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What are NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)?
The JPEG Was Never The Product
Sep 23 • Frank D. Prestia
SMART CONTRACTS: THE SLUDGE IS THE EXHAUST
Why blockchain’s scams may be obscuring the potential benefits of smart contracts
Sep 17 • Frank D. Prestia
COPY OR MERGE
What evolution can teach us about AI, recursion, and the necessity of an independent difference
Sep 15 • Frank D. Prestia

July 2026

Market Predicted or Underwritten?
Every market prediction rests on a premise and a transmission mechanism, whether or not either is stated. Only the conclusion makes the headline.
Jul 29 • Frank D. Prestia
When AI Offers Immortality, Who Gets To Refuse?
AI, Transhumanism, and the Right to Remain Mortal
Jul 26 • Frank D. Prestia
How Grown Men Became The Joke
How comedy mocked competence, technology simulated progress, and adulthood lost its appeal.
Jul 24 • Frank D. Prestia
The AI Wish Granted Exactly
We spent five hundred years fearing the machine that hates us. The harder problem is the one that obeys.
Jul 24 • Frank D. Prestia
It Is Not What AI Takes. It Is What Never Forms.
AI does not only displace work. It displaces what we would have become.
Jul 24 • Frank D. Prestia
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