{"id":4674,"date":"2021-05-21T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiproblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/dsc-weekly-digest-17-may-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-05-21T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T06:30:04","slug":"dsc-weekly-digest-17-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiproblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/dsc-weekly-digest-17-may-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"DSC Weekly Digest 17 May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: Kurt A Cagle<\/p>\n

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How Green Is Tech, Really?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Energy has dominated the news the last couple of weeks. On the one hand, the Colonial Pipeline hack exposed the vulnerability of the networks that control our energy distribution system, resulting in a surprise counterattack by the US on the hackers that both locked them out of their own system and apparently also made it impossible to get to their own digital currency.<\/p>\n

On the other hand digital currencies have seen a major run-up, especially in Ethereum and Dogecoin, as speculators have bid prices of these blockchain-based coins into the stratosphere, likely in response to the possibility that increased commodity prices are an early warning of hyperinflation (which is grist for another editorial).<\/p>\n

Similarly, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have taken the art and speculative realms by storm, employing blockchains to make a digital copy of a piece of artwork unique, something that is almost impossible to otherwise manage in the digital realm. DSC Contributing Writer Stephanie Glen has written a must-read article this week that explains what NFTs are, why they are attractive, and why they also may be yet another tulip mania.<\/p>\n