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• US Stablecoins Blockchain Networks: Techno-Fiefs or Hyper-Capitalist Rails?
• Michio Kaku and the Electromagnetic Forces Used for AI
• From Computer Programming to AI Systems Engineering Management
• ICT4D and the Geography of AI Computation
• The TSM Graduate in the AI Workplace
• Legal and Regulatory Restrictions on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
• Combining AI with Technological Systems Management (TSM) to Create Integrated BS, MS, and PhD Degrees
• Emerging AI Frameworks in Leading Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Schools and Centers
• Symphony of Science – The Quantum World and the Four Forces of Nature
• A Digital Bobsled in ICT4D
• The Computerization of Society Revisited: French Social Theory and the Geopolitics of Information and Data Centers in the Age of AI
• CIPS vs. SWIFT: Dedollarization or Global Public Good?
• A $100 Trillion USD Climate and Energy Program for the AI Era
• I Can See Clearly Now: Jimmy Cliff, Cool Runnings, and the Case for Appropriate Development
• The Three-Layer USD as the Primary Global Financial Infrastructure
• AI Data Centers in Space?
• The Cost of Fragmentation: What We Lose When Multilateralism Gives Way to Multipolarity
• The USD System at the Center of China’s Global Engine
• SACT-AI’s Reinforcement Learning for Realization of Keynes’s Bancor/ICU Proposal at Bretton Woods
• The USD as the World’s “Exorbitant Privilege”
• XRP and Spreadsheet Logic Organizing a New Stage of Global Financial Coordination
• Why SACT Logic is the Operational Core of Tokenization
• The $100 Trillion Debt Era: MMT as Permission, SACT as Engine
• Operative Mediation: From Representation to Coordination
• How Developing Countries Will Access US Stablecoins
• The $100 Trillion Question: Treasury-Backed Digital Dollars and a Democratic Political Economy
• The US Stablecoin Pipeline: Funding the Core, Supplying the Periphery
• Blockchain Significance for US Treasury-Backed Dollar Stablecoins
• Some Mechanics of Blockchained Treasury-Backed Stablecoin Dollars
• Spreadsheet Logic as the Architecture of Perpetual Financial Innovation
• Critiques of USAID and the Future Possibilties of Development Aid
• From USAID to Digital USD: The Next Generation of Financial Inclusion
• Kittler and Spreadsheet Logic
• USAID, ICT4D, and the Geopolitics of Treasury-Backed Liquidity for Tier 4 and 5 Countries.
• Harnessing the Four Forces for Satellite Remote Sensing and Disaster Risk Reduction
• Seeing the Earth’s Surface Move Millimeter by Millimeter with EM
• The Historical Transitions from Human Expertise to AI Techno-Epistemologies
• From Spreadsheet Models to Machine Learning: The Transition from Representation to Prediction
• Designing a Global AI Engine for Monetary Coordination
• Literature Review on Global US Dollar Shortages and the Performativity of the USD Standard
• The Practice Lens Meets Spreadsheet Logic, and Operative Mediation in the Age of AI
• The Message in the Bottle: Voyagers, Radioactive Heat, and the Golden Record
• How Spreadsheet Logic Became the Foundation of Artificial Intelligence, Part 1
• Blockchains as the Telecom Substrate of a SACT-AI Bancor/ICU System
• Marshall McLuhan and the Age of the LLM: The Medium is the Prompt
• The Conversational Oracle: A Tetrad Analysis of Artificial Intelligence
• McLuhan’s Media Tetrad Applied to Digital Spreadsheet Logic and the Introduction of AI
• Everything Counts in Large Amounts
• How Spreadsheet Logic became the Foundation of AI, Part 2
• Remediation and Spreadsheet Logic: Energetic Interpretants to Organizational Structures
• Renewables Give Us Power, Batteries Give Us Control
• Remediation and Spreadsheet Logic: Meaning and Certainty Through Hypermediacy?
• Beyond the China Price: Can Democrats Shape a New Industrial Strategy for the AI World?
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 5: Generative AI Platforms for Video Synthesis
• The ICT4SD and World Order Assignment
• Epistemological and Philosophical Implications of Spreadsheet Logic
• The Global Spreadsheet Goes Distributed: Blockchain, USD Liquidity, and Time-Space Power
• The Hangman’s Rope: How the USSR Created the Eurodollar Market that Later Strangled It
• Petrodollars, Shock Therapy, and the Emergence of Global Spreadsheet Logic
• When the Fed Speaks, Global Spreadsheets Reformulate the Future
• Stablecoins, SACT-AI, and the Future of Global Liquidity for Sustainable Development
• When Treasuries Went Digital and Built the Global USD System
• From Gold to Grid and the “Information Standard” to the SACT-AI Engine
• Neutralizing the Milkshake Effect in SACT-AI Bancor/ICU Monetary Coordination
• Bretton Woods, Computation, and the Road Not Taken: Reimagining Keynes’s ICU in the Age of AI
• (SACT)AI Monetary Coordination: Bancor vs. SDRs
• USD Liquidity: A Tiered Hierarchy Model and Implications for AI4Good and ICT4D
• USD Shortages and Global Solutions with Bancor/ICU and (SACT)AI
• An Inconvenient Document: The Atlantic Charter and the Origins of the UN
• Multipolar Money and the Rise of an AI-SACT Clearing Architecture
• Poovey, Giddens, and Goody on the Significance of Double-Entry Book-Keeping for the Modern Economy
• Spreadsheets and the Modern Fact made Operational
• The Ghost in the Grid: Interpretants and Calculable Traces in Spreadsheet Capitalism
• The Global “Balance Sheet” in Spreadsheet Capitalism
• Protected: Spreadsheet Organization Precedes Production
• Reviewing the New Deal’s Global Political Economy Framework and Its Current Challenges
• Global Liquidity Theory and the SACT Layers
• Silver, Anchored by Spreadsheet Logic
• The SACT Attack: How Spreadsheet Capitalism Conquered the World
• Seven Phases of Global US Dollar Transformation: Past and Future
• The Genius Act, USD-backed Stablecoins, and the Death of the Eurodollar
• Remediating the Blurred Lines of Human-AI Collaboration in Disaster Management and Public Safety Communications
• Taylor’s Fab Rescue: The AI6 Chip
• The AI Prompter as Auteur? Examining LLM Authorship Through the Lens of Film Theory
• Spreadsheet Knowledge and Production of the “Modern Fact”
• Telecom Synchronization in Spreadsheet Capitalism
• Will BRICS Effectively Tokenize Rare Earth Elements to Back a New Currency?
• Tokenization of Gold in Blockchained Spreadsheet Capitalism
• The International Politics of Domain Name (DNS) Governance, Part 3: ICANN and AI
• Situating Gold in the Substitution-Computational-Telecom Stack of Global Finance
• USD Centrality and Network Effects in the Global Economy
• APEC Presentation: Healing the COP (Common Operating Picture) with AI and APIs for Disaster Management
• Equilibrium and the Turn from Political Economy to Economics
• Peirce and Derrida on the Logic and Power of Spreadsheets and Dashboards
• Analyzing the Economics of Asymmetric Robotic Drone Warfare
• LSEG Workspace as the Central Spreadsheet Grid for Eurodollars
• Excel vs. Java: Two Languages, Two Worlds of Thought: Symbolic Grid vs. Algorithmic Script
• Reprogramming Spreadsheet Capitalism for Climate Resilience
• Stablecoins, Blockchains, and the Semiotic-Telecom-Computational Stack of Spreadsheet Capitalism
• Spreadsheet Formulas and the Temporal Imperatives of the Leveraged Buyout Economy
• Satellites for Global E-Finance and News
• Determining Competitive Advantages for Tech Firms, Part 1
• Visual Rhetoric Analysis of Social Media: YouTube Channels, Hosts, Logos, and the 3Ms
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 4: Generative AI for Video Synthesis
• Moving Economic and Financial Curves
• Markets and Prices: Pros, Cons
• AI and Government: Concerns Shaped from Classic Public Administration Writings
• AI Governance and the Public Management of Transportation
• Lotus 1-2-3, Temporal Finance, and the Rise of Spreadsheet Capitalism
• Steve Jobs Pioneering Work in Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) and Human-Machine Knowledge (HMK)
• Connecting a Dangerous World: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and National Concerns
• The Framing Power of Digital Spreadsheets
• Google: Monetizing the Automatrix – Rerun
• The Lasting Impact of ALOHAnet and Norman Abramson
• Legal Precedents and Perturbations Shaping US Broadband Policy
• All Watched over by “Systems” of Loving Grace
• US Legislative and Regulatory Restrictions on Deficit Spending – Reflecting on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
• Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and a Sustainable Future
• ICT4D and the Global Network Transformation
• Digital Borders and Authoritarianism
• AI and Remote Sensing for Monitoring Landslides and Flooding
• AI and the Rise of Networked Robotics
• Ode to James Larson, SUNY Korea’s First Professor Emeritus
• Analyzing the Market Structure of a Product
• Determining Competitive Advantages for Tech Firms, Part 2
• The Division of Labor in Democratic Political Economies
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 3: Digital FX Emerges
• Four Futures and the S-Curve
• The Future of US Democracy: Getting Excessive Money Out of Elections
• How Do Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Use APIs and Web Scraping to Collect Data?
• Networking Connected Vehicles in the Automatrix
• Net Neutrality and the Use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Deep Packet Inspection of Internet Traffic and Net Neutrality
• US Internet Policy, Part 7: Net Neutrality Discussion Returns with New FCC Democratic Majority
• ICTs for SDG 7: Twelve Ways Digital Technologies can Support Energy Access for All
• The Increasing Value of Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS)
• Pressing Global Standards for Internet Protocols
• Public and Private Goods: Social and Policy Implications
• Remote Sensing Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction
• It’s the E-Commerce, Stupid
• Deregulating U.S. Data Communications
• “Survivable Communications,” Packet-Switching, and the Internet
• The Digital Spreadsheet: Interface to Space-Time, and Beyond?
• Zeihan’s Global Prognostics and Sustainable Development, Part II: Implications of Tesla’s Master Plan 3
• Technostructural Stages of Global ICT for Development (ICT4D)
• The Expanse: Cyberpunk in Space
• ICT4D and Digital Development in a Changing World
• VisiCalc and the Rise of the PC Spreadsheet
• The Techno-Epistemology of Databases, Part I
• Zeihan’s Global Prognostics and Sustainable Development, Part I
• Weak Domestic Dollar, Strong Global Dollar
• MMT in a Post-Covid-19 Environment
• Al Gore, Atari Democrats, and the “Invention” of the Internet
• U.S. Internet Policy, Part 6: Net Neutrality, Broadband Infrastructure and the Digital Divide
• Analyzing YouTube Channels
• Wireless Charging Infrastructure for EVs: Snack and Sell?
• The Great Monetary Surge Since 2020 and the Return of Inflation
• US Technology Diplomacy
• Symbolic Economies in the Virtual Classroom: Dead Poets and the Lawnmower Man
• Building Dystopian Economies in Facebook’s Metaverse
• Hypertext, Ad Inventory, and the Use of Behavioral Data
• The North-South Politics of Global News Flows
• ARPA and the Formation of the Modern Computer Industry, Part 2: Memex, Personal Computing, and the NSF
• Engineering the Politics of TCP/IP and the Enabling Framework of the Internet
• ARPA and the Formation of the Modern Computer Industry, Part I: Transforming SAGE
• ICT and Sustainable Development: Some Origins
• Diamonds are a World’s Best Friend? Carbon Capture and Cryptocurrency Blockchains
• Modern Monetary “Practice” and the Fear of Inflation in a Low-Supply Economy
• Thomas Edison Builds the Universal Ticker-Tape Machine
• Show-Biz: The Televisual Re-mediation of the Modern Global Economy
• US Internet Policy, Part 5: Trump, Title I, and the End of Net Neutrality
• Digital Spreadsheets as Remediated Technologies
• Internet Policy, Part 4: Obama and the Return of Net Neutrality, Temporarily
• Will Offshore Wind Power Print Money?
• COVID-19 and US Economic Policy Responses
• Five Generations of Wireless Technology
• US Internet Policy, Part 3: The FCC and Consolidation of Broadband
• Korea in a Post Covid-19 World, Part 3: The Green New Deal
• Korea in a Post Covid-19 World, Part 2: Merging Digital and Green New Deals
• The Two Santa Claus Theory of US Economic Growth and the Prospects of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
• Korea in a Post-Covid-19 World, Part 1: The Korean New Deal
• Starlink and the Return of Satellite Internet Service
• The International Politics of Domain Name Governance, Part Two: ICANN and the Clinton-Gore Administration
• Russia, the Fall of the USSR, and the Era of Pan-Capitalism
• The International Politics of Domain Name Governance, Part One: The Czar
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 2: Non-Linear Editing
• Oliver Stone’s Platoon: Jesus Christ Superstar vs. the Marlboro Man
• Memes, Propaganda, and Virality
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 1: The Camera
• “Letteracy” and Logos
• US INTERNET POLICY, PART 2: THE SHIFT TO BROADBAND
• US Internet Policy, Part 1: The Rise of ISPs
• Five Stages of ICT for Global Development
• Digital Spreadsheets – Part 5 – Numeracy and the Power of Zero
• “It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid”
• FROM NEW DEAL TO GREEN NEW DEAL, Part 2: The Failure of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
• YouTube Meaning-Creating (and Money-Making) Practices
• FROM NEW DEAL TO GREEN NEW DEAL, Part 1: Roosevelt Saves Capitalism
• Factors Supporting Early Computerization and Data Communications
• Four Futures: One Humanity
• The CDA’s Section 230: How Facebook and other ISPs became Exempt from Third Party Content Liabilities
• The Spreadsheet that Fueled the Telecom Boom – and Bust
• HOW THE US MOBILE INDUSTRY CAME TOGETHER, PART III: JUNK BONDS CONSOLIDATE THE NETWORK
• Early Internationalization of the Internet
• The World is Bubbly: Capital, Cities, and Creative People
• How the US Mobile Industry Came Together, Part II: The Grand Alliance
• How the US Mobile Industry Came Together, Part I: Transformation of the Network
• Metrics, Analytics, and Visualization
• Lasswell and Hall – Power and Meaning in Media
• Spreadsheets and the Rhetoric of Ratios
• From Gold to G-20: Flexible Currency Rates and Global Power
• Apple’s GUI and the Creation of the Microsoft’s Excel Spreadsheet Application
• Potential Bill on Net Neutrality and Deep Packet Inspection
• TIME Magazine’s “Machine of the Year”
• Digital Spreadsheets – Techno-Epistemological Power over People and Resources
• The Cyberpunk Genre as Social and Technological Analysis
• Java Continues to be the Most Popular Programming Language
• Anchoring Television News
• GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX
• THE EXPERIMENT, Part I: New Zealand as the World Model For Digital Monetarism
• Characteristics of Economic Goods and their Social Implications
• Ensuring Successful Democratic Political Economies
• Times Square’s Luminescent News Tickers and Public Spaces
• Auctioning Radio Spectrum for Mobile Services and Public Safety
• The Landsat Legacy
• Russian Interference, Viral Sharing, and Friends Lying to Friends on Social Media in the 2016 Elections
• Assessing Digital Payment Systems
• Digital Content Flow and Life Cycle: The Value Chain
• Not Like 1984: GUI and the Apple Mac
• A First Pre-VisiCalc Attempt at Electronic Spreadsheets
• CISCO SYSTEMS: FROM CAMPUS TO THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY, PART THREE: PUSHING TCP/IP
• Lotus 1-2-3 – A Star is Born
• That Remote Look: History of Sensing Satellites
• How “STAR WARS” and the Japanese Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat Led to the Internet, Part IV: Al Gore and the Internet
• Space Shuttles, Satellites, and Competition in Launch Vehicles
• GOES-16 Satellite and its Orbital Gaze
• How Schindler Used the List
• Digital Spreadsheets – The Time-Space Power of Accounting, Part 1
• Broadband Policy and the Fall of the US Internet Service Providers
• “Run to Goshen Regardless of Opposing Train”
• CISCO SYSTEMS: FROM CAMPUS TO THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY, PART TWO: Starting Up the Tech
• Vacation
• Xbox One – Extending Virtual Reality and Multi-Player Games
• CONTENDING “INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS”
• Digital Games and Meaningful Play
• Xanadu to World Wide Web
• Cisco Systems: From Campus to the World’s Most Valuable Company, Part One: Stanford University
• The NSFNET is the Internet
• We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us
• Digital Spreadsheets – Part 5 – Ease and Epistemology