If you spend enough time on social media you begin to wonder if these platforms were intentionally designed to keep people angry and divided. We don’t ask for much from social media; connecting with friends and family, getting useful information, having civilized conversations, sharing opinions and ideas, and so on…

There are currently over 97 zettabytes of data online — that is roughly three gigabytes of data for every dollar of US national debt. Within this tremendous mountain of data — somewhere between old high school photos, junk email and the occasional tweet — lies nearly all of human knowledge…

How can crypto and blockchain technology completely upend our economy and politics? If we wanted to visualize all the political ideologies up to the present moment — from Anarcho-capitalism to communism and everything in between, including democratic socialism, mixed economy, laissez faire capitalism, and so on — and how they…

The Web 4.0 vision for Open Source extends far beyond merely making open source projects economically viable — it is about creating an Open Source Ecosystem that could rival and surpass anything built on the proprietary software business model. We previously discussed how Web 4.0 works and explained why an…

Mofi was not surprised that her art was desired and even popular. What she didn’t like however was how market forces were influencing artists all around her, and beginning to creep into her own work as well. …

Mofi knew it wouldn’t be easy. The creative process was never easy for her. First was the internal struggle. She always had at least half a dozen ideas bumping around in her head, and she had to figure out how to share those with the world. What form would they…

What if we built a digital economy based on abundance instead of scarcity? The first thing they teach you in any introductory economics course is that we have limited resources but unlimited wants. When resources are scarce people compete for them, and in extreme cases even fight or go to war for them. …

Here is one simple fact that you never hear about in the media: if you have a million people watching a show with a well-researched piece of investigative journalism, and a million people watching a show with totally made up conspiracy theories, both shows could be making about the same…

The “marketplace of ideas” does not operate like a typical marketplace for products or services. Online content has the properties of a public good in that it is both non-exhaustible and non-excludable. …