At the recent Ubuntu Community Summit, I asked Mark for advice on how we tackle trust in the metaverse:
Raw highlights from Brett Scott: Cloudmoney: Why the War for Our Wallets Is a War for Our World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59314672-cloudmoney
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This is the field of politics, where we make impassioned pleas for the future we want, rather than settling on a future we deem likely.
transnational demands are harder.
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Metaverse = ‘planetary system connecting all humans and machines into a global matrix’?
Zandvlei, Demogarchy and Bitcoin
in draft.
I used to be on the Zandvlei Protected Areas Advisory Committee (ZPAAC) for a few years. We were a group of people, both volunteers, residents in the area, and City employees tasked with managing the estuary, or ‘vlei’ in Afrikaans, hence the name. It was heavily impacted by poor design and construction choices in the 60s, in the form of the Marina da Gama estate, primarily, but also inappropriate urban density upstream, both formal and informal (backyard dwellers upstream with insufficient service delivery, and not enough toilets). So it needed constant management – rewilding was simply not an option.
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