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2,618 concepts

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Mitch Kapor — 84 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.
The Hackers Conference — 20 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 5 Mar 2018
John Gilmore — 46 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 22 Aug 2022
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.
Robert Bork — 88 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
NP-complete — 36 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
glass ceiling — 312 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
AltaVista — 114 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
human-factors engineering — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
hive mind — 149 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
do-ocracy — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 18 Mar 2018
forms of governance where individuals independently choose and perform their tasks
garden city movement — 35 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Melvin Kranzberg — 25 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 27 Feb 2024
American historian
anti-globalists — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2018
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.
different worldview — 79 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2018
Erdős number — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
technological unemployment — 112 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 11 Mar 2024
unemployment primarily caused by technological change
off-the-grid — 330 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 26 Oct 2022
rewilding — 75 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Mar 2023
conservation aimed at restoring natural processes and reintroducing apex predators and keystone species
Burning Man — 204 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
David Graeber — 132 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)
off grid — 122 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
washing machines reduced drudgery — 15 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Day of the Dead — 73 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 2 Nov 2021
Naomi Klein — 174 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Canadian author and activist
post scarcity — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
after the elimination of scarcity; in a time when society has sufficient resources
Zapatista — 84 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 1 Dec 2023
reversible computing — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
model of computing
Sand Hill Road — 138 books
first published 1992
a road in Menlo Park, California, known for its concentration of venture capital firms
law of one price — 37 books
first published 1992
economic theory
sparse data — 51 books
first published 1992 added 20 Jun 2022
Higgs boson — 103 books
first published 1992 added 9 Jul 2022
elementary particle transmitting the Higgs field giving particles mass
Schrödinger's Cat — 74 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
Richard Feynman: Challenger O-ring — 33 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.
systematic bias — 54 books
first published 1992 added 23 May 2023
Doomsday Book — 16 books
first published 1992
Pepto Bismol — 49 books
first published 1992 added 10 Dec 2017
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 — 105 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
coherent worldview — 23 books
first published 14 Oct 1991 added 3 Apr 2018
deal flow — 58 books
first published 14 Oct 1991 added 5 Mar 2023
open borders — 126 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
walking around money — 16 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
discounted cash flows — 88 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
Sinatra Doctrine — 15 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
Soviet foreign policy of allowing neighboring Warsaw Pact states to determine their own internal affairs
rolodex — 250 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
first-past-the-post — 69 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
unorthodox policies — 28 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
circulating library — 28 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 22 Dec 2024
for-profit library that lends books to the public for a fee
scientific worldview — 43 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 3 Apr 2018
scientific model of the world
informal economy — 342 books
first published 16 Sep 1991
economic activity unregulated by government
Post-Keynesian economics — 46 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 11 Nov 2020
school of economic thought
liberal bias — 41 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 13 Apr 2024
liberal capitalism — 117 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 12 Feb 2017
McJob — 21 books
first published 15 Mar 1991 added 15 Oct 2020
pejorative term
kremlinology — 40 books
first published 2 Jan 1991
study and analysis of the politics and policies of the Soviet Union (while the term Sovietology means the study of politics and policies of both the Soviet Union and former communist states more generally)
American chestnut — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1991 added 26 Jun 2024
species of plant
Columbian Exchange — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1991
the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World and the Old World following Columbus's voyages
Farzad Bazoft — 6 books
first published 1991 added 26 Feb 2017
Iranian-born journalist & double spy
Kickstarter — 931 books
first published 1991
Umberto Eco — 70 books
first published 15 Dec 1990 added 24 Dec 2023
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
invention of the wheel — 55 books
first published 15 Dec 1990
Gerolamo Cardano — 16 books
first published 15 Dec 1990
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
rational choice theory — 53 books
first published 29 Nov 1990 added 8 Oct 2023
principal–agent problem — 84 books
first published 29 Nov 1990
conflict of interest when one agent makes decisions on another's behalf
hallucination problem — 15 books
first published 15 Sep 1990 added 4 Oct 2023
generation ship — 15 books
first published 15 Sep 1990 added 20 Jun 2024
interstellar spacecraft able to accommodate multiple generations of passengers
General Ludd — 13 books
first published 31 Aug 1990 added 8 Jan 2024
clockwatching — 26 books
first published 31 Aug 1990
green capitalism — 33 books
first published 30 Apr 1990 added 14 Jan 2024
Prenzlauer Berg — 32 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 added 17 May 2023
Geert Wilders — 57 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 added 23 Nov 2023
right-wing Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom
Martin Wolf — 174 books
first published 2 Jan 1990
Fall of the Berlin Wall — 430 books
first published 2 Jan 1990
the dismantling of the wall that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, which symbolized the end of the Cold War and paved the way for German reunification.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures — 21 books
first published 2 Jan 1990
David Attenborough — 97 books
first published 1990
too big to fail — 458 books
first published 1990
the payments system — 99 books
first published 1990
Dutch auction — 38 books
first published 1990 added 22 Apr 2022
an auction in which the item price is lowered until a bidder accepts the current price
Gordon Gekko — 148 books
first published 1990
the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
index arbitrage — 33 books
first published 1990
A type of arbitrage
financial deregulation — 188 books
first published 1990
Rubik’s Cube — 147 books
first published 1990 added 12 Feb 2017
a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor Ernő Rubik, becoming an international sensation.
prediction markets — 150 books
first published 1990
Big bang: deregulation of the City of London — 125 books
first published 1990
the sudden deregulation of financial markets in London in 1986
Black Swan — 199 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
a term used to describe rare, unpredictable events with severe consequences
price anchoring — 55 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
use of the anchoring effect in making a price seem more acceptable to potential buyers
framing effect — 63 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
loss aversion — 177 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
cognitive bias — 125 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment due to subjective perception of reality
market fundamentalism — 199 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
strong belief in the ability of unregulated laissez-faire or free market policies to solve most economic and social problems
ultimatum game — 82 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
known unknowns — 112 books
first published 3 Oct 1989 added 8 Dec 2024
Tracy Kidder — 37 books
first published 14 Jun 1989 added 30 Jul 2024