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2,618 concepts

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Marc Andreessen — 240 books
first published 1996 added 20 Feb 2017
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
continuation of politics by other means — 34 books
first published 1996 added 12 May 2017
first square of the chessboard — 12 books
first published 15 Nov 1995
invention of the printing press — 100 books
first published 15 Nov 1995
Bill Gates: Altair 8800 — 28 books
first published 15 Nov 1995
Von Neumann architecture — 44 books
first published 15 Nov 1995
computer architecture
SimCity — 59 books
first published 15 Nov 1995 added 24 Sep 2023
first square of the chessboard / second half of the chessboard — 18 books
first published 15 Nov 1995 added 29 Dec 2016
a concept referring to the point where an exponentially growing factor begins to have a significant economic impact on an organisation's overall business strategy
Bob Noyce — 39 books
first published 15 Nov 1995 added 21 Feb 2017
American businessman and engineer
1960s counterculture — 76 books
first published 13 Nov 1995
MVC pattern — 54 books
first published 18 Jul 1995
supersonic airliner — 25 books
first published 1 Mar 1995 added 8 Oct 2023
commercial airliner able to fly faster than the speed of sound
Kevin Kelly — 208 books
first published 14 Feb 1995
Big Tech — 300 books
first published 14 Feb 1995 added 22 Feb 2022
label for large technology companies including Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms and Microsoft
Apple Newton — 25 books
first published 14 Feb 1995 added 28 Jun 2022
PDA platform by Apple Inc.
Biosphere 2 — 31 books
first published 14 Feb 1995 added 21 Oct 2020
Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy! — 133 books
first published 14 Feb 1995
Stuart Kauffman — 47 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
Hacker Ethic — 71 books
first published 15 Jan 1995
moral values and philosophy that are common in hacker culture
Rodney Brooks — 68 books
first published 15 Jan 1995
Australian roboticist
famous thought experiments — 65 books
first published 15 Jan 1995 added 24 Dec 2023
Danny Hillis — 55 books
first published 15 Jan 1995 added 30 Dec 2016
American computer scientist
UUNET — 19 books
first published 15 Jan 1995 added 1 Jun 2022
Conway's Game of Life — 20 books
first published 15 Jan 1995
Two-dimensional cellular automaton devised by J. H. Conway in 1970
strong AI — 65 books
first published 15 Jan 1995
low-wage service sector — 35 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
industries that provide services rather than goods and generally pay lower wages, often without benefits or job security
We are all Keynesians now — 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
Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis — 48 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
Loma Prieta earthquake — 41 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
major earthquake in northern California
labour market flexibility — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
speed with which labour markets adapt to changes
race to the bottom — 329 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
Bay Area Rapid Transit — 45 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
a public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area
California energy crisis — 22 books
first published 2 Jan 1995 added 26 Oct 2021
energy crisis in 2000–01 in California
structural adjustment programs — 79 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
neoliberal agenda — 37 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
global reserve currency — 72 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
deglobalization — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
process of diminishing interdependence and integration between certain units around the world
financial repression — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
financial intermediation — 119 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
the process of facilitating the flow of funds from savers to borrowers through financial institutions
"World Economic Forum" Davos — 393 books
first published 2 Jan 1995 added 5 Aug 2023
Gini coefficient — 198 books
first published 2 Jan 1995
measure of inequality in income or wealth distribution
debt deflation — 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
centralized clearinghouse — 49 books
first published 1995
revenue passenger mile — 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
Dava Sobel — 57 books
first published 1995
American writer
Network effects — 398 books
first published 1995
mittelstand — 52 books
first published 1995
a term used in the German-speaking world to describe small and medium-sized enterprises that form the backbone of the German economy
GDP growth — 505 books
first published 1995 added 16 Sep 2024
missing middle — 37 books
first published 1995 added 19 Jan 2024
cross-subsidies — 46 books
first published 1995
joint-stock limited liability company — 42 books
first published 1995
employer provided health coverage — 34 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
crop rotation — 174 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 6 Dec 2023
practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons
low skilled workers — 266 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi — 26 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 29 Apr 2022
cashless society — 74 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
Richard Florida — 143 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
American urban studies theorist
John Maynard Keynes: technological unemployment — 72 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
compensation consultant — 36 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 17 Jun 2021
Erik Brynjolfsson — 167 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
American academic
Kaizen: continuous improvement — 36 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 5 Oct 2023
post-Fordism — 28 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 10 Jan 2022
system of economic production, consumption, and associated socio-economic phenomena in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century
pink-collar — 48 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
food cooperative — 33 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 12 Nov 2023
food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative
Washington Consensus — 205 books
first published 1 Dec 1994
broad set of economic policies commonly prescribed by institutions based in Washington D.C. such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank
Edward Snowden — 240 books
first published 1 Dec 1994
a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified information about global surveillance programs run by American and British spy agencies.
electricity market — 82 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 9 Dec 2022
for trading electrical power
Leo Hollis — 30 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 29 Sep 2022
British writer
fake news — 442 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 26 Jan 2023
false or misleading information presented as news
Neil Kinnock — 72 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 4 Mar 2017
a British Labour Party politician who served as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992
Boris Johnson — 269 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 27 Aug 2017
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
Edward Jenner — 67 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 26 Nov 2021
1749-1823 English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
mass incarceration — 142 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 26 Feb 2017
invention of air conditioning — 8 books
first published 31 Oct 1994
biofilm — 35 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 28 Jan 2017
group of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and, often, to a surface
global macro — 63 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 1 Nov 2021
A type of investment strategy
correlation does not imply causation — 272 books
first published 31 Oct 1994
discovery of penicillin — 49 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 30 Dec 2016
transfer pricing — 73 books
first published 31 Oct 1994
pricing of goods, services, or intellectual property transferred within an organisation, especially cross-border, for tax optimization
megacity — 291 books
first published 31 Oct 1994
a very large city, typically with a population exceeding 10 million people.
ROLM — 9 books
first published 19 Sep 1994 added 13 Feb 2022
Russian science society
Gary Kildall — 22 books
first published 19 Sep 1994 added 23 Nov 2021
American computer scientist and entrepreneur
Steve Ballmer — 116 books
first published 19 Sep 1994
American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft
Fairchild Semiconductor — 118 books
first published 19 Sep 1994 added 13 Feb 2022
American company
thinkpad — 34 books
first published 19 Sep 1994
business computers and tablets series by Lenovo
six sigma — 91 books
first published 19 Sep 1994
a set of management techniques aimed at improving business processes by reducing defects
sceptred isle — 19 books
first published 29 May 1994 added 20 Feb 2017
lone genius — 86 books
first published 29 May 1994
John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren — 111 books
first published 14 May 1994
James Hargreaves — 43 books
first published 14 May 1994
flying shuttle — 64 books
first published 14 May 1994 added 1 Oct 2023
Dynabook — 30 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
QWERTY keyboard — 97 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? — 16 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 5 Aug 2023
information trail — 11 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
Computer Lib — 35 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 23 Aug 2023
Pepsi Challenge — 24 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 27 May 2022
a marketing campaign by PepsiCo where participants do a blind taste test comparing Pepsi and Coca-Cola
Productivity paradox — 59 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
Vannevar Bush — 65 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890-1974)
Ted Nelson — 76 books
first published 2 Feb 1994