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,...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 24, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I heard an interesting piece on Radio 4 a while back when an interviewer was talking to Nate Silver, the author of The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction, who used the familiar fox and hedgehog framing when discussing the way people deal with...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Nov 29, 2013 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
The Atlantic magazine published one of those articles based on the latest that I really should ignore and not take too seriously but can’t help reading — Fallows, J., “The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since The Wheel” in “The Atlantic”...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Oct 31, 2013 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, the technology world is excited about the prospect of smart watches. Now that rumors suggest Google and LG are both planning on jumping into the smart watch war to compete with Samsung and Apple it’s time to stop...
