cashless: money as a cloud

A society (a world) without money would be, perhaps, healthier? The question does not imply harsh anticapitalism, nor nostalgia for a return to nature and to a “barter economy.” For …

Keep your eyes open!

The south korean state/capital complex quickly and effectively took advantage of the covid-19 opportunity. What is certain is that from a technological point of view, it belongs to the global …

Plague’s political dream

Behold, according to a regulation from the end of the 17th century, the measures that should be taken in case plague breaks out in a city. At first, a strict …

Digital rectum

According to Sigmund Freud, money is excrement. The passion for money (always for the founder of psychoanalysis) is an adult expression of the anal stage in infant development. Where they …

biometrics, digital identities and vaccines

Since 2016, ID2020 has been promoting an ethical, privacy-protecting approach to digital identity.For the one in seven people globally who lack the means to prove their identity, digital identity offers …

contactless contacts

It is said that students at American universities have adopted the Tinder dating app so much that they no longer form relationships in any other way. And that whoever has …

Does the sofa have exhaust?

The clear atmosphere of the metropolis appeared from time to time, in the form of panoramic photos, in the good news of the quarantine days. One positive side effect of …

the shape of things to come

A year ago – while the virus was lurking in the bowels of some exotic animal or in some secret laboratory or in the office of some diabolical billionaire and …

The battle for the internet’s future

For some years now, a battle has been waging for the internet’s “soul”, which has gone relatively unnoticed so far. The key players, on the one hand, have been the …

lock step

In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for so many years finally struck. Unlike the 2009 H1N1, this new strain of flu—which originated from wild geese—was extremely …