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15-minute city — 6 books
first published 5 Oct 2020 added 9 Jun 2023
an urban planning concept where all essential services are within a 15-minute walk or bike ride
New Urbanism
1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy — 10 books
first published 2004
US Army transcontinental expedition evaluating the state of America's roads
+4
1960s counterculture — 67 books
first published 13 Nov 1995
+61
2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013 — 51 books
first published 2 Aug 2010
+45
2021 United States Capitol attack — 90 books
first published 2 Jun 2014 added 2 Nov 2021
On January 6, 2021, a mob of 2,000–2,500 supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
event politics
+84
23andMe — 102 books
first published 2009
biotechnology company
+96
3Com Palm IPO — 9 books
first published 1949 added 27 Apr 2017 finance
+3
3D printing — 245 books
first published 15 Feb 1999
layer-by-layer additive process used to make a three-dimensional object
+239
4chan — 134 books
first published 24 Aug 2010 added 15 Oct 2020
English-language imageboard website
+128
5G — 59 books
first published 15 Jun 201 added 27 Oct 2023
the fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, known for high speed and low latency
+53
89up — 2 books
first published 12 Feb 2015 added 25 Oct 2025
8-hour work day — 232 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+226
90 percent rule — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1993 added 1 Jun 2022
+1
9 dash line — 14 books
first published 27 Oct 2015
a demarcation used by China to claim territories in the South China Sea
+8
Aaron Swartz — 45 books
first published 2008 added 25 Oct 2021
American computer programmer and activist known for RSS and Reddit
person
+39
Abacus Federal Savings — 1 books
first published 8 Apr 2014 added 30 Oct 2023
community bank primarily serving the Chinese-American community in New York City, known for its personal banking services, small business loans, and involvement in a notable legal case featured in the documentary "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail"
Abbie Hoffman — 80 books
first published 1973 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist (1936–1989)
person
+74
Able Archer 83 — 14 books
first published 5 May 1992 added 16 Nov 2021
1983 NATO military exercise almost leading to nuclear war
+8
Abraham Maslow — 159 books
first published 1973 added 24 Mar 2022
American psychologist, creator of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
+153
Abraham Wald — 29 books
first published 15 Jan 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
Hungarian mathematician, contributions to decision theory and statistical quality control
+23
accelerated depreciation — 34 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 26 Oct 2021
accounting method for faster asset cost write-off
+28
access to a mobile phone — 19 books
first published 15 Feb 2009
availability and use of mobile phone technology
+13
access to space — 60 books
first published 1994 added 25 Oct 2025 space
+54
accounting loophole / creative accounting — 126 books
first published 1949
manipulation of financial records for favourable company presentation
+120
active measures — 150 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 15 Apr 2017
covert actions to influence events, often linked to Russian intelligence
+144
active transport: walking or cycling — 17 books
first published 2 Jan 2007 added 17 Jan 2017
transport modes requiring physical activity
+11
activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor — 153 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 19 May 2017
individual or group buying shares to influence company management
+147
activist lawyer — 27 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
lawyer advocating for social, economic, or political change
+21
ActivityPub — 3 books
first published 13 Feb 2024 added 12 Jun 2023
decentralised social networking protocol
Ada Lovelace — 99 books
first published 2 Jan 1984
English mathematician, work on Analytical Engine
+93
Adam Curtis — 39 books
first published 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
British filmmaker, focuses on socio-political issues
+33
Adam Neumann (WeWork) — 16 books
first published 15 Feb 2018 added 17 Jun 2021
an Israeli-American billionaire businessman, co-founder of WeWork
person
+10
addicted to oil — 48 books
first published 11 May 1998 added 4 Sep 2017
over-reliance on oil as an energy source
+42
additive manufacturing — 84 books
first published 1 Apr 2005
layer-by-layer material addition for object creation, aka 3D printing
+78
address space layout randomization — 3 books
first published 20 Nov 2006 added 4 Jun 2023
security technique to randomise memory locations of processes
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace — 53 books
first published 31 Aug 2006
document asserting internet independence from government interference
+47
adjacent possible — 27 books
first published 5 Oct 2010 added 1 Jun 2022
concept of incremental innovation based on existing technologies
+21
Admiral Zheng — 47 books
first published 14 Sep 1999
Ming Dynasty admiral, explored and influenced Indian Ocean
+41
Adrian Hon — 5 books
first published 13 Dec 2011 added 15 Aug 2023
British entrepreneur, author, game designer
advance fee scam — 17 books
first published 22 Jan 2005 added 30 Aug 2024
+11
adverse selection — 101 books
first published 15 Jan 1999 added 4 May 2024
+95
affirmative action — 415 books
first published 1956
policies to improve opportunities for discriminated minority groups
+409
Affordable Care Act / Obamacare — 384 books
first published 15 Feb 2010
US federal statute for healthcare cost reduction and coverage expansion
+378
AGPL — 9 books
first published 13 Oct 2005 added 9 Mar 2018
GNU Affero General Public License, free software license for network software
+3
agricultural Revolution — 247 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
+241
agricultural surplus — 77 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
+71
AI boom — 22 books
first published 8 Sep 1993 added 15 Nov 2025
rapid progress in generative AI since mid-2010s
generative artificial intelligence
+16
AI guardrails — 12 books
first published 15 Jan 2018 added 4 Mar 2024 generative artificial intelligence
+6
Airbnb — 615 books
first published 31 May 2000
online platform for short-term lodging listings and rentals
tech
+609
Airbus A320 — 41 books
first published 16 Jan 2007 added 13 Feb 2017
family of single-aisle commercial jet airliners by Airbus
+35
Air France Flight 447 — 20 books
first published 10 Nov 2009
2009 Air France flight crash into Atlantic Ocean, no survivors
+14
air freight — 114 books
first published 1949
transportation of goods via air, usually high-value items
+108
air gap — 93 books
first published 1 Mar 1984 added 4 Oct 2023
security measure to isolate computer or network from unsecured networks
+87
AI risk — 43 books
first published 2 Jul 2008 added 31 Aug 2024 generative artificial intelligence
+37
airline deregulation — 53 books
first published 1 Nov 1983
removal of government controls on airline industry
+47
airport security — 300 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
procedures to protect passengers, staff, and planes
+294
air traffic controllers' union — 67 books
first published 28 May 1992 added 10 Jan 2022
labour union representing air traffic controllers
+61
AI safety — 55 books
first published 2007 added 24 May 2024
research area on making artificial intelligence safe and beneficial
generative artificial intelligence
+49
AI winter — 83 books
first published 14 Jul 2005
periods of reduced funding and interest in AI research
+77
Ajeya Cotra — 7 books
first published 12 Jun 2019 added 31 Aug 2024 person
+1
Akira Okazaki — 4 books
first published 2007
Japanese scientist, contributions to molecular biology
person
Alameda Research — 10 books
first published 10 Jul 2023 added 15 Aug 2024
quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm
cryptocurrency company
+4
Alan Greenspan — 551 books
first published 1949 added 11 Feb 2022
American economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman
person finance
+545
Alan Turing — 388 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
British mathematician, contributions to computer science and AI
+382
Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem — 54 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
paper by Alan Turing, foundational to theoretical computer science
+48
Albert Michelson — 36 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist, speed of light measurement
+30
Aldo Leopold — 59 books
first published 1986 added 28 Oct 2023
American ecologist, work on conservation ethics
+53
Alexander Shulgin — 10 books
first published 2004 added 4 Mar 2017
+4
Alexey Pajitnov wrote Tetris — 9 books
first published 1993
+3
Alex Honnold — 10 books
first published 24 Apr 2012 added 11 Mar 2025
American rock climber
person
+4
Alfred Russel Wallace — 125 books
first published 1968
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
+119
algorithmic bias — 88 books
first published 1 Apr 2005 added 5 Dec 2020
systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes, such as privileging one arbitrary group of users over others
+82
algorithmic feed — 17 books
first published 17 Dec 2008 added 29 Jan 2024
+11
algorithmic management — 43 books
first published 17 Dec 2008 added 19 Mar 2022
the delegation of managerial functions to algorithmic and automated systems
+37
algorithmic trading — 109 books
first published 3 May 2007
the use of automated algorithms to execute trading orders in financial markets
+103
Alignment Problem — 34 books
first published 7 Jul 2008 added 1 Jun 2023
+28
Alistair Cooke — 23 books
first published 1976
+17
All science is either physics or stamp collecting — 6 books
first published 5 May 2003
a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — 14 books
first published 26 Aug 2002 added 15 Feb 2017
+8
AlphaFold — 23 books
first published 2 Nov 2018 added 11 Dec 2025
software by DeepMind
generative artificial intelligence
+17
AlphaGo — 119 books
first published 27 Jun 2016 added 3 Mar 2023
an artificial intelligence developed by Google's DeepMind to play the board game Go
generative artificial intelligence
+113
Al Roth — 10 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
an American economist known for his work in game theory, market design, and experimental economics. He is a Nobel laureate in Economics.
person
+4
AltaVista — 118 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+112
altcoin — 26 books
first published 22 Jan 2014
any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin
+20
Alvin Roth — 29 books
first published 23 Aug 1996 added 9 Aug 2017
+23
Alvin Toffler — 120 books
first published 1 Jun 1984 added 2 Nov 2021
American writer and futurist
person
+114
always be closing — 41 books
first published 1959 added 15 Feb 2017
+35
amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics — 7 books
first published 30 Jun 2009
+1
Amazon Mechanical Turk — 118 books
first published 2007
Micro-work service subsidiary of Amazon
+112
Amazon Picking Challenge — 4 books
first published 28 Feb 2017 added 16 Apr 2021
a competition by Amazon to advance robotic manipulation technology for supply chain automation
Amazon Robotics — 23 books
first published 15 Mar 2015 added 22 Aug 2023
a subsidiary of Amazon focusing on automation solutions for its fulfilment centres
+17
Amazon Web Services — 224 books
first published 25 Jan 2008
subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
+218
American chestnut — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1991 added 26 Jun 2024
species of plant
+17
American energy revolution — 11 books
first published 8 Apr 2012
+5
American ideology — 53 books
first published 1956 added 28 Nov 2017
the set of beliefs and values such as individualism, freedom, and capitalism that are generally thought to be held by the American populace
+47
American Legislative Exchange Council — 42 books
first published 1997 added 26 Feb 2017
a nonprofit organization that facilitates collaboration between legislators and corporations to draft model legislation
+36
American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card — 47 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+41
Andrei Shleifer — 112 books
first published 1949
a Russian-American economist and a professor at Harvard University, known for his work in the field of finance
+106
Andrew Cuomo — 123 books
first published 2001 added 20 Aug 2024 person politician COVID-19 pandemic
+117
Andrew Keen — 31 books
first published 28 Feb 2008
American journalist
+25