According to Ripple Labs CEO Chris Larsen, today’s Internet, the “Internet of knowledge,” may be complemented by an “Internet of value exchange” that could replace the correspondent banking system.
The late linguistics and political columnist William Safire used to write delightfully about retronyms —words or expressions that change because newer versions of the object or concept they describe render the original obsolete. An acoustic guitar, for example, was a plain old guitar before […]
