An exercise in throttling the potential of an exciting protocol to do just what I wanted — My first non-fungible tokens, NFT’s $YLAMBO & $MDAV, created March 15, 2018 & March 27, 2018 respectively, were each unique works represented by indivisible ERC-20 tokens. Almost three years later the NFT landscape for artists is robust with numerous platforms dedicated to the management and marketing/sales of NFT artworks and…

What Is Priceless? by Kevin Abosch From the moment we come into this world, there are those who try to ascribe value to us. They may say, “That boy over there is so full of potential” or “That girl is worthless.” …

The idea that artificial intelligence will ineluctably bring us to a scenario in which machines square off against humans is a popular one. …

Maybe an expletive will cut through the noise? I doubt it, so I’ll present it sanitized a bit in the title for the sake of public decency. Decent indeed, this public that disrobes and stands naked and vulnerable in a millisecond for a bit of convenience. I’m deafened by the…

Context is everything. A bag of cow manure, emptied, is just a pile of shit. In the context of a farm, it supplies the nutrients to grow a crop of vegetables. In November 2001 I rented a car for a week in Los Angeles, as my own was getting…

The Fall of Ethically Corrupt Social Platforms — It’s May 1st, 2018 and the once seemingly-unstoppable, mighty behemoth of online social, Facebook, is now a shell of a platform. Its founders, long cashed-out and hardly relevant in what is now known as the “Privacy-First” movement, Facebook lies amongst the corpses of GeoCities, MySpace, AOL and the more recently…