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Can Silicon Valley Reinvent Education?
- February 12, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Altcoins
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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma
The Music Man. Willy Loman. Jay Gatsby. P.T. Barnum. Adam Neumann then; Elizabeth Holmes now.
Hucksters all.
The huckster is an American archetype. Originally, the word referred to anyone who sold small items door-to-door, but it came to describe someone who promotes or sells products of questionable value aggressively and dishonestly.
What’s especially striking is that popular culture’s view of the huckster is highly equivocal. We…
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A Brief History of Money
- February 11, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Cryptocurrency
\ ==“[T]he study of monetary questions is one of the great causes of insanity.”== – U.S. Senator and National Monetary Commission chairman Nelson Aldrich.
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Introduction Money
\ Money is a technology designed to facilitate commerce and investment. Money was primarily developed by scientists, not economists, although first definitively defined by that great economist William Stanley Jevons.…
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Diving into the history of digital art
- February 10, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Cryptocurrency
In 1985, Andy Warhol received an Amiga 1000 home computer, created by Commodore. At the launch, he was joined on stage by Debbie Harry and proceeded to draw her portrait using the then-new ProPaint software. He went on to create several digital drawings with the computer, including a Campbell’s soup can, but many of them remained unseen for decades. In 2014, the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museum of Art finally recovered the images from the artist’s old floppy disks, revealing them to the public for the first time.…
