GAVNet Collaborative Curation

Such explanations allow us the reassuring but misguided belief that politics is about Causes and Effects rather than an irreducible mess of factors. They produce an exaggerated and false sense of contrasts between people – the idea that everyone (except us and our Facebook friends) has gone crazy. And above all, they give us the misplaced idea that everything’s somebody else’s fault.

Martin argues that the decentralized blockchain system, with its string of trusted nodes all over the world, could align with the decentralized energy system to create something really new. Essentially, the blockchain could complete the job of solar panels in allowing people to sell energy at the price they want and maintain rights to their power whenever they need it. (We covered some other blockchain energy projects here).

We should make AI’s stupidity work for human intelligence. Millions of jobs will be disrupted, eliminated and created; the benefits of this should be shared by all, and the costs borne by society.

User-generated content, by and large, is not lucrative at a scale that satisfies investors, and as a result, most social-media companies are changing direction toward other revenue streams. One of the more significant shifts is the move into social messaging.

These new messaging features work to bind private groups tighter together, by making it more fun to talk to one another than to engage with the world at large.

We are more interested in locating alien species than understanding the humanity among the species we already live with

For instance, research institutions may work with local communities to help monitor biodiversity on habitats and species that the volunteers care about such as forests, species they hunt for food, economic or cultural reasons; the locals often have good knowledge of the diversity where they live. Global apps, such as iNaturalist or eBird, for urban groups, park managers and tourists can be promoted to help capture photographic records and species in certain locations.