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2,557 concepts

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belling the cat — 14 books
first published 31 May 1988 added 2 Nov 2021
a fable about the impracticality of a plan that requires great risk
data acquisition — 86 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
sum of methods of simultaneous or sequential time measurement and counting for measurable or quantifiable data and groups of contiguous data
social web — 109 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites
blue-collar work — 80 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
demand response — 58 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
techniques used to prevent power networks from being overwhelmed
Shoshana Zuboff — 88 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 27 Apr 2017
American sociologist, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author
optical character recognition — 78 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
the technology used to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents or PDF files, into editable and searchable data
future of work — 224 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
study of potential changes to work
Panopticon Jeremy Bentham — 95 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 28 Apr 2018
factory automation — 45 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
Jacques de Vaucanson — 26 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
French inventor of mechanical automata
computer vision — 198 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
robot derives from the Czech word robota Czech, meaning slave — 8 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
telepresence — 92 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game design — 258 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
guest worker program — 33 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
program where foreign workers temporarily reside and work in a host country
warehouse automation — 58 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 12 Feb 2022
Whole Earth Review — 45 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
Computer Numeric Control — 22 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 21 Feb 2017
Stephen Hawking — 362 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
white picket fence — 116 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 10 Feb 2017
white flight — 169 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
solo project of Justin Roelofs
airport security — 290 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
procedures to protect passengers, staff, and planes
false flag — 94 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 4 Jun 2023
life extension — 143 books
first published 1988
scientific and medical research aimed at extending the human lifespan
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 — 27 books
first published 1988 added 15 Nov 2021
1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
citizen journalism — 127 books
first published 1988
journalism genre
Live Aid — 49 books
first published 1988 added 12 Feb 2017
a benefit concert held in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
facts on the ground — 178 books
first published 1988
disinformation campaign — 157 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 8 Nov 2023
Bolshevik threat — 12 books
first published 11 Sep 1987
virtual gold — 21 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 11 Oct 2023
no-fly zone — 88 books
first published 6 Jul 1987 added 6 Apr 2022
territory where aircraft aren't allowed to fly over
Zeno's paradox — 5 books
first published 6 Jul 1987
Exxon Valdez — 126 books
first published 6 Jul 1987
an oil tanker that spilled 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, causing one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history
space junk — 48 books
first published 1 Jun 1987 added 22 Dec 2022
collection of defunct objects in orbit
mutually assured destruction — 222 books
first published 1 Jun 1987
a military strategy and national security policy where the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both
Jones Act — 26 books
first published 15 Jan 1987 added 15 Oct 2020
income per capita — 163 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
manufacturing employment — 151 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
total factor productivity — 81 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
a measure of the efficiency with which inputs are transformed into outputs in an economy, often seen as an indicator of technological progress.
rent-seeking — 251 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
attempt to obtain economic rent
endowment effect — 88 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
DeepMind — 157 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 5 Aug 2023
artificial intelligence company owned by Google
performance metric — 194 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
supply-chain management — 147 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
the management of the flow of goods and services, involving the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods
price mechanism — 158 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
concept in economics
knowledge worker — 256 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
worker whose main capital is knowledge
A Pattern Language — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
An Inconvenient Truth — 133 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 6 Mar 2022
2006 film by Davis Guggenheim
Boycotts of Israel — 46 books
first published 1987
political tactic of avoiding economic, political and cultural ties with the State of Israel
Murray Bookchin — 21 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 27 Sep 2022
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
Hacker News — 91 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 17 Dec 2021
Steven Levy — 218 books
first published 31 Aug 1986
megastructure — 50 books
first published 31 Aug 1986
Chicago Seven — 22 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 18 Aug 2024
fault tolerance — 137 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 31 Dec 2016
nuclear winter — 127 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
L Peter Deutsch — 8 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 2 Oct 2022
Free software programmer and creator of Ghostscript
database schema — 81 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
visual representation of database system relationships
Kim Stanley Robinson — 62 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 17 Jun 2021
American science fiction writer
premature optimization — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
antipattern in software development
general-purpose programming language — 48 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
programming language designed to be used in the widest variety of application domains
locality of reference — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
principle describing a tendency to repetitively accessing similar memory location sets momentaneously
Bjarne Stroustrup — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 7 Oct 2023
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
Dennis Ritchie — 34 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 3 Jun 2023
an American computer scientist known for creating the C programming language and contributing to the development of UNIX
combinatorial explosion — 52 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
megaproject — 157 books
first published 1986 added 27 Oct 2021
extremely large-scale investment project
hacker house — 14 books
first published 1986
house in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
technological singularity — 90 books
first published 1986
predicted future event in which a superhuman artificial general intelligence is made that iteratively redesigns itself to rapidly become much more intelligent, and a rapid general technological and social change follows that is beyond prediction
vertical integration — 303 books
first published 1986 added 17 Jun 2022
an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company
random walk — 273 books
first published 1986
the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid resulting from their collision with the quick atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid
old-boy network — 136 books
first published 1986 added 23 Feb 2017
Aldo Leopold — 58 books
first published 1986 added 28 Oct 2023
American ecologist, work on conservation ethics
undersea cable — 166 books
first published 31 Dec 1985 added 15 Oct 2020
a cable laid on the sea bed to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean
borderless world — 84 books
first published 31 Dec 1985
sensible shoes — 79 books
first published 31 Dec 1985
album by Led Bib
dark matter — 269 books
first published 12 Sep 1985
mysterious non-luminous matter (and/or radiation) comprising most of the matter in our observable universe
supervolcano — 44 books
first published 12 Sep 1985
a volcano that has had an eruption with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8, the largest value on the index
low earth orbit — 156 books
first published 2 Jan 1985 added 15 Oct 2020
orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers
Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 74 books
first published 1985 added 29 Dec 2016
process leading to the late-1991 breakup of the USSR
Kōnosuke Matsushita — 9 books
first published 14 Jun 1984 added 25 Oct 2021
Founder of Panasonic
intermodal — 67 books
first published 14 Jun 1984
train station for more than one railway route
Bullshit Jobs — 60 books
first published 14 Jun 1984 added 9 Jun 2024
open immigration — 41 books
first published 1 Jun 1984 added 2 Nov 2022
View that people may live in any country
Colonization of Mars — 102 books
first published 1 Jun 1984
the hypothetical human habitation and terraforming of the planet Mars
small-world problems — 33 books
first published 1 Jun 1984 added 15 Aug 2024
Teledyne — 42 books
first published 1 Jun 1984 added 13 Feb 2022
American industrial company
Alvin Toffler — 120 books
first published 1 Jun 1984 added 2 Nov 2021
American writer and futurist
Brownian motion — 140 books
first published 1 Jun 1984
random motion of particles suspended in a fluid, observed microscopically
intentional community — 72 books
first published 1 Jun 1984 added 31 May 2023
planned, socially-cohesive, residential community
social intelligence — 155 books
first published 1 Jun 1984 added 6 Apr 2018
Capacity to know oneself and to know others
global village — 214 books
first published 1 Jun 1984
haute cuisine — 203 books
first published 1 Mar 1984
a style of cooking characterized by elaborate preparation and presentation, often associated with French culinary traditions.
air gap — 84 books
first published 1 Mar 1984 added 4 Oct 2023
security measure to isolate computer or network from unsecured networks
up and to the right — 79 books
first published 2 Jan 1984 added 16 Nov 2023
Neal Stephenson — 124 books
first published 2 Jan 1984 added 4 Mar 2023
American science fiction writer
LNG terminal — 12 books
first published 2 Jan 1984
facility for managing the export and/or import of liquefied natural gas
Ada Lovelace — 93 books
first published 2 Jan 1984
English mathematician, work on Analytical Engine
Snow Crash — 47 books
first published 2 Jan 1984 added 4 Mar 2023