DeepMind
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164 books
first published
2 Jan 1987
added 5 Aug 2023
artificial intelligence company owned by Google
knowledge worker
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257 books
first published
2 Jan 1987
worker whose main capital is knowledge
Boycotts of Israel
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46 books
first published
1987
political tactic of avoiding economic, political and cultural ties with the State of Israel
Chicago Seven
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23 books
first published
31 Aug 1986
added 18 Aug 2024
Hacker News
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92 books
first published
31 Aug 1986
added 17 Dec 2021
Murray Bookchin
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21 books
first published
31 Aug 1986
added 27 Sep 2022
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
L Peter Deutsch
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8 books
first published
2 Jan 1986
added 2 Oct 2022
Free software programmer and creator of Ghostscript
nuclear winter
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128 books
first published
2 Jan 1986
hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
Bjarne Stroustrup
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30 books
first published
2 Jan 1986
added 7 Oct 2023
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
locality of reference
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7 books
first published
2 Jan 1986
principle describing a tendency to repetitively accessing similar memory location sets momentaneously
Kim Stanley Robinson
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62 books
first published
2 Jan 1986
added 17 Jun 2021
American science fiction writer
Dennis Ritchie
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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
database schema
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81 books
first published
2 Jan 1986
visual representation of database system relationships
Aldo Leopold
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59 books
first published
1986
added 28 Oct 2023
American ecologist, work on conservation ethics
hacker house
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14 books
first published
1986
house in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
random walk
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274 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
technological singularity
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93 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
megaproject
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162 books
first published
1986
added 27 Oct 2021
extremely large-scale investment project
vertical integration
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305 books
first published
1986
added 17 Jun 2022
an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company
undersea cable
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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
sensible shoes
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79 books
first published
31 Dec 1985
album by Led Bib
supervolcano
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46 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
dark matter
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271 books
first published
12 Sep 1985
mysterious non-luminous matter (and/or radiation) comprising most of the matter in our observable universe
low earth orbit
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158 books
first published
2 Jan 1985
added 15 Oct 2020
orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers
Bullshit Jobs
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62 books
first published
14 Jun 1984
added 9 Jun 2024
intermodal
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68 books
first published
14 Jun 1984
train station for more than one railway route
Kōnosuke Matsushita
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9 books
first published
14 Jun 1984
added 25 Oct 2021
Founder of Panasonic
Teledyne
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42 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 13 Feb 2022
American industrial company
intentional community
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73 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 31 May 2023
planned, socially-cohesive, residential community
Colonization of Mars
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104 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
the hypothetical human habitation and terraforming of the planet Mars
open immigration
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41 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 2 Nov 2022
View that people may live in any country
Brownian motion
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140 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
random motion of particles suspended in a fluid, observed microscopically
Alvin Toffler
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121 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 2 Nov 2021
American writer and futurist
social intelligence
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155 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 6 Apr 2018
Capacity to know oneself and to know others
air gap
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85 books
first published
1 Mar 1984
added 4 Oct 2023
security measure to isolate computer or network from unsecured networks
haute cuisine
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208 books
first published
1 Mar 1984
a style of cooking characterized by elaborate preparation and presentation, often associated with French culinary traditions.
operational security
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127 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
added 22 Feb 2022
a risk management process that encourages managers to view operations from the perspective of an adversary to protect sensitive information
Ada Lovelace
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96 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
English mathematician, work on Analytical Engine
Snow Crash
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47 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
added 4 Mar 2023
LNG terminal
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12 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
facility for managing the export and/or import of liquefied natural gas
Neal Stephenson
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126 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
added 4 Mar 2023
American science fiction writer
wikimedia commons
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127 books
first published
1984
online repository of free-use image, sound, and other media files; part of the Wikimedia ecosystem
Andrew Wiles
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43 books
first published
1984
British mathematician; (born 1953)
Richard Stallman
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107 books
first published
1984
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
the built environment
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209 books
first published
1984
the human-made spaces in which people live, work, and interact, including buildings, parks, and transportation systems.
Norman Macrae
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20 books
first published
1984
added 3 Nov 2017
British economist and journalist (1923–2010)
iterative process
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207 books
first published
1984
numerical method in which the n-th approximation of the solution is obtained on the basis on the (n-1) previous approximations
The Wisdom of Crowds
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171 books
first published
1984
a book by James Surowiecki that explores the idea that large groups of people are often smarter than the smartest individuals within them when it comes to problem-solving.
late capitalism
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134 books
first published
1 Nov 1983
Ideas concerning the potential end of capitalism
airline deregulation
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50 books
first published
1 Nov 1983
removal of government controls on airline industry
Ayatollah Khomeini
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184 books
first published
24 Feb 1983
an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader who led the 1979 Iranian Revolution and became the country's Supreme Leader.
the long tail
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221 books
first published
24 Feb 1983
added 3 Oct 2023
Milgram experiment
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76 books
first published
1983
series of social psychology experiments, studying obedience to authority figures
school choice
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83 books
first published
1983
arrangements giving parents the facility to choose schools for their children
p-value
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112 books
first published
1982
a statistic used in hypothesis testing to indicate the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis
Douglas Hofstadter
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87 books
first published
1982
an American professor known for his work on consciousness, artificial intelligence, and the book 'Gödel, Escher, Bach'
Peter Pan Syndrome
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12 books
first published
1982
added 27 Oct 2021
a term referring to adults who refuse to grow up and take on responsibilities, instead maintaining childlike attitudes and behaviours.
Recombinant DNA
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88 books
first published
1982
added 16 Nov 2021
DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods
Tragedy of the Commons
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235 books
first published
1982
added 25 Oct 2021
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
assortative mating
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69 books
first published
1982
added 11 Aug 2017
the tendency of individuals to mate with those who have similar traits
Jeff Bezos
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576 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
Robert Solow
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175 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 4 Feb 2018
American economist
crony capitalism
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187 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
capitalism featuring undue alliances between business interests and politicians