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2,557 concepts

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dumpster diving — 66 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
quantum cryptography — 27 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 27 Oct 2021
generative AI — 72 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 12 Jul 2024
Zimmermann PGP — 27 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
cellular automata — 61 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling
P = NP — 37 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
an unsolved problem in computer science regarding the relationship between polynomial-time problems and non-deterministic polynomial-time problems
web of trust — 31 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
knapsack problem — 9 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
problem in combinatorial optimization
double-spend problem — 25 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 15 Aug 2024
packet switching — 126 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
method for transmitting data over a computer network
RFC: Request For Comment — 47 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
OSI model — 30 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 23 Nov 2021
model with 7 layers to describe communication systems
escalation ladder — 13 books
first published 23 Oct 1993 added 18 Mar 2022
demographic transition — 109 books
first published 14 Aug 1993
Wall Street 1987 film — 77 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 10 Sep 2024
It's morning again in America — 64 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 16 Nov 2021
car-free — 196 books
first published 31 May 1993
day promoting car-free travel
Peter Calthorpe — 20 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 27 Apr 2018
American architect
City Beautiful movement — 25 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 10 Jan 2017
postindustrial economy — 56 books
first published 31 May 1993
90 percent rule — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 1 Jun 2022
John Nash: game theory — 67 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
Nash equilibrium — 62 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
solution concept of a non-cooperative game involving two or more players in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only their own strategy
From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death — 11 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 3 Jan 2017
statistical model — 349 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
type of mathematical model
Frank Gehry — 174 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
Canadian-American architect
Alexey Pajitnov wrote Tetris — 9 books
first published 1993
The Soul of a New Machine — 33 books
first published 1993 added 27 Oct 2021
revision control — 44 books
first published 1993
activity of managing the versions of one or more files
Blade Runner — 220 books
first published 1993 added 20 Aug 2024
Mondo 2000 — 14 books
first published 1993 added 30 Oct 2020
American magazine
Katsushika Hokusai — 35 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 27 Feb 2024
warehouse robotics — 91 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 12 Feb 2022
disintermediation — 172 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
removal of intermediaries from a supply chain
high net worth — 253 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
software patent — 48 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
time-limited state-granted monopoly on software in return for public disclosure
retail therapy — 104 books
first published 31 Aug 1992 added 28 Apr 2022
Richard Bolles — 5 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
an American author best known for his book 'What Color Is Your Parachute?', a popular job-hunting guide.
Tenerife airport disaster — 9 books
first published 28 May 1992
runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
air traffic controllers' union — 38 books
first published 28 May 1992 added 10 Jan 2022
labour union representing air traffic controllers
Doomsday Clock — 40 books
first published 5 May 1992
launch on warning — 18 books
first published 5 May 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
nuclear strategy in which a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of incoming nuclear missiles
Able Archer 83 — 14 books
first published 5 May 1992 added 16 Nov 2021
1983 NATO military exercise almost leading to nuclear war
Stanislav Petrov — 33 books
first published 5 May 1992
a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who prevented a possible nuclear war in 1983 by correctly identifying a missile warning as a false alarm
Henry Ford's grandson gave labor union leader Walter Reuther a tour of the company’s new, automated factory… — 18 books
first published 5 May 1992
pirate software — 55 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
Steve Wozniak — 207 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
an American electronics engineer and computer programmer, co-founder of Apple Inc.
Apple II — 94 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
an early personal computer released by Apple in 1977, which became one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers.
Mitch Kapor — 81 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 14 Feb 2018
an American entrepreneur best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and designing Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet application.
John Perry Barlow — 124 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 17 Dec 2021
American poet and essayist
The Hackers Conference — 20 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 5 Mar 2018
Howard Rheingold — 86 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
American journalist
Hacker Conference 1984 — 23 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 19 Oct 2020
a pivotal gathering of hackers and computer enthusiasts in 1984 that helped define hacker culture and ethos.
Jaron Lanier — 144 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
American computer scientist, musician, and author
John Gilmore — 46 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 22 Aug 2022
Robert Bork — 87 books
first published 10 Mar 1992 added 11 May 2017
Copley Medal — 23 books
first published 30 Jan 1992
award given by the Royal Society of London
Burning Man — 198 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
AltaVista — 110 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Day of the Dead — 66 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 2 Nov 2021
Naomi Klein — 169 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Canadian author and activist
garden city movement — 34 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
anti-globalists — 29 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2018
off grid — 114 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Feb 2017
telerobotics — 26 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
area of robotics concerned with the control of semi-autonomous robots from a distance
different worldview — 78 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2018
glass ceiling — 304 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
washing machines reduced drudgery — 15 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
technological unemployment — 111 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 11 Mar 2024
unemployment primarily caused by technological change
post scarcity — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
after the elimination of scarcity; in a time when society has sufficient resources
David Graeber — 124 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)
do-ocracy — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 18 Mar 2018
forms of governance where individuals independently choose and perform their tasks
off-the-grid — 323 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 26 Oct 2022
Erdős number — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Zapatista — 78 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 1 Dec 2023
search costs — 59 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 26 Oct 2021
the time, effort, and resources expended by consumers or firms to discover and evaluate products, services, or information.
NP-complete — 36 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
rewilding — 73 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Mar 2023
conservation aimed at restoring natural processes and reintroducing apex predators and keystone species
reversible computing — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
model of computing
human-factors engineering — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
hive mind — 147 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Melvin Kranzberg — 25 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 27 Feb 2024
American historian
Sand Hill Road — 136 books
first published 1992
a road in Menlo Park, California, known for its concentration of venture capital firms
systematic bias — 53 books
first published 1992 added 23 May 2023
Doomsday Book — 16 books
first published 1992
Higgs boson — 101 books
first published 1992 added 9 Jul 2022
elementary particle transmitting the Higgs field giving particles mass
law of one price — 37 books
first published 1992
economic theory
Richard Feynman: Challenger O-ring — 32 books
first published 1992
Physicist Richard Feynman was part of the Rogers Commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, famously demonstrating the O-ring material's vulnerability to cold.
sparse data — 51 books
first published 1992 added 20 Jun 2022
Pepto Bismol — 48 books
first published 1992 added 10 Dec 2017
Schrödinger's Cat — 71 books
first published 1992
thought experiment devised by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger about quantum superposition of macroscopic states, e.g. between a live cat and a dead cat
currency peg — 66 books
first published 1992
type of exchange rate regime where a currency's value is fixed against the value of another single currency
Cape to Cairo — 28 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Scramble for Africa — 104 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
transatlantic slave trade — 144 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
the forced transportation of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas, from the 16th to the 19th century.
Donald Davies — 36 books
first published 19 Oct 1991 added 5 Mar 2017
rolodex — 247 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
open borders — 122 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
first-past-the-post — 67 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
electoral system in which voters indicate the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins
discounted cash flows — 87 books
first published 14 Oct 1991