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A View from the Labyrinth – Morro Rock, California

Guest Post By Christopher Roth Leaving San Luis Obispo and heading northwest on Highway 1, you travel through several canyons – where the hillsides are decorated with a wonderful peppery scented mix of sagebrush and chaparral.  The steeper canyon ridges are interspersed with gently sloping pastureland that is studded with the captivating elegance and expansive […]

Dear City of Brotherly Love, We Really Need To Talk (About the Constitution, Smart Contracts, and Extended Reality)

I live in Philadelphia, home of Independence Hall, the Constitution Center, and the Liberty Bell. While I have my reservations about the actual intent of these documents, see Tim Scott’s article on the Constitution here, I would love to see a public discussion of the nature of Constitutional rights in the twenty first century against […]

A Tucson Labyrinth: Ants In An Age of Artifice

Last night we had a nice group in the chat to watch a stream Jason edited from the presentation I gave in Tucson in late November, plus follow up Q&A. The focus was on simulation modeling, artificial societies in social media, cybernetic steering, consciousness studies, eugenics, aerospace research linked possibly to blockchain mindfiles, and sociobiology. […]

Future of Work Playlist

Over the past few weeks I’ve been collecting clips on platform labor, reputation scores, human capital finance, and coding the Web3 global smart contract layer. I just finished pulling together a twenty-clip playlist, which can be reviewed on my back up channel here. I also created an interactive interface using Kumu.io software – below. Click […]

Control Scrip – A Tale Told In Four Videos

This post features four related videos. The first is a two-and-a-half-minute overview from DAO Stack, a company based in Israel, that describes a future of decentralized governance of cyber-physical systems with automated encoded rules. Then, there’s a short clip from the neuro-economics talk at the Philocetes Center in 2007 about oxytocin-induced social trust. It’s a […]

Collective Intelligence Experiment – Texas “Freedom” and School “Choice”

This week I joined my Texas friend Lynn Davenport on her “Social Impact Podcast” for a half-hour discussion of school choice, digital vouchers, and the future of gig work where a contingent workforce is expected to build out Web3 extended reality under the supervision of artificial intelligence. The culture wars are really doing a number […]

Labyrinthian Reflections: Healing Verses From Moab, Utah

Guest Post Brought To Us By The Jaxon McKraken Wild West Snake Medicine Show Emotional Emancipation: A Prayer of Proclamation This is a vibrational fixer elixir practiced for dispelling co-enslavement in a rhyming series of decoupling couplets. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx May we soothe with sooth and feel the truth. We are a part of nature, not apart […]

An Unexpected Audience Part 2: Research Supplement to IEEE Metaverse Congress Session 5 Comments

After adding all of the back-up material, I found it hard to read through the original comments I’d made on the fifth IEEE Metaverse Congress session. For that reason I decided to split up the posts. There’s one with just the comments here and this one, which features the comments along with associated material that […]