DeFi builds on three major waves of blockchain innovation across the last decade, each of which began with deep skepticism and has since progressed to acceptance and adoption. While it’s still early days for DeFi […]
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The Questions Concerning Technology
LM Sacasas argues that we need better ways to prompt our thinking about technology’s moral dimensions. A few days ago, a handful of similar stories or anecdotes about technology came to my attention. While they […]
Class Warfare with Xenomorphs
A new TV series based on the Alien franchise is in the works from Noah Hawley — who says it’s time for the xenomorphs to sink their claws into the executives who sent so many […]
Cryptocurrency and the Great Unbundling
We’re in the early stages of another round of massive cultural upheaval that’ll be even bigger than the Web, social media, and the smartphone. Uniswap is a cryptocurrency exchange, like Coinbase. Right now it has […]
The ABCs of DAOs
How decentralized autonomous organizations are automating the corporation. As of June 2021, over $1 billion has been committed towards blockchain-native analogs of traditional corporations called decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs. A DAO uses blockchains and […]
How to Think about the UFO Phenomenon
Rice News sat down with Kripal to discuss the immediate impact of “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” and what it means for humanity at large. Rice News: How does a professor of religion come to […]
China Plans Crewed Mission to Mars in 2033
China is planning regular crewed missions to the Red Planet and wants to build a base there. China plans to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033 as it continues to boost its […]
Toward a Taxonomy of Conspiracies
Conspiracy theories do not inculcate powerlessness, so much as they are the signs and symptoms of powerlessness itself. In my work for the United States National Security Agency, I was involved with establishing a Top-Secret […]
Prometheus’ Toolbox
Human life as technology from Greek mythology to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. How long have we been imagining artificial life? A remarkable set of ancient Greek myths and art shows that more than 2,500 years ago, […]