Asimov “Changes will take place and perhaps what you are doing will have no meaning in 10 years” That is Isaac Asimov explaining change. More importantly he pointed out that everyone understands change but they do not understand the pace of change. 100 years ago, change was slow, taking longer than a generation. So changes

A visitor It is August 2022. A young man comes to visit our office to talk about bitcoin mining. He has a job in finance but also appears to have deep knowledge of the economics of bitcoin. I categorise bitcoin knowledge like this: The visitor understands the energy link and I consider myself in that

A compressed file It would seem the world is ending, thanks to artificial intelligence. Time Magazine and many others recently called for its complete shut-down before it’s “too late”. Others have suggested large AI data centres should be bombed (seriously). The essence of the complaint runs like this: AI is intelligent, and once it learns