A New Approach to Designing Smart Cities

One day, I’d like to design a truly modern, functional city with the character of a medieval hill town.

Rather than a blueprint, I’d like to design a series of recipes for how to create it, from the community to individual human…

Blockchains Are Not About Decentralization

Decentralization is not a useful feature of blockchains, it’s a necessary limitation…

The World’s Money in Numbers

As of 2015 unless indicated.

I’ll produce a chart of this data once it is sufficiently complete.

Global financial assets: $300 trillion

Types of Database from Blockchains to Data Lakes + Machine Learning

How to create a visual diagram that sums up all databases and put AI and blockchains in context.

The job that AI will kill — Software Engineering.

Digital Culture & Corporations, Not What We Think.

Digital Culture is not About Agile or Startups

Hypercash

A Design View of blockchains

To create a web of money, you need two way links so that the numbers add up when money…

A Systems View of Markets

Markets as networks.

Complex systems

AI tl;dr

Lots of (A,B) data AND a big iron.

While we plan a driverless future, drivers are determining the future of cars.

1 of 6: Voice driven UX like Alexa is much more useful in cars than the home, because it’s dangerous to look at a screen while driving, not so much while sitting in an armchair. This creates a…