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Why write here about the massacre at the offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo?

Because most of what I have been writing on Continuations is about developing a coherent view of what comes next for humanity. It is about … Read more

I was going to write some more about deflation today

But then Vice posted a piece on Universal Basic Income (UBI) by Nathan Schneider yesterday. I suggest you read it and then come back here for a response. Read more

Yesterday I wrote about how free or low priced online courses are beginning to put pressure on pricing in education

As a small addendum to that: the same day the New York Times ran a front page story about home … Read more

I have been arguing that we live in an era of technological deflation driven by advances in computing

In the US, the prices for consumer durables peaked in the mid 1990s as this chart from the St. Louis … Read more

A couple of years back we got scuba certified as a family

This year we took our first real dive trip. We stayed at the amazingly located Itza Lodge on Long Caye which is part of the Lighthouse Reef in … Read more

The shift to mobile computing is fully underway

Over time everyone in the world will have a smartphone and data speeds will go up (and hopefully prices for data plans will come down). So the race is on to find … Read more

There is a confusion about Bitcoin that trips up a lots of people when they first learn about it

The blockchain is organizationally decentralized but logically centralized! What does this mean? Here is a 2 x 2 matrix that should … Read more

Today our portfolio company Lending Club went public

Congratulations to the team And here is founder Renaud Laplanche on the business Read more

I have only written about torture once before here on Continuations

As part of my mini review of Zero Dark Thirty. I am glad that after long delays we at least now have a summary of the Senate’s Torture Report. … Read more