
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
currency manipulation / currency intervention — 98 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
Slavoj Žižek — 63 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for his work on psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critical theory
The Market for Lemons — 60 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
1970 paper by the economist George Akerlof
pension reform — 74 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
changes made to pension systems to ensure long-term sustainability or improved benefits
payday loans — 130 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
long and variable lags — 6 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 15 Oct 2022
Hyman Minsky — 109 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
American economist
The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth — 22 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
market design — 130 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
practical methodology for creation of markets of certain properties, which is partially based on mechanism design
Kenneth Rogoff — 168 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
Economist and chess player
Al Roth — 9 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.
second-price auction — 24 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
auction priced by second-highest sealed bid
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
addicted to oil — 47 books
first published 11 May 1998 added 4 Sep 2017
over-reliance on oil as an energy source
David Brooks — 238 books
first published 21 Apr 1998
type inference — 40 books
first published 12 Apr 1998
automatic detection of the data type of an expression in a programming language
William Langewiesche — 41 books
first published 15 Feb 1998 added 13 Feb 2017
American journalist
Zipf's Law — 5 books
first published 15 Jan 1998
Paul Erdős — 48 books
first published 15 Jan 1998
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
superconnector — 9 books
first published 2 Jan 1998 added 6 Apr 2018
forensic accounting — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1998
accounting of engagements from disputes or litigation which have or are expected to happen
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
Iridium satellite — 34 books
first published 1998
a series of satellites forming the Iridium satellite constellation for voice and data communication around the globe
error bars — 52 books
first published 1998 added 15 Aug 2024
The Turner Diaries — 11 books
first published 1998 added 9 Jul 2023
When Old Technologies Were New — 14 books
first published 1998 added 30 Jul 2024
Carl Malamud — 14 books
first published 1998 added 11 Dec 2025
American technologist, author and public domain advocate (1959-)
information asymmetry — 231 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
Extropian — 32 books
first published 1998
mandatory minimum — 68 books
first published 1998 added 26 Feb 2017
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
Kuiper Belt — 41 books
first published 8 Sep 1997
area of the Solar System beyond the planetary orbits comprising small bodies
remunicipalization — 8 books
first published 8 Sep 1997 added 25 Sep 2023
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)
avocado toast — 47 books
first published 14 Aug 1997 added 9 Sep 2024
mega-yacht — 60 books
first published 14 May 1997 added 10 Jan 2025
Guggenheim Bilbao — 51 books
first published 14 May 1997
Museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Spain
Islamic Golden Age — 36 books
first published 14 May 1997
period of cultural flourishing in the 8th to 13th centuries
Blue Zone — 49 books
first published 14 May 1997 added 25 Jan 2024
discovery of the americas — 47 books
first published 14 May 1997
the exploration and subsequent colonization of the Americas by European powers, starting with Christopher Columbus in 1492
falling living standards — 88 books
first published 3 Feb 1997 added 29 Dec 2016
seigniorage — 49 books
first published 3 Feb 1997
profit from minting money
cyber war — 155 books
first published 3 Feb 1997 added 27 Oct 2023
Salesforce — 272 books
first published 18 Jan 1997 added 13 Feb 2022
stealth mode startup — 87 books
first published 16 Jan 1997
8-hour work day — 38 books
first published 16 Jan 1997
The Great Good Place — 31 books
first published 15 Jan 1997
Henry Singleton — 17 books
first published 2 Jan 1997 added 13 Feb 2022
caloric restriction — 47 books
first published 2 Jan 1997 added 24 Oct 2021
scientific article published on June 2011
dividend-yielding stocks — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1997
stocks that pay dividends on a regular basis, often appealing to investors looking for current income in addition to capital growth.
battle of ideas — 97 books
first published 1997
a concept referring to the ideological competition between different beliefs, theories, or philosophies
greed is good — 122 books
first published 1997
Bhopal disaster — 25 books
first published 1997 added 7 Oct 2023
a gas leak incident in India in 1984, considered the world's worst industrial disaster
Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall — 56 books
first published 1997
Machine translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." to Russian and back — 12 books
first published 1997
John Conway — 37 books
first published 1997
Science for the People — 12 books
first published 1997 added 19 Mar 2025
negative feedback loop — 91 books
first published 1997 added 8 Oct 2023
lake wobegon effect — 28 books
first published 1997
cognitive bias wherein a person overestimates their own qualities and abilities
telepresence robot — 24 books
first published 1997
a remote-controlled, wheeled device with a display to enable video chat and videoconferencing
hedonic treadmill — 80 books
first published 1997 added 24 Sep 2017
the observed tendency for humans to quickly return to a stable level of happiness despite positive or negative life changes.
John Elkington — 14 books
first published 1997 added 6 Aug 2023
false memory syndrome — 12 books
first published 1997