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Uncertainty Wednesday: Fear and Acceptance
Albert Wenger – Sep 20, 2018
Ok, so technically it is Thursday, but here is the latest Uncertainty Wednesday post. Today I want to draw a second important conclusion that follows from the post about the pervasiveness of uncertainty and last week’s post about the fundamental [...] Read more
World After Capital: Enhancing Freedom
Albert Wenger – Sep 17, 2018
NOTE: The following excerpt is the introduction to the third part of my book World After Capital. The second major goal of World After Capital is to propose an approach for a transition to the Knowledge Age. The challenge is [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Unknowable Alternative Life
Albert Wenger – Sep 12, 2018
In the last Uncertainty Wednesday, I told three episodes from my life to illustrated just how pervasive uncertainty is in our lives. Today I want to tackle the first and maybe most fundamental implication of that: you cannot know what [...] Read more
World After Capital: The Promise and Peril of the Digital Knowledge Loop
Albert Wenger – Sep 10, 2018
NOTE: I am resuming posting excerpts from my draft book World After Capital. The previous post introduced the Knowledge Loop. Today’s post covers the promise and peril of a Digital Knowledge Loop and also wraps up Part Two of the [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: A New Tack
Albert Wenger – Sep 5, 2018
After a six week hiatus I am resuming Uncertainty Wednesday. Much as I have done at varying points with my prior Tech Tuesday series, I have decided to head off in a different direction, at least for some time. Instead [...] Read more
Labor Day: AI & Labor
Albert Wenger – Sep 3, 2018
We are finding ourselves in a strange place this Labor Day: the impact of AI is simultaneously being overestimated and underestimated. There is still massive hype surrounding self driving cars, which will almost certainly take much longer to arrive than [...] Read more
Speech and Power
Albert Wenger – Aug 11, 2018
There is a healthy debate going on now about the role of Twitter, Facebook, and others (Google, Apple, …) with regard to moderating speech on their platforms. Rather than writing something entirely new, I decided to go back and look [...] Read more
Browser, Wallet or Something New? Looking for Crypto Ease of Use
Albert Wenger – Aug 3, 2018
The internet was around for about two decades before the arrival of the web supercharged its growth. The ease of using a web browser made broad consumer adoption possible. Mobile payments were around for at least a decade before they [...] Read more
Blogging Hiatus: Reading More
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2018
Despite making progress on the recovery from my shoulder surgery, I have not been blogging and today will be another missed Uncertainty Wednesday. I have been spending the last few weeks of summer reading more which has been enjoyable. I [...] Read more