Date archives "November 2016"

Welcome to 2030 [Fiction]

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Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

Science fiction by Ida Auken, MP, Parliament of Denmark. And a rebuttal by  Salvatore Iaconesi, founder at Art is Open Source, Human Ecosystems and Nefula.

 Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and I don’t know what life is anymore

 

Afrofuturism 101

Video by: Gina Barton, Victoria Massie, and Joe Posner Black people are rarely featured in sci-fi and fantasy films — that is, unless that black person is Will Smith. How do black people get to exist in the future? Afrofuturism, a scholarly and artistic movement that imagines the future through black people’s experiences is one answer. The term was coined in 1994 by culture critic Mark Dery in his “Black to the Future” essay.
In anticipation of her “Black Magic” exhibition, curator Niama Safia Sandy shares some of her favorite writers, artists and musicians contributing to the…

 

Utopian Nostalgia

What today’s movements for social and economic reform can learn from the intentional communities of the nineteenth century.

 

Crypto: Go Or No?

An interesting innovation, but I can’t help but notice that these countries aren’t exactly the most stable. This could attract invesetment — but also volatility.

The small African country of Senegal is making waves by announcing that it plans to issue a national digital currency utilizing blockchain technology, the same technology that powers Bitcoin.
The National Bank of Ukraine plans to use blockchain or distributed ledger technology in the country for facilitating a cashless economy. The NBU Board has approved a roadmap for Cashless Economy, which for the first…

And for an alternate take: Charles Stross pulls no punches:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html

Charlie Stross: Bitcoin should die in a fire