LSEG Workspace as the Central Spreadsheet Grid for Eurodollars
LSEG Workspace is a giant live spreadsheet that organizes the eurodollar system into cells and formulas. Treasuries and Fed rates are the anchor cells. Repo, FX swaps, and offshore deposits are formula-driven references.
Excel vs. Java: Two Languages, Two Worlds of Thought: Symbolic Grid vs. Algorithmic Script
Excel and Java embody two distinct computing traditions — the grid-born, spatial logic of accounting versus the engineered, algorithmic logic of software — each transformed the world in its own domain.
Reprogramming Spreadsheet Capitalism for Climate Resilience
In the framework of spreadsheet capitalism, capital no longer exists solely as a tangible asset, productive relation, or factor of industrial production—it is reconstituted as a symbolic, programmable logic embedded in and animated by digital spreadsheets. Drawing on a semiotic-computational framework, this transformation reveals how capital is not simply represented in spreadsheets but reborn through symbolic substitution, abstract modeling, and procedural calculation.
Stablecoins, Blockchains, and the Semiotic-Telecom-Computational Stack of Spreadsheet Capitalism
This post continues the spreadsheet capitalism framework, focusing on crypto stablecoins as a further manifestation of the semiotic-symbolic gridmatic technologies that synthesize writing-as-substitution with computation-as-symbolic-action. Yet, unlike Excel and other spreadsheets, crypto blockchains add irreversibility, temporal structure, and global accessibility. It is a semiotic-computational system with historical memory and real-time synchronization, providing the international grid […]
Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 4: Generative AI for Video Synthesis
AI can now take text prompts and generate full-motion video, thanks to a new class of models called text-to-video generative AI. These models interpret natural language descriptions and produce short video clips with varying levels of realism and coherence. These instruction sets guide the AI’s generation and synthesis of “tokens” – data points that are combined into the visual sequence through various algorithmic processes.
AI Governance and the Public Management of Transportation
I’m doing an audit of my work on the topic of AI Governance of the Automatrix for publication. It’s my collection of posts on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and the Automatrix or maybe “Robomatrix?” It is about the public management of the future transportation infrastructure as it becomes increasingly “smart” and electric. Pennings, A.J. (2025, […]
Lotus 1-2-3, Temporal Finance, and the Rise of Spreadsheet Capitalism
One of the books I read during my PhD years was Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (1989), about the $25 billion leveraged buyout (LBO) of the iconic conglomerate (tobacco/snacks/) by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). An LBO is the purchase of a company using large amounts of short-term debt and […]
Connecting a Dangerous World: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and National Concerns
BGP connects the world by enabling communication and cooperation among autonomous systems, ensuring that data packets can traverse the vast and interconnected network of networks that make up the Internet. It bridges separate, but networked ASes such as campuses, companies, and countries. BGP works to ensure that data packets originating from one location can cross over between ISPs and other WANS (Wide Area Networks) to reach their destination anywhere else on the planet.
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