Language as a “social technology”
Via Flipboard I read an article “Why we speak” from Mark Pagel writing for the The Atlantic on the crucial role of language in our ability to trade. It offers [...]
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06, 2015
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02, 2015
“Collective learning” fits collaborability nicely
I have been very quiet as of late on my pet subject “collaborability”, unfortunately. The subject asks for a serious amount of prolonged and heightened concentration to get back into [...]
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04, 2014
Philosophy to the rescue!
I merely have been investigating the mechanisms at work that enable us to collaborate - and allowing us to cater for increased complexity and efficiency in our collaborations - and now suddenly I found myself taking a moral utilitarian position! What the hack!
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04, 2014
My take on human mental (in)abilities
Human nature and our abilities are intertwined with collaborability. My statements about them are scattered all over Red Planet Dust. I wondered if a consistent image would arise when I would collect my statements.
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04, 2014
The “aggressive cancer” of high-frequency trading
High-frequency trading makes it apparent that in stock and other financial trading computer decision making is out pacing humans in speed and quality. Three issues spring to mind: (1) The impact of efficiency of markets on collaborability, (2) Our societal relationship with technology and (3) Decision making is shifting from humans to computers.
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03, 2014
Why to worry even more about service throttling by Google then Facebook
Search is basic to the Internet and to be considered a utility function. Without „search” no find. "Degraded links" are hurting society as a whole and should be banned.
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03, 2014
Evolution of currency predicts path (r)evolution of digital money
Walking to the office this morning it struck me that the evolution of (physical) currency in relation to payments could show us the long term development of digital money as well: step by step the currency has been developing until at a certain moment in time the transaction will be done directly between the payer and the payee.
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03, 2014
Bitcoin: „Look the emperor has no cloths!”
...you could miss the major contribution of bitcoin as it presses us to reassess the way we have been doing things for years where all those little and some bigger inconveniences build into the current payment industry have to be discussed again and seen for the real merit they have.
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03, 2014
„Is technology governing us or are we governing technology?” Gallery„Is technology governing us or are we governing technology?”
Adaptability, Balance Group vs Individual, Circumstances, Collaborability, Decision Making, Evolution, Homo Collaborans, Human Abilities, Mega Trends, Question of the day
„Is technology governing us or are we governing technology?”
„Is our political system capable of managing rapid technological change?” When pressed I would be tempted to answer the question with a resounding YES! for I see abundant evidence around me we have done so very successfully. Actually it is one of the core abilities we humans have to adapt to changing conditions.
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03, 2014
Bitcoin futurology: incongruous prophesies
Whether you think in terms of “ the creation of a world of plenty” or “the disappearance of the middle class” in both scenarios the distribution of the wealth available will have to be dealt with politically.
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02, 2014
Transfer of property rights: „Payment Myopia”
Many years ago in a contribution to a corporate strategy I postulated payments should be redefined to the “transfer of property rights”. At that time smart metering for utilities and [...]
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02, 2014
Different Scalability in Different Circumstances
Our societies and economies are impacted heavily by technological change, they always have been. While some technologies - like the bitcoin protocol - allow for smaller economic actors to be relatively more economically viable then before other developments go in different directions.
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02, 2014
“Will you see Ripple become a reality during your lifetime?”
Question of the day (III) Let’s be honest; if a long time senior payments professional asks the title question after you have spend an hour explaining the significance of the [...]
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02, 2014
Bitcoin: It’s the platform, not the currency, stupid! – The Next Web
(1 minute reading time + 15+ minutes external article) As with Marc Andreessen's article "Why bitcoin matters" from three weeks ago I can recommend an other landmark article on crypto [...]
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02, 2014
Apple bigger threat to Bitcoin then Russia, China and India?
Often antitrust is connected to behaviour in the disadvantage of competitors – and hence the dis-economies this brings for consumers – we should have a wider perspective at the (potential) negative impact companies have on society. Slowly but surely we should start looking at the disadvantages to society’s ability to collaborate as well.
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01, 2014
Why do we not stop Google while we still can?
(4 minutes reading time, Note by author: this is a highly opinionated post) Some weeks ago Google announced the acquisition of Nest. For those who do not know Nest and [...]
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01, 2014
Contours of the “Utopia Wallet”
(4 minutes reading time) Picking up the glove I threw in front of myself in my previous post on Clinkle to describe “the contours of the ultimate payment method” I [...]
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01, 2014
What would be the contours of the ultimate electronic wallet?
(4 minutes reading time) Basically we only know a few things about Clinkle. Firstly it is a payments start-up based in San-Francisco promising “something that’s fundamentally different from everything else [...]
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01, 2014
Reflecting on a year of blogging
(3 min. read) The oldest post on Red Planet Dust is dated Februari 6, 2013. This post will constitute the 125th in a very divers row, just 3 weeks shy [...]
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01, 2014
Collaboration and interdependence not part of the popular view on evolution
(5 minutes reading) In my previous RPD-posting I suggested my readers to read Evolution's Other Narrative by Bradford Harris published in the The American Scientist. While the article is aiming [...]
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01, 2014
“Competition” is only one part of our evolutionary narrative (at most)
(2 min. read) With the start of the new year it is my intention, no my vow, to publish "Collaborability; a theory of human collaboration" as a free eBook this [...]
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07, 2013
Interoperability is to tools as what collaborability is to humans (sort of)
Wikipedia: “Interoperability is the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for [...]
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07, 2013
Humans and their tools in relation to collaborability
The inquiry into “Collaborability” is about creating a theory on human collaboration. Humans predominantly collaborate with tools involved. We are not the only species to use tools but we have [...]
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07, 2013
Suggested Reading: Interesting Articles Roundup dd. 05-07-2013
With this regularly returning blog-post I list the articles used in Red Planet Dust posts (non this episode) and cross publish articles I have flipped at Flipboard for your enjoyment: [...]
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07, 2013
Collaborability: I am slowly but surely getting there…
Although I have made a lot of progress the last two weeks I regrettably have to report that my document "Collaborability: a theory of human collaboration" is still not ready [...]