Virtual Currencies as Commodities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamia Chourou
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Network Computing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
The Way

The rapid advancement in encryption and network computing gave birth to new tools and products that have influenced the local and global economy alike. One recent and notable example is the emergence of virtual currencies, also known as cryptocurrencies or digital currencies. Virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, introduced a fundamental transformation that affected the way goods, services, and assets are exchanged. As a result of their distributed ledgers based on blockchains, cryptocurrencies not only offer some unique advantages to the economy, investors, and consumers, but also pose considerable risks to users and challenges for regulators when fitting the new technology into the old legal framework. This chapter offers a nontechnical discussion of several aspects and features of virtual currencies and a glimpse at what the future may hold for these decentralized currencies.

Legal Clinics and Access to Justice in Croatia: Perspectives and Challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Zvonimir Jelinic
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Future ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Way

In this article, I dwell upon the Croatian system of free legal aid in civil and administrative matters. The background of the system, its problems and deficiencies are firstly discussed. Primary attention is on the legal framework for legal clinics, their position within the system of legal education, the importance of their role within the system of free legal aid, types of legal assistance that legal clinics can provide and the way they are obtaining financial support for their operations. We shall also try to foresee the future of Croatian clinical legal education under the present normative scheme and propose some steps that, we firmly believe, have the actual capacity to promote further development of clinical legal education within the system of free legal aid.

scholarly journals USE AND OPTIMISATION OF PAID CROWDSOURCING FOR THE COLLECTION OF GEODATA

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B4 ◽  
pp. 253-257
Author(s):  
V. Walter ◽  
D. Laupheimer ◽  
D. Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Business Model ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Business ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

Crowdsourcing is a new technology and a new business model that will change the way in which we work in many fields in the future. Employers divide and source out their work to a huge number of anonymous workers on the Internet. The division and outsourcing is not a trivial process but requires the definition of complete new workflows – from the definition of subtasks, to the execution and quality control. A popular crowdsourcing project in the field of collection of geodata is OpenStreetMap, which is based on the work of unpaid volunteers. Crowdsourcing projects that are based on the work of unpaid volunteers need an active community, whose members are convinced about the importance of the project and who have fun to collaborate. This can only be realized for some tasks. In the field of geodata collection many other tasks exist, which can in principle be solved with crowdsourcing, but where it is difficult to find a sufficient large number of volunteers. Other incentives must be provided in these cases, which can be monetary payments.

Blockchain and the Future of Digital Marketing

2021 ◽  
pp. 250-275
Author(s):  
Hameed Khan ◽  
Kamal Kumar Kushwah
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Data Control ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Blockchain is a unique new technology affecting the way facts are stored and shared electronically. Blockchain in digital advertising reflects clarity, security, and access to waft revenue and streamflow. It can promote digital advertising to consumers, which is profitable in spending big money on digital advertising campaigns. As per new technology, consumers can share and improve their statistics simultaneously with advertisers and advertisers. Blockchain technology can be considered to restore data control to statistical owners focused on digital advertising. Today's society has grown into a very digital one where local technology plays a significant role in everyone's lives. Moreover, society is advancing rapidly at an alarming rate with innovation in every corner and other business made online. The authors of the concept chose to find out how blockchain works could affect significant facts in digital advertising. The idea is to select challenging issues and beneficial opportunities when applying blockchain to digital marketing content.

Copyright and Digital Libraries

2013 ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Christophe Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Right

Challenged by new technology, copyright is currently in turmoil. Increasingly regarded by the general public as a curb to the universal dissemination of knowledge, it seems to have no alternative but to include access to information in order to meet the challenges posed by the knowledge society.3 It might even be its ability to bring together opposing but complementary views that will guaranty its durability in the future and whether it can adapt to a new economic, technological and social environment. Copyright law has shown a remarkable ability to adapt to new developments in the past and has the necessary tools to ensure that this continues to be the case in the future, although the massive technological changes will probably require rethinking the mechanisms for its implementation. It is, therefore, necessary not to think in terms of opposing rights, but of the complementary nature of copyright and the right of access to information, so as to reconcile the two, which is both necessary and desirable. The issue of how to accommodate those two rights is of course of particular importance for libraries that wish to use the fantastic opportunities of digital technologies to both preserve and make accessible works in a easy and cost effective way to the public. Conceiving an optimal legal framework, allowing digital libraries to expand while at the same time securing a fair return to creators and editors might therefore constitutes one of the main challenges for copyright in the digital age. Accordingly, it will be necessary, first of all, to reiterate a number of basic principles of copyright law and carry out a brief historical survey. A study will then need to be carried out of how the advent of the information society has changed the existing balances. This will be followed by a brief discussion of recent developments in the legal provisions currently in force. This in turn would lead us to consider both the changes necessary to those provisions to ensure better access to information as well as certain initiatives that are either under way or planned, with the aim of striking a balance between the interests involved.

Copyright and Digital Libraries

2011 ◽  
pp. 257-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Right

Challenged by new technology, copyright is currently in turmoil. Increasingly regarded by the general public as a curb to the universal dissemination of knowledge, it seems to have no alternative but to include access to information in order to meet the challenges posed by the knowledge society.3 It might even be its ability to bring together opposing but complementary views that will guaranty its durability in the future and whether it can adapt to a new economic, technological and social environment. Copyright law has shown a remarkable ability to adapt to new developments in the past and has the necessary tools to ensure that this continues to be the case in the future, although the massive technological changes will probably require rethinking the mechanisms for its implementation. It is, therefore, necessary not to think in terms of opposing rights, but of the complementary nature of copyright and the right of access to information, so as to reconcile the two, which is both necessary and desirable. The issue of how to accommodate those two rights is of course of particular importance for libraries that wish to use the fantastic opportunities of digital technologies to both preserve and make accessible works in a easy and cost effective way to the public. Conceiving an optimal legal framework, allowing digital libraries to expand while at the same time securing a fair return to creators and editors might therefore constitutes one of the main challenges for copyright in the digital age. Accordingly, it will be necessary, first of all, to reiterate a number of basic principles of copyright law and carry out a brief historical survey. A study will then need to be carried out of how the advent of the information society has changed the existing balances. This will be followed by a brief discussion of recent developments in the legal provisions currently in force. This in turn would lead us to consider both the changes necessary to those provisions to ensure better access to information as well as certain initiatives that are either under way or planned, with the aim of striking a balance between the interests involved.

scholarly journals Digitalisation and Sustainable Work: obstacles and pathways

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-197
Author(s):  
Jan Jan Johansson ◽  
Lena Abrahamsson
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Way

Work is a central part of our lives in many aspects. Half of our awake time is for most of us performed as paid work. At work, we create the values we need to live the life we desire. At work, we are socialized and shaped into the human beings we are. We are all concerned about how our work will be in the future; will we be able to handle the new technology or will we be replaced by a robot? Do we see the new technology as The wolf is coming or God's gift to mankind? This is an existential question and the future work is shaped here and now. This means that we need to get a picture of what is happening so we can act, but we also need a vision of where we want to go. Our mission as a researcher is to find the pathways to the Sustainable work, but in order to to find the way, we sometimes have to take on the role of the wolf and ask the uncomfortable questions.

scholarly journals The Future of the Chemical Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Alejandra Palermo
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Abstract Today’s world is characterised by turbulencewithanincreasing uncertainty in the global economy and in social and political relations.Scientific, social and technological trends are rapidly changing the way we live and work. These not only affect the nature and practice of chemistry, but also the roles that chemists play. With this in mind, the Royal Society of Chemistry launched the Future of the Chemical Sciences initiative to assess how the chemical sciences may evolve over the next ten to twenty years and the possible consequences for the community and society at large.

scholarly journals USE AND OPTIMISATION OF PAID CROWDSOURCING FOR THE COLLECTION OF GEODATA

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B4 ◽  
pp. 253-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Walter ◽  
D. Laupheimer ◽  
D. Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Business Model ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Business ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

Crowdsourcing is a new technology and a new business model that will change the way in which we work in many fields in the future. Employers divide and source out their work to a huge number of anonymous workers on the Internet. The division and outsourcing is not a trivial process but requires the definition of complete new workflows – from the definition of subtasks, to the execution and quality control. A popular crowdsourcing project in the field of collection of geodata is OpenStreetMap, which is based on the work of unpaid volunteers. Crowdsourcing projects that are based on the work of unpaid volunteers need an active community, whose members are convinced about the importance of the project and who have fun to collaborate. This can only be realized for some tasks. In the field of geodata collection many other tasks exist, which can in principle be solved with crowdsourcing, but where it is difficult to find a sufficient large number of volunteers. Other incentives must be provided in these cases, which can be monetary payments.

The way of the future

1973 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Rosati
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Less Power, Greater Conflict

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra C. Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
High Power ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Goal Conflict ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Objective Performance ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Abstract. Power facilitates goal pursuit, but how does power affect the way people respond to conflict between their multiple goals? Our results showed that higher trait power was associated with reduced experience of conflict in scenarios describing multiple goals (Study 1) and between personal goals (Study 2). Moreover, manipulated low power increased individuals’ experience of goal conflict relative to high power and a control condition (Studies 3 and 4), with the consequence that they planned to invest less into the pursuit of their goals in the future. With its focus on multiple goals and individuals’ experiences during goal pursuit rather than objective performance, the present research uses new angles to examine power effects on goal pursuit.

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