Industrial Revolution
Entrepreneur
A person who organizes and operates a business, taking on financial risks to do so.
Algorithm
A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or performing a task, especially by a computer.
Intellectual Property
Legal rights to inventions and creative works.
Elon Musk
Founded SpaceX, Tesla, and other companies, driving innovation in space exploration, electric vehicles, and renewable energy.
Avatar
A digital representation of a person in a virtual environment.
Agrarian
Relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land
Bandwidth: Bonus
-the capacity to handle tasks or information, e.g., "I don't have the bandwidth to take on another project right now."
-a measurement of the amount of information that can be sent between computers, through a phone line, etc.:
Digital Divide
The gap between those with and without access to digital technologies.
Nikola Tesla
Pioneered alternating current (AC) electrical systems and numerous other innovations.
Quantum Leap
A sudden, significant change or advance.
Disruptive Technology
Disruptive technology refers to innovations that significantly alter or replace existing technologies, markets, or industries. These technologies often start by serving a niche market but eventually displace established products and services. E.g. Video Streaming, Smart Phones
Hard-wired (Bonus)
A computer or electronic device that is hardwired is built to work in a particular way and you cannot change the way it performs with new software, etc.
If someone or something is hardwired to do a particular thing, they automatically do it and cannot change that behaviour:
Whistleblowing
Reporting unethical or illegal activities within an organisation.
Ada Lovelace (Bonus: How is it relevant to present generation gamers)
Wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine, making her the first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace, also referred to simply as Lovelace, is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Ampere architecture, officially announced on September 20, 2022.
Cyberpunk
A genre focusing on high-tech and low-life themes.
Workhouse
A place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment.
Blockchain
a system in which a record of payments made in cryptocurrency is maintained across several computers that are linked
Beneficence
The ethical principle of doing good and preventing harm.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Co-founded Google, revolutionizing internet search and online advertising.
Android vs Cyborg. What's the difference?
Android - A robot with a human appearance.
Cyborg - A being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts.
Laissez-Faire
the policy of leaving things to take their own course, without interfering
Botnet
A network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge.
White-Hat Hacking
Ethical hacking to identify and fix security vulnerabilities.
Tim Berners-Lee
Invented the World Wide Web, enabling the modern internet.
Which story is considered the first Science fiction + (bonus: who wrote it?)
Mary Shelley is widely considered to have started the genre with her book Frankenstein, the classic mad scientist tale published in 1818.