Juan Orbea

"On or about December 1910 human character changed," Virginia Woolf famously declared. Gone, she wrote, were the old certainties, the old manners, the deference to nineteenth-century authority. Instead human beings—at least the ones in Woolf's circle—were starting to see the world as full of chaos and discontinuity. Einstein smashed the notion of... See more

The economy “wants” to grow more than the 3.5% per year, which constitutes the current “speed limit” that the Federal Reserve bank and other policy makers have established as “safe,” meaning noninflationary. The underlying long-term growth rate will continue at a double exponential rate. Restricting the growth rate of the economy to an arbitrary... See more

For those growing into adulthood during most of the twentieth century, therefore, the backdrop to life was the loss of faith in coherent systems of thought and morality. Sophisticated people knew they were supposed to rebel against authority, reject old certainties, and liberate themselves from hidebound customs and prejudices. Artists rebelled... See more

According to legend, in 1876 the first sounds transmitted down a wire were Alexander Graham Bell saying "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Compared with Morse's "What hath God wrought!'' this is disappointingly banal—as if Neil Armstrong, setting foot on the moon, had uttered the words: "Buzz, could you toss me that rock hammer?'' It's as though... See more

Chart by Lloyd WattsCochlea: Sense organ of hearing. Detection of spectral edges and calibrating for noise levels. VNTB: Ventral Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body. Computing inter-aural time difference (difference in time of arrival between the two ears, used to tell where a sound is coming from).LSO: Lateral Superior Olive. The brain is not one huge... See more

From 2019 to May 2022, the market was down considerably with public valuations down 53–79% across the four sectors we were reviewing.

Using blockchain or smart contracts in some superficial way is not enough for an organization to be considered a DAO. For organizations that use smart contracts but aren’t DAOs, Gabriel prefers the term Cybernetically enhanced organizations.