by dgw_HDSadmin | Feb 6, 2017 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars
The American President recently re-iterated his plans to build a “beautiful” wall along the border with Mexico, for no reason that I can fathom except to provide stimulus to the Mexican economy at a difficult time. As a good friend of mine says, we should not get too...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 1, 2016 | Archive
I’ve been reading The Four-Dimensional Human by Laurence Scott. It’s subtitled “Ways of Being in the Digital World” and I found it thought-provoking in a very positive way. I particularly like the core conceit of social media as another dimension, outside our normal...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jul 31, 2016 | Archive
The moving finger writes; and having writ Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. #Blockchain OK, I added the hashtag, but the rest is from Edward Marlborough’s 1859 translation of...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Nov 23, 2014 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
In 1657, Blaise Pascal made a comment in a letter. In English, it translates as “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter”. [From If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter | Quote Investigator] I...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Apr 30, 2014 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
Well, the book has been published. Identity is the New Money (London Publishing Partnership: 2014). I’m very excited about it. By the time I finished it, I was sick of it. Writing a book turned out to be much more work than I’d thought. But having done it,...
