Tech & Public Policy Podcast: Jeftovic on 'Evil Coin' & the Old Monetary Order So this isn’t simply an episode about crypto currency - instead, it’s about how superpowers, citizens, banks, platforms and nation-states are competing to shape the next 100 years of finance.
crypto Cypherpunk Governance: How Social Contract Theory Informed the Development of Crypto in the 1990s Before the 2008 financial crash, early blockchain pioneers and 'cypherpunk' cryptologists envisaged digital currencies as a way to protect privacy, encode new layers of property ownership, and revisit the social contract between citizens and governments
simulation theory Nick Bostrom’s New Eden: Are we Living in a Computer Simulation? Nick Bostrom, a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University, wrote in 2001 that "we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation."
artificial intelligence Joseph Stiglitz on Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy In an article in the Guardian, economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has argued that “it is time to focus on the public-policy issues surrounding AI."
Tech & Public Policy Eisenhower: Has Public Policy Become “Captive of a Scientific-Technological Elite?” In his 1961 Farewell address President Eisenhower's eye-catching remarks on the "military industrial complex" would be remembered for generations. Less widely noticed was a second interconnected 'threat,' which he believed could upset the delicate 'balance' upon which American democracy is based.
