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Posts made in August, 2010
What happens when a wine club is anything but exclusive
“I’d never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”Groucho Marx
Recently, I got a cold call at the office from a wine club I recently had joined (mostly for research, actually). The club had a hot deal, what the caller said was a great...
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Everything I write is about trust, because everything we humans do, even if we do it with machines, in based on a foundation of trust. At the most basic level, we need to trust our data, our information, and our knowledge, and in a world filled with people who will say or do anything to get money or power, whether through business...
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Building a Services Market for the Transhuman Era
Abstract of Tony Greenberg / Eric Pulier/ Alex Veytsel June 12/13 at Harvard speaking at Humanity+
Building a Services Market for the Transhuman Era
Innovation, including transhumanist innovation, is mostly the domain of private enterprise, which operates in one of a few market...
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Overheard in my email box, by a journalist/media dude that chose to not be identified. How strange I thought, but it struck me as something I wanted you to hear.
“I have found that truth and bias are often mutually exclusive. Can you cover global warming with a facade of no bias.ie treat a nut-bird like James Inhoffe with...
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By Alex Veytsel and Tony Greenberg
In the hubbub over the Google and Verizon new net neutrality plan, a couple of things stand out:
1) There is no actual deal, just a proposed compromise that no one actually likes
2) Everyone seems to be confused about the new, private Internet
While more viable than its critics suppose,...
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