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Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert — 84 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
+78
Skype — 821 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 tech
+815
Benoit Mandelbrot — 99 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
a mathematician known for his work on fractals
person
+93
Mission District — 124 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 26 Jun 2024
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA
+118
"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations" — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 21 Nov 2021
+47
Saturday Night Live — 309 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
American late-night live television sketch comedy show
+303
John Markoff — 264 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 10 Feb 2017 person
+258
mortgage tax deduction — 107 books
first published 1989
+101
interest rate swap — 126 books
first published 1989
linear interest rate derivative involving exchange of interest rates between two parties
+120
John Meriwether — 59 books
first published 1989 added 24 Apr 2017
American financier
+53
London Interbank Offered Rate — 92 books
first published 1989
London Inter-bank Offered Rate
+86
Irwin Jacobs — 13 books
first published 1989 added 21 Feb 2017
+7
Ted Sorensen — 25 books
first published 1989 added 8 May 2023
+19
Apollo 13 — 156 books
first published 1989 added 5 Jun 2022
a 1970 NASA mission that suffered a critical failure but returned safely to Earth
+150
The Predators' Ball — 32 books
first published 1989
book by Connie Bruck
+26
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 — 72 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
+66
mandelbrot fractal — 106 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+100
Richard Feynman — 326 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 30 Dec 2016
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
person
+320
cosmological constant — 49 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+43
Albert Michelson — 36 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist, speed of light measurement
+30
Wilhelm Olbers — 6 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
cosmic abundance — 10 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+4
cosmic microwave background — 48 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+42
deep time — 102 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 24 Aug 2024
+96
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
Karl Jansky — 8 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist and radio engineer
+2
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
Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis — 7 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+1
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
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
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
blue-collar work — 81 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
+75
Panopticon Jeremy Bentham — 99 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 28 Apr 2018
+93
demand response — 60 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
techniques used to prevent power networks from being overwhelmed
+54
social web — 116 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites
social media
+110
future of work — 239 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
study of potential changes to work
+233
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
Shoshana Zuboff — 100 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 27 Apr 2017
American sociologist, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author
+94
game design — 281 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
+275
factory automation — 47 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+41
Jacques de Vaucanson — 27 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
French inventor of mechanical automata
+21
telepresence — 95 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+89
Whole Earth Review — 45 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+39
computer vision — 217 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+211
robot derives from the Czech word robota Czech, meaning slave — 18 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+12
Computer Numeric Control — 23 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 21 Feb 2017
+17
warehouse automation — 47 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 12 Feb 2022
+41
guest worker program — 33 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
program where foreign workers temporarily reside and work in a host country
+27
white picket fence — 131 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 10 Feb 2017
+125
airport security — 302 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
procedures to protect passengers, staff, and planes
+296
Stephen Hawking — 383 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 person
+377
false flag — 102 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 4 Jun 2023
+96
white flight — 188 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
solo project of Justin Roelofs
+182
life extension — 157 books
first published 1988
scientific and medical research aimed at extending the human lifespan
+151
facts on the ground — 195 books
first published 1988
+189
citizen journalism — 134 books
first published 1988
journalism genre
+128
Live Aid — 53 books
first published 1988 added 12 Feb 2017
a benefit concert held in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
+47
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 — 41 books
first published 1988 added 15 Nov 2021
1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
+35
disinformation campaign — 171 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 8 Nov 2023
+165
Bolshevik threat — 12 books
first published 11 Sep 1987
+6
virtual gold — 21 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 11 Oct 2023
+15
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
mutually assured destruction — 236 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
+230
space junk — 52 books
first published 1 Jun 1987 added 22 Dec 2022
collection of defunct objects in orbit
+46
income per capita — 170 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+164
manufacturing employment — 183 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+177
Jones Act — 26 books
first published 15 Jan 1987 added 15 Oct 2020
+20
total factor productivity — 87 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.
+81
endowment effect — 92 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+86
rent-seeking — 263 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
attempt to obtain economic rent
+257
supply-chain management — 154 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
+148
An Inconvenient Truth — 145 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 6 Mar 2022
2006 film by Davis Guggenheim
+139
performance metric — 205 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
+199
price mechanism — 169 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
concept in economics
+163
A Pattern Language — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
+38
DeepMind — 189 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 5 Aug 2023
artificial intelligence company owned by Google
+183
knowledge worker — 269 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
worker whose main capital is knowledge
+263
Chicago Seven — 24 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 18 Aug 2024
+18
megastructure — 51 books
first published 31 Aug 1986
+45
Steven Levy — 227 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 person
+221
Murray Bookchin — 22 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 27 Sep 2022
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
+16
premature optimization — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
antipattern in software development
+38
Bjarne Stroustrup — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 7 Oct 2023
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
+24
combinatorial explosion — 55 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
+49
fault tolerance — 141 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 31 Dec 2016
+135
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
database schema — 82 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
visual representation of database system relationships
+76
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
Kim Stanley Robinson — 64 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 17 Jun 2021
American science fiction writer
+58
locality of reference — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
principle describing a tendency to repetitively accessing similar memory location sets momentaneously
+1
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
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