📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
The 4 Tools Making Capital More Abundant Than It’s Ever Been
Nothing accelerates technological innovation like cash. Lots and lots of cash. More bucks means more Buck Rogers. More cash means more people building, experimenting, failing, and eventually driving breakthroughs. In December 2017, I wrote about the abundance of capital [https://singularityhub.com/2017/12/13/theres-a-growing-abundance-of-capital-to-fund-bold-ventures/] accumulating around the world.
Could Blockchain Voting Fix Democracy? Today, It Gets a Test Run
There’s no shortage of debate about the role tech has played in politics. From misinformation being spread via WhatsApp in Brazil [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/technology/whatsapp-brazil-presidential-election.html] to Facebook becoming a tool for hate speech in Myanmar [https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/] to
Are Stablecoins the New and Improved Bitcoin?
PwC, the global consulting and assurance firm, recently signalled its entrance into the cryptocurrency [https://singularityhub.com/2018/01/12/there-are-over-1000-alternatives-to-bitcoin-youve-never-heard-of/] world by announcing a partnership [https://blokt.com/news/pricewaterhousecoopers-partners-with-cred-backs-new-us-dollar-backed-stablecoin] with decentralized lending platform Cred. Cred (previously Libra Credit) was founded by PayPal [https://singularityhub.com/2013/04/03/
5 Blockchain Breakthroughs Coming in the Next 5 Years
In almost every industry you can think of, blockchain [https://su.org/resources/exponential-guides/the-exponential-guide-to-blockchain/?utm_source=SingularityHub&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=seo] is poised to cut out middlemen, dramatically improve transparency, and multiply the efficiency of countless transactions worldwide. While most well-known for its application in
How Will We Store Three Septillion Bits of Data? Your Metabolome May Have the Answer
Thanks to the cloud, it’s hard to imagine that we’ll ever run out of data storage. But by 2040, we may be swarmed by three septillion bits of data, and Earth will run out of chip-grade silicon. According to one estimate, current data farms will last a century,