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Book cover for Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
Despite creating benefits in terms of speed and predictability, permissioned blockchains ultimately suffer from one important drawback. Trust is fickle. With permissioned blockchains, there is no guarantee that parties will not collude to ...more
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“Here’s the problem: Many of the systems we’ve developed to help guide our lives–systems like news, education, law, advertising, and so on–arose in, and still assume, an environment of information scarcity. We’re only just beginning to explore what these systems should do for us, and how they need to change, in this new milieu of information abundance.”
James Williams, Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

“the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”
James Williams, Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

“Undecidables disrupt this oppositional logic. They slip across both sides of an opposition but don’t properly fit either. They are more than the opposition can allow. And because of that, they question the very principle of “opposition”.”
Jeff Collins, Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide

Aldous Huxley
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery,” wrote Rousseau in The Social Contract, “while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom”
James Williams, Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

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