Cones of Sequoia sempervirens: Stanford Law CodeX on Etherium & SmartContracts, WUaS and MIT DCI's Neha Narula, A Universal Basic Income (without the support ~200 countries' central banks?), WUaS may also seek to develop Canada World University and School early on, "Episode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet" Fascinating interview partly because of Neha's understanding of these technologies, and her focus on the poor, and on voting, plus much more

Hi Steven, and Roland (and Angela),

Nice to meet and talk with you at Stanford Law CodeX yesterday and thanks for your presentation, Steven. I also blogged before your presentation about it here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sequoia-sempervirens-reaching-out-to.html - with some further ideas about where World University and School is heading, and even re ~200 online law schools in countries' official languages. Steven Stewart was the actual presenter on Thursday at Stanford Law CodeX, and a computer scientist based in Canada:

[codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Group Mtg (9/20 @1.30p): CourtQuant; QuantStamp - SLS N112 (or via Zoom)

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This talk from Thursday, September 20th should appear here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B

CodeX is a multidisciplinary laboratory operated by Stanford University in association with affiliated organizations from industry, government, and academia. The staff of the Center includes a core of full-time employees, together with faculty and students from Stanford and professionals from affiliated organizations.  The primary mission of the Center is to explore ways in which information technology can be used to enhance the quality and efficiency of our legal system while decreasing its cost. Our goal is "legal technology" that empowers all parties in our legal system, not the legal profession per se. Such technology should help affected individuals find, understand, and comply with regulations; it should help enforcement organizations monitor and/or enforce compliance; and it should help regulatory bodies analyze proposed regulations for cost, overlap, inconsistency, etc.

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Mention of Etherium by MIT Director of its Digital Currency Initiative Neha Narula is here -
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/09/10/episode-13-neha-narula-on-blockchain-cryptocurrency-and-the-future-of-the-internet/ - with brief mention of smart contracts as well. This is a fascinating interview partly because of Neha's understanding of these technologies, and her focus on the poor, and on voting, plus much more.

Here are some recent Tweets about this, with related WUaS links (to give you a bit of an idea of how wiki WUaS works) ...

Episode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/09/10/episode-13-neha-narula-on-blockchain-cryptocurrency-and-the-future-of-the-internet/… ~ https://twitter.com/neha/status/1039607706288570373… FASCINATING & EXCELLENT https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Future & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Internet_Studies… & re the Era of Robot Culture https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/heteractis-magnifica-culture-of.html… ? @WUaSPress ~

Episode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet https://t.co/htnH2BlftS ~ https://t.co/6nLqbDFxzR FASCINATING & EXCELLENT https://t.co/usL9yE0Bjf& https://t.co/2ah9BCqNPO& re the Era of Robot Culture https://t.co/nmZWz3fcyM ? @WUaSPress ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 21, 2018

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1043220399041835008
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1043232207366582273
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1043221010944651264
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1043232562263408640

See, too, Neha Narula’s on cryptocurrency & blockchain https://twitter.com/neha/status/1042191261736689665… "Somehow, the computer scientists have gotten their hands on money and the world might never be the same." @seanmcarroll: https://twitter.com/neha/status/1039607706288570373- … https://twitter.com/neha/status/1031557794514653184… Neha Narula is MIT DCI Director

See, too, Neha Narula’s on cryptocurrency & blockchain https://t.co/3Tf92xXwcx"Somehow, the computer scientists have gotten their hands on money and the world might never be the same."@seanmcarroll: https://t.co/WvGm25UZcW https://t.co/pQRY8TABNW Neha Narula is MIT DCI Director
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) September 21, 2018

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1043232158872031234

WUaS is also exploring the idea of facilitating an Universal Basic Income when we code our upcoming wiki re our "front end" Mediawiki, together with our backend "Wikidata" for all 7097 living languages and then for all 7.5 billion people, as a cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger - possibly with the backing of ~200 countries' central banks (but possibly not, after listening to Neha) ... but staying in communication with MIT's thinking in these regards (Neha and Joi Ito for too). While this would help an enormous number of people, it's also an entrepreneurial opportunity.

WUaS seeks to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, Medical Degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas in all ~200 countries' official languages, but while we're CC-4 MIT OCW-centric for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees first in English based on its ~2400 courses, MIT doesn't have a law school or medical school, so hopefully WUaS will emerge out of Stanford for law and medical OCW, again in all ~200 countries' official languages, with lots of smart contract potential, for example.

WUaS seeks to become the MIT / Harvard / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and again in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric online university and high school degrees.

WUaS may also seek to develop Canada World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Canada - early on.

Looking forward to staying in touch.

Friendly regards, Scott

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