ortunities facing the 21st century. Currently the CEO of Mattereum, a platform that harnesses blockchain to automate and streamline the systems of global commercial law, Gupta has played a massively influential role in the development of the blockchain industry. Notably, in 2015, he coordinated the launch of the neutral, open-access internet and native currency system Ethereum. He has also served as strategic architect at the leading crypto venture ConsenSys, designed Dubai’s blockchain strategy, and serves as the Blockchain Fellow at the UK government’s Digital Catapult. Gupta also applies systems-thinking to issues surrounding environmental sustainability and resilience. A previous member of the Rocky Mountain Institute, one of the world’s top energy policy think tanks, Gupta advocated for solving oil supply issues through new technologies. In 2002, Gupta designed the hexayurt, a public domain disaster relief shelter easily constructed using four-by-eight sheets, the common industrial size of plywood. Intended for use by climate refugees, the hexayurt is also omnipresent in Black Rock Desert every year, iconic in the Burning Man counterculture. This Penny Stamps Speaker Series event is co-presented by the New Media Caucus: Border Control Symposium with support from the Dissonance Event Series.…
TCH from Gregorian
calendar based TIME to a [TIME]scale based on the timing of
universal natural processes, that will enable Human[KIND] to
re-connect with the 4D[TIME] heart-beat of NATURE, to then
maximise access to the collective abundance of energy that is
potentially available - which will subsequently address the
essential dilemma of [our]TIME and provide THE mechanism of
action, for responsible citiZENs, whereby they can rise to meet
this ultimate challenge to our future of [NOW] - for the mutual
benefit of ALL LIFE as [ONE].…
d anthology offering words of wisdom from the Zen tradition, arranged in thematic categories such as "Meditation" and "Living a Zen a life". The aim of Zen Buddhism is to attain total harmony with the world within and without, to see things as they really are, in all their living wonder. Full of compassion, clarity and a deep love of life, this ancient Eastern tradition continues to inspire and encourage world-wide followers through its philosophy of acceptance and loving kindess. With its emphasis on living life, rather than simply talking about it, Zen is full of practical wisdom, a distillation of which is found within these pages. Offering insight in to everything from meditation and the art of haiku, to the removal of worldly concerns and living a Zen life, this collection draws on a multitude of great thinkers and their teachings, old and new alike.
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eens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document, the basis of the modern web - and Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, who made the source code of his creation publicly available, and never made a penny from it himself - it is very sad to reflect on the state of play of all things that constitute the cloud, in the context of the "modern democratic" concept - OF the people, FOR the People, By the PEOPLE... ... and [BE]ing drawn down the rabbit hole
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