ICO, IPO & Blockchain — The Buzz is wearing off | At Jumpstart HQ in Hong Kong, we get inundated daily (including weekends) with emails, messages and press releases full of buzzwords, in particular ICO, IPO and blockchain (Is there anything that can’t be linked to it? Yes, but you wouldn’t know from all the buzz around it). For this issue, we decided to face these buzzwords head on to see what’s behind the buzz and what’s actually going on in Asia when it comes to these words. Turns out, the answer is: a lot.
Rethinking Privacy in an AI-Dependent World
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Surveillance has always been a matter of architecture. The panopticon prison, designed by Jeremy Bentham in the eighteenth century, made inmates visible to a central
