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The Impending Collapse of the US Income Tax System
The IRS has a lot on their hands right now. The backlog of tax returns they’re facing is staggering thanks to staffing shortages, the need to administer COVID stimulus payments over the past two years and child tax credits more recently, and the fact that 10% of...
When NFL Football moves into the Metaverse
A few years ago, I wrote a column titled, “How Much are the VR Broadcasting Rights Worth for NFL Football?” I described how in the near future we would safely attach several cameras around players' football helmets, and through virtual reality (VR), viewers could...
My Dinner with Leonardo DaVinci – Living Forever in the Metaverse
The Metaverse not only gives us the opportunity to explore new places and move across a metaverse landscape, but it will also allow us to move about in metaverse history to experience life in the past and interact with historical figures. In 2014 I wrote a column...
Should we Gamify Citizenship in the Metaverse?
Four years ago, I analyzed the benefits, downsides, and challenges related to creating a citizenship rating system that would document a person’s value to society. And we further discussed the topic in a recent podcast interview with Shermon Cruz, Chair of the...
Private Space Stations: The Future Portals for Private Space Commerce and Tourism
The future of space research and development is tied to private enterprise – specifically private space stations. Now that government-funded programs have proven basic concepts about getting to and living/working in space, NASA and agencies from other countries will...
Next Up – Decentralized Venture Capital
Combine ABC’s Shark Tank, crowdfunding, and decentralized apps using blockchain technology and you have a pretty good idea of the concept behind decentralized venture capital (DVC) markets also referred to as venture DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations). DVCs...
57 Jobs of the Future
In hindsight, it’s easy to see that in nearly every generation, innovation impacted job markets and employment trends. It’s not news that human workers are replaced by new technology and that, fortunately, new technology spurs the creation of new jobs and job...
What Happens When We Lose Control of AI?
You’d think it would be difficult to find something that Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Andrew Ng, and Vladimir Putin all agree on, but here’s one: All agree that artificial intelligence (AI) comes with inherent risks that we know of, as well as a few risks we...
Smart Contracts are Here and They’re Getting Smarter
In a recent podcast interview, Max Galka, CEO of Elementus.io (a “search engine for non-private blockchain”) explained the fundamentals of blockchain-based smart contracts using a travel insurance policy as an example. In that scenario, a person taking out a travel...
Using the Transformative Nature of Bitcoin to Understand Our Future
Lately Bitcoin and the blockchain have been occupying more and more of my attention and I recently found myself watching Andreas Antonopoulos's excellent talk "Introduction to Bitcoin: what is bitcoin and why does it matter?". It does such a terrific job of...
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