There’s a war for the future being waged online. It’s being fought across the world’s online social networks, and the outcomes of these online battles increasingly dictate the outcome of [ … ]
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We should be careful glorifying Denmark
Last week, Denmark was mentioned in a American TV debate between Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz. Instinctively, as a Dane, I always feel a sense of pride whenever Denmark is [ … ]
What is your citizen score? Gamified obedience to the State
The Chinese government is developing a Citizen Score to rate the trustworthiness of its 1.3 billion citizens. It is always on surveillance. What we do online and offline merge into an [ … ]
Governments are loving Bitcoin
To understand an asset, you have to do the forensics of the asset and, importantly who owns it, and going forward, who can afford to own it. Raw numbers of owners [ … ]
The anti Uber open sourced insurgencies won. City Governments did too.
I’ve written a lot about Uber. I was very early to start its post mortem, I didn’t want to wait till its body got cold. You can catch up with [ … ]
Henry Sokolski’s Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future
Looking for a good, short read on the current nuclear challenges we face? Henry Sokolski, Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) and with a decade of experience at [ … ]
In the Gig Economy everybody is a product placement
Crowdtap is that venture funded (and what company isn’t) gig economy company that pitches itself as a place where anyone can “team up” with their “favorite brands” and “get rewarded for [ … ]
Technology Transfer via Intellectual Returnees in China’s Solar Industry
The Trump administration has placed a high priority on investigating alleged Chinese efforts to steal intellectual property by forcing US companies to share their secrets if they wish to do [ … ]
Amazon takes hostages. Where are the rescue SWAT teams?
Amazon is fighting hard to keep its competitive tax advantage by making sure it doesn’t have to collect tax on its marketplace sales. Estimates are that at least half of [ … ]
Unraveling Obamacare. Is a sometimes dictatorship good?
The White House has ended the unconstitutional subsidy payments of Obamacare. The uninformed but emphatic CNN (and its ratings driven endlessly exasperated peers) consumers are accusing the president of “sabotaging” [ … ]