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2,703 concepts

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Tactical Technology Collective — 4 books
first published 31 Jan 2012 added 30 May 2021
international NGO advancing the use of information and digital technologies by activists
real-name policy — 14 books
first published 31 Jan 2012 added 5 Oct 2023
Khan Academy — 83 books
first published 15 Jan 2012
Twitter Arab Spring — 56 books
first published 3 Jan 2012 added 16 Aug 2023
Disneyland with the Death Penalty — 5 books
first published 3 Jan 2012 added 1 Aug 2022
article about Singapore by William Gibson
node package manager — 21 books
first published 2012
package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment
p-hacking — 26 books
first published 2012 added 6 Jan 2025
microaggression — 82 books
first published 17 Dec 2011 added 14 Apr 2021
subtle, often unintentional, expressions or behaviors that communicate negative or derogatory messages or assumptions towards members of a marginalized group, typically reflecting underlying prejudices or stereotypes
Adrian Hon — 5 books
first published 13 Dec 2011 added 15 Aug 2023
British entrepreneur, author, game designer
WebRTC — 4 books
first published 26 Nov 2011 added 15 Oct 2020
API definition drafted by W3C that supports browser-to-browser communication without plugins
critical race theory — 46 books
first published 24 Nov 2011 added 27 Oct 2021
academic movement regarding society, race and culture
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty — 224 books
first published 15 Nov 2011
book focusing on wealth and income inequality in Europe and the United States since the 18th century
uber lyft — 310 books
first published 15 Nov 2011 added 28 Nov 2017
Costa Concordia — 9 books
first published 15 Nov 2011
an Italian cruise ship that capsized in 2012 off the coast of Tuscany
Second Machine Age — 130 books
first published 15 Nov 2011
4th Industrial revolution or current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies 4.0
Lyft — 332 books
first published 15 Nov 2011
middle-income trap — 36 books
first published 15 Nov 2011 added 6 Feb 2022
Silicon Roundabout — 17 books
first published 7 Nov 2011 added 29 Dec 2023
tech cluster in East London
pizza team — 18 books
first published 27 Oct 2011 added 11 Mar 2025
two-pizza team — 18 books
first published 27 Oct 2011 added 23 Feb 2022
Shai Danziger — 17 books
first published 24 Oct 2011 added 2 May 2018
Supply of New York City Cabdrivers — 4 books
first published 24 Oct 2011 added 14 Oct 2017
Freestyle chess — 17 books
first published 2 Oct 2011
a form of chess where players are allowed to consult external sources, such as books and computers, during the game.
Irish property bubble — 9 books
first published 2 Oct 2011
Irish mid 2000s asset price bubble
green hydrogen — 11 books
first published 27 Sep 2011 added 11 Aug 2024
ransomware — 73 books
first published 19 Sep 2011
Program that locks files until a sum of money is paid
Carlos Moreno — 3 books
first published 8 Sep 2011 added 27 Nov 2023
parking minimums — 10 books
first published 8 Sep 2011 added 27 Dec 2022
regulation that governs how much parking spots a building should provide
volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity (VUCA) — 18 books
first published 1 Sep 2011 added 8 Oct 2023
an acronym used to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations
Institute for Strategic Dialogue — 12 books
first published 1 Sep 2011 added 25 Nov 2023
think thank that gives policy advice and publishes articles on hate, extremism, and disinformation
epistemic closure — 5 books
first published 16 Aug 2011 added 7 Oct 2023
principle in epistemology
Overton Window — 40 books
first published 16 Aug 2011 added 19 Nov 2021
the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time
bet made by Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne — 2 books
first published 16 Aug 2011
a public bet about the existence of black holes, which Stephen Hawking eventually conceded
gamification — 98 books
first published 14 Aug 2011 added 8 Nov 2021
the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems
minimum viable product — 96 books
first published 14 Aug 2011
D. B. Cooper — 6 books
first published 8 Aug 2011 added 10 Nov 2021
unidentified man who hijacked an airplane in 1971
nuclear paranoia — 6 books
first published 2 Aug 2011 added 5 Mar 2017
CRISPR — 115 books
first published 27 Jul 2011 added 5 Oct 2023
family of DNA sequence found in prokaryotic organisms
The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics — 5 books
first published 25 Jul 2011
We are the 99% — 79 books
first published 14 Jul 2011
Political slogan
In-Situ Resources Utilization — 10 books
first published 27 Jun 2011 added 29 Sep 2024
graphics processing unit — 84 books
first published 23 Jun 2011 added 15 Aug 2024
cyber-physical system — 15 books
first published 21 Jun 2011
engineered systems built and operated with seamless integration between physical components and computation
We are Anonymous. We are Legion — 16 books
first published 14 Jun 2011
pill mill — 19 books
first published 6 Jun 2011 added 27 Oct 2021
illegal pain clinic
Deep Water Horizon — 4 books
first published 1 Jun 2011
former offshore oil drilling rig
Basel III — 76 books
first published 23 May 2011
an international regulatory framework for banks, focusing on liquidity and leverage ratios
Parler "social media" — 24 books
first published 23 May 2011 added 17 Aug 2023
David Spiegelhalter — 25 books
first published 16 May 2011 added 24 Oct 2024
British mathematician
luxury emissions — 3 books
first published 14 May 2011 added 22 Feb 2025
Filter Bubble — 126 books
first published 11 May 2011
intellectual isolation involving search engines
adjacent possible — 24 books
first published 11 May 2011 added 1 Jun 2022
concept of incremental innovation based on existing technologies
Palm Treo — 8 books
first published 8 May 2011 added 28 Jun 2022
a line of smartphones originally developed by Handspring and later Palm Inc.
Google bus — 36 books
first published 12 Apr 2011
shuttle bus service for Google employees in the San Francisco Bay Area
large language model — 45 books
first published 12 Apr 2011 added 2 Jun 2023
language model built with large amounts of texts
turn-by-turn navigation — 12 books
first published 12 Apr 2011 added 26 Apr 2017
GPS feature
Double Irish / Dutch Sandwich — 28 books
first published 11 Apr 2011
Masters of Doom — 7 books
first published 5 Apr 2011 added 30 Jul 2024
2003 book by David Kushner
spaced repetition — 8 books
first published 31 Mar 2011
evidence-based learning technique performed with flashcards
Vincenzo Peruggia: Mona Lisa — 4 books
first published 28 Mar 2011
the triumph of global capitalism — 4 books
first published 28 Mar 2011 added 9 Apr 2024
Ocado — 24 books
first published 28 Mar 2011 added 11 Feb 2022
British online supermarket
black hole information paradox — 3 books
first published 1 Mar 2011 added 28 Oct 2023
a puzzle resulting from the combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity, questioning whether information that falls into a black hole is lost forever
Nudge Unit — 45 books
first published 27 Feb 2011
organization working with behavioural insights, in order to inform policy and public services
universal basic income — 220 books
first published 27 Feb 2011
sociopolitical financial transfer proposal
job polarisation — 6 books
first published 27 Feb 2011 added 25 Oct 2021
Gabriella Coleman — 32 books
first published 19 Feb 2011 added 5 Oct 2023
Internet anthropologist
WarGames: Global Thermonuclear War — 10 books
first published 15 Feb 2011 added 3 Oct 2023
Bluma Zeigarnik — 9 books
first published 2 Feb 2011 added 1 Aug 2021
Ramen profitable — 8 books
first published 2 Feb 2011 added 1 Dec 2024
Blue Ocean Strategy — 26 books
first published 2 Feb 2011 added 5 Oct 2023
a business strategy that encourages companies to create new market spaces rather than competing in existing industries
Downton Abbey — 113 books
first published 1 Feb 2011
Mohammed Bouazizi — 60 books
first published 1 Feb 2011
a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in protest of police corruption, sparking the Tunisian Revolution and wider Arab Spring
Jacob Appelbaum — 24 books
first published 1 Feb 2011
computer security researcher, journalist and hacker from United States
why are manhole covers round? — 8 books
first published 25 Jan 2011
hydraulic fracturing — 68 books
first published 25 Jan 2011
Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation — 74 books
first published 24 Jan 2011
solopreneur — 21 books
first published 15 Jan 2011 added 23 Sep 2023
unmanned surface vehicle — 20 books
first published 14 Jan 2011 added 8 Jan 2024
Huaqiangbei: the electronics market of Shenzhen, China — 5 books
first published 6 Jan 2011 added 20 Nov 2021
paypal mafia — 51 books
first published 6 Jan 2011
a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and developed additional technology companies such as Tesla, LinkedIn, and Palantir
source lines of code — 5 books
first published 5 Jan 2011 added 10 Oct 2023
software metric
Veblen good — 16 books
first published 4 Jan 2011 added 24 Feb 2017
Luxury good for which the demand increases as the price increases
circular economy — 69 books
first published 2011 added 29 Dec 2021
regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage, are minimised
green transition — 23 books
first published 2011 added 24 Mar 2023
renewable energy credits — 9 books
first published 2011
linear model of innovation — 4 books
first published 2011 added 21 Apr 2021
patient HM — 7 books
first published 2011
microapartment — 12 books
first published 28 Dec 2010 added 20 Sep 2023
type of house
Google X / Alphabet X — 72 books
first published 9 Dec 2010
longevity escape velocity — 18 books
first published 4 Dec 2010 added 26 Jun 2024
life extension concept; idea that a person's remaining life expectancy would increase at a faster rate than they age
John Bercow — 13 books
first published 19 Nov 2010 added 12 Feb 2017
former British politician who was Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019
Streisand effect — 21 books
first published 16 Nov 2010 added 5 Oct 2023
a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet
Chesa Boudin — 5 books
first published 16 Nov 2010 added 19 Aug 2024
American lawyer
Inbox Zero — 23 books
first published 18 Oct 2010
Berghain — 18 books
first published 17 Oct 2010 added 6 Oct 2024
Commerzbank Tower — 6 books
first published 17 Oct 2010 added 27 Oct 2023
skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany
capitalist realism — 39 books
first published 17 Oct 2010 added 10 Jan 2022
TaskRabbit — 134 books
first published 14 Oct 2010 added 15 Oct 2020
American online task marketplace