An efficient existence
Around us, the arts and entertainment space is being converted into efficiency machines. What are we losing out on when we optimise for consumption instead of creation?
Tag: blockchain
Front tier journeys
The pandemic has the potential to cause a step shift in disparity. Not just in the familiar 1% and 99%, but within the privileged classes as well. This is an exploration along three areas – money, relationships & society, and evolution – to the future of front tier (and frontier) journeys.
Choices & Automation
Taylor Pearson wrote an excellent primer on blockchain a while ago. While explaining why blockchain matters, he quoted something by Alfred North Whitehead Photo by Joshua Newton on Unsplash
The abstraction of trust
The notion of trust has seen tectonic shifts across time. A simplistic look at the changes that have happened, and a quick peek at how a technology like blockchain can be framed in this context.
The Gatekeepers
To quote Robert Wright from Non Zero: To stay strong, a society must adopt new technologies. In particular, it must reap the non-zero-sum fruits they offer. Yet new technologies often redistribute power within societies. (They often do this precisely because they raise non-zero-sumness- because they expand the number of people who profit from the system […]