Lotus rhizome:

Very nice to have seen and 'partied' with some of you yesterday evening at the Garden Party in Canyon. Bede McCormack (professor of linguistics with a focus on ESL in NYC) almost joined the party via video conferencing from NYC I'm glad to say (but was taking care of his father who has early Alzheimer's). The Garden Party video conference window was open from about 5-5:30 pm and anyone could have joined this gathering!

Some Scottish small piping, and music-making, happened. Thanks for bringing musical instruments. Was glad to welcome little 4 week old Naoki - welcome Naoki again! (For those interested in some of the information technology related questions we talked about, please see my email to new friends and technologists' Takeshi, Tarun, and Jim Spohrer below!)

Warm regards, Scott

Very nice to have met and talked with you, Takeshi and Tarun, yesterday evening. Thanks for coming to the Garden Party in Canyon. And thanks for the juice and chips as well.

Takeshi, Anne Kathrin Kroemer is the senior legal director at Rubrik whom I met at Stanford Law fairly recently - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-kathrin-kroemer/. Please say hi from me if you see her.

Would be interested to follow up about what role that something like 100-150 out of ~200 central banks could play re a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger in same countries, - and possibly distributed partly via Universal Basic Income experiments.

Here's MIT DCI director, Neha Narula's Twitter - https://twitter.com/neha - and her recent interesting interview with Peter McCormack - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1152270084477468672. And it's in this fascinating day long MIT "Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems" (2018) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rose-ringed-parakeet-stanford-annual.html - that Neha talks about the role, if I remember correctly, of some kind of regulation re blockchain/cryptocurrency - in the last hour or so. I blog daily and some about a single cryptocurrency back by some number of central banks.

World University and School's law schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School (see below too) - would be interested in exploring how to possibly code for this legally in all ~200 countries, and perhaps as a way to begin to grow significantly.

Rubrik as "back end" with Google - and planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet?

Very nice to meet you and more late.

Warm regards, Scott

Am active too in the Twitter-sphere ...
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

(OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand )

Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School

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