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Fascinating article about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk:   Like the steam-powered machines of the nineteenth century, digital technology is now forcing us to re-evaluate the meaning of human labour. Increasing algorithmic sophistication has meant that software is encroaching on fields that previously seemed uniquely human. Think about how seamlessly we accept self-checkout at the supermarket, or …

Early Temple received some nice press in this article about using the blockchain for startup investing. The blockchain allows digital items to be both authentic and scarce. Beyond simply providing the backbone for digital currency like Bitcoin and Litecoin, the blockchain can also be used to publish unalterable public records of, for example, asset ownership. …

The public reception of a new product follows a pattern cynically called the hype cycle, which describes adoption in terms of a five stage process. This is one of the fundamental patterns of the modern economy.

Welcome to our new website! Early Temple has been up and running for some time now, but we felt it was time to set up a nicer website along with the launch of the new protocol. The previous form of Early Temple supported a manual process, which was somewhat cumbersome due to the amount of …