Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency

Krugman on Bitcoin

A Bitcoin Discussion with Andreas Antonopoulos starts at minute 2

Q & A with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPiFMuPh1uA

All adopted…

Larry Ellison,   Steve Jobs    Jeff Bezos

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks Google, Apple and the NSA

Post-Scarcity Economics

Well done article in LA Times by Tom Streithorst  comments are enlightening

Good analysis of how technology and capitalism driven by demand has created the situation where “WE LIVE LIKE GODS, and we don’t even know it.”

Weak on solutions… (I will be returning to this post to add comments and references).  Posted separately about a suggestion of one of the commenters about wide rail cross country railroad

J.K. Rowling and the Chamber of Literary Fame by Duncan J. Watts, July 19, 2013, Bloomberg

“Last weekend’s revelation that J.K. Rowling is the author of the critically acclaimed and — until now — commercially unsuccessful crime novel “The Cuckoo’s Calling” has electrified the book world…After all, if she can impress the critics without the benefit of her towering reputation, then surely her success is deserved.

And yet what this episode actually reveals is the opposite: that Rowling’s spectacular career is likely more a fluke of history than a consequence of her unique genius.

The Experiment

market success is driven less by intrinsic talent than by “cumulative advantage,” a rich-get-richer process in which early, possibly even random events are amplified by social feedback and produce large differences in future outcomes… someone who is incredibly successful may owe their success to a combination of luck and cumulative advantage rather than superior talent.

J.K. Rowling and the Chamber of Literary Fame

“We have a greater capacity to change the world today than the kings and presidents of just 50 years ago.”

Tech Crunch Jan. 20, 2012

Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Justin Rosenstein is the co-founder of Asana.

We have a greater capacity to change the world today than the kings and presidents of just 50 years ago. Whether you’re a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place. Yet I fear that our industry is squandering its opportunity and its talent. In companies large and small, great minds are devoting their lives to endeavors that, even if wildly successful, fail to do great things.

51 minute video overview of Asana PM software by Justin Rosenstein …L-T vision starts at min 26″- Luna platformhttp://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/finally-facebook-co-founder-opens-the-curtain-on-two-year-old-asana/ … …

Luna http://asana.com/luna/  is Asana’s Lunahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asana_(web_application) … in-house framework for writing great web apps… lots to learn here