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One of these technologies is blockchain. What’s interesting about blockchain is not cryptocurrency. That’s noise, ripples on the surface of the human economy. To be quite honest, it’s not particularly interesting from a scientific point of view, and it’s not going to have a major effect on humanity.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Programming as Theory Building
Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" discusses programming as a knowledge-building activity, emphasizing the importance of tacit knowledge, collaboration, and effective documentation in developing and maintaining software systems.
ratfactor.comWhat’s interesting about blockchain instead is that it enables “frictionless binding contracts,” to use the language of economics.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
WHY JACK DORSEY IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
Jack Dorsey was:
1 of ~1,300 confirmed cypherpunks in 1996 (his UMR email)
Wore an Adam Back t-shirt in the UMR yearbook
UMR students were called Miners
Was a CompSci & ... See more
Seán Murrayx.comBlockchain Bubble or Revolution: The Future of Bitcoin, Blockchains, and Cryptocurrencies
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Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
Programmable securities, money streaming, and a global buyer of energy of last resort are tremendously exciting. Their growing promise is evidence that Bitcoin is, “not just a digital rock,” to cite an expression frequently utilized by Elizabeth Stark.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism
Exploring the intersection of digital culture, science fiction, hyper-modernism, hyperreality, and posthumanism, emphasizing the transformative impact of digital technologies and Creative Coding on society and individual lives.
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