Systems & Constraints

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

What evolution can teach us about AI, recursion, and the necessity of an independent difference

Sep 15 • Frank D. Prestia

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

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