[Notes] Piggybacking onto the Value Transfer Protocol idea…
If money could be exchanged electronically through as “open” a standard as FTP (by analogy anyway), then that would catapult internet service providers into a ridiculously important new role to play: electronic banks.
In a sense, ISP’s are already that - if you accept that information is a form [...]
Black Iron Prison
On Google
On Baidu
CHINESE DEATH VAN
On Google
On Baidu
{Text originally from http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/10/19/do-you-live-in-the-black-iron-prison/, compiled by Tim Boucher}
At the airport a month or so ago, I had the misfortune of being bombarded with wall-to-wall CNN broadcasts about China’s “new direction”. I swear they must have a special airport-feed version of CNN designed specifically to implant concepts into the minds of weary travelers. The bit that I heard (I tried to avert my [...]
Got my first client for Perfectly Descriptive today, which is the first in a chain of interlocking business processes based partly around the human intelligence web microservice model. So far so good, although I’m not allowed to say much more about it due to confidentiality agreements in play.
{Piggy-backing on the idea I just posted about: using cached versions of pages in place of newer updated versions, either intentionally or accidentally…}
How would you ever know whether a blog post that you’re reading from a random stranger on the internet hasn’t been automatically edited to remove certain keywords and types of content? For that [...]
Articles for further exploration of this subject, although I’m still not certain what value an open-source identity would have (but I intuit that there is one!):
Digital Identity: “Identifiers are the key used by the parties to an identification relationship to agree on the entity being represented.” {see also: networked identity in that same article}
Juristic person: [...]
