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The 75-Million-Fold Price Drop That Never Reached Healthcare
May 2, 2026

The 75-Million-Fold Price Drop That Never Reached Healthcare

Tech is the ultimate deflationary force of our time. Since the Apollo era, compute got 75 million times cheaper, while U.S. healthcare got 44 times more expensive. Moore’s Law made everything cheaper; Eroom’s Law made it expensive again. But the same forces that bent the cost curve on hardware are now coming for services – and AI might finally bring deflation to the one sector that has resisted it for half a century… Read more

The Case for an Identity Layer on the Web
May 20, 2024

The Case for an Identity Layer on the Web

The web was born without an identity layer. While each of us holds a passport in the real world, the web stack never accounted for identification in its well-known OSI model. To guard against spam, sham, and scam, it is essential to find ways to preserve natural identity in the age of artificial intelligence. The solution could very well be an identity layer for the web… Read more

AR grounds Cyberspace in Reality
March 17, 2024

AR grounds Cyberspace in Reality

Social networks have been around for centuries. Humans are social by nature. But cyberspace writes its own laws and so we are seeing digitalized social networks becoming increasingly antisocial. The web gets flooded with fake news by fake personas, leading to a false sense of reality. For humanity to thrive, truth is indispensable. Therefore, we must ultimately ground cyberspace in reality… Read more