You know you need to pay attention to a trend when you start seeing headlines of scammers cashing in on the action. The excerpt below—sourced from a Medium post—offers an easy-to-understand backgrounder on blockchain: « After the financial crisis of 2008, an unknown person by the moniker Satoshi Nakamoto designed Bitcoin and its original reference … Continue reading Braving the blockchain bandwagon
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Autom is a collaborative communications and marketing professional. He monitors emerging technology and its remarkable influence on media, culture and society as a whole. Through mindful interaction with a diverse and trusted online network, he encourages dialogue that holistically explores and analyzes the exponentially rapid evolution of technology and tech's ability to aid, enhance or even hinder and endanger society's own evolution.
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Examining the #fakenews impasse
Whether or not we can call the current state of online fake news an impasse remains to be seen. Although recent events—from allegations of Russian-linked Facebook accounts spending inordinate amounts of money to spread fake stories during the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the more recent senseless mass shootings in Las Vegas—continue to expose the … Continue reading Examining the #fakenews impasse
The mesmerizing tech monopoly
A recent post from The Verge, managed to surface one jaw-dropping perspective: By positioning themselves as the platforms on top of which information technology across every sector now runs, these titans of tech become the new centers of gravity for our economy, growing in size, scope, and influence while everyone else struggles not to fall … Continue reading The mesmerizing tech monopoly
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