Sublime
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The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
“The consensus about the dangers of new technologies is almost as widespread as their adoption.”
Jared Henderson • Information overload is nothing new
Security means having some assurance of future stability and the ability to plan ahead.
Astra Taylor • The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
middle classes; and led to an existential ecological
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
In order to responsibly develop new technologies, it is critical to ask “how will this be used for evil?”
Molly White • Abuse and harassment on the blockchain
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Andy Greenberg • Sandworm
“an industrial revolution of unmitigated cruelty” powered by machines capable of “reducing the economic value of the routine factory employee to a point at which he is not worth hiring at any price.”**
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
