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Please remember: The idea that when disaster strikes people panic and social order collapses is very popular. It is also a myth. A huge research literature shows disaster makes people *more* pro-social. They cooperate. They support each other. They're better than ever. 1/x
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View a #Google Datacenter via #Streetview
Yes, Internet is a bit like magic sometimes. But, data must stay somewhere. Where? Well, here (at least some of it); Photo series: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all
Monopoly Moneys by D.M. @Rushkoff
In case you are interested in ‘the economics game’, the intersection of new media, markets the money system and emerging phenomena like Bitcoin, I highly recommend the PhD-thesis Monopoly Moneys [PDF alert] by media theorist Rushkoff, now it is available … Lees verder
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OUYA Android-based Videogame Console
Android is ontwikkeld als open standaard voor mobiele apparaten, maar er is niets wat maakt dat Android niet op ‘vaste’ apparaten draait. Zo is er een Android HDMI-dongle om een tv ‘connected/smart’ te maken, een emulator om Android apps op … Lees verder
Electricity-Backed Currency
Currency (money) as a derivative of another currency, namely (sustainable) energy, #interesting but actually also a very old idea: “Apparently Buckminster Fuller was first in 1969 to recommend, in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, that a global currency … Lees verder
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Bitcoin Foundation gelanceerd
“Freeing People to Transact on Their Own Terms. Bitcoin Foundation standardizes, protects and promotes the use of Bitcoin cryptographic money for the benefit of users worldwide.”
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Graph: Distribution of Top 96 Bitcoin Address Volume
It is common knowledge that many Internet phenomena such as weblogs and Twitter and other complex systems, are scale-free networks exhibiting a power law distribution. For a while I was wondering whether Bitcoin would also exhibit such a long tailed distribution, … Lees verder
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