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Talking tech; debates about regulating technology, privacy laws, piracy, and the pitfalls of AI.

Can Blockchain be the Future of Democratic Voting?
Introduction The invention of the distributed database, otherwise known as the ‘blockchain’ was a revolution in the technical sphere. Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown inventor of Bitcoin, realised you could solve the double-spend problem of digital currency by having a distributed database. But these distributed databases have far more potential than just recording transaction histories. What if you could use it to decide election results? Election fraud could become a thing of the past.
By Jacob5 years ago in The Swamp
Have governments kept up with the digital age?
Have governments kept up with the digital revolution? Are we all still governed by ”pen and paper” administrations, while living in the digital age?
By Peter Rose5 years ago in The Swamp
A Revolution Against Big Tech
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” - John F Kennedy
By Jason A5 years ago in The Swamp
Live News Stream: A New Way To Watch The News
The news channels have learnt how to market their content and reach a global audience. Live news streaming is a powerful way of obtaining the global audience. It will have a good reach if the content of theirs is the talk of the town.
By Medusa Hornia5 years ago in The Swamp
After Huawei, TikTok also goes to the ban: so Trump attacks China
It is written Huawei, but basically it reads China. That behind the now famous ban imposed by Donald Trump against the Shenzhen technology company there is a plan to break China's wings seems now the secret of puffin. And in the last few hours a hypothesis is taking hold that would reinforce this scenario. According to reports from the Financial Times, in fact, the White House is considering very seriously the possibility of adding ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to the famous "blacklist" (which already includes Huawei). The short video social network, with over 2 billion downloads across the West and around 800 million daily active users, is probably the digital platform with the highest growth rates in the world. And the fact that he is Chinese is seen by Trump as a major threat to the United States.
By Marco Bonomo6 years ago in The Swamp
‘Covid’ Ops: Open to Gates Manipulation
Here in Britain we’ve become quite familiar with the terms track-and-trace and vaccine and how they are supposedly “fundamental” to the world getting back to normal following this “bogus Covid19 pandemic” we find ourselves engulfed in, but how about the concept of microchip and quantum-dot implants? We’ve not been told much about these measures... but they are very much part of the plan moving forward.
By Steve Harrison6 years ago in The Swamp
Purposeful Utilization of Tools
Each tool can be used for both intrinsically good and evil reasons. While some tools are built with specific intentions, of good or evil, while other tools are built out of the spirit of innovation, all tools can serve both good and evil purposes. What determines how a tool gets used? Generally, that is determined by the end-user of the tool itself and their intentions.
By Jeff McCarty6 years ago in The Swamp
Who Will Buy the Future?
When I was in my early- to mid-teens, I very much enjoyed reading Wired magazine. This would have been in 2000s, for those trying for a rough chronology.
By Black Cat6 years ago in The Swamp
Perception Is Reality
There is a war being waged upon us. They are not after our souls, those come later, but they are after the biological part of us that controls the decisions that the soul makes on a daily basis, our minds.
By Michael Grube6 years ago in The Swamp
Should We Fear or Welcome Artificial Intelligence?
Should we fear or welcome Artificial Intelligence? Within the next 20 years, artificial intelligence and full automation of all routine or regular tasks will be available.
By Peter Rose6 years ago in The Swamp
Reason First: Why Tech Execs Are the Neo-Heroes of the Digital Age
Bureaucrats and Big Tech executives live on the same moral spectrum. Most of them regard altruism as the ruling moral ideal. They’ll both be quick to say that their services are “bigger than themselves.” But the tech executives at least have the position of privatization over their products and services than any politicians could ever dream of in their sphere, with all of the ways that Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Netflix have disrupted the system and challenged Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules and regulations. The technology is light years ahead of any political dictate that Capitol Hill or any other government body could issue.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Is Government by Artificial Intelligence the Way Forward?
Are we to be governed by artificial intelligence? Could this be worse then present political bigotry? At present, most democratic nations are governed through some form of political party system, with the result that an election can mean a change of direction, for the economy and governing attitude towards everything. Then 5 years later it gets reversed and all political directions are changed again.
By Peter Rose8 years ago in The Swamp