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As technologies like these have eaten the world, a relatively small number of people have come to own much of the infrastructure on which ever more human discourse, motion, buying, selling, reading, writing, teaching, learning, healing, and trading are done or arranged—even as many of them make

Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"A nascent field called responsible tech is focused on the responsible development and deployment of technologies. Given how pressing the problems associated with technology are, along with the public’s growing awareness regarding its impact on civil liberties and the threat it poses to the future of democracy, tech companies have been creating and... See more

How to Build a Career in Responsible Tech

Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State

Sandy Brian Hager

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Blockchain-based accounts are one potentially well-posed solution to the needs outlined above, offering self-custodial data and universal login. Today, creating an Ethereum-based account does not require entering any personal data, and a subject may create an unlimited number of accounts, each represented by a unique address.

Kei Kreutler • Inventories, Not Identities

This is a future in which, for the privileged, almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone, then screen “shared” on a mediated platform. It’s a future that employs far fewer teachers, doctors and drivers. It accepts no cash or credit cards (under guise of vi... See more

Naomi Klein • The Guardian

Building for the Barbells

Rex Woodbury digitalnative.substack.com

Generation Screwed

Michael Hobbes highline.huffingtonpost.com

They start with the underprivileged being typically cut off from what Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto calls the “mystery of capital,” the idea that economic growth and the creation of wealth depend on clearly defined and documented property rights.

Paul Vigna , Michael J. Casey • The Age of Cryptocurrency

Virginia has been a major proponent of a housing-first approach, including rapid rehousing and permanent supportive housing. From 2010 to mid-2016, the state experienced a 31 percent drop in overall homelessness, including a 37.6 percent decrease in family homelessness. In 2015, it became the first state to end veteran homelessness.22 The state of