Posted on October 20, 2008, 11:01 am, by David Thomson, under
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There is an excellent article on the New York Times called The Rise of the Machines, which details just how little anyone seems to understand some of the financial instruments and their vast global interdependencies.
It reminds me first and foremost of the time that I saw Bill Joy speak at the Kennedy School of Government. […]
Posted on October 10, 2008, 2:49 pm, by David Thomson, under
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What does the currency crisis have to do with technology, the overall theme of this blog?
My original inspiration for SupraSphere was based on the work of Bernard Lietaer, particularly his book The Future of Money, where he describes a new communication medium that will allow experimenting with different types of money, allowing the most capable […]
Posted on October 3, 2008, 12:40 pm, by David Thomson, under
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but not too much has changed in the overall IT landscape. Cloud computing has become such a buzzword that it’s hard to know what it is anymore, and I still have deep reservations about the whole model with respect to privacy, security, and flexibility down the road.
In any […]