Elastic Space, Digital Identity and Brain-Machine Interfaces
This is a weekly digest of all things I discovered around the web, articles I read and stuff I’ve been shared by others. Reduce your FOMO, grab a cup of coffee or tee and stay informed in your quadrant.
Strong Signal
Introducing the Commons Stack: Scalable Infrastructure for Community Collaboration
medium.com
Giveth and BlockScience are teaming up to build the Commons Stack, with the goal of forwarding the discipline of Token Engineering and creating a digital infrastructure for commons-based peer…
Crypto signals
Exclusive: Banks to create a digital cash system using blockchain technology to settle financial transactions
Several of the world’s largest banks are in the process of investing around $50 million to create a digital cash system using blockchain technology to settle financial transactions, according to people familiar with the plans.
MetaMask Metrics Report
In early March, MetaMask rolled out an opt-in metrics system to provide some quantitative insight on how people are really using the product. Two months later, they see trends and high-level volume that highlight the incredible amount of dapp activity and development happening across the ecosystem.
A closer look at DID called ION
A great review of Microsoft’s new digital identity (DID) network called ION (Identity Overlay Network).
Why Bosch is jumping on the Ethereum blockchain
decryptmedia.com
German engineering giant Bosch wants to connect millions of cars, machines, buildings and things — and get them to pay each other. Smart contracts may be the answer.
A Tale of Two DAOs and the Rise of Contributor Experience
www.neverstopmarketing.com
The overall experience for developers and non-developers of engaging with a DAO could be a critical determinant of the success or failure of a crypto network. Introducing the new discipline of Contributor Experience (CX).
Digital cooperatives are the future
medium.com
A combination of blockchain software (enabling the scalable coordination of disparate individuals) with a legally defined structure creates a new type of organisation.
MolochDAO: a primitive solution
medium.com
While other protocols (DAOStack, Aragon…) hold more flexibility and features, Moloch differentiates itself through a limited feature approach (ie. it holds funds securely, decides on proposals consistently, and aligns group incentives).
Introducing Humanity
medium.com
Get $1 (1 Dai stablecoin) per month by getting voted into a registry of unique humans.
Ethereum Foundation Spring 2019 Update
blog.ethereum.org
Our plan for the next year
CryptoKitties and the Future of Corporate Financial Reporting
www.neverstopmarketing.com
Transparent financial accounting at all levels of an organization will become the standard. An analysis of CryptoKitties’ business gives us a sneak preview.
Product Signals
dxDAO
dxdao.daostack.io
Toward Super-Scalable Organizations
MercuryOS
www.mercuryos.com
Mercury is a reimaging of the operating system as a fluid modeless experience drive by human intent.
Uibot
Infinite UI designs, just click and load new UI.
Society and Humanity Signals
Elastic Space
journalofbeautifulbusiness.com
Does a radical concentration of development on the same footprint entail a more sustainable proposition? Especially as it encompasses, and is also set amidst, mixed uses which could — in theory — reduce people’s reasons to travel? And more so as its position beside a choice of tube and rail lines harnesses good public transport access? How much more efficient is such a project to service than low-density environments?
Must We Pollute All Space?
journalofbeautifulbusiness.com
Must we fill every space available to us? Can’t we just be okay with silence?
The Innovation Economy
Mariana and Azeem discuss the role of the entrepreneurial state: moving away from the concept of the state as a facilitator and towards the state as an actor in the future of public-serving innovation.
Random Signals
As designers, how might we change our design approaches in order to drive stronger human-to-human connections?
Our approach must start with the fact that everything in this world is made of intelligence.
Whether you’re cooking a meal or using cutting-edge technology, you do this intelligently, always and only interacting with a human intelligence. Being aware of it as the driving force of all things, one that gives meaning to every interaction, objects become just tools, no longer seen as segregated.
Understanding this will make you more mindful about how you create and interact with anything in your everyday life. Only then you can be inclusive, empathic, diverse and progressive, becoming universal and human-centered.
Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions
Designed to work with a smartphone app, the device has microphones paired with software that can discern the wearer’s emotional state from the sound of his or her voice, according to the documents and a person familiar with the program.
Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces
www.darpa.mil
The N3 teams are pursuing a range of approaches that use optics, acoustics, and electromagnetics to record neural activity and/or send signals back to the brain at high speed and resolution. The research is split between two tracks. Teams are pursuing either completely noninvasive interfaces that are entirely external to the body or minutely invasive interface systems that include nanotransducers that can be temporarily and nonsurgically delivered to the brain to improve signal resolution.
Lessons in Strategy and Leadership from an IDF General
www.neverstopmarketing.com
A 30 year veteran of the Israel Defense Forces gives us a powerful perspective on how to be more effective in both.
