Technology
17 ideas, each explained on one page with a 60-second lesson you can play right there.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence enables computers to learn, reason, and make decisions to achieve goals, shifting from rigid logic to neural networks.
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Atomic Clock
Atomic clocks measure time using resonant atomic frequencies, defining the SI second as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a caesium-133 atom.
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Attention Economy
When information becomes abundant, human attention becomes the scarce resource that platforms and advertisers compete to capture.
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ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that generates text, speech, and images in response to user prompts.
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Clickbait
Clickbait uses sensational headlines and hidden information to manipulate users into clicking links that overpromise and underdeliver.
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Convenience food
Convenience food is food that commercial companies prepare and package in advance so you can eat it with little to no extra cooking.
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Doomscrolling
Doomscrolling is the habit of continuously consuming distressing digital content.
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Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble was a massive rise and sudden crash in the stock prices of internet companies during the late 1990s.
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FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)
FOMO is the anxiety that others are having rewarding experiences without you, intensified by social feeds into constant psychological distress.
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Generative pre-trained transformer
GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer: a model that first trains on huge amounts of unlabeled text by predicting the next token, then gets adapted to tasks.
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Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a network of satellites that broadcasts precise time and location radio signals down to Earth.
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Infinite scrolling
Infinite scrolling dynamically loads content as you move down a page, replacing pagination and removing natural stopping points.
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Online dating
Online dating uses digital profiles to connect romantic partners, revealing stark patterns in how age, race, and education affect attraction.
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Problematic smartphone use
Problematic smartphone use describes compulsive phone habits and distress without requiring a formal addiction diagnosis.
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Quantum Computer
A quantum computer is a device that processes information using quantum states rather than classical binary switches.
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Sampling (music)
Sampling is the reuse of a portion of an existing sound recording inside a new piece of music.
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Tinder (app)
Tinder is a geosocial dating and networking app where people browse nearby profiles by swiping right to like or left to pass.