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The Next Giant Solar Flare is Unavoidable! Will it Bomb Us Back Into the Stone Ages?
One night, a little more than a thousand years ago, Native Americans in North America were startled to see stars fade away as darkness into a dusky daytime long before morning. They weren’t sure what it foretold or what to make of it, but they prepared for the worst,...
Soulbound Tokens: The Building Blocks of Personal Identity for Web3
What is our real identity, and by that I mean the true, unedited us as opposed to the person we might hold ourselves out to be? Whether a person is religious or not, they tend to describe this reality as their “soul,” their fundamental being and the collection of...
Artificial Photosynthesis – Paving the Way for Startling New Forms of Sunless Agriculture
While we won’t ever change the natural process of photosynthesis, we’re rapidly transitioning to an artificial form of photosynthesis that doesn’t require sunlight. Photosynthesis is responsible directly and indirectly for the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat....
Thorium Reactors – The Future of Energy
Broadly speaking, the primary energy sources globally fall into three categories: fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas), renewables (wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, biomass), and nuclear. Our future prosperity depends on our ability to transition from the first...
How Open Banking Will Redefine Tomorrow’s Transactions
“Open banking” will soon be the backbone of our financial services landscape, driving consumer financial activity as well as financial institution service models. It will provide a level of convenience and value that today’s (and especially yesterday’s) traditional...
Understanding the Long-Term Consequences of Weaponizing Our Financial Systems
Can the future of war possibly be bloodless? We certainly seemed to be headed in that direction before Russia apparently dusted off a World War II playbook and sent ground troops into Ukraine earlier this year. The Ukraine Army has been forced to valiantly respond in...
Self-Cannibalism and the Extreme Possibilities of Cell Cultured Agriculture
As an avid researcher, I’m constantly tuned in to progress being made on the stem-cell-derived meat front. We’re still very much on track for widespread production and consumption, given the investments we’re seeing from major players, including individuals and even...
Is a Cashless Society a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
During the 1980s and 90s, I owned a couple of Baskin Robbins stores which were mostly cash businesses during that era. On its way to our commercial bank account, the cash got counted a minimum of seven times: during the customer transaction, at shift changes, at the...
The Emerging Crypto Micropayments Industry
In 2015, I wrote a column, "Going Beyond Micro-Payments to Nano-Payments" where I talked through some of the possible uses for tiny micropayments far smaller than anything possible today. Like others, I assumed blockchain technology would be the key to getting the...
The Ukraine War is Paving the way for Robotic Warfare in the Future
Throughout history, nations have sought to achieve a technological military advantage. Strong nations have stayed strong by being the first to develop breakthrough munitions (from fire and gunpowder to nuclear weapons) and munitions delivery systems (from catapults...
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