# life: ten forecasts for 2021, by Saxo Bank.

(1) A successful Covid-19 vaccine kills companies.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/a-successful-covid-19-vaccine-kills-companies-08122020

(2) Amazon “buys” Cyprus.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/amazon-buys-cyprus-08122020

(3) Germany bails out France.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/germany-bails-out-france-08122020

(4) Blockchain tech kills fake news.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/blockchain-tech-kills-fake-news-08122020

(5) China’s new digital currency inspires tectonic shift in capital flows.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/china-new-digital-currency-inspires-tectonic-shift-in-capital-flow-08122020

(6) Revolutionary fusion design catapults humanity into energy abundance.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/revolutionary-fusion-design-catapults-humanity-into-energy-abundance-08122020 

(7) Universal basic income decimates big cities.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/universal-basic-income-decimates-big-cities-08122020

(8) Disruption dividend creates Citizens Technology Fund.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/disruption-dividend-creates-citizens-technology-fund-08122020

(9) Sun shines on silver, which sizzles on solar panel demand.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/sun-shines-on-silver-which-sizzles-on-solar-panel-demand-08122020

(10) Next-generation tech supercharges frontier and emerging markets.   https://www.home.saxo/content/articles/outrageous-predictions/next-generation-tech-supercharges-frontier-and-emerging-markets-08122020

Pierandrea Ferrari. I 10 cigni neri del 2021. Quali sono gli eventi inaspettati che potrebbero impattare sull’economia globale nel corso del 2021? Ecco la lista stilata da Saxo Bank.  Dec 26, 2020.

https://www.money.it/I-10-cigni-neri-del-2021  

# trade: happy commerce (also on a galactic scale) with a hypothetical "S-money"

<< A new type of money that allows users to make decisions based on information arriving at different locations and times, and that could also protect against attacks from quantum computers, has been proposed by a researcher at the University of Cambridge. >>

<< The theoretical framework, dubbed 'S-money', could ensure completely unforgeable and secure authentication, and allow faster and more flexible responses than any existing financial technology, harnessing the combined power of quantum theory and relativity. In fact, it could conceivably make it possible to conduct commerce across the Solar System and beyond, without long time lags, although commerce on a galactic scale is a fanciful notion at this point. >>

S-money: Ultra-secure form of virtual money proposed. University of Cambridge. May 7, 2019

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-05-s-money-ultra-secure-virtual-money.html

Adrian Kent. S-money: virtual tokens for a relativistic economy. Proceedings of the Royal Society A doi: 10.1098/rspa.2019.0170  May 8, 2019.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2019.0170

Also

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=blockchain

# trade: cryptocoin; No hoax. The "McAfee Redemption Unit" is real ...

<< Late last night, John McAfee, the official mouthpiece of the 'We love making outlandish statements' club dropped a pretty big bomb on the unsuspecting crypto community.
It all started when a little known cryptocurrency exchange  SmartPayMINT posted a photo of fiat currency with McAfee’s face on it. As far as we know it was an artist’s representation of what a probable currency would look like if it had McAfee’s face on it. >>

Aheli Raychaudhuri. McAfee Coin: Elaborate Hoax or A Stroke of ‘Don Quixote’ Genius? May 29, 2018.

https://www.crypto-news.in/opinions/mcafee-coin-elaborate-hoax-stroke-don-quixote-genius/

<< No hoax. The "McAfee Redemption Unit" is real (..) Printed on currency paper, holographs on both sides, serialized, linked to the blockchain, redeemable, convertible, collectible. >>

John McAfee (@officialmcafee). May 29, 2018 02:46

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1001444693618589696

# sec: oops! also blockchain system seems to show some security vulnerabilities

<< Smart contracts - stateful executable objects hosted on blockchains like Ethereum - carry billions of dollars worth of coins and cannot be updated once deployed >>

AA << present a new systematic characterization of a class of trace vulnerabilities, which result from analyzing multiple invocations of a contract over its lifetime >>

Ivica Nikolic, Aashish Kolluri, et al. Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale. arXiv: 1802.06038 [cs.CR]. Feb 16, 2018.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06038

Kristin Houser. Uh Oh: Blockchain May Not Be as Secure as We Thought. Mar 2, 2018.

https://futurism.com/blockchain-security-smart-contracts/ 

Mike Orcutt. Ethereum's smart contracts are full of holes. MIT Tech Rev. Mar 1, 2018.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610392/ethereums-smart-contracts-are-full-of-holes/

Also

# e-ai: an intriguing hypothesis: cheating that system will become near impossible. Jun 18, 2017

http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2017/06/e-ai-intriguing-hypothesis-cheating.html

# ai-bots: an autonomous "golem" perspective; bots could improvise, bots could appear emotionally intelligent, bots could become extremely robust, bots could use non-intercepting cryptic strategies.

Feras Dayoub, Jonathan Roberts,  Michael Milford. We need robots that can improvise, but it's not easy to teach them right from wrong. Nov 26, 2017

https://theconversation.com/we-need-robots-that-can-improvise-but-its-not-easy-to-teach-them-right-from-wrong-87014

David Pring-Mill. Tech Is Becoming Emotionally Intelligent, and It's Big Business. Oct 30, 2017

https://singularityhub.com/2017/11/02/tech-is-becoming-emotionally-intelligent-and-its-big-business/amp/

Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers. Nov 27, 2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-artificial-muscles-soft-robots-superpowers.html

Joris van Rossum. Blockchain for Research. Digital Science. Nov 27, 2017.

https://figshare.com/articles/_/5607778

FonT

in pratica un hacker da manuale, questo assolutamente ipotetico "golem" ...

Also

<< (..) che solva - senz'altro - qualsivoglia brillanza dell' insolto // (..) >>

<< Lascia il letto, figlio mio /
Usa i tuoi talenti con intelligenza /
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1971 - una zolla dalle rive dell' Apsu'. Mar 8, 2006.

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2006/03/1971-una-zolla-dalle-rive-dell-apsu.html

# web: MozFest 2017. The world's leading festival for the open Internet movement

MozFest. The world's leading festival for the open Internet movement. Oct 27-29, 2017 Ravensbourne College, London

https://mozillafestival.org/

Decentralization. Who controls the Internet?

https://internethealthreport.org/v01/decentralization/

Building a better blockchain. A new generation of software developers are expanding the scope for an Internet powered by users.

https://internethealthreport.org/v01/stories/building-a-better-blockchain/

Giving artists control of their music.

https://internethealthreport.org/v01/stories/giving-artists-control-of-their-music/

# e-ai: an intriguing hypothesis: cheating that system will become near impossible

<< Blockchain is an online global  database that anyone with an  internet connection can use  anywhere in the world. Unlike  traditional databases that are  owned by central figures like  banks and governments a  blockchain doesn’t belong to  anyone. And with an entire  network looking after it, cheating  the system by faking documents, transactions and other  information will become near  impossible. >>

Magdalena  Gjoshevska. Will the Blockchain Technology transform our economy?

https://born2invest.com/articles/will-blockchain-technology-transform-economy/amp

https://www.blockchain.com/

FonT: in pratica l'ipotetica morte "funzionale" dell'attuale sistema bancario ...