By clicking a link in a interesting article by Techcrunch I stumbled upon "Our Comrade The Electron" - Webstock Conference Talk by Maciej Ceglowski. Excellent presentation, intriguing narrative and great observations on our relation with 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.
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.
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.
The acceptance of Bitcoin protocol currencies and Ripple like networks is dependent on trust even if trust is said not to be necessary for the value to be transferred between two actors. Neglecting this will hamper adoption of the Bitcoin protocol by the masses.
(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 [...]
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 [...]
With this regularly returning blog-post I will list the articles used in Red Planet Dust posts and cross publish articles I have flipped at Flipboard for your enjoyment. I will [...]
Travelling New Zealand years ago, BNZ was closing down ATM’s in small settlements. This caused quite some social stirs especially in the smaller settlements and townships we were travelling through. [...]
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 [...]
The relevance, let alone the power of standardization is only understood by a limited degree - if at all - by most companies. Even companies that are totally dependent on [...]
(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 [...]
"Scalability" is a key aspect in today's dynamics at the macro level in the development of the internet and hence our economic environment. At the micro level companies want to [...]
Marco Arment has been very successful in creating Instapaper and more recently The Magazine app. Arment has been experimenting with new business models for electronic publishing. In his recent blog-post [...]
For those who use Dropbox it is synonymous with seamless file synching and sharing over multiple devices. Mailbox is a very recently launched email-client - Gmail centric for the time [...]
With a background in wholesale I have followed the development of marketplaces on the internet with a keen eye. Marketplaces are instrumental in the emancipation of the individual or small [...]
