The SACT Attack: How Spreadsheet Capitalism Conquered the World
Once Substitution is complete, the other layers of SACT can take over. You cannot apply Abstraction (comparing unlike things), Symbolic Computing (formulas), or Telecommunications (speed) to a physical house. But you can apply all of them to the token of the house sitting in a spreadsheet cell.
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 […]
Will BRICS Effectively Tokenize Rare Earth Elements to Back a New Currency?
Rose Mason in Medium makes a compelling plea for the tokenization of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) currently in high demand around the world. From another angle, Cyrus Janssen presents an intriguing but ultimately flawed argument that the BRICS+ countries will use REEs to back a new currency to challenge the US dollar.[1] This post examines […]
The International Politics of Domain Name (DNS) Governance, Part 3: ICANN and AI
The change from IANA to ICANN resulted in the successful stewardship transition in 2016, transferring oversight of critical Internet functions from the US government to a global, decentralized, multistakeholder model. These changes reflected the Internet’s growth, the need for more inclusive governance, and ongoing efforts to address security, accessibility, and internationalization challenges.
Analyzing the Economics of Asymmetric Robotic Drone Warfare
At its core, the economic asymmetry in drone warfare is about imposing unsustainable costs on the adversary. A weaker actor uses extremely low-cost, often commercially available drones to create damage and threats that extremely high-cost, sophisticated defense systems must counter.
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.
AI and Government: Concerns Shaped from Classic Public Administration Writings
Drawing on the classics of public administration, we can start to specify some constraints and goals for artificial intelligence (AI) and develop a “smart” but ethical government that is efficient but also responsive to public concerns.
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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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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