ICT4D and the Geography of AI Computation
The geography of computation is ultimately a geography of opportunity. The central development challenge is no longer simply getting people online. It is ensuring that they can capture data, represent their own realities, retrieve knowledge, access computation, connect tools, coordinate intelligent systems, and convert computational capacity into meaningful action.
The TSM Graduate in the AI Workplace
Citation APA (7th Edition) Pennings, A.J. (2026, Sep 06) The TSM Graduate in the AI Workplace. apennings.com https://apennings.com/digital-coordination/the-tsm-graduate-in-the-ai-workplace/ Introduction This post frames one version of the TSM graduate as a systems manager who is technically fluent enough to work directly with AI and technical specialists, but whose primary responsibility is integrating technology with organizational objectives. […]
Why SACT Logic is the Operational Core of Tokenization
Citation APA (7th Edition) Pennings, A.J. (2026, Jul 31) Why SACT Logic is the Operational Core of Tokenization. apennings.com https://apennings.com/how-it-came-to-rule-the-world/digital-monetarism/why-sact-logic-is-the-operational-core-of-tokenization/ Introduction Last summer, I was reviewing a paper on digital spreadsheets and time-space power that had been rejected by a journal and decided a term I used, “substitution,” needed elaboration. It led to my conceptualization, […]
Blockchain Significance for US Treasury-Backed Dollar Stablecoins
Treasury-backed USD stablecoins use blockchain technology for creating a shared, tamper-evident, programmable record of ownership and transfer. They deliberately leave the critical function of value stability to off-chain reserves and legal enforceability. The resulting system is robust for many payment and settlement purposes precisely because it does not ask the blockchain to do everything.
Everything Counts in Large Amounts
We have now reached a point where the sheer volume of global financial transactions exceeds human cognitive capacity. Trillions of dollars in high-frequency trading, automated supply chains, and Eurodollar networks move too quickly for human mediation.
Remediation and Spreadsheet Logic: Energetic Interpretants to Organizational Structures
From this perspective, Rose and Pennings’ theory of spreadsheet structuration and Pennings’ concept of operative mediation are highly complementary. Operative mediation explains how representations become actions through the generation of energetic interpretants. Rose and Pennings explain how those actions become routines and how routines become organizational structures. Together, they reveal spreadsheets as socio-technical systems that do far more than represent reality. They organize semiosis, channel behavior, reproduce institutional arrangements, and increasingly coordinate action across globally synchronized networks.
Beyond the China Price: Can Democrats Shape a New Industrial Strategy for the AI World?
The age of cheap Chinese labor may be ending, but the age of cheap goods is not necessarily ending with it. Rather, the source of affordability is shifting from human labor to machine intelligence. China could easily stay in the game. The next chapter of globalization may therefore be defined not by where factories are located, but by how effectively computation itself becomes a factor of production.
The Hangman’s Rope: How the USSR Created the Eurodollar Market that Later Strangled It
Citation APA (7th Edition) Pennings, A.J. (2026, May 17) The Hangman’s Rope: How the USSR Created the Eurodollar Market that Later Strangled It. apennings.com https://apennings.com/dystopian-economies/the-hangmans-rope-how-the-ussr-created-the-eurodollar-market-that-later-strangled-it/ “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” – Attributed to Vladimir Lenin Introduction The “Third World Debt Crisis” of the 1980s was a decisive […]
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