Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: North Sentinel Island, India: With regard to UNIVERSAL Basic Income EXPERIMENTS for 7.5 billion people, Digital Single Market too? * * * MLTalks—To the Moon to Stay | From the Moon with Love https://www.media.mit.edu/events/from-the-moon-with-love/ ... Thanks for your fascinating MIT Media Lab panel just now - https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1153352828221632513. In developing MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World Uni & Sch, my moon shot idea is: Turn next #Moonshot Voyage into #RealisticVirtualUniverse as #ScientificBreakthrough @ExploreSpace_ML #MLTalks @Joi @maria_zuber @DavaExplorer @JFKLibrary @jessykate @NASA AMcDonald @Astro_Cady where scientists/public CO-BUILD via https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy this REALISTIC VIRTUAL UNIVERSE?

Single Cryptocurrency backed by India's central bank and for West Bengal as well, - brainstorming-wise? Could India and West Bengal be a field site for this and Universal Basic Income experiments?

Interesting MIT Media Lab panel online today re Moonshots, and which next trip to the moon I hope could become the become the impetus for the serious beginnings of a single realistic virtual universe. Blogged about both these events today here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-sentinel-island-india-with-regard.html .

Hi Pin (who now goes by Sid - aka Sid Mazumdar),

Nice to talk with you yesterday evening, and greetings from Cuttyhunk Island, MA, 02713 (where I've been visiting I think every summer since 1966!:). Here again is the Cuttyhunk Ferry schedule - https://www.cuttyhunkferryco.com/schedule.html - possibly for next year, 2020 ... :)

And here below is the Tweet from Neha Narula - do you know Neha in the Boston area, by any chance, Marti? - which I mentioned. She's the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. This interview is an interesting update on what they're focusing on currently.

Neha Narula
@neha
Jul 19
This dropped while I was on vacation - I think it's a pretty good summary of how I'm thinking about things at
@mitDCI (summary: ruminating on the ways everything can go wrong in true paranoid fashion)
Thanks for having me on @PeterMcCormack !

This dropped while I was on vacation - I think it's a pretty good summary of how I'm thinking about things at @mitDCI (summary: ruminating on the ways everything can go wrong in true paranoid fashion)

Thanks for having me on @PeterMcCormack! https://t.co/QsAJ4n22eQ
— Neha Narula (@neha) July 19, 2019

- https://twitter.com/neha/status/1152270084477468672

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WBD125 - Bitcoin Security and Ethics with Neha Narula,
@neha
. We discuss:
- How the DCI got started
- Bugs in the Bitcoin protocol
- Proof of Work risks
- Ethical Bitcoin development
- 51% attacks

Listen, love and share...

- https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-security-and-ethics-with-neha-narula -

WBD125 - Bitcoin Security and Ethics with Neha Narula, @neha. We discuss:
- How the DCI got started
- Bugs in the Bitcoin protocol
- Proof of Work risks
- Ethical Bitcoin development
- 51% attacks

Listen, love and share...https://t.co/o4CMGCfQoO pic.twitter.com/hKOtOHryXO
— Peter McCormack (@PeterMcCormack) July 12, 2019

- https://twitter.com/PeterMcCormack/status/1149660711984877568

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And re a Digital Single Market idea (and potentially the EuroZone of 19 out of 28 nation states), here's a Re-Tweet from Stanford Law & CS Professor Barbara van Schewick, and expert in Network Neutrality ...

Chris Marsden
@ChrisTMarsden
·
Jul 9
New #netneutrality national annual reports from EU28 + Norway
@1lucabelli @haroldfeld @vanschewick

New #netneutrality national annual reports from EU28 + Norway @1lucabelli @haroldfeld @vanschewick https://t.co/JT9GXX5ZC9
— Chris Marsden (@ChrisTMarsden) July 9, 2019

- https://twitter.com/ChrisTMarsden/status/1148489851169320960

DigitalSingleMarket
@DSMeu
#Openinternet means Internet Service Providers cannot discriminate between internet traffic & end-users have the right to access & distribute content + services. Each year National regulators check the status of this provision 📅 (link: http://bit.ly/2S5o8Sz) bit.ly/2S5o8Sz

#Openinternet means Internet Service Providers cannot discriminate between internet traffic & end-users have the right to access & distribute content + services. Each year National regulators check the status of this provision 📅 https://t.co/KQdWF9hlSq pic.twitter.com/n7nMeBB6qC
— DigitalSingleMarket (@DSMeu) July 9, 2019

- https://twitter.com/DSMeu/status/1148488203604656128

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In World University and School's Minutes from July 20, 2019, in Minute 11, I explore the idea further of a SINGLE cryptocurrency, backed by some number of central banks out of ~200 countries, plus with regard to UNIVERSAL Basic Income EXPERIMENTS for 7.5 billion people. This altogether would complicate the idea of a single digital currency re a Digital Single Market (say emerging out of the EuroZone, or India's 36 states - India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India - or post US Dollar, a de facto international currency).

Minutes for Sat July 20, 2019 World University & School / WUaS
Monthly Business Meeting

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/07/minutes-for-wuass-open-monthly-business.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/forest-owlet-minutes-for-wuass-open.html

Talk with you again, soonish, Pin!

Warm regards, Scotty

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Friday, July 26, 2019

Hi Pin, Marti, and All,

India actually has 36 states/territories I just learned, according to Wikipedia - "India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India ...

Blogged a little about all this here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-sentinel-island-india-with-regard.html?m=0 ...

Marti and Pin, it seems like West Bengal, Bangladesh and India could be a great field site for a single cryptocurrency backed by one central bank ...

... with Universal Basic Income experiments. What would MIT Digital Currency Initiative Director Neha Narula think of this?

Warm regards,
Scotty

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Great MIT panel today!

MLTalks—To the Moon to Stay | From the Moon with Love
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/from-the-moon-with-love/

On 7/25 at 2:30pm,
@ExploreSpace_ML
hosts a special #MLTalks event to discuss moonshots, past and future. Featuring
@Joi, @maria_zuber ... !

On 7/25 at 2:30pm, @ExploreSpace_ML hosts a special #MLTalks event to discuss moonshots, past and future. Featuring @Joi, @maria_zuber, @DavaExplorer, @JFKLibrary's Steven Rothstein, @jessykate, @NASA advisor Alex McDonald, and @Astro_Cady! https://t.co/YH8Y58fSp4
— MIT Media Lab (@medialab) July 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1153352828221632513

In what ways will we be able to visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs
@HarbinBook
in VR like visiting in future the next MIT-inspired trip to moon re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & to add https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ?

In what ways will we be able to visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs @HarbinBook in VR like visiting in future the next MIT-inspired trip to moon re #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & to add https://t.co/TlAD10XUFm?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 25, 2019

Turn next #Moonshot Voyage into #RealisticVirtualUniverse as #ScientificBreakthrough @ExploreSpace_ML #MLTalks @Joi @maria_zuber @DavaExplorer @JFKLibrary @jessykate @NASA AMcDonald @Astro_Cady https://t.co/4iygLxgDSv @HarbinBook scientists/public cobuild https://t.co/5p81EFFOza?
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) July 25, 2019

- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1154479872724488192 -

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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Hi @neha @PeterMcCormack what are your thoughts re
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/nicobar-pigeon-am-curious-how-neha.html
& http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-sentinel-island-india-with-regard.html?m=0 -
about a large 'field site' to test a single #cryptocurrency backed by 1-2 central banks in Bangladesh & India with #UBI experiments? (@mazumdarp, Sid & Harvard MD Prof Marti)

Hi @neha @PeterMcCormack what are your thoughts rehttps://t.co/Rc8GrvgiDP
& https://t.co/6KmXDNrQr3 -
about a large 'field site' to test a single #cryptocurrency backed by 1-2 central banks in Bangladesh & India with #UBI experiments? (@mazumdarp, Sid & Harvard MD Prof Marti)
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 1, 2019