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A world without waste
Exploring the intersection of technology, systems and humans to understand how we might create a world without waste
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The AI swarm creating a world without waste
The AI swarm creating a world without waste
A world without waste moves forward on two fronts: collection and processing. Three actually, as the initial design of products opens…
Adam Johnson
Sep 18, 2018
Blockchain, waste and the oracle
Blockchain, waste and the oracle
Blockchain has immense opportunities to create a world without waste.
Adam Johnson
Sep 7, 2018
How the waste industry might benefit from the blockchain
How the waste industry might benefit from the blockchain
I am inspired by a Keynote Morning Note that takes a deep dive into how the creative industries can benefit from the blockchain, and it led…
Adam Johnson
Sep 3, 2018
Can cryptoeconomics wipe out solid waste?
Can cryptoeconomics wipe out solid waste?
In brief, cryptoeconomics is the economics created as a result of the blockchain, and specifically the blockchain’s feature of removing the…
Adam Johnson
Aug 28, 2018
Return
Return
Having spent the better part of the last three months writing a book for another, I am back now wanting to stretch some ideas of my own…
Adam Johnson
Aug 23, 2018
Title, or Our Waste Future
Title, or Our Waste Future
I’m not sure how to title this piece, so I’ll write under the vast, blue skies of “Title”.
Adam Johnson
Aug 6, 2018
The treadmills of innovation
The treadmills of innovation
Unbounded exponential growth (ie the superlinear power law) is pretty much a given in the human world, and Geoffrey West describes how this…
Adam Johnson
Jul 30, 2018
Scale, or the secret life of urban waste
Scale, or the secret life of urban waste
I’ve been reading the book Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West.
Adam Johnson
Jul 29, 2018
Waste disposal data should be public data
If you ever care to look up the licence of a landfill or other waste disposal facility, you’ll find that whilst there might be a…
Adam Johnson
Jul 27, 2018
How much waste were we going to be generating?
How much waste were we going to be generating?
In 2009, Access Economics projected how much waste would be generated in 2014–15 based on data points from 1996–97, 2002–03 and 2006–07…
Adam Johnson
Jul 26, 2018
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