Topic: Technology

CBDCs Undermine Financial Privacy

– October 3, 2024

“Financial privacy is very important for a free society. What we do reveals much more about who we are than what we say.” ~William J. Luther

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Artificial Intelligence: Our Days (Probably) Aren’t Numbered

– September 19, 2024

“Releasing labor from areas where machines have taken over has created many new possibilities.” ~Art Carden

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DOJ Ruling on Google Ignores the Reality of Exclusive Contracts

– August 21, 2024

“Consumers clearly have options when it comes to search, but because they consistently choose one product over the other does not mean that the exclusive contracts indicate anticompetitive behavior.” ~Spence Purnell

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Free Kids from Their Cells

– August 1, 2024

“To keep our kids from harm, we have exposed them to brain-altering habits, online predators, and addictive pastimes that don’t just have the risk, but the near certainty, of making those now children turn out to be anxious and dysfunctional adults.” ~Michael Munger

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Where Will the New Jobs Come From?

– July 23, 2024

“Technological innovations and falling trade barriers make many people more productive… We use this new wealth to create opportunities in high-skill, medium-skill, and low-skill occupations.” ~Art Carden

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The Mass Democratization of Knowledge: Now Everyone Has Research Assistants

– July 16, 2024

“Companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and OpenAI have made it so that anyone with an internet connection can access cutting-edge ideas, data, analytical tools, and the received wisdom of the ages at the click of a button.” ~Art Carden

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Consumers (Sovereignly) Control Google

– July 9, 2024

“Every commercial choice — buying, selling, abstaining, using — is not just a transaction but a significant vote for who should produce what, when, where, and how.” ~Art Carden

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Who Loves Minimum Wage Laws? Kiosk Makers

– July 2, 2024

“Minimum wages and workplace regulations protect some people, alright, but not the workers. Instead, these rules protect anyone who provides a substitute for the labor that workers bring to the table.” ~Art Carden

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Bitcoin Is ‘Resistance Money’

– June 14, 2024

“Freedom money, wielded by its users and resistant to capture, identification, and censorship, doesn’t dispel unfair laws or make evil rulers go away — but almost nothing else does that either.” ~Joakim Book

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AI Eases Its Own Labor-Market Transitions

– June 11, 2024

“Not long ago, search engines like Google were not understood by the masses, which forced people through experience to learn how to ‘Google’ webpages in the proper way. Submitting a search query is similarly a new language to learn, just like prompting a language model.” ~Samuel Crombie and Jack Nicastro

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FISA Destroys the Rule of Law

– May 22, 2024

“Evidence…cannot be challenged by opposing counsel and are highly classified. This has resulted in the drone-like ‘rubber stamping’ of warrantless surveillance conducted without oversight or challenge.” ~Spence Purnell

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The Magic Food Cupboard

– May 8, 2024

“Every small aspect of the work that people do to deliver and stock those Whole Foods grocery shelves is noble, in its own way. Dismissing the parts as meaningless fails to understand the power of the larger system.” ~Michael Munger

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