Observations on the human condition
Alex Nikolov provided this article: How Britain stole $45 trillion from IndiaAnd lied about it. (Al Jazeera) In 1750, India produced around 25 % of global industrial output. By 1900, after British rule, this had fallen to just 2 % — a dramatic decline in industrial share over the course of colonial domination. This was … Read more
Having used ChatGPT from time to time to sharpen our focus to adequately describe what we’ve been exploring for the last few years (how the way we handle value is changing), I’ve taken a leaf out of Martin Geddes‘s book – using a combination of A.I. platforms (in this case ChatGPT and DeepSeek). At ChatGPT’s … Read more
My good friend and collaborator, Alex Nikolov, just posted this on LinkedIn: The Glass Bead Game: AI, Money, and the redefinition of Human Freedom A reflection on knowledge, value, computation, and the end of money and “free professions” Abstract Hermann Hesse’s 1931 novel The Glass Bead Game describes a future civilisation organised not around markets … Read more
We often point to the internet, its methodology, tools and technology as exemplars of direct value handling and its amazing benefits. One often sees references on social media to the existence of Tartaria, the history of which appears to have been suppressed through academia. That is not the subject of this article but is obviously … Read more