Nov 1, 2022
Innovation Intelligence Review #61
AI And Democracy, State-Of-Art About Usefulness And Dangers-Biotech, What Does A Rat With Human Cells Become (Ethically)?-CBDC, 1️⃣ For…
This Week:
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- AI And Democracy, State-Of-Art About Usefulness And Dangers
- Biotech, What Does A Rat With Human Cells Become (Ethically)?
- CBDC, 1️⃣ For 2023 The Turkish CBDC — 2️⃣ Synergy Between Kazakhstan Monetary Authority and Binance For The Issue Of The Digital Tenge — 3️⃣ BIS, Another Step of BIS’s mBridge Cross-Border Interoperability Project
- Crypto, 1️⃣ Crypto Sustainability and Banking Sustainability — 2️⃣ The Real Privacy
- Strategic Competition, The Gray Zone Rand’s Opinion
- World Ranks, 1️⃣ Taxes, Taxation And Competitiveness, Annual Report And Rank — 2️⃣ 2022 Version Of The Good Country Index
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- Essay 🧐 The Luxury Surveillance (…Of Everyone)
- Idiots 😡 The World Health Organization’s Absurd Proposal To Consider Old Age As A Disease
AI excellent in-depth analysis (including links and citations) for those who want to approach the problem of the relationship between AI and democracy, social intelligence by The Gradient
Biotech, recently a study published in Nature highlighted the results of human organoid transplantation in newborn rats. The study, which had considerable media coverage, was carried out with the aim of knowing the behavior of the human brain. After six months, the cells had integrated with the rest of the rats’ brains and occupied one sixth of them. The resulting ethical uproar was remarkable. The problem raised by the generalist media, and not only, was of the type: are rats treated in this way still to be considered 100% animals? The results showed that nothing in the behavior of rats has changed, more ruckus: after what percentage do rats start behaving like humans? The use of organoids is proving to be fundamental both in the study of the brain and its diseases (for example degeneration) and in the study of other diseases (for example COVID vaccine and its production speed): perhaps addressing the ethical problems for those who are in the actually, based on the experimental results, it would be more useful than looking for the title at any cost, biotech intelligence by Nature
CBDC 1️⃣ in Turkey, in 2021 the country’s central bank announced its intention to include a CBDC in its payments framework and has now published the policy document that will lead to the issuance by 2023, payments intelligence by Turkish Central Bank
CBDC 2️⃣ in Kazakhstan, here too the 2021 pilot project is giving birth to the local CBDC, the Digital Tenge. The peculiarity lies in the partnership announced with Binance and the planned use of BNB Chain, the blockchain structure that underlies the Binance ecosystem, payments intelligence
CBDC 3️⃣ BIS, I have been following the evolution of the mBridge project since it was born, in 2020, because it is pioneering with respect to open cross-border payment solutions between CBDCs of different countries. It was devised by the Bank for International Settlements of Hong Kong and the central banks of China, UAE and the monetary authority of Hong Kong to which Thailand was later added. mBridge is now in an advanced stage of development, works on a proprietary chain, and in the first 6 weeks of this year it has been cross-tested for more than 22 USD million, payments intelligence
Crypto 1️⃣, one of the detractors when it comes to cryptocurrencies, especially BTC, is energy consumption: nothing to say, it is enough to gloog the issue and the results confirm the energy cost of mining. In all the supranational regulatory frameworks about the crypto world, the problem is always placed at the forefront. But no one talks about the energy burden of traditional banking and financial systems: my understanding is that they have been producing effects for a little longer than cryptocurrencies, and I have never found the problem in any supranational framework, who knows why, crypto intelligence by The Crucial Years
Crypto 2️⃣, after years of kicking asses, I think everyone has understood that for the protection of their privacy one cannot rely on those who, at national and supranational level, should by profession protect individuals and organizations: they do not have the means, powers and above all, they respond to interests that do not coincide with those of the individual. So you have to do it yourself: for some it will cost a bit in terms of effort in learning new knowledge but it’s worth it. A good start is to surf the internet in a secure way and the Nym network offers a good solution (like any other brand quote in these lines I have no personal interest with whom I quote), privacy by crypto by Nym
World Ranks 1️⃣ Taxes, Tax Foundation publishes annually reports, and related rank, on the different aspects of taxation of many countries. What differentiates the publication from similar ones is that the methodology used creates the connection between taxes and competitiveness of the countries analyzed, thus facilitating the evaluation of the different Country Systems. This year Estonia in first place in the general rank but not in all sub-ranks, economic intelligence by Tax Foundation
World Ranks 2️⃣, this is the 2022 version of the Good Country Index. It has been published since 2014 and, in a simplistic way, it could be defined as a quality of life rank but this is not exactly the case. The intent is to understand how countries contribute to the common good of humanity and is developed through 7 socio-economic macro-themes in turn, each divided into 5 micro-areas for a total of about 35 indicators (which are not few). Useful and unusual, the rank was developed by a highly experienced independent policy consultant, economic intelligence by Simon Anholt
Strategic competition, in this analysis, regarding the US Country System, Rand observes and suggests the behaviors that can bring advantage in operations within the gray zone, that is, that area that covers the spectrum from cooperation to competition (thus conflict) between nations. If the gray zone has been, since the end of WWII, the dominant operational zone in relations between Great Powers, it has also become so towards Medium and Small Powers: the rules of engagement, and the relative and absolute objectives, therefore they must be revised in the their usefulness for their intended purpose, strategic intelligence by Rand
Essay 🧐
Rather than the rise of ‘luxury surveillance’ one could speak of the rise of ‘low cost surveillance’. The paltry cost of IoT sold for one purpose and whose final functionality and quite another leads to reflections on their actual usefulness for the consumer, surveillance intelligence by The Atlantic
Idiots 😡
