battle of ideas
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97 books
first published
1997
a concept referring to the ideological competition between different beliefs, theories, or philosophies
Wolfskehl Prize
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3 books
first published
1997
German physician and mathematician
Oklahoma City bombing
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83 books
first published
1997
added 9 Jul 2023
a domestic terrorist attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA, in 1995 that resulted in 168 deaths
Bhopal disaster
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25 books
first published
1997
added 7 Oct 2023
a gas leak incident in India in 1984, considered the world's worst industrial disaster
export processing zone
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48 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 10 Aug 2023
area where goods may be landed, stored, handled, manufactured, reconfigured, or re-exported under specific customs regulation and generally not subject to customs duty
Genentech
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119 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 20 Mar 2025
biotech company
Mosaic web browser
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88 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 8 Oct 2023
popular early web browser
the new new thing
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61 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 23 Feb 2017
a term often used to describe a recent innovation or trend that is considered a breakthrough or revolutionary in some way.
invention of the steam engine
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50 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
an advancement that powered the Industrial Revolution, invented in various forms by people like Thomas Newcomen and James Watt.
digital divide
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161 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 5 Oct 2023
the gap between those who have access to modern information and communications technology and those who do not.
Silicon Valley startup
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324 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
a new business venture based in Silicon Valley, often in the tech or digital sector, aiming for rapid growth and, frequently, a lucrative exit strategy
Long Now Foundation
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58 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 26 Jun 2024
nonprofit organization
social software
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47 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
software that facilitates social interactions, communications, and collaborations among users
moral panic
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171 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 5 Mar 2017
feeling of fear spread among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society
content marketing
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57 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 27 Nov 2021
a type of digital marketing based on online content (text, video, audio and images) typically published on digital platforms and social media platforms.
peer-to-peer
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161 books
first published
31 Aug 1996
added 24 May 2017
type of decentralized and distributed network architecture
Thomas Bayes
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85 books
first published
23 Aug 1996
added 21 Feb 2017
an 18th-century statistician and Presbyterian minister best known for formulating Bayes' theorem, which is fundamental to probability theory.
Alvin Roth
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27 books
first published
23 Aug 1996
added 9 Aug 2017
Bayesian statistics
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63 books
first published
23 Aug 1996
added 21 Feb 2017
a branch of statistics based on the Bayesian probability theory
tulipmania
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36 books
first published
23 Aug 1996
added 21 Mar 2024
17th-century economic bubble in the Netherlands
Philip Mirowski
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66 books
first published
23 Aug 1996
added 10 Feb 2017
US professor
family office
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119 books
first published
1996
family controlled investment group
purchasing power parity
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228 books
first published
1996
economic theory that states that the exchange rate between two countries is equal to the ratio of the currencies' respective purchasing power
Machynlleth
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22 books
first published
1996
added 13 Feb 2024
Vint Cerf
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83 books
first published
1996
added 1 Mar 2025
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Leonard Kleinrock
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26 books
first published
1996
added 5 Mar 2017
American computer scientist
Compatible Time-Sharing System
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20 books
first published
1996
added 3 Jun 2023
early and influential timesharing operating system developed at MIT in early 1960s for IBM 7090 mainframe
Hush-A-Phone
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12 books
first published
1996
privacy enhancing telephone device
Transnistria
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26 books
first published
1996
a breakaway state located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border with Ukraine, not internationally recognised
ending welfare as we know it
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42 books
first published
1996
added 30 Dec 2016
a phrase popularised by Bill Clinton during his presidency, referring to welfare reform policies
Marc Andreessen
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256 books
first published
1996
added 20 Feb 2017
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
Bob Noyce
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39 books
first published
15 Nov 1995
added 21 Feb 2017
American businessman and engineer
SimCity
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59 books
first published
15 Nov 1995
added 24 Sep 2023
Biosphere 2
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34 books
first published
14 Feb 1995
added 21 Oct 2020
Apple Newton
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27 books
first published
14 Feb 1995
added 28 Jun 2022
PDA platform by Apple Inc.
Big Tech
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332 books
first published
14 Feb 1995
added 22 Feb 2022
label for large technology companies including Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms and Microsoft
Hacker Ethic
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71 books
first published
15 Jan 1995
moral values and philosophy that are common in hacker culture
Conway's Game of Life
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20 books
first published
15 Jan 1995
Two-dimensional cellular automaton devised by J. H. Conway in 1970
strong AI
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69 books
first published
15 Jan 1995
Danny Hillis
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56 books
first published
15 Jan 1995
added 30 Dec 2016
American computer scientist
Stuart Kauffman
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48 books
first published
15 Jan 1995
added 5 Oct 2023
an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher concerning the origin of life on Earth
UUNET
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19 books
first published
15 Jan 1995
added 1 Jun 2022
Rodney Brooks
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70 books
first published
15 Jan 1995
Australian roboticist
debt deflation
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66 books
first published
2 Jan 1995
theory that recessions and depressions are due to the overall level of debt rising in real value because of deflation
We are all Keynesians now
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37 books
first published
2 Jan 1995
added 26 Sep 2023
a phrase attributed to Milton Friedman and Richard Nixon signifying the general acceptance of Keynesian economics in the 1960s and 1970s
Bay Area Rapid Transit
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48 books
first published
2 Jan 1995
a public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area
deglobalization
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58 books
first published
2 Jan 1995
process of diminishing interdependence and integration between certain units around the world
financial intermediation
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120 books
first published
2 Jan 1995
the process of facilitating the flow of funds from savers to borrowers through financial institutions
Gini coefficient
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204 books
first published
2 Jan 1995
measure of inequality in income or wealth distribution
low-wage service sector
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38 books
first published
2 Jan 1995
industries that provide services rather than goods and generally pay lower wages, often without benefits or job security
revenue passenger mile
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5 books
first published
1995
added 27 Oct 2021
unit for revenue passenger transport work defined as the number of persons in a vehicle multiplied by kilometers transported