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The Predators' Ball — 32 books
first published 1989
book by Connie Bruck
+26
London Interbank Offered Rate — 92 books
first published 1989
London Inter-bank Offered Rate
+86
John Meriwether — 59 books
first published 1989 added 24 Apr 2017
American financier
+53
Irwin Jacobs — 13 books
first published 1989 added 21 Feb 2017
+7
The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray — 82 books
first published 1989 added 23 Jan 2017
+76
lunar-orbit rendezvous — 24 books
first published 1989 added 7 Jan 2025 space
+18
El Camino Real — 67 books
first published 1989
+61
psychological pricing — 14 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
theory that certain prices have a psychological impact
+8
Peter Singer: altruism — 70 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
+64
cosmological constant — 48 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+42
retrograde motion — 18 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
the apparent backward motion of a planet as observed from Earth
+12
Gary Taubes — 38 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
an American journalist and author who focuses on scientific topics, particularly those related to nutrition and health
person
+32
Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis — 7 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+1
cosmic microwave background — 47 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+41
Richard Feynman — 323 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 30 Dec 2016
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
person
+317
cosmic abundance — 10 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+4
Wilhelm Olbers — 6 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
mandelbrot fractal — 106 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+100
anthropic principle — 54 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it
+48
Murray Gell-Mann — 80 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 29 Dec 2016
an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles
+74
deep time — 102 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 24 Aug 2024
+96
Karl Jansky — 8 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist and radio engineer
+2
Albert Michelson — 36 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist, speed of light measurement
+30
John Harrison: Longitude — 66 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+60
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
+8
data acquisition — 93 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
+87
social web — 115 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites
+109
future of work — 235 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
study of potential changes to work
+229
Shoshana Zuboff — 98 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 27 Apr 2017
American sociologist, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author
+92
demand response — 59 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
techniques used to prevent power networks from being overwhelmed
+53
blue-collar work — 81 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
+75
optical character recognition — 80 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
+74
Panopticon Jeremy Bentham — 97 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 28 Apr 2018
+91
telepresence — 95 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+89
game design — 276 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
+270
robot derives from the Czech word robota Czech, meaning slave — 18 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+12
Whole Earth Review — 45 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+39
warehouse automation — 45 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 12 Feb 2022
+39
Computer Numeric Control — 22 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 21 Feb 2017
+16
guest worker program — 33 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
program where foreign workers temporarily reside and work in a host country
+27
Jacques de Vaucanson — 26 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
French inventor of mechanical automata
+20
computer vision — 210 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+204
factory automation — 47 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+41
white flight — 187 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
solo project of Justin Roelofs
+181
Stephen Hawking — 379 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 person
+373
false flag — 101 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 4 Jun 2023
+95
white picket fence — 129 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 10 Feb 2017
+123
airport security — 300 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
procedures to protect passengers, staff, and planes
+294
Live Aid — 51 books
first published 1988 added 12 Feb 2017
a benefit concert held in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
+45
facts on the ground — 193 books
first published 1988
+187
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 — 40 books
first published 1988 added 15 Nov 2021
1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
+34
citizen journalism — 133 books
first published 1988
journalism genre
+127
life extension — 155 books
first published 1988
scientific and medical research aimed at extending the human lifespan
+149
virtual gold — 21 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 11 Oct 2023
+15
Bolshevik threat — 12 books
first published 11 Sep 1987
+6
disinformation campaign — 168 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 8 Nov 2023
+162
no-fly zone — 92 books
first published 6 Jul 1987 added 6 Apr 2022
territory where aircraft aren't allowed to fly over
+86
Exxon Valdez — 129 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
+123
space junk — 51 books
first published 1 Jun 1987 added 22 Dec 2022
collection of defunct objects in orbit
+45
mutually assured destruction — 233 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
+227
rent-seeking — 259 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
attempt to obtain economic rent
+253
total factor productivity — 86 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.
+80
manufacturing employment — 181 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+175
income per capita — 167 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+161
Jones Act — 26 books
first published 15 Jan 1987 added 15 Oct 2020
+20
endowment effect — 92 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+86
supply-chain management — 151 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
+145
performance metric — 202 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
+196
price mechanism — 168 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
concept in economics
+162
An Inconvenient Truth — 144 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 6 Mar 2022
2006 film by Davis Guggenheim
+138
DeepMind — 183 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 5 Aug 2023
artificial intelligence company owned by Google
+177
knowledge worker — 267 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
worker whose main capital is knowledge
+261
A Pattern Language — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
+38
Murray Bookchin — 22 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 27 Sep 2022
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
+16
Steven Levy — 225 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 person
+219
Chicago Seven — 23 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 18 Aug 2024
+17
megastructure — 48 books
first published 31 Aug 1986
+42
nuclear winter — 132 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
+126
L Peter Deutsch — 8 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 2 Oct 2022
Free software programmer and creator of Ghostscript
+2
general-purpose programming language — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
programming language designed to be used in the widest variety of application domains
+43
buffer overflow — 60 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 11 Feb 2025
anomaly in computer security and programming that could be exploited as a security vulnerability
+54
locality of reference — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
principle describing a tendency to repetitively accessing similar memory location sets momentaneously
+1
premature optimization — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
antipattern in software development
+38
Kim Stanley Robinson — 64 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 17 Jun 2021
American science fiction writer
+58
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
+28
Bjarne Stroustrup — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 7 Oct 2023
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
+24
database schema — 82 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
visual representation of database system relationships
+76
fault tolerance — 141 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 31 Dec 2016
+135
combinatorial explosion — 55 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
+49
technological singularity — 96 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
+90
hacker house — 14 books
first published 1986
house in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
+8
Aldo Leopold — 59 books
first published 1986 added 28 Oct 2023
American ecologist, work on conservation ethics
+53
vertical integration — 323 books
first published 1986 added 17 Jun 2022
an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company
+317
old-boy network — 142 books
first published 1986 added 23 Feb 2017
+136
random walk — 283 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
+277
megaproject — 128 books
first published 1986 added 27 Oct 2021
extremely large-scale investment project
+122
borderless world — 85 books
first published 31 Dec 1985
+79
Kai Tak Airport — 14 books
first published 31 Dec 1985 added 15 Nov 2025
+8
undersea cable — 160 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
+154
sensible shoes — 81 books
first published 31 Dec 1985
album by Led Bib
+75