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SOAS MA Thesis | The Return of Cyberspace: Towards a Digital Architecture for Internet Governance
SOAS MA Thesis | The Return of Cyberspace: Towards a Digital Architecture for Internet Governance
The thesis submits that current modalities of Internet governance are failing because they are predicated on political ideas, economic…
John Lillywhite
Nov 10, 2020
‘Machine Speed Warfare’: AI, Autonomous Weapons and the Future of Global Diplomacy
‘Machine Speed Warfare’: AI, Autonomous Weapons and the Future of Global Diplomacy
Near horizon advances in AI are changing the speed, chain of command, security relationships and conventions of accountability that govern…
John Lillywhite
Jun 13, 2020
How Government and Campus Hippies Spawned the Internet: On ‘ARPANET,’ President Eisenhower and…
How Government and Campus Hippies Spawned the Internet: On ‘ARPANET,’ President Eisenhower and…
The Internet began at once within and against government. The 1969 the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPANET) consisted of a few…
John Lillywhite
Jun 13, 2020
Cybersecurity, Multipolarity, and the Influence of ‘Great Powers’ in Internet Governance
Cybersecurity, Multipolarity, and the Influence of ‘Great Powers’ in Internet Governance
This chapter explores the literature on the relationship between cyberspace and the creation of new governance systems. Rather than…
John Lillywhite
Jun 13, 2020
Will Digital Technology Disrupt & Replace Traditional Diplomacy?
Will Digital Technology Disrupt & Replace Traditional Diplomacy?
Rather than making face-to-face negotiation obsolete, digital diplomacy will provide governments and diplomats with new tools in which to…
John Lillywhite
Jun 13, 2020
Building a Blockchain Publishing MVP on the Open Index Protocol (During COVID-19 Lockdown in Dubai)
Building a Blockchain Publishing MVP on the Open Index Protocol (During COVID-19 Lockdown in Dubai)
After a year of research, setbacks and discussion, myself and Anwar Khoury, the ex-developer of project pen, began a 13 week dev sprint on…
John Lillywhite
Jun 11, 2020
‘Why Can’t Machines Read Arabic at Scale’ — My Pitch for Google News Initiative Funding in the…
‘Why Can’t Machines Read Arabic at Scale’ — My Pitch for Google News Initiative Funding in the…
One of the ironies of being trained in old school archiving at a monastery in Stesa, Italy, is that you understand the value of datasets —…
John Lillywhite
May 12, 2020
A Public Index for the Web? How the Blockchain Could Potentially Fight Deepfakes
A Public Index for the Web? How the Blockchain Could Potentially Fight Deepfakes
Over the past two years a cottage industry has emerged of media experts and journalists warning of the potential dangers of “deep fakes.”…
John Lillywhite
Apr 13, 2020
John McAfee’s Blockchain Future: The DeLorean, Satoshi Nakamoto and the End of Government (Podcast…
John McAfee’s Blockchain Future: The DeLorean, Satoshi Nakamoto and the End of Government (Podcast…
“There will be no banks — there will not be a centralized function of anything” — John McAfee
John Lillywhite
Nov 19, 2018
Driverless Cars, Oliver Twist & the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”
Driverless Cars, Oliver Twist & the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”
Notes on the Annual Meeting of Global Future Councils.
John Lillywhite
Nov 27, 2016
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