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Have you ever used one of those "shop online, pick up at the store" services, things like Clicklist and Instacart? My wife recently started using one of those at a local Fred Myers and she is

" Decentralized networks aren’t a silver bullet that will fix all the problems on the internet. But they offer a much better approach than centralized systems. Compare the problem of Twitter spam

Look, everyone knows Amazon is the 800 pound gorilla in the ecommerce world. If you sell on Amazon, as I do, you have a love / hate relationship with them. You love them because you can make a lot of money

If you are looking for a real road map for going from 0 to 8 figures in a business then this video is exactly what you are looking for. No BS, no hype, no get rich nonsense, just really good info. AMP

From TIFWE.org Isn’t it time we consider a paradigm shift in our approach to alleviating poverty? History shows there’s no better answer to the challenge of poverty than the free market. “No other system

"But gerrymandering — the drawing of political boundaries for the benefit of one party or group over another — is a far more complex topic than some analysts and partisans care to acknowledge. As

Oxfam recently made waves by making dramatic claims dripping with Marxist overtones. Their claim that the "richest 1% owns 82% of the worlds wealth" was full of images of yachts and other "rich

I recently joined an email list on IHate.world which ended up promoting a book called The New Human Rights Movement so I decided that I would check the book out and see what it had to say. The book was...

I don't mean to be dramatic but Facebook has a big lead on the future of social networking, in fact this may be the future of a lot of life. What am I talking about? Messaging apps. Yep, messaging apps.

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If you have not had a chance to give these articles a read I highly recommend doing so. They provide some great insights into the nature of work and the future impact of decentralizing technologies on

The title pretty much says it all, we can and should decentralize all of the things... AMP this -

While most speculators are focused on the accelerating battle between Amazon and Walmart I think that it is only Google that has a chance to unseat Amazon in the world of Ecommerce. The first question

One of the biggest concerns people have is Climate Change. Everyone seems to want to stop it and the ideas to do so are seemingly infinite: Taxes Solar Power Wind Power Smoke Stack Scrubbers And so much

Who remembers getting those red envelopes in the mail, excited to get to watch the latest movie and loving the fact that you didn't have to ever go farther than your mailbox to do this? [See's everyone

This video presents a really cool idea on decentralizing energy. The basic idea is to allow people to generate energy and sell it. Track those sales via the blockchain to help people only support good

This video provides a discussion on the first step in changing the world, changing yourself. AMP it -

Not Government Not Managers Not Democrats Not Republicans If you want to impact the world but don't know where to start... Start a business Without productive enterprise nothing else works. Governments

In this video Johann Gevers discusses the idea that society used to be mostly decentralized, communities more or less conformed to Dunbar's number and stayed small. The modern world gave rise to the ability

Recently Blockstack had a conference and laid out a realistic vision for a truly decentralized internet. These projects are hugely important to the future of the internet and I can't recommend enough carving