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2,714 concepts

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Guns, Germs, and Steel — 149 books
first published 1994 added 7 Apr 2025
Asian financial crisis — 223 books
first published 1994
a financial crisis that started in 1997, affecting various Asian economies by causing currency devaluations and financial collapse.
contact tracing — 66 books
first published 1994 added 14 Aug 2023
process of finding and identifying people in close contact with someone who is infected with a transmissible pathogen
access to space — 60 books
first published 1994 added 25 Oct 2025
leapfrogging — 125 books
first published 1994 added 8 Oct 2023
your tax dollars at work — 11 books
first published 1994 added 13 Feb 2017
invention of the telephone — 49 books
first published 1994
pre–internet — 234 books
first published 1994
elephant in my pajamas — 4 books
first published 1994 added 7 Jan 2017
Computational Linguistics — 82 books
first published 1994 added 7 Oct 2023
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis — 23 books
first published 1994 added 19 Feb 2017
principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition
talking drums — 10 books
first published 1994
rising living standards — 129 books
first published 1994
Loebner Prize — 32 books
first published 1994
annual competition in artificial intelligence
natural language processing — 219 books
first published 1994
field of computer science and linguistics
Tim Berners-Lee — 287 books
first published 1994 added 15 Feb 2025
contingency sample — 11 books
first published 1994 added 20 Dec 2024
generative AI — 100 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 12 Jul 2024
Zimmermann PGP — 28 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
dumpster diving — 66 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
quantum cryptography — 28 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 27 Oct 2021
knapsack problem — 9 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
problem in combinatorial optimization
OSI model — 30 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 23 Nov 2021
model with 7 layers to describe communication systems
web of trust — 32 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
P = NP — 38 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
cellular automata — 62 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling
RFC: Request For Comment — 49 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
packet switching — 127 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
method for transmitting data over a computer network
double-spend problem — 26 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 15 Aug 2024
escalation ladder — 16 books
first published 23 Oct 1993 added 18 Mar 2022
AI boom — 19 books
first published 8 Sep 1993 added 15 Nov 2025
rapid progress in generative AI since mid-2010s
demographic transition — 110 books
first published 14 Aug 1993
car-free — 214 books
first published 31 May 1993
day promoting car-free travel
It's morning again in America — 67 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 16 Nov 2021
Wall Street 1987 film — 82 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 10 Sep 2024
Peter Calthorpe — 20 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 27 Apr 2018
American architect
urban homesteading — 24 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 7 Sep 2025
City Beautiful movement — 25 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 10 Jan 2017
postindustrial economy — 59 books
first published 31 May 1993
debt overhang — 62 books
first published 1 Feb 1993 added 6 Jan 2025
John Nash: game theory — 69 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
90 percent rule — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 1 Jun 2022
Nash equilibrium — 63 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
minimax theorem — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 9 Mar 2025
theorem providing conditions that guarantee that the max–min inequality is also an equality
Frank Gehry — 178 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
Canadian-American architect
From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death — 11 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 3 Jan 2017
statistical model — 363 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
type of mathematical model
The Soul of a New Machine — 35 books
first published 1993 added 27 Oct 2021
Blade Runner — 237 books
first published 1993 added 20 Aug 2024
revision control — 44 books
first published 1993
activity of managing the versions of one or more files
Alexey Pajitnov wrote Tetris — 9 books
first published 1993
Mondo 2000 — 15 books
first published 1993 added 30 Oct 2020
American magazine
warehouse robotics — 95 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 12 Feb 2022
Katsushika Hokusai — 37 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 27 Feb 2024
fossil word — 3 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 6 Jan 2025
word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom
retail therapy — 114 books
first published 31 Aug 1992 added 28 Apr 2022
disintermediation — 177 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
removal of intermediaries from a supply chain
software patent — 48 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
time-limited state-granted monopoly on software in return for public disclosure
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.
high net worth — 263 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
Tenerife airport disaster — 10 books
first published 28 May 1992
runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
air traffic controllers' union — 39 books
first published 28 May 1992 added 10 Jan 2022
labour union representing air traffic controllers
Henry Ford's grandson gave labor union leader Walter Reuther a tour of the company’s new, automated factory… — 20 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
Doomsday Clock — 41 books
first published 5 May 1992
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 — 34 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
Apple II — 99 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.
John Perry Barlow — 130 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 17 Dec 2021
American poet and essayist
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.
Howard Rheingold — 86 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
American journalist
The Hackers Conference — 20 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 5 Mar 2018
attractive nuisance — 16 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 11 Nov 2024
pirate software — 58 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
Jaron Lanier — 146 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
American computer scientist, musician, and author
Steve Wozniak — 217 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
an American electronics engineer and computer programmer, co-founder of Apple Inc.
Mitch Kapor — 86 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 Gilmore — 48 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 22 Aug 2022
Robert Bork — 92 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
Day of the Dead — 75 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 2 Nov 2021
anti-globalists — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2018
Melvin Kranzberg — 25 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 27 Feb 2024
American historian
reversible computing — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
model of computing
rewilding — 81 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Mar 2023
conservation aimed at restoring natural processes and reintroducing apex predators and keystone species
telerobotics — 26 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
area of robotics concerned with the control of semi-autonomous robots from a distance
do-ocracy — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 18 Mar 2018
forms of governance where individuals independently choose and perform their tasks
human-factors engineering — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
Zapatista — 85 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 1 Dec 2023
search costs — 61 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.
Jean Baudrillard — 80 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2025
off grid — 127 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Feb 2017
off-the-grid — 340 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 26 Oct 2022
AltaVista — 118 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
David Graeber — 136 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)
Erdős number — 15 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
NP-complete — 36 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
washing machines reduced drudgery — 16 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
post scarcity — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
after the elimination of scarcity; in a time when society has sufficient resources
Burning Man — 215 books
first published 2 Jan 1992