Cognitive dissonance: “Remittances”
When considering a new car you suddenly start seeing the car you fancy everywhere. There are not suddenly more cars of the particular brand and model driving around, but you [...]
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03, 2015
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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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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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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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06, 2013
Sneak peak: “Collaborability: a theory on Human Collaboration”
Please find below one of the sections of the document “Collaborability: a theory on Human Collaborability” I am working on. Consider it a sneak peak opportunity for all those visitors [...]
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06, 2013
Finding the Right Terminology: a Procession of Echternach
Part of my inquiry into collaborability is a quest to find the right vocabulary to use. It is not only using the right words but also to link them with [...]
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05, 2013
Remember the days the mobile phone (let alone the smartphone) was not omnipresent?
I worked for a mobile telco in the days that mobile penetration was still measured in the low double digits. In only 3 years time penetration jumped over the 50% [...]
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04, 2013
Money and Payments are Essential Part of Human Collaboration
With all the attention to money and payments related topics here at Red Planet Dust lately I feel inclined to explain how this fits in with the theme of this [...]
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04, 2013
Regarding The Use of Trust in “The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency”
The article of Felix Salmon ”The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency” triggered me to write a series of posts on Crypto-currency at Red Planet Dust (see part 1). [...]
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04, 2013
Trust in an Inter-connected World
(This is part 3 of an article on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1, Part 2) Human collaboration is based on trust. We do not have a [...]
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03, 2013
Mobile Money vergroot economisch bereik in ontwikkelingslanden
Finextra: African mobile money adoption soars - GSMA. Ook payments-ontwikkelingen dragen bij aan het vergroten van het effectieve (economische) bereik van mensen (zie Wet van Mars). "Mobile Money for the [...]
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02, 2013
Mars’ Law: “Effective range of economic network doubles every two years”
[Transalation of original post] The possibilities available to the participants on the Internet are still increasing. These opportunities are increasingly easier to use and and made available to the participants. [...]