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2,734 concepts
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market clearing
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154 books
first published 28 Jan 1994
first published 28 Jan 1994
an economic term for the situation where supply equals demand, typically resulting in an equilibrium price.
Ralph Nelson Elliott
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11 books
first published 28 Jan 1994 added 17 Jan 2017
first published 28 Jan 1994 added 17 Jan 2017
American accountant (1871-1948)
Occupy movement
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226 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
first published 2 Jan 1994
international branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests against social and economic inequality around the world
corporate personhood
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41 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
first published 2 Jan 1994
notion that corporations can have some legal rights, responsibilities and accountability
precariat
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103 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
first published 2 Jan 1994
social class formed by people suffering from precarity
natural language processing
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222 books
first published 1994
first published 1994
field of computer science and linguistics
operation paperclip
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33 books
first published 1994
first published 1994
a secret United States intelligence program that recruited and employed German scientists, including former Nazis, after World War II
1997 Asian financial crisis
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32 books
first published 1994 added 19 Aug 2026
first published 1994 added 19 Aug 2026
financial crisis in many East/Southeast Asian countries starting in 1997
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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23 books
first published 1994 added 19 Feb 2017
first published 1994 added 19 Feb 2017
principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition
contact tracing
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67 books
first published 1994 added 14 Aug 2023
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
Asian financial crisis
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224 books
first published 1994
first published 1994
a financial crisis that started in 1997, affecting various Asian economies by causing currency devaluations and financial collapse.
P = NP
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22 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
first published 10 Nov 1993
an unsolved problem in computer science regarding the relationship between polynomial-time problems and non-deterministic polynomial-time problems
OSI model
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30 books
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 23 Nov 2021
first published 10 Nov 1993 added 23 Nov 2021
model with 7 layers to describe communication systems
packet switching
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129 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
first published 10 Nov 1993
method for transmitting data over a computer network
cellular automata
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62 books
first published 10 Nov 1993
first published 10 Nov 1993
discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling
AI boom
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22 books
first published 8 Sep 1993 added 15 Nov 2025
first published 8 Sep 1993 added 15 Nov 2025
rapid progress in generative AI since mid-2010s
generative artificial intelligence
From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death
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11 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 3 Jan 2017
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 3 Jan 2017
minimax theorem
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7 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 9 Mar 2025
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 9 Mar 2025
theorem providing conditions that guarantee that the max–min inequality is also an equality
Nash equilibrium
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63 books
first published 2 Jan 1993
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
revision control
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44 books
first published 1993
first published 1993
activity of managing the versions of one or more files
Colonization of Mars
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113 books
first published 23 Oct 1992
first published 23 Oct 1992
the hypothetical human habitation and terraforming of the planet Mars
fossil word
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3 books
first published 23 Oct 1992 added 6 Jan 2025
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
software patent
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48 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
first published 31 Aug 1992
time-limited state-granted monopoly on software in return for public disclosure
Richard Bolles
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5 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
first published 31 Aug 1992
an American author best known for his book 'What Color Is Your Parachute?', a popular job-hunting guide.
disintermediation
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177 books
first published 31 Aug 1992
first published 31 Aug 1992
removal of intermediaries from a supply chain
Tenerife airport disaster
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9 books
first published 28 May 1992
first published 28 May 1992
runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
air traffic controllers' union
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68 books
first published 28 May 1992 added 10 Jan 2022
first published 28 May 1992 added 10 Jan 2022
labour union representing air traffic controllers
launch on warning
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18 books
first published 5 May 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
first published 5 May 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
nuclear strategy in which a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of incoming nuclear missiles
Stanislav Petrov
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34 books
first published 5 May 1992
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
Able Archer 83
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14 books
first published 5 May 1992 added 16 Nov 2021
first published 5 May 1992 added 16 Nov 2021
1983 NATO military exercise almost leading to nuclear war
Mitch Kapor
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87 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 14 Feb 2018
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
Jaron Lanier
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152 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
first published 15 Mar 1992
American computer scientist, musician, and author
Steve Wozniak
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220 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
first published 15 Mar 1992
an American electronics engineer and computer programmer, co-founder of Apple Inc.
person
John Perry Barlow
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131 books
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 17 Dec 2021
first published 15 Mar 1992 added 17 Dec 2021
American poet and essayist
Apple II
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100 books
first published 15 Mar 1992
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.
rewilding
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81 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Mar 2023
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Mar 2023
conservation aimed at restoring natural processes and reintroducing apex predators and keystone species
