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2,723 concepts

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green transition — 25 books
first published 2011 added 24 Mar 2023
+19
renewable energy credits — 9 books
first published 2011
+3
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
+63
linear model of innovation — 4 books
first published 2011 added 21 Apr 2021
microapartment — 3 books
first published 28 Dec 2010 added 20 Sep 2023
type of house
Google X / Alphabet X — 71 books
first published 9 Dec 2010
+65
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
+12
John Bercow — 14 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
+8
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
+15
Chesa Boudin — 6 books
first published 16 Nov 2010 added 19 Aug 2024
American lawyer
person
Inbox Zero — 23 books
first published 18 Oct 2010
+17
Commerzbank Tower — 6 books
first published 17 Oct 2010 added 27 Oct 2023
skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany
Berghain — 18 books
first published 17 Oct 2010 added 6 Oct 2024
+12
capitalist realism — 40 books
first published 17 Oct 2010 added 10 Jan 2022
+34
TaskRabbit — 135 books
first published 14 Oct 2010 added 15 Oct 2020
American online task marketplace
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Vesna Vulović — 3 books
first published 7 Oct 2010 added 29 Dec 2016
Serbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute
adjacent possible — 25 books
first published 5 Oct 2010 added 1 Jun 2022
concept of incremental innovation based on existing technologies
+19
my TED talk — 13 books
first published 5 Oct 2010 added 7 Oct 2024
+7
intermittent fasting — 46 books
first published 30 Sep 2010 added 27 Feb 2024
a diet that cycles between a period of fasting and non-fasting
+40
Rory Sutherland — 16 books
first published 30 Sep 2010
+10
online collectivism — 6 books
first published 28 Sep 2010
Julian Assange — 132 books
first published 28 Sep 2010
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
+126
Book of Ingenious Devices — 3 books
first published 28 Sep 2010
an Arabic-language book about mechanical devices, written during the Islamic Golden Age
croissantification — 2 books
first published 27 Sep 2010 added 9 Feb 2024
FOSDEM — 5 books
first published 23 Sep 2010 added 2 Dec 2022
annual event in Brussels centered on free and open source software development
Climategate — 27 books
first published 22 Sep 2010
+21
Hans Island — 5 books
first published 22 Sep 2010
a small, uninhabited barren rock in the Arctic Ocean, the sovereignty of which is disputed between Canada and Denmark
medical bankruptcy — 20 books
first published 7 Sep 2010
bankruptcy declared due to unmanageable medical bills, often in contexts where healthcare is not universally provided.
+14
The Giving Pledge — 39 books
first published 7 Sep 2010 added 19 Jan 2024
+33
4chan — 134 books
first published 24 Aug 2010 added 15 Oct 2020
English-language imageboard website
+128
Galaxy Zoo — 17 books
first published 16 Aug 2010
crowdsourced astronomy project
+11
Clive Stafford Smith — 7 books
first published 2 Aug 2010
British attorney
person
+1
John Darwin disappearance case — 11 books
first published 2 Aug 2010 added 15 Apr 2022
a British man who faked his own death for insurance money, later discovered living under an assumed identity
+5
2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013 — 50 books
first published 2 Aug 2010
+44
Kinder Surprise — 10 books
first published 31 Jul 2010 added 24 Sep 2023
Brand of chocolate egg
+4
WebSocket — 38 books
first published 23 Jul 2010 added 15 Oct 2020
computer network protocol
+32
Caribbean Basin Initiative — 6 books
first published 20 Jul 2010 added 11 Aug 2023
skeuomorphism — 22 books
first published 14 Jul 2010 added 22 Dec 2022
a design principle in which interface objects mimic their real-world counterparts, such as a digital calendar resembling a paper one.
+16
Jason Scott: textfiles.com — 8 books
first published 5 Jul 2010 person
+2
Section 230 — 58 books
first published 5 Jul 2010 added 28 Jun 2024
US legal legislation of Internet sites
+52
Paul Volcker talking about ATMs — 3 books
first published 22 Jun 2010 added 26 Oct 2021
Scaled Composites — 21 books
first published 1 Jun 2010 added 10 Nov 2021
American aerospace company
+15
name-letter effect — 2 books
first published 31 May 2010 added 4 Jul 2022
measure of self-esteem
Demis Hassabis — 73 books
first published 31 May 2010 added 22 Aug 2023
CEO and co-founder of DeepMind
+67
world market for maybe five computers — 1 books
first published 17 May 2010 added 28 Sep 2023
material flow analysis — 4 books
first published 12 May 2010 added 8 Oct 2023
analytical method to quantify flows and stocks of materials or substances in a well-defined system
printed gun — 22 books
first published 11 May 2010 added 14 Nov 2021
+16
Growth in a Time of Debt — 28 books
first published 10 May 2010
+22
balance sheet recession — 23 books
first published 10 May 2010
a type of economic recession that occurs when high levels of private sector debt cause individuals or companies to collectively focus on saving by paying down debt rather than spending or investing, causing economic growth to slow or decline
+17
Nixon triggered the end of the Bretton Woods system — 24 books
first published 30 Apr 2010 added 9 Dec 2020
+18
Les Trente Glorieuses — 36 books
first published 30 Apr 2010 added 23 Aug 2023
the thirty years from 1945 to 1975 following the end of the Second World War in France
+30
Pershing Square Capital Management — 21 books
first published 26 Apr 2010 added 23 Nov 2021
American hedge fund
+15
Shepard Fairey — 25 books
first published 6 Apr 2010 added 3 Feb 2025 person
+19
moveable type in China — 4 books
first published 31 Mar 2010
Enrique Peñalosa — 15 books
first published 28 Mar 2010 added 17 Jan 2017
Colombian politician
+9
critique of consumerism — 8 books
first published 28 Mar 2010 added 20 Jun 2021
+2
DIY culture — 12 books
first published 28 Mar 2010 added 2 Dec 2022
a subculture that encourages individuals to create or repair things without direct assistance of experts
+6
commodity super cycle — 21 books
first published 18 Mar 2010
+15
lifestyle creep — 14 books
first published 18 Mar 2010 added 5 Oct 2022
social phenomenon
+8
private sector deleveraging — 15 books
first published 18 Mar 2010
+9
Google Chrome — 100 books
first published 15 Mar 2010
+94
financial thriller — 16 books
first published 1 Mar 2010 added 12 Feb 2017
subgenre of thriller fiction
+10
circulation of elites — 11 books
first published 19 Feb 2010 added 11 Aug 2017
political concept (the process of continuous exchange of elites from the opposition to the ruling coalition and vice versa)
+5
obamacare — 259 books
first published 15 Feb 2010
+253
Affordable Care Act / Obamacare — 381 books
first published 15 Feb 2010
US federal statute for healthcare cost reduction and coverage expansion
+375
I will remember that I didn’t make the world, and it doesn’t satisfy my equations — 4 books
first published 2 Feb 2010 added 1 Mar 2017
a phrase cautioning against the arrogance of thinking the world must conform to one's theoretical models or expectations
Financial Modelers Manifesto — 5 books
first published 2 Feb 2010 added 20 Oct 2020
Sergey Aleynikov — 9 books
first published 2 Feb 2010
+3
James Bridle — 20 books
first published 31 Jan 2010 added 4 Jan 2023
+14
Chris Moneymaker — 8 books
first published 26 Jan 2010 added 14 Aug 2024
American poker player
person
+2
Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act — 11 books
first published 26 Jan 2010 added 14 Aug 2024
+5
Brian Krebs — 30 books
first published 26 Jan 2010
American journalist specializing in cybersecurity
+24
Boltzmann brain — 6 books
first published 14 Jan 2010 added 1 Jan 2024
Rat Park — 7 books
first published 5 Jan 2010 added 3 Nov 2017
+1
collaborative consumption — 47 books
first published 2 Jan 2010
economic and social systems that enable shared access to goods, services, data and talent
+41
nonsequential writing — 3 books
first published 2 Jan 2010
new new economy — 3 books
first published 2 Jan 2010
peer-to-peer rental — 10 books
first published 2 Jan 2010 added 24 May 2017
+4
billion-dollar mistake — 13 books
first published 2 Jan 2010 added 18 Apr 2022
+7
Boston Dynamics — 44 books
first published 2010 added 12 Feb 2022
engineering and robotics design company
+38
Stuxnet — 83 books
first published 2010
+77
paperclip maximiser — 53 books
first published 2010 added 12 Dec 2022
thought experiment to illustrate existential risk posed by artificial intelligence
+47
optogenetics — 27 books
first published 2010 added 26 Jun 2024
+21
billionaire class — 35 books
first published 2010 added 18 Jan 2024
+29
collaborative economy — 29 books
first published 31 Dec 2009
+23
nowcasting — 11 books
first published 9 Dec 2009 added 27 Aug 2023
+5
Infrastructure as a Service — 32 books
first published 1 Dec 2009
cloud computing service model
+26
Dunning–Kruger effect — 26 books
first published 1 Dec 2009 added 27 May 2022
cognitive bias in which incompetent people tend to assess themselves as skilled
+20
Marc Benioff — 1 books
first published 19 Nov 2009 added 13 Feb 2022
platform as a service — 43 books
first published 19 Nov 2009
category of cloud computing services
+37
Air France Flight 447 — 20 books
first published 10 Nov 2009
2009 Air France flight crash into Atlantic Ocean, no survivors
+14
Bernard Ziegler — 2 books
first published 10 Nov 2009 added 14 Feb 2017
a French aerospace engineer known for his work on Airbus aircraft
Wunderkammern — 5 books
first published 10 Nov 2009
collection of notable objects
Silicon Wadi — 6 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 29 Dec 2023
area with a high concentration of high-tech industries in Israel
unit 8200 — 22 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 8 Aug 2023
Israeli Intelligence Corps SIGINT unit
+16
deep-ocean exploration — 5 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 23 Nov 2023
tactical urbanism — 16 books
first published 30 Oct 2009 added 8 Nov 2023
Low-cost, temporary improvement to a city
+10
Ben Bernanke: helicopter money — 28 books
first published 29 Oct 2009
a term referring to an unconventional monetary policy tool involving the distribution of new money to the public
+22
Level 39 — 3 books
first published 27 Oct 2009 added 27 Oct 2023
Level 39 of the Backrooms
Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh — 3 books
first published 19 Oct 2009 added 26 Feb 2017