How do we trust each other without proof?
I was over on Seb Paquet’s Emergent Cities blog this morning, and rereading his inaugural post from about a year ago – What are Emergent Cities? He makes the claim that “we’re about to see the emergence of a new way of conducting innovation that operates quasi-independently of the current money system,” and that the [...]
experimental highlight video 1: unMoney Convergence 2012
. Here’s a short video assembled from some clips I took at the unMoney Convergence unconference in San Francisco in April. I’m trying to get into the habit of filming and interviewing wherever I go now, with the intention of getting into more video-based production. This might evolve into a once a week ‘show,’ highlighting [...]
The Future of unMoney
I’m heading out to two conferences next week in San Francisco – the Future of Money & Technology Summit, and the unMoney Convergence.
Re-Inventing Finance: An Emerging (Digital) Reformation
Several months ago, I was invited by Sean Park to be a Venture Partner with Anthemis Group, a new financial services group with an aim to totally reinvent finance from the ground up. (Sean was a generous backer for the Future of Money Project I co-created for a SIBOS conference, and we’ve met up several [...]
Quick review & critique of Innotribe @ SIBOS so far
Here I am in Toronto, attending my second Innotribe/SIBOS event. Last year I presented the ‘Future of Money’ video made in collaboration with KS12 in Berlin. This year, I’ll be showing one of the videos in my ‘Future of Facebook’ series that looks into the potential around Credits and virtual currencies across social media platforms.Unlike [...]
Why the Future of Money Matters (Is the current system obsolete?)
I just saw an article from the NY Times – Bloomberg, on Radio, Raises Specter of Riots by Jobless- with the NYC mayor hinting that the combination of enormous public debt and high unemployment could lead to rioting, as we’re currently seeing in other parts of the world.As I’m looking at this article, I’m also [...]
Telcos become banks. Facebook next?
I came across an article yesterday on GigaOm – Dreams of mobile payments lead telco to try banking – notifying us that Rogers, a Canadian mobile carrier, has filed to become a bank. It makes sense, as we see various iterations of mobile wallets coming into existence, and carriers looking for a new revenue stream. [...]
Ven: A Digital Currency Designed for Environmental Sustainability
Hub Culture is a global collaboration network with over 25,000+ members distributed across 110 countries. Their stated mission to expand collective consciousness is driven by the blend of online workspaces for knowledge sharing with offline Pavilions for meeting and connecting – all powered by their digital currency, Ven. Below is an interview with Hub Culture’s [...]
Reflection from #pii2011 – Can Reputation Be A Currency?
I’m out in California right now, after having been invited to present at the privacy identity innovation conference, focused on ‘Building Trust in a Digital Age.’ The organizer had seen the writeup I did on Forbes – The Bank of Facebook: Currency, Identity and Reputation – and thought the angle might be a provocative one [...]