Tag: John-Perry Barlow
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The Problem with NFTs
It’s the video version of a long read at 2 hours but this highly researched myth and hype-busing video by Dan Olsen on cryptocurrency and NFTs is well worth watching. It starts with the last recession – the 2008 sub prime scandal – and the anarcho-capitalist fall out that begat cryptobros and all that. I…
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A Sacco Offense: Gawking, Trolling and seeing Red(dit)
Great video about shaming and Justine Sacco from Jon Ronson. I was online that night and felt the same as he did, the unease at the online mob, and actually I did post about it, defending her as not being malicious – note I didn’t mention her initially by name. I didn’t need to, every…
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Andrew Keen RSA lecture
I went to a lecture and discussion called ‘The Digital Seduction’ at Royal Society of Arts last night. Speaking was Andrew Keen, author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur’ and Tim Montgomery, editor of ConservativeHome.com (I am SO not linking that), and humorously chaired by Matthew Taylor, RSA Chief Executive. There’s been a lot of…