Prof. Bill Maurer and I are teaching a second version of the online class called “From Barter to Bitcoin: Society, Tech and Future Money” during UC Irvine’s Summer Session 2015. We’ve got some great new interviews lined up for this time around and are updating the class with lots of new information on Silk Road and…
I just got back from a trip to Haiti that I took with a diverse group of people from my church. While there I was working with Haitian kids, schools and churches and studying intermittent infrastructures. I produced a series of videos that describe the infrastructure hacks that I saw while I was there. I’m…
Prof. Bill Tomlinson, Prof. Bonnie Nardi and I, along with TA support from Marcel Pufal and Aubrey Slaughter are teaching a class on Global Disruption and Information Technology. We are thinking through issues of peak energy and considering how we might use technology to ease us into the long descent. It’s an online course and…
Prof. Bill Maurer and I taught a class called “From Barter to Bitcoin: Society, Tech and Future Money” during UC Irvine’s Summer Session 2014. It was really a blast to do and I enjoyed getting to dig into the bitcoin state of the art. It’s an online course and we have a batch of videos that…
quub was a start-up that I worked on with several folks, including George Ruan and Nathan Esquenazi. quub was a commercialization of Nomatic*IM. Basically it was supposed to be automatic status updates that your computer would generate for you based on what it could detect about you from sensors. The ideal case would be to…