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Adam Dolman

What’s the value of money?

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Lately we have seen Bitcoin surge and fall in value. At first, it was said to be down to the economic issues in Cyprus turning investors to look at other (safer?) forms of storing their money. And now, since I first started this article, collapse in value in under a less than a month. Is Bitcoin a new haven for investors, or a new way to throw notes on to the fire? read more

Paul Albada Jelgersma

Watch this space: Are the financial markets going for an uncontrolled science fiction scenario?

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A storm is coming…
(Sarah Conner in “The Terminator”, 1984).

There is more than one doomsday movie that refers to robots or artificial life forms taking over the world. Skynet, introduced in the movie “The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984), is such a computer based entity that, in the end, almost destroys all of mankind, while it was built with the best intentions.

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