Duplicate. Easy to verify, prove it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all people. You must be able to carry the information what it is, what it is worth without generating any information how it is used or by whom and has to do this on platforms and networks and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction logs and records. So to figure out the how of how to make Something Like cash digital is a very tall order which raises the question why you would need to build such a thing. Answering the question will take us from fighting surveillance to libertarian theories of economics and the pursuit of human mortality and all of thes agendas fed into the creation of bit coin and the cryptocurrency a block chain currency today. Its not just the story of building a new payment platform but a deliberate attempt to engineer a future society through the mechanism of money a utopian project i like to call the speculative currency projects
And this is one how and several competing wise. How do you go about getting the digital equivalent for currency for cash and coining it is a significant technical challenge and you need to create a Digital Object that is difficult to forge and duplicate. Easy to verify, prove it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all people. You must be able to carry the information what it is, what it is worth without generating any information how it is used or by whom and has to do this on platforms and networks and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction logs and records. So to figure out the how of how to make Something Like cash digital is a very tall order which raises the question why you would need to build such a thing. Answering the question will take us from fighting surveillance to libertarian theories of economics and the pursuit of human mortality and all of thes agendas fed into the creation of bit coin and the cryptocurre
Were also recommending increased social distancing thats the phrase that you hear which means trying to reduce contact between people again to try to delay this transmission that means where businesses can do it and where individuals can do it homeworking is recommended unnecessary travel should be reduced and stop avoiding gatherings in crowded places important and those gatherings big or small are important so that you get the whole thing together its not just the size of a gathering its actually all gatherings which become important and reducing social contacts there are specific measures for the vulnerable groups the people who are most likely to get serious illness with this infection and chris was he will say more about that. Those measures would need to go on for 12 weeks or so across this period maybe a little longer these measures like case isolation that we talked about last week staying at home if youve got the symptoms these new measures have a big effect this is not a seri
We are on the cusp of an enormously exciting era advances in genetics and science are giving us new tools. Human societies, policies and economies. Id like to say at the outset we are poised at a moment in history that would produce the coming years so People Like Us off to be excited. Its an orthodoxy that is scared stiff and biology. At the moment it takes a form of three largely proclaimed truths. Gender is a social construct and race is a social construct a. Collapse as a function of privilege. Ive stated those very boldly. On these issues you will find many of them have a much more nuanced view than that and acknowledge they play a role what it amounts to is i set out in this book with the aim of demolishing the academic orthodoxy making it easier for the same members of academia to do the work i am probably overreaching enough gold. As a way of framing the findings in the things i think we really dont need to argue about it anymore i set out the propositions. The quickest way to
Enormously exciting era, advances in genetics and neuroscience are giving us new tools that will enable us to take giant strides in understanding human behavior, human societies, policies, and economies. We are like physicists, i like to say at the outset of the 19th century poised at a moment in history that would produce faradays in md is in the coming years. People need and dalton ought to be excited and in our case i think we both are but a lot of social scientists arent. Why . Because for almost a century now the social sciences have been in the grip of an orthodoxy that is scared stiff of biology. At the moment it takes the form of three widely and loudly proclaimed truths, gender is a social construct, race is a social construct, class is a function of privilege. I have stated those tenants very boldly. If you go to a University Campus and chat privately with faculty members Whose Research touches on these issues you will find many of them have a much more nuanced view than that