A few years ago, Canadian business guru Don Tapscott published a book called “The Digital Economy.” There, for the first time, I heard the term disintermediation. Tapscott is widely credited with coining the term and his book is regarded as foreteller (almost prophetically) of the state of digital economy today, 10 years on. Simply put, [...]
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Disintermediation looms
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, TheoriesTags: an amorphous set of digits, ArsTechnica.com, Daniel Dove, digital culture, Digital merchandise, disintermediation, Don Tapscott, Elite Torrents, EliteTorrents, Helium.com, Herbie Hancock, intermediaries, iTunes, Judge James P. Jones, Metafilter, Napster, Recording Industry Association of America, removing the middleman, RIAA, supply chain, The Digital Economy, the ethics of music file sharing, United States of America v. Dove
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Decrypting the Kryptos
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, So satisfyingTags: Analytical, Applied Cryptography, Bruce Schneier, Central Intelligence Agency, Christopher Farmer, CIA, Ed Scheidt, James J. Gillogly, James Sanborn, Kryptos, Metafilter, OPORD, predictive intelligence
This may sound like a movie script, but it is completely true: in October 1990, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters at Langley (which, by the way, is not Langley,VA, as many believe, but the Langley suburb of McLean,VA, in case you plan to visit), unveiled a strange, intriguing sculputre named Kryptos (“hidden” in Greek), [...]
From Clio’s muse to History as a Weapon
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Archetypes, NarrativesTags: Arthur Schopenhauer, Bartoleme de Las Casas, Clio, Don Mitchell, Frederick Douglass, Greek muse, History is a Weapon, kleô, Matt Haughey, Matthew Haughey, Metafilter, Walter Rodney
Clio was the Greek muse of history and goddess of poetry. Her name is rooted in the Greek kleô — to celebrate, to make known, or to forge fame. In various works of art Clio is seen wearing purple, holding a musical instrument in one hand and the notebook she uses when she writes history, in the [...]