James Dargan
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United Kingdom
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Trump’s Bitcoin Beatdown
Of course, he wouldn’t. It’s obvious, isn’t it? Anything that goes against his power base, his place in the world, and there’s hell to pay. So no-one was surprised at President Trump’s latest… → Read More
Bitcoin: The Shining Light of Money (Sorry, I Meant Cryptocurrency)
It’s a contentious topic. More so since the massive drop in price of Bitcoin in early 2018 from its record high of the year before, when everybody was buying it from Asia to South America, India to… → Read More
Blockchain Contra Quantum Systems: No Match Made in Heaven
The adoption of blockchain as a technology is gaining traction. One of the advantages of the system is the unique distributed ledgers that are secured through cryptographical solutions. These are… → Read More
Cryptocurrencies & Taxes: Eyes On You
One of the most worrying things people contemplating about investing in cryptocurrencies is in regard to taxes. I know, I know, one could say that’s the same with any investment, but the thing with… → Read More
From Space Invaders to Quantum Computers
In all honesty, there aren’t many people fit for the life of an entrepreneur, never mind one that is working in one of the most demanding sectors, tech. You’ve got to be a special kind of person… → Read More
Blockchain — The Radical Metamorphosis Shaping Our Financial Future
The future is definitely out there, but whatever it is, it’s our own making, our own destiny. To refurbish what we’ve already accomplished, and to go beyond it is going to take a great effort… → Read More
Neven’s Law: Paradigm Shift in Quantum Computers –
The advancements the world is undergoing in regard to quantum information systems is unprecedented. Moore’s law, the theory formulated by Gordon Moore, an American engineer, businessman and the… → Read More
Why Tech Startup IonQ Could Be The Future Of Quantum Computing
About a week ago, quite accidentally, I stumbled across a documentary on Netflix called Silicon Cowboys. I thought I’d watch every tech documentary on Netflix, Amazon Prime and all other streaming… → Read More
Quantum Computers: Unrealistic Dream or Established Truth?
I’m no computer scientist, nor a physicist, so maybe my ten cents doesn’t matter in the long run, but I can still have an opinion, and I do about quantum computers. The world of quantum computing is… → Read More
Geek Video Game Culture Verging On Quantum Reality
When I think of nostalgia, I don’t think about the internet or playing soccer with my friends or watching The A-Team on TV on a Saturday afternoon. Nostalgia, and I’m talking about the pure kind, was… → Read More
Elon Musk, Man on Fire!
Has Elon Musk gone too far with his other-worldly tech utopia of Mars space flight and driverless cars? Some think he has. Whatever your opinion, one thing that we can’t take away from the man is… → Read More
Great Scott! The Mad Scientists of Quantum Computing
Quantum computers are here to stay if Norishige Morimoto is a reliable source. Only recently the global vice-president of IBM stated that his company will have fully-functional commercial quantum… → Read More
Love in the Time of Bitcoin: Latin America and Cryptocurrency
Like all new dawns, there comes a time for change. In the developing world and Third World — Africa and Asia notwithstanding — access to banking structures in the traditional model, as well as other… → Read More
Cryptocurrencies: Scam or the Real Deal?
If something sounds too good to be true it probably is. In the UK this year there has been close to £30 million lost in bitcoin and crypto asset investments. The surge in popularity of this type of… → Read More
It’s The Bomb! AI Weapons Our Manifest Destiny
We live in unprecedented times — at least in Europe and the West: apart from the blip that was the war in the Balkans in the mid-1990s, we have been conflict-free since 1945. Okay, so the Cold War… → Read More
The Immortality Game: A Transhumanist’s Nirvana
There are enough scientists out there who believe it will happen very soon; while others are against it. Whatever the outcome, as we speak research on the extension of human life is going on at a… → Read More
Big Tech’s User Data Violations
These days, privacy issues, especially online, take precedent with very much everybody. Recent scandals, the Facebook Cambridge Analytica uproar more than any other, has changed people’s perceptions… → Read More
Will Quantum Computers Ever Replace The Humble PC in Our Living Rooms?
‘The future isn’t what it used to be’, French poet Paul Valery once said, and this statement couldn’t be truer than today. We are on the rise, humanity, that is, and it’s all because of the new… → Read More
AI’s Sputnik Moment
I recently finished reading AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee, a Taiwanese-born venture capitalist in technology and the former president of Google China… → Read More
Democracy on the Precipice Through AI Threat
Recent information that The National Defense Technology University of China’s partnership with Microsoft to initiate further developments in artificial intelligence (AI) has frightened some… → Read More