Seven Phases of Global US Dollar Transformation: Past and Future
The history of the US Dollar is not a story of static dominance, but of ruthless technological adaptation. The US successfully maintained its hegemony of liquidity by shifting the substrate of its currency from Gold to Information and to Code (Stablecoins/AI).
The Genius Act, USD-backed Stablecoins, and the Death of the Eurodollar
Recommended Citation APA (7th Edition) Pennings, A.J. (2025, Nov 23) The Genius Act, USD-backed Stablecoins, and the Death of the Eurodollar. apennings.com https://apennings.com/data-analytics-and-meaning/the-genius-act-usd-backed-stablecoins-and-the-death-of-the-eurodollar/ Introduction With the passage of the US Genius Act of 2025, the era of “wildcat” crypto experimentation is over.[1] In its place rises a state-sanctioned, gridmatic architecture that fundamentally alters the plumbing […]
Remediating the Blurred Lines of Human-AI Collaboration in Disaster Management and Public Safety Communications
Drawing on Bolter and Grusin’s theory of remediation, with its two logics of transparent immediacy and hypermediation, we can piece together how AI can function as a next-generation operating system for Common Operating Picture (COPs) in disaster management and public safety command centers, dashboards, and mobile Personal Operating Pictures (POP).
Taylor’s Fab Rescue: The A16 Chip
My home in Austin, Texas, is about 25 miles from the newly built Samsung microprocessor fabrication “fab” factory. The fab has been running behind schedule since it switched its plans from 4-nanometer chips to 2-nanometer chips. But Tesla recently signed a deal with Samsung to build its A16 (and maybe A18) chips in Texas for […]
The AI Prompter as Auteur? Examining LLM Authorship Through the Lens of Film Theory
I’ve been teaching film classes on and off since graduate school. It has never been my primary focus, but the historical and theoretical depth of film studies intrigued me as well as the technologies and techniques that shape thinking and understanding. I incorporate much of it in my EST 240 – Visual Rhetoric and Information […]
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Professor (full) at State University of New York (SUNY) Korea since 2016. Research Professor for Stony Brook University. Moved to Austin, Texas in August 2012 to join the Digital Media Management program at St. Edwards University. Spent the previous decade on the faculty at New York University teaching and researching information systems, digital economics, and global political economy
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