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2,723 concepts

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the death of distance — 53 books
first published 1994 added 4 Dec 2023
+47
elephant in my pajamas — 4 books
first published 1994 added 7 Jan 2017
Francis Fukuyama: the end of history — 229 books
first published 1994
+223
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
+17
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
+60
discovery of DNA — 61 books
first published 1994
+55
access to space — 60 books
first published 1994 added 25 Oct 2025 space
+54
Computational Linguistics — 82 books
first published 1994 added 7 Oct 2023
+76
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.
+217
talking drums — 10 books
first published 1994
+4
Human Development Index — 143 books
first published 1994 added 6 Jan 2025
+137
Tim Berners-Lee — 288 books
first published 1994 added 15 Feb 2025 person
+282
operation paperclip — 32 books
first published 1994
a secret United States intelligence program that recruited and employed German scientists, including former Nazis, after World War II
+26
invention of the telephone — 50 books
first published 1994
+44
leapfrogging — 71 books
first published 1994 added 8 Oct 2023
+65
rising living standards — 129 books
first published 1994
+123
unemployed young men — 46 books
first published 1994
+40
natural language processing — 220 books
first published 1994
field of computer science and linguistics
+214
Loebner Prize — 32 books
first published 1994
annual competition in artificial intelligence
+26
your tax dollars at work — 11 books
first published 1994 added 13 Feb 2017
+5
contingency sample — 11 books
first published 1994 added 20 Dec 2024
+5
Guns, Germs, and Steel — 148 books
first published 1994 added 7 Apr 2025 book
+142
web of trust — 32 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
+26
knapsack problem — 9 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
problem in combinatorial optimization
+3
RFC: Request For Comment — 49 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
+43
double-spend problem — 26 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 15 Aug 2024 cryptocurrency
+20
OSI model — 30 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 23 Nov 2021
model with 7 layers to describe communication systems
+24
dumpster diving — 66 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
+60
cellular automata — 62 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling
+56
Zimmermann PGP — 27 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
+21
packet switching — 128 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
method for transmitting data over a computer network
+122
quantum cryptography — 28 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 27 Oct 2021
+22
P = NP — 22 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
+16
escalation ladder — 16 books
first published 23 Oct 1993 added 18 Mar 2022
+10
AI boom — 20 books
first published 8 Sep 1993 added 15 Nov 2025
rapid progress in generative AI since mid-2010s
generative artificial intelligence
+14
demographic transition — 110 books
first published 14 Aug 1993
+104
Peter Calthorpe — 20 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 27 Apr 2018
American architect
person
+14
postindustrial economy — 59 books
first published 31 May 1993
+53
City Beautiful movement — 25 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 10 Jan 2017
+19
urban homesteading — 24 books
first published 31 May 1993 added 7 Sep 2025
+18
car-free — 214 books
first published 31 May 1993
day promoting car-free travel
+208
debt overhang — 63 books
first published 1 Feb 1993 added 6 Jan 2025
+57
statistical model — 364 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
type of mathematical model
+358
Frank Gehry — 179 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
Canadian-American architect
person
+173
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
+1
volunteer's dilemma — 5 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 1 Dec 2023
From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death — 11 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 3 Jan 2017
+5
90 percent rule — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 1 Jun 2022
+1
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
+57
John Nash: game theory — 69 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
+63
Mondo 2000 — 15 books
first published 1993 added 30 Oct 2020
American magazine
+9
revision control — 44 books
first published 1993
activity of managing the versions of one or more files
+38
Alexey Pajitnov wrote Tetris — 9 books
first published 1993
+3
Blade Runner — 238 books
first published 1993 added 20 Aug 2024
+232
Katsushika Hokusai — 37 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 27 Feb 2024
+31
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
warehouse robotics — 87 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 12 Feb 2022
+81
Colonization of Mars — 110 books
first published 23 Oct 1992
the hypothetical human habitation and terraforming of the planet Mars
+104
high net worth — 264 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
+258
Wall Street 1987 film — 94 books
first published 31 Aug 1992 added 10 Sep 2024
+88
disintermediation — 177 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
removal of intermediaries from a supply chain
+171
retail therapy — 114 books
first published 31 Aug 1992 added 28 Apr 2022
+108
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.
software patent — 48 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
time-limited state-granted monopoly on software in return for public disclosure
+42
Tenerife airport disaster — 9 books
first published 28 May 1992
runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
+3
air traffic controllers' union — 66 books
first published 28 May 1992 added 10 Jan 2022
labour union representing air traffic controllers
+60
Doomsday Clock — 41 books
first published 5 May 1992
+35
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
+28
Able Archer 83 — 14 books
first published 5 May 1992 added 16 Nov 2021
1983 NATO military exercise almost leading to nuclear war
+8
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
+12
Howard Rheingold — 87 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
American journalist
+81
Apple II — 98 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.
+92
John Perry Barlow — 130 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 17 Dec 2021
American poet and essayist
+124
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.
person
+80
attractive nuisance — 16 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 11 Nov 2024
+10
The Hackers Conference — 19 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 5 Mar 2018
+13
John Gilmore — 48 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 22 Aug 2022
+42
Steve Wozniak — 217 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
an American electronics engineer and computer programmer, co-founder of Apple Inc.
person
+211
pirate software — 58 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
+52
Jaron Lanier — 150 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
American computer scientist, musician, and author
+144
Robert Bork — 93 books
first published 10 Mar 1992 added 11 May 2017
+87
Copley Medal — 23 books
first published 30 Jan 1992
award given by the Royal Society of London
+17
David Graeber — 137 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)
+131
off grid — 129 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Feb 2017
+123
Zapatista — 86 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 1 Dec 2023
+80
rewilding — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Mar 2023
conservation aimed at restoring natural processes and reintroducing apex predators and keystone species
+70
Burning Man — 217 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+211
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.
+55
Day of the Dead — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 2 Nov 2021
+70
Naomi Klein — 187 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Canadian author and activist
person
+181
anti-globalists — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2018
+24
hive mind — 153 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+147
garden city movement — 36 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+30
human-factors engineering — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
+8
off-the-grid — 341 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 26 Oct 2022
+335
AltaVista — 118 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+112
telerobotics — 26 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
area of robotics concerned with the control of semi-autonomous robots from a distance
+20
post scarcity — 45 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
after the elimination of scarcity; in a time when society has sufficient resources
+39
reversible computing — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
model of computing
+17
Erdős number — 15 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+9