With the various talks going on at the United Nations this month, the Todd Library will be featuring books and information concerning the history of this organization. Come check them out.
Introducing the World’s First National Digital Currency
Ecuador is on track to become the world’s first nation to create its own digital currency. The country’s central bank announced last week (link in Spanish) that it would begin distributing the yet-to-be-named currency in December.
Backed by liquid assets, the currency will initially rely on demand to dictate how much will enter the marketplace, the bank explained.
Introducing the World’s First National Digital Currency – CityLab.
What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
Algorithms have consequences.
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But I’m not quite sure that without the neutral side of the Internet—the livestreams whose “packets†were fast as commercial, corporate and moneyed speech that travels on our networks, Twitter feeds which are not determined by an opaque corporate algorithms but my own choices,—we’d be having this conversation.
-Zeynep Tufekci (University of North Carolina)
August Book Display
55th Anniversary of Hawaii Statehood
President Dwight Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Hawaii to the Union after the Hawaiian residents approved the statehood bill by a huge vote margin in June. It became a state on August 21, 1959. Come check out some history of our great 50th state.