Blockchain Technology, Smart Contracts and Smart Property
Blockchain technology is exciting, but many people are put off by the technical and abstruse concepts underpinning it.
Category: Business
The Bitcoin Blockchain And Digital Art
In its purest form, digital art is ephemeral and based on a transient technology.
Quantifiable Ethics in Retail — Can You Change the World through Effective Altruistic Shopping?
Can something as simple as an app that gives unbiased product information change the world? Filtering out products which follow one’s personal norms and values will reshape the concept of brand image, render it unimportant for highly similar goods, such as soap and just about everything under the kitchen sink.
Video Friday: SWARM — Blockchain Based Cryptoequity
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof introduces the new crypto-equity crowdfunding platform, Swarm.
Bigger Than Google
Former Chief Technology Officer of Siemens Infrastructure and Cities Peter Torrellas shares his vision for a business opportunity that is bigger than Google: sharing our experiences and emotions.
Eris — The Dawn of Distributed Autonomous Organizations and The Future of Governance
Project Douglas launches Eris, a serverless framework for distributed autonomous organizations.
TECHNOLOGICALLY ENHANCED BASIC INCOME AS A SOLUTION TO TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT
The ideas presented in this article developed in response to help resolve some of the problems which will result from technological unemployment. We believe that as machines become more intelligent and work currently done by human beings become automated there will be a sharp increase in the unemployment rate as humans are laid off to be replaced by intelligent machines. We believe that intelligent machines can be leveraged to provide a basic dividend to a decentralized pseudo-anonymous group of owners as a means of providing an axillary safety-net which cannot be shut down by any government or corporation.
Event: Help Define the Future of Work (London UK)
HackHumanity is a 2-day full immersion experience that combines the best of hackathons, workshops & personal coaching into a unique Hackshop experience.
Time and the Transhuman Condition
My first action was to begin writing letters to my future self. I can’t ever quite convey the humility experienced opening a letter on your 18th birthday that you wrote 10 years prior. As adults we look back at our childhood and consider ourselves to be inferior. Yet our views, so pure and untouched by the later mishmash of growing up, hold an honesty and a directness.
Companies of the Future at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013
This year I had the privilege of attending TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco and was on the look out for what was disruptive, mind boggling and 10^9 companies, companies that can teach us lessons for building a business in the 21st century, and companies that are growing exponentially and advancing us in the right direction.