Hello, readers.
Things. Here are some.
Thing one.
Everything is where the internet was. Well. Not everything. Two things. The BlockChain and quantum computing.
The Blockchain Will Do to Banks and Law Firms What the Internet Did to Media by Joichi Ito, Neha Narula, and Robleh Ali.
The “killer app” for the early internet was email; it’s what drove adoption and strengthened the network. Bitcoin is the killer app for the blockchain. Bitcoin drives adoption of its underlying blockchain, and its strong technical community and robust code review process make it the most secure and reliable of the various blockchains. Like email, it’s likely that some form of Bitcoin will persist. But the blockchain will also support a variety of other applications, including smart contracts, asset registries, and many new types of transactions that will go beyond financial and legal uses.
… The “killer app” for the early internet was email; it’s what drove adoption and strengthened the network. Bitcoin is the killer app for the blockchain. Bitcoin drives adoption of its underlying blockchain, and its strong technical community and robust code review process make it the most secure and reliable of the various blockchains. Like email, it’s likely that some form of Bitcoin will persist. But the blockchain will also support a variety of other applications, including smart contracts, asset registries, and many new types of transactions that will go beyond financial and legal uses.
Thing two.
There’s a new Nintendo. And on this new Nintendo, a new Zelda. Here is a review of the new Zelda in the New Yorker.
Yes, I know.
Thing three.
The Times has this thing called “25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music is Going”
You should probably read it. Not for its prognosticative abilities, but because music is good for the soul, and, somewhere in here, I imagine there’s at least one song strung with the right words, or rhythms, to set your spirit alight.
Thing four.
Elon Musk offered to fix Australia’s power network.
In other news, Jeff Bezos offered to fix the world’s moon delivery services2.
Thing five.
A map of the universe. Just in case you get lost out there.
Happy weekend, readers.
See you in the future.
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- I remember when Sam went back to Vietnam and maybe for the first time thinking and talking with Dad about what it was like when he was in Vietnam. According to that link, this particular episode aired at the end of 1990. Which means I was all of nine-years-old. ↩
- By which, of course, I mean the delivery of things to the moon. It is, as of the writing of this blog post, still impossible to deliver the moon to you–however much George Bailey might argue otherwise. ↩
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