🔮 Blockchain, incentive machine; surviving the gig economy; securing the new internet; matriarchal societies, male violence, Winnie the Pooh++ #155

Dept of the near future

Blockchains are incentive machines. “We need to get incentives right”, argues EV reader, Trent McConaghy. (To add to Trent’s arguments, it may not help that Ethereum’s smart contracts are replete with security holes.)

💈 How to succeed in the gig economy: “People in the gig economy must pursue a different kind of success—one that comes from finding a balance between predictability and possibility, between viability (the promise of continued work) and vitality (feeling present, authentic, and alive in one’s work).”

🔒 The number of devices at edge of the internet is going to get much more numerous, smarter and vulnerable. How can we secure it? (See also: Cyber attacks are getting bigger and badder. Github just survived the largest DDos ever.)

👻 Financing the intangible economy. As the investment shifts towards more intangible goods, the structure of financing will also change favouring venture capital & private equity on the one hand, and firms that stay private fo…