"When the Spaniards were besieging Leyden in 1574, leather money was issued, but as hardship increased the population boiled and ate the new currency." Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964…...

Everything is an information channel. With most information channels being digital: Claude Shannon showed us how to communicate a digital public signal through noise using redundancy. Whitfield Diffie showed us how to communicate a digital private signal through noise without an intermediary. Together, these two capabilities are the foundation of…...

New frontiers here, folks! #ecash…...

One of the greatest contributors to literature in the 20th century was the ballpoint pen. Still early in the 21st century, but my bet is that the smartphone (not the Google/Apple versions) will be one of the greatest contributors to individual freedom. If you read about the innovation of…...

“Speed produces division of functions”…...