Europe is leading
In my quest to put the twelve rules of Compassion in practice, I decided to travel and learn (1). Shanghai (China) was my hometown in 2012. There I saw the beauty of The Underground, which is an European invention (2). If people can build such a mobility system for the individual, the roll-out of the […]
55 Broadway, London’s first skyskraper is for sale
London’s first skyscraper was built as the Headquater of the world’s first metro system. Thanks to the Hidden London initiative I have visited it. Hilarious. It is the building for the kind of organizations that the new modernity at that time brought: a whole hierarchy for the administrative and management support to get the machines […]
Stable Coins and The Core Infrastructures in Society
A ticket for the tube in London is paid with Sterling Pound. Several institutions are at work to keep Sterling Pound stable. We are used to a Sterling Pound with very low volatility. It makes the Sterling Pound and all other FIAT currencies workable. We can use FIAT currencies to exchange good and services. Space […]
Building The Core Infrastructures for Society Creates Jobs. Again and again ?
The Underground changed the culture of London. The shared digital infrastructure will change it again. The Underground and The Threefold grid combined a trinity of technological solutions to solve a societal problem. They open up new opportunities and culture changes. What is the work to do for us ? A technology trinity got […]
The Core Infrastructure in Society –> The Way for All
Follow the roots of the succes of the London Metro System and you will meet the roots of the advertising business. Investments in the core infrastructure were made by private companies. The fact that the services won’t get sold, was the risk that is taken. Return on risk capital got some help of the invisible […]
The Funding Mechanisms of Core Infrastructures in Society (part 3)
Threefold Grid shares their template to get the core infrastructure of compute and storage capacity available in society. Learn, ask questions and get prepared to turn. How will Threefold Grid get organised ? Threefold Farmers organize themselves in Threefold Coops. A Threefold Coop will engage Threefold farmers. Each farmer brings money in to buy certified […]
Pause to Digest (the Libra association is announced)
I should start writing about the role of tokens in funding mechanisms for the core infrastructure for our next level of prosperity. But I first need time to to digest the news of the week: the announcement of the Libra association. It is making useful waves for further adoption of technology, blockchain governance models, financial […]
The Funding Mechanisms of Core Infrastructures in Society (part 2)
As written in a previous post, the first metro systems used the template of the first railroad companies to structure their business operations. It is copied over and over again. A social contract within society came alive. But does it still serve ? No, it doesn’t. The social contract is falling apart on the one […]
The Funding Mechanisms of Core Infrastructures in Society (part 1)
The Metropolitan Railway (Met) got in 1854 the permission to build the first line of the Underground what later became the London Metro System (full hitory of The London Underground is here). What template did the MET use to set up the company ? 1. What is the income stream for the service ?2. What […]
Mind The (learning) Gap
In 2012 I decided to travel for a while because I was fed up with the (potential) loss of digital privacy while we can do better. In Shanghai (China) I came inspired by the history of the shared mobility infrastructure and I started to integrate the Metro Map in Co:Inpetto’s branding. At that time I […]