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Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
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Online, we still can’t reliably establish one another’s identities or trust one another to transact and exchange money without validation from a third party like a bank or a government.
“More grows in the garden, than the gardener knows he has planted”
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“This bottom-up overturning was also not in anyone’s 20-year vision. No web phenomenon has been more confounding”
― The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
― The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
In 1984, Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us".”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In 1984, Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us".”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“All great art comes from a sense of outrage.”
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“We can’t just fix the workplace. We need to fix capitalism itself—and not just by making a few small tweaks at the edges. The whole system needs a major, fundamental reboot.”
― Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads—My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable
― Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads—My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable
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