Designing a Global AI Engine for Monetary Coordination
AI should not be viewed simply as another analytical tool. Its larger role is to become coordination intelligence. Traditional spreadsheets computed formulas written by human analysts. AI continuously evaluates millions of relationships simultaneously, identifying emerging imbalances, forecasting liquidity needs, and recommending adjustments as conditions change.
McLuhan’s Media Tetrad Applied to Digital Spreadsheet Logic and the Introduction of AI
Unlike approaches that focus only on the intended uses of technology, the tetrad examines how media reshape human perception, social organization, and power relations through four interconnected questions.
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.
Remediation and Spreadsheet Logic: Meaning and Certainty Through Hypermediacy?
The most important conclusion is that the spreadsheet creates a distinctive form of authenticity.
Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 5: Generative AI Platforms for Video Synthesis
Cinema is shifting from industrial production, to computational synthesis. The camera is no longer the exclusive machine of cinema. Increasingly, the model is.
The ICT4SD and World Order Assignment
Citation APA (7th Edition) Pennings, A.J. (2026, May 26) The ICT4SD and World Order Assignment. apennings.com https://apennings.com/technologies-of-meaning/the-ict4sd-and-world-order-assignment/ Note: This is an introduction to a collection of student articles for a downloadable pdf book called ICT4D and Future Global Sustainability. Introduction A foundational course like EST 230 – Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD), […]
The Global Spreadsheet Goes Distributed: Blockchain, USD Liquidity, and Time-Space Power
Blockchain creates a new form of time-space power that is globally distributed, computationally recursive, continuously synchronized, and increasingly programmable.
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