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alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts replied to Alberto

@alberto_cottica @adamgreenfield if you ever remember the interview, I'll owe you coffee ;) I tried searching for it, but all the problems he describes with tech in the Ministry are very... non-committal.

As in - he doesn't notice that without Blockchain the plot of the Ministry jus doesn't work. It's not that "ah, the cars should have flown lower", it's... the whole premise is just broken.

Alberto Cottica replied to alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

@alxd you owe me a coffee!
"In the list of mistakes I’ve become aware of making in Ministry, using the word blockchain is prominent. I should have said 'encrypted digital money,' or even just 'digital encryption.' " Source is the Crooked Timber seminar: crookedtimber.org/2021/05/14/r
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alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts replied to Alberto

@alberto_cottica @adamgreenfield thank you so much, I do owe you coffee ;)

I think I remembered it right then, he's backtracking on the terminology, not the solutionism / magical thinking itself.

Alberto Cottica replied to alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

@alxd hmm... I will have to disagree here nothing magical about digital currencies. And one of the central banks depicted in Ministry has the rollout of a digital form of cash on schedule right now. But I'll still take you up on coffee! :-) @adamgreenfield

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