“In 1905, Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or ‘rational’ space, and the way was made clear for Picasso, the Marx brothers, and MAD.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964…...

Similar to the three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system (x,y,z), #Nostr can be thought of a non-Euclidean cyberspace coordinate system of (n,e) where n is a 32 byte #npub, and e is a 32 byte hash of an event. With (n,e) you can reference and attribute…...

Layer 2.…...

“In the decentralized, electrical world, we seek multiplicity, not repeatability. We are dancers in a ballet, not soldiers in a march.” Slightly paraphrased from Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964).…...

This is so true. Also true with central banking, where Walter Bagehot admitted as such, that central banking was a less stable alternative to the private banking system. Managing short-term volatility at the expense of long-term stability. Now that banks have adopted ‘inflation-fighting’ as their primary mission,...

“Where the whole man is involved, there is no work. Work begins with the division of labour and the specialization of functions and tasks in sedentary, agricultural communities. In the computer age we are once more totally involved in our roles.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964…...