Here are some quotes and key topics Shana would like to discuss over
Life After Google:
Privacy and Economic Impacts of Free Technology Services:(Google, Facebook, Instagram, Paypal) -- Are general consumers aware of what they are giving up in exchange for accessing these free services
Big Data - Is it good or bad?: Is the collection of big data good or bad for the general population?
AI & Technology Automation: Can we truly create AI? P. 103 "Information depends on the range of freedom of choice and the surprise that can be perceived only by conscious being."
Consciousness depends on faith -- the ability to act without full knowledge and thus the ability to be surprised and to surprise. A Machine by definition lacks consciousness. A machine is part of a deterministic order. Lacking surprise or the ability to be surprised, it is self-contained and determined.
Can AI complete with Human Intelligence?: How will AI cause a disruption in the current economic system (self driving cars, reducing service related employment, increased automation and decreasing human labor)
Blockchain and Currency: How will/can it change the world structure from a political and economic perspective? Is Blockchain the next social revolution giving power back to the masses and disrupting big business and the financial system at large?
P. 233 "Moneys are established and maintained to do precisely what can't be done in bitcoins -- adjusting money supplies and exchange rates to changing economic conditions. Aren't you a threat to the entire monetary world, to central banks and G8 summits and dollars a day of oceanic currency trading, to preening financial strategist in Washington and New York, London and Davos, Tokyo and San Fransisco, of tax collectors and financial regulators around the world?
"Indeed, in bitcoin there is nobody to act as central bank or federal reserve to adjust the money supply as the population of users grows. It is more life precious metal. Instead of supply changing to keep the value the same, the supply is predetermined and the value changes. As the number of users grow, the value per coin increases."
P. 138 "Dollars are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government and by the wold's largest economy. Bitcoin is backed by what?"
"That substance would be the most valuable element in the world. It would be bits and atoms. It would link value and its measurement. It would spur an information revolution."
Guess Who Does not Like Bitcoin? Or Cyptocurrency?
Donald J. Trump Verified account @realDonaldTrump Jul 11
...and International. We have only one real currency in the USA, and it is stronger than ever, both dependable and reliable. It is by far the most dominant currency anywhere in the World, and it will always stay that way. It is called the United States Dollar!
Questions: What happens to Countries is they are no longer in control of the value of currency? What happens when financial institutions are no longer required for a financial transaction?
