#Virtual World Innovations

Exploration of innovations in virtual worlds, including Play-to-Earn, GameFi, metaverses, simulation theory, VR, and AR, and their impact on financial and social processes.

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ForkLog 70 28.01.2026

Silicon Tanks: “Stay hungry, stay foolish” — Stewart Brand

How the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog anticipated bitcoin’s principles, the information-price paradox and the primacy of perpetual maintenance.

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ForkLog 137 23.01.2026

Sometimes a Scam Is Just a Scam (𓂀)

A moderately paranoid Elena Vasilyeva on why crypto followers believe in conspiracies (and why they’re sometimes right)

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Silicon Tanks: Yuk Hui on becoming homeless to avoid fascism

ForkLog 156 29.12.2025

Silicon Tanks: Yuk Hui Argues for Homelessness as an Antidote to Fascism

How a Hong Kong-born philosopher of technology proposed abandoning all origins in favour of planetary thinking

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Silicon tanks: how French theory foresaw Web3

ForkLog 189 10.12.2025

Silicon Tanks: How French Theorists Predicted the World of Web3

How Foucault, Deleuze and Baudrillard help explain today’s internet, from blockchains to Web3.

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ForkLog 167 04.12.2025

How World War Could Trigger Bitcoin’s “1984” Hard Fork

Anatoly Kaplan on how entire states could already execute their own hard forks of Bitcoin.

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ForkLog 72 18.11.2025

Defending Consciousness in an Age of Spiritual Commerce

Anatoly Kaplan on how technological mindfulness counters state and corporate propaganda.

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ForkLog 109 11.11.2025

The Evolution of Copyright: From Progressive Idea to Control Mechanism

How copyright evolved from a progressive idea to a tool of control.

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The corporate Antichrist and his lesser demons

ForkLog 78 05.11.2025

The Corporate Antichrist: Reclaiming the Internet’s Lost Humanist Soul

An essay by Anatoly Kaplan on why human liberation is impossible without freeing code and technology.

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ForkLog 106 24.10.2025

In Search of a New World Consensus for the 21st Century

Anatoly Kaplan on why a network state is quite possible — but it is not Liberland.

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ForkLog 127 23.09.2025

‘When someone dies, people become richer’

“Party of the Dead” deputy Maxim Evstropov on the economics of death and the possibilities of a Proof-of-Death algorithm.

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ForkLog 40 06.08.2025

The chat sovereign

The very phrase “sovereign AI” evokes authoritarian regimes few would choose to inhabit. Yet “global artificial intelligence” conjures its own spectres: digital colonialism and other delights of a brave new world. Why, in AI development, both notions are largely meaningless and serve chiefly as tools of manipulation is the subject of this ForkLog essay by […]

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ForkLog 83 22.07.2025

Insert coin to continue

GameFi is one of the blockchain industry’s most contentious arenas. From loud promises of passive income in games to widespread disappointment and the collapse of some flagship projects, the journey has been rough. By 2025 the segment has entered a new phase: shedding speculative hype, raising the quality of platforms and gameplay, and adapting to […]

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