One of the biggest promises that technology offers is that it’s going to provide solutions to existing problems. It does this regularly. It also introduces new problems that need…
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Color Star Technology (CSCW.Q) reached a sponsorship agreement with European soccer team Villarreal CF. Admittedly, my Canadian ass had to look up what a Villarreal CF was—if it was…
Every new technology goes through a phase where its users and promoters try to figure out what it is, what it does, and what it’s possibilities could be. We’re…
Blockchain and its ancillary products has a hype problem. We saw it in 2017 when the tech blew up and public companies started putting blockchain in their name to…
Does anyone get nervous when thinking about technology? Maybe I’ve read too much dystopian sci-fi, or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been figuratively steeped in academic science and…
As I write this we’re approximately one day and 15 minutes away from 2022. If you’re like me, then you don’t necessarily wax nostalgic for some idyllic past. For…
Philosophical absurdity, or simply ‘The Absurd’, is a reference to the inherent conflict between man’s tendency to look for value and meaning in life, and the general inability to…
Jean Baudrillard first came up with the twin ideas of accelerated culture and hyperreality while the internet was in its infancy. It’s an postmodern idea where we have an…
One of the biggest claims that hardline cryptocurrency aficionados offer is that cryptocurrency (and Bitcoin in particular) is regulation proof. It was a selling point for me back in…