Exploring new frontiers where the collective benefits from broadened access to markets, data and knowledge while privacy and ownership empower the sovereign individual. BOSTON, 19TH JANUARY, 7AM: Inflection, the early stage venture firm today announced the launch of Inflection Mercury, a $40.7m fund that will continue to build and invest…

A paradigm shift in programmatic media — opportunities for innovators. Just like Defi’s money legos are about to revolutionize finance, media legos will deeply alter how we create, distribute, monetize, explore and collect media assets. …

How the open source developer community is building an alternative financial system. Open finance, Defi, open source, crypto networks vs. FinCen, Wirecard, QE unlimited. — This piece was first published on https://svrgn.substack.com/ Our financial system and its institutions are deeply flawed. Open ledgers and smart contracts provide us with the opportunity to build an internet native financial system from scratch with very different properties underpinned by open source design principles. …

Shareholder value vs. stakeholder value, sustainable markets, software networks, the end of monopolies, machine economy, free markets. This post was first published on https://svrgn.substack.com/. Follow me there to get early access to my content. Traditionally markets have been coordinated by corporations and governments. This post explores the economic drivers and life cycles of software enabled monopolies organised in the form of a corporations. …

Why we should be more obsessed with idea meritocracies than with gender, socio economic or ethnic diversity — and how the two are intertwined. — This post was first published on SVRGN. Follow me there to get unfiltered thoughts and frontier tech and society directly into your inbox. Diversity It's no secret that european tech - and VC specifically - has a diversity problem. Common debates circle around…svrgn.substack.com

The covid19 pandemic can be seen as an opportunity to question the fundamentals of modern society and to think through alternative paths for the future. That’s what this post is about. << This post was first published on https://svrgn.substack.com/. >> Photo by Ross Findon on Unsplash. Like it or not…

privacy, open markets, defi, climate, future of organisations, psychedelics, bio engineering, AI, quantum computation — This post was originally published on Jan 2nd 2020 on SVRGN Predicting the 2020s in frontier tech The upcoming decade might turn into a defining one for the 21st century. I'm thinking about the future day and night…svrgn.substack.com The upcoming decade might turn into a defining one for the 21st century. I’m thinking about the future day and night but managed to publish some glass ball predictions only once in late 2016 with a strong focus on…

This post was first published on SVRGN. The rise of freedom technologies We live in very turbulent times. A war over data and control over cyberspace is raging with a small but growing…svrgn.substack.com We live in very turbulent times. A war over data and control over cyberspace is raging with a small but growing fraction of society taking notice and action. The technologies we use today are defining the society we’ll live in tomorrow. …

Web services as governments, personal data as human beings, UN Charta, Alternatives This post was first published on https://svrgn.substack.com/ Web services as governments Technically, human rights allow citizens to defend themselves against the state. They are the foundation of all other rules of law even though they are primarily binding the state in its…