Implications of El Salvador Adopting Bitcoin as a Currency
For Bitcoin – very little. For El Salvador’s Economy – possible ruin. For global economics – very little.
Technology and Innovation
Why is Wood so Expensive Right Now?
We may think of lumber as being a renewable resource, but it’s not nearly as responsive to spikes in demand as we’d really like it to be.
COVID-19 Has Made Americans Lonelier Than Ever – Here’s how AI can Help
Despite real limitations, AI chatbots provide a much-needed platform for open communication and self-expression.
How to Make a COVID-19 Vaccine @Home
This video script explains how the power of distributed computing can be used to help mankind outside of blockchain technology.
The Public Banking Act
Banking is social infrastructure, and is intimately dependent upon public support and regulation. To that extent, public banking is not ‘extreme’ or an ‘aberration’. To the contrary, it restores banking to its proper role as a tool of public development.
How and when will we know that a COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective?
It is likely that not just one but several of the competing COVID-19 vaccines will be shown to be safe and effective by the end of 2020.
Thorium Nuclear Power and MMT: A Revolutionary Marriage Necessary for Our Survival?
With clean energy tech evolving rapidly, the strangling grip of the fossil fuel industry on our economy never more obvious, and the ominous shadow of climate change bearing down on humanity, the time is prime for radical change.
Capitalism vs The Robots
“It’s not politicians that can solve problems. They have no technical capabilities. They don’t know how to solve problems. Even if they were sincere they don’t know how to solve problems. It’s the technicians that produce the desalination plants. It’s the technicians that give you electricity, that give you motor vehicles, that heat your house …
Technology In Our Future Economy
The Robots are coming! The Robots are coming! But, whose robots? Stephen Hawking wrote: “If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine owners …