Michael Casey is senior adviser for blockchain opportunities for the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. He co-authored (with Paul Vigna) The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order, published by St. Martins in January 2015.
Algorithms help us to choose which films to watch, which music to stream and which literature to read. But what if algorithms went beyond their jobs as mediators of human culture and star...
Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist and anti-poverty campaigner, estimates that five billion people live without adequate records. They face serious challenges in documenting their e...
