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: Sharing Economy
Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs: Dawn of Decentralized Autonomous Workers Councils.
Workers Council DAOs – Decentralized Autonomous Workers Councils (DAWCs) are science fiction, but only just.
Bitnation Refugee Emergency Response (BRER)
Bitnation Refugee Emergency Response (BRER) is a Humanitarian Aid Project of Bitnation to facilitate and provide Emergency Services and Humanitarian Aid to refugees during the European Refugee Crisis of September 2015
The Bitcoin Blockchain And Digital Art
In its purest form, digital art is ephemeral and based on a transient technology.
DIY Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech Economies
1. INTRODUCTION Most articles on garage biology and do-it-yourself (DIY) biology – whether academic papers or media reports – highlight its somewhat “immaterial” cultures or ideologies. The issues usually raised include: the ways in which do-it-yourself biology potentially democratizes science...
Resilience — a fully voluntary wealth sharing network based on the blockchain
What if there’s a revolution looming around the corner, yet to be discovered ?
Attractor Patterns and Attractor Tokens
Opening the Door…. A data sequence is a pattern. Patterns are everywhere. Some patterns are more attractive than others. Attractor patterns are attractors of human attention. But is it Art? What makes a pattern aesthetically pleasing? Aesthetically pleasing patterns evolve...
Evolutionary methods for problem solving and artificial development
Distributed Human-based Genetic Algorithms What we know is that human based genetic algorithms can utilize the Darwinian process of “natural selection” to evolve a candidate solution. Human based genetic algorithms utilize the human as the selector and innovator. The data...
Patenting the Singularity
What if the Industrial Revolution never ended? What if Da Vinci was not merely a creative genius but had many teachers due to the influx of Greek scholars after the fall of the Byzantium Empire? What if the future is just a stepwise evolution from the nearest-neighbor in systematic composition while directed by correspondence, one recombination after another, pushing along what has already happened while shaped by the pull of the potential?
The Thingiverse – Model Reuse in the 3D Printing Community
Only half of 3D models are shared. Analysis is based on metadata information from 117,450 ‘things’.