Topic: Technology

I Scoot

– October 17, 2019

You are likely to see a lot more old people, and people dressed in business attire, using scooters soon. The advantages of fast and nearly free mobility in center cities are just too great to pass up.

Cryptocurrency, Technology

How Are 5G and Libra Connected?

– October 16, 2019

Spectrum and fiat currency alternatives are technologies of the future; governments seek to control both.

Technology

What If Everyone Is Wrong about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos?

– October 14, 2019

It’s time to end the witch hunts meant to quiet the minds and actions of those who want to force the change without which there is no progress.

Technology

Government Can’t Legislate Away Innovation

– October 12, 2019

Governments have only edicts and guns to enforce them. Ideas, on the other hand, take flight because they enter into the human imagination, spread like wildfire, and construct the narrative of history itself.

Cryptocurrency, Technology

Crypto’s Loss Is Blockchain’s Gain

– October 11, 2019

The first wave of inefficient, fake, & fraudulent blockchain apps have been washed out; the survivors are delivering real innovation.

Technology

Yang’s Concerns Over Automation Are Overwrought

– September 12, 2019

Every story needs a villain, and the most popular villain recently in economic policy circles is automation.

Technology

The Worst Regulation Ever Proposed

– September 8, 2019

It would let bureaucrats at the new Federal Automation and Worker Protection Agency sit in judgment of what constitutes beneficial forms of innovation and ask them to predict or plan our technological future.

Technology

Conservative Plans for Tech Amount to Forced Association

– August 16, 2019

What is the right principle? It is this: consent — by both parties.

Technology

It’s Not the End of Agriculture as We Know It

– August 13, 2019

Modern agricultural technologies and long-distance trade have benefitted the environment by concentrating food production in the best locations and by drastically increasing yields.

Technology

How Regulation Wrecks Innovation

– July 11, 2019

Many laws and regulations create direct or indirect barriers to the emergence of new ideas and organizations.

Technology

Global Capitalism Makes Your Hipster Minimalism Possible

– June 27, 2019

Global capitalism has made possible our aesthetic choice for minimalism. The infinite complexity of the global division of labor and international supply chains makes our simplicity seem easy.

Cryptocurrency, Sound Money, Technology

Is Facebook’s Libra the Dollar’s Killer App?

– June 15, 2019

Facebook’s Libra is easily and probably rightly criticized by crypto purists as a halfway house that makes too many concessions to legacy systems and plays too nicely with the existing regulatory system. All true. But that’s not where the story ends.