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Hoping for Change: Monetary Policy Edition
Platformonomics does not usually do monetary economics (except maybe the virtual kind), but I just happened to be thinking about the Federal Reserve yesterday (admit it, so were you…) shortly before the news broke of Bernanke’s renomination. I was hoping for a more radical announcement: Software Bot To Be Nominated Chairman of Federal Reserve SystemCutting…
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Book Review: Daemon – Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez’s Daemon is a kick in the head akin to Neuromancer or Snow Crash. But unlike those two, it is set in essentially the present day and can be realized with today’s technology or close to it. Prepare to open your eyes to a whole new vector of malevolent computing. No doubt the book…