Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

This entertaining video poses an important question: should governments ban cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, regulate them, or just leave them alone? Hat tip: @ATabarrok

Does WordPress (the platform I use to blog) count as social media? If so, then Jaron Lanier has written an entire book explaining why you should delete this blog as well as your other social media accounts. (Pictured below is … Continue reading →

Usage Share of Internet Browsers 1996 – 2019 [OC] byu/interestingasphuk indataisbeautiful

What does the future hold for us? Pictured below is one of Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann’s artistic renderings of a future digital dystopia. Beeple is a graphic designer from Charleston, South Carolina, who does a variety of digital artwork including short … Continue reading →

That is the title of this ten-page paper by Dr Tom Murphy VII (!), a computer scientist whose homepage is http://tom7.org/. The abstract of Dr Murphy’s beautiful paper consists of one word, and the paper is dated 1 April 2019, … Continue reading →

More details about the subject of this fascinating documentary are available here (h/t: @pickover).

Why do we have to show a photo ID to board a domestic flight? Air genius Gary Leff explains here and here why we are required to “show our papers” at our Soviet-style airport security checkpoints and why this requirement … Continue reading →

Are there too many human rights? If so, what is the “optimal level” of such basic rights? Specifically, aside from life, property, and due process of law, what other rights are so essential to human flourishing that they should be … Continue reading →