(SACT)AI Monetary Coordination: Bancor vs. SDRs
In the age of SACT-AI, the world now possesses the technological tools, symbolic computing, real-time telecom synchronization, and multi-agent governance, to implement a true bancor-style architecture that resolves the structural flaws embedded since Bretton Woods.
Silver, Anchored by Spreadsheet Logic
In spreadsheet capitalism, silver remains valuable precisely because it is material, scarce, and physically constrained. Yet its power and price are determined less by where it is mined than by how it is calculated. Silver stands as a rare bridge between the physical world and the abstract financial architectures that now coordinate global political economies.
Taylor’s Fab Rescue: The AI6 Chip
My home in Austin, Texas, is about 20 miles from the newly built Samsung microprocessor fabrication “fab” factory in Taylor. The fab has been running behind schedule since it switched its plans from 4-nanometer chips to 2-nanometer chips. But in a show of support (and need), Tesla recently signed a deal with Samsung to build […]
APEC Presentation: Healing the COP (Common Operating Picture) with AI and APIs for Disaster Management
Among the various mechanisms and tools, we focused on the Common Operational Picture (COP) as a mediation tool that can incorporate novel technologies, such as AI and APIs, and create value for disaster leadership in response to climate variance and data variance. COP is a shared, real-time view of operational data for decision-makers, teams, and agencies involved in multi-agency disaster risk reduction operations. By providing up-to-date information through dashboards and alerts, COP supports situational awareness and coordinated action.
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.
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.
Google: Monetizing the Automatrix – Rerun
As we move towards the “Automatrix,” the newly forming digital environment for self-driving and wireless charging transportation, Google looks to situate its search/advertising business at its center.
AI and Remote Sensing for Monitoring Landslides and Flooding
Invited remarks prepared for the 2024 United Nations Public Service Forum ‘Fostering Innovation Amid Global Challenges: A Public Sector Perspective.’ Songdo Convensia, the Republic of Korea 24 -26 June 2024. Organized by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS), Republic of Korea. Thank you very much for this opportunity to address how science and […]
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