Who coined the term cyberspace? Cyberspace: The word cyberspace was first found in the work, 'Burning Chrome,' which is a short story published in 1982. This story followed two professional hackers who purchased a high-level software used to steal money from a criminal. ...
Of all the cities we’ve been to, this was the least touristy—tucked away in the northwest corner of Italy, near the Alps, it gets overshadowed by Milan, an hour train ride to the east. But our family really dug Turin, in large part for it being lower-key, while still providing pl...
was elected the Society’s director. In the introduction to the first volume he noted, perhaps not without a touch of irony, that the word he had coined would make him better known than the rest of his professional activities. As we have seen, the “Saxon” termfolklorewas applied to the...
That is why Kasner coined the term in “Mathematics and the Imagination.” http://books.google.com/books?id=Ad8hAx-6m9oC&lpg=PP1&dq=Mathematics%20and%20the%20Imagination&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false So in summary we see that Prof. Stenger’s claim is simply false. A googol year ...
I share Olshansky’s criticism of longevity escape velocity with the man who coined the term. “Jay has been saying this sort of thing for a quarter of a century and it’s just beyond embarrassing,” replies Aubrey de Grey over email. “He hides behind failing to define what he means ...
James Gifford’s life changed when he hopped aboard a flight from Sydney in 2003. The team he joined in Geneva framed the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment, created the concept of ‘ESG’ and changed the world.
In the 1940s an advertising executive named Alex Osborn (He’s the guy who coined the term, ‘brainstorming’), recognized that this lack of adult imagination was a problem, so he came up with something he called, “creative problem solving.” The idea is that imagination can be cultivated...
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He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, and intertwingularity (in Literary Machines), and teledildonics. According to a 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano ...
(And notes it was coined in 1964 by Rabbi Sherwin Wine.) -rc Reply Dan in MA June 23, 2023 at 9:46 pm I would differentiate between absolute atheist and what most people mean when they call themselves atheist, and suggest you fall pretty close to the latter. I know that none of...