Economy | Currencies

Cat Johnson: At a time when corporate sponsorship and ownership of city spaces, buildings, and events continues to grow at lightning pace, it’s more important than ever to rethink our cities as shared entities ... Read More...

Solving problems that matter could be the next big thing

February 22, 2017

By viewing a society as a problem-solving superorganism, the natural sciences and technology sector can go wild with possibilities. Designs of economic, governance, and legal systems fall into their domain. We... Read More...

Elon Musk doubles down on universal basic income: ‘It’s going to be necessary’

February 15, 2017

In an interview with CNBC in November, Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined a growing list of tech executives who support universal basic income as a possible solution to the widespread unemployment that automation will likely cause. Universal basic income is a system ... Read More...

Interview: Time for a digital basic income

January 16, 2017

While many basic income advocates concentrate on shifting government policy, some in the tech world are taking the fight into their own hands. Cyrptocurrencies have the potential to dramatically disrupt the go... Read More...

Quasi-circular growth and the uncertain future of recycling

January 10, 2017

The French engineer François Grosse, currently the CEO of the urbanism consultancy ForCity, whose quantitative analysis of recycling underlies the contents of my most visited and quoted post up to now, is doing... Read More...

Michel Bauwens – Ten new practices of the great transition

November 21, 2016

Which new social structure are we evolving towards? Michel Bauwens tries to work this out by looking at contemporary practices that address the challenges of the future in the most direct way. He identifies an exponential growth of civil initiatives that expe... Read More...

Open economy vs Resource-based economy

October 28, 2016

A few people have been asking about the difference between an Open Economy and a Resource-Based Economy, so I thought I’d make a post about it. In a broad sense, the two concepts are the same – a more abundant... Read More...

How Blockchain Startups Are Revolutionizing Venture Capital

October 17, 2016

William Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain" and a board advisor to, and investor in, various blockchain projects and startups (See: Disclosures). Here, Mougayar argues that the traditional ve... Read More...

Is universal basic income a good idea?

October 10, 2016

The think tank Singularity University, based in NASA’s research campus in Silicon Valley, has published a short video in which the famed futurist Ray Kurzweil addresses the question “Is universal basic income a good idea?” Kurzweil begins by answering “I actu... Read More...

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Dániel Szőke

September 22, 2016