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I find myself recommending this article in multiple situations and settings. It is on almost every syllabus I create regardless of the stated intent of the course. It is an excellent entry point into systems thinking and a cribsheet that anyone hoping to improve organizations and systems ought to have handy

Goging beyond the words to the semantic meaning creating an universal language understanding. Stuff like that. Fascinating.

Might be interesting if we want to apply sociology of the internet on the altcoin-communities.

The Indieweb is based on owning your own domain name and owning and managing your own web server. As Goldsmith notes, none of these is free, and in fact, they create a significant barrier to participation. "If a movement has at its core a significant barrier to entry, then it is always exclusionary. While we've already seen that the movement has barriers at ability and personality, it is also true that, as of 2021, there is a significant barrier in terms of monetary resources."

in their best moments, American cities offered the chance to slip the bonds of prejudices, second-guessing and limited horizons. They offered opportunity. Then, cities worked. Now, they don't.

The IFTF explains how futurism can be used in times of pandemic

This video by Stephen Downes looks at change and technology during the pandemic and after, asking what it is we want to get from our educational systems, and what that might look like in the future. Lecture, Apr 28, 2020.

a fascinating McGonigal-game

A car teaches itself how to drive, by watching us.

Philosopher Coeckelbergh about the ethics of drone warfare and the problematic incorporation of morality into robots.

For the scrapers among us.

Title: AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants Excerpt: Amazon's Alexa just got a new job. In addition to her other 15,000 skills like playing music and telling knock-knock jokes, she can now also answer economic questions for clients of…

Title: Start Your Hedging: LedgerX to Begin Trading Cryptocurrency Derivatives Excerpt: For the first time ever, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has given permission to a private company to exchange and clear any number of crypt…