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ai code example: animated planetary orbit

Gavin — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:31:49 +0000

Today’s example of how easy AI can make it to write code. The interactive animation below is the final output from various experiments below.
[My words have this colour background. My instructions to the AI are in bold.
The rest of the content on this page is the AI. All of it, including words, code and highlighting.]

To begin with I just asked it the following:
write html, css and javascript to demonstrate a planet orbiting the sun
It replied…

Creating a realistic 3D planet orbiting the sun requires more advanced graphics and libraries, but I can show you a basic demonstration using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that simulates a simple planet orbiting the sun

example.html




  
  
  Orbiting Planet

CSS (styles.css):

body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.sun {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  background-color: orange;
  border-radius: 50%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

.planet {
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
  background-color: blue;
  border-radius: 50%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

JavaScript (script.js):

let angle = 0;
const orbitRadius = 150;
const orbitSpeed = 0.005;

function animatePlanet() {
  const planet = document.querySelector('.planet');
  const sun = document.querySelector('.sun');
  const sunRect = sun.getBoundingClientRect();
  const centerX = sunRect.left + sunRect.width / 2;
  const centerY = sunRect.top + sunRect.height / 2;

  const x = centerX + orbitRadius * Math.cos(angle);
  const y = centerY + orbitRadius * Math.sin(angle);

  planet.style.left = x + 'px';
  planet.style.top = y + 'px';

  angle += orbitSpeed;
  requestAnimationFrame(animatePlanet);
}

animatePlanet();

This code creates a basic representation of a planet (blue circle) orbiting the sun (orange circle). It uses CSS to position and style the sun and the planet, and JavaScript to calculate the position of the planet as it orbits the sun.

Please note that this is a simplified demonstration and does not include realistic physics or 3D graphics. For more advanced and realistic animations, you would need to use libraries like Three.js or other WebGL frameworks.”

This is pretty astonishing [output]

but I wasn’t happy with it being a circular orbit, so I asked it to:
redo with an elliptical orbit

Creating an elliptical orbit requires more complex mathematical calculations and is beyond the scope of basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. However, I can show you an example using the p5.js library, which is a JavaScript library for creative coding and visualization. The p5.js library simplifies handling graphics and animation, making it easier to demonstrate an elliptical orbit.

First, include the p5.js library in your HTML file:




  
  
  Elliptical Orbit

Next, create a JavaScript file (e.g., “sketch.js”) that will handle the animation and display of the elliptical orbit:

let sun;
let planet;
let orbitRadiusX = 150;
let orbitRadiusY = 100;
let angle = 0;
let orbitSpeed = 0.01;

function setup() {
  createCanvas(windowWidth, windowHeight);
  sun = createVector(width / 2, height / 2);
  planet = createVector(sun.x + orbitRadiusX, sun.y);
}

function draw() {
  background(240);

  // Draw the sun
  fill('orange');
  ellipse(sun.x, sun.y, 40, 40);

  // Calculate the position of the planet in the elliptical orbit
  let x = sun.x + orbitRadiusX * cos(angle);
  let y = sun.y + orbitRadiusY * sin(angle);

  // Draw the planet
  fill('blue');
  ellipse(x, y, 20, 20);

  // Update the angle for the next frame
  angle += orbitSpeed;
}

The above code sets up a canvas, defines the sun and planet as vectors, and uses trigonometry to calculate the position of the planet as it moves along an elliptical orbit around the sun. The orbitRadiusX and orbitRadiusY variables determine the shape and size of the elliptical orbit, while the orbitSpeed variable controls the speed of the orbit.

Save these HTML and JavaScript files in the same folder and open the HTML file in a web browser. You should see an animation of a blue planet orbiting an orange sun in an elliptical path. Feel free to adjust the values of orbitRadiusX, orbitRadiusY, and orbitSpeed to experiment with different elliptical orbits.

This is a great example of how game-changing AI is becoming. To see the two bits of code (copy & pasted) in action, click Circular or Elliptical. Remarkable.

And then my friend Andy noticed it wasn’t doing a Keplerian orbit, so
redo with a keplerian orbit
led to this

Creating a Keplerian orbit involves implementing more complex mathematical formulas to simulate the motion of celestial bodies following Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. To do this, we’ll use the p5.js library to handle graphics and animation.

First, include the p5.js library in your HTML file:




  
  
  Keplerian Orbit

Next, create a JavaScript file (e.g., “sketch.js”) that will handle the animation and display of the Keplerian orbit:

let sun;
let planet;
let a; // Semi-major axis
let b; // Semi-minor axis
let angle = 0;
let orbitSpeed = 0.01;

function setup() {
  createCanvas(windowWidth, windowHeight);
  sun = createVector(width / 2, height / 2);
  a = 150; // Set the semi-major axis
  b = 100; // Set the semi-minor axis
  planet = createVector(sun.x + a, sun.y);
}

function draw() {
  background(240);

  // Draw the sun
  fill('orange');
  ellipse(sun.x, sun.y, 40, 40);

  // Calculate the position of the planet in the Keplerian orbit
  let x = sun.x + a * cos(angle);
  let y = sun.y + b * sin(angle);

  // Draw the planet
  fill('blue');
  ellipse(x, y, 20, 20);

  // Update the angle for the next frame
  angle += orbitSpeed;
}

The above code sets up a canvas, defines the sun and planet as vectors, and uses trigonometry to calculate the position of the planet following Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The a and b variables determine the size and shape of the Keplerian orbit, while the orbitSpeed variable controls the speed of the orbit.

Save these HTML and JavaScript files in the same folder and open the HTML file in a web browser. You should see an animation of a blue planet following a Keplerian orbit around an orange sun. Feel free to adjust the values of a, b, and orbitSpeed to experiment with different Keplerian orbits.

Interesting but still not quite there

So let’s
place the sun at a focus point and add gravity

To add gravity to the Keplerian orbit simulation, we can use Newton’s law of universal gravitation to calculate the gravitational force between the sun and the planet. The force will affect the acceleration of the planet, causing it to move in a curved path around the sun.

Here’s the updated code that includes gravity:

let sun;
let planet;
let a; // Semi-major axis
let b; // Semi-minor axis
let c; // Distance from the center to focus (c = sqrt(a^2 - b^2))
let angle = 0;
let orbitSpeed = 0.01;
let G = 0.5; // Gravitational constant

function setup() {
  createCanvas(windowWidth, windowHeight);
  sun = createVector(width / 2, height / 2);
  a = 150; // Set the semi-major axis
  b = 100; // Set the semi-minor axis
  c = sqrt(a * a - b * b);
  planet = createVector(sun.x + c + a, sun.y);
}

function draw() {
  background(240);

  // Draw the sun at the focus point
  fill('orange');
  ellipse(sun.x, sun.y, 40, 40);

  // Calculate the position of the planet in the Keplerian orbit
  let x = sun.x + c + a * cos(angle);
  let y = sun.y + b * sin(angle);

  // Draw the planet
  fill('blue');
  ellipse(x, y, 20, 20);

  // Calculate the distance between the planet and the sun
  let distance = dist(x, y, sun.x, sun.y);

  // Calculate the gravitational force between the planet and the sun
  let force = G * (1 / (distance * distance));

  // Calculate the angle of the force vector
  let forceAngle = atan2(sun.y - y, sun.x - x);

  // Calculate the acceleration of the planet due to gravity
  let acceleration = force / 1; // We can simplify the mass of the planet as 1

  // Update the planet's velocity based on the acceleration
  orbitSpeed += acceleration;

  // Update the angle for the next frame
  angle += orbitSpeed;
}

In this updated code, we introduce the gravitational constant G (you can adjust its value to control the strength of gravity) and calculate the gravitational force between the sun and the planet using Newton’s law of universal gravitation. The planet’s acceleration is then updated based on the gravitational force, and its velocity is adjusted accordingly. The result is a more realistic simulation of a Keplerian orbit with gravity affecting the motion of the planet around the sun.

Save these HTML and JavaScript files in the same folder and open the HTML file in a web browser. You should now see an animation of a blue planet following a Keplerian orbit around an orange sun, with gravity affecting its movement. Feel free to experiment with different values of G and other parameters to observe different orbital behaviors.

Very interesting. It get’s it much more right, but there’s an acceleration that shouldn’t be there. The planet spins faster and faster…

so, rather than try and troubleshoot it, let’s just ask it
why does the speed of the planet accelerate?

Apologies for the confusion in the code. The speed of the planet should not accelerate as a result of gravitational force. In reality, the speed of a planet in a stable orbit around the sun remains constant.

To accurately simulate a stable orbit, we need to use the principles of circular motion and centripetal force. The centripetal force acts perpendicular to the velocity vector, causing the planet to follow a circular path around the sun. In this scenario, the speed of the planet remains constant while its direction continuously changes.

Let’s correct the code to achieve a stable circular orbit:

let sun;
let planet;
let a; // Semi-major axis
let b; // Semi-minor axis
let c; // Distance from the center to focus (c = sqrt(a^2 - b^2))
let angle = 0;
let orbitSpeed = 0.01;
let G = 0.5; // Gravitational constant

function setup() {
  createCanvas(windowWidth, windowHeight);
  sun = createVector(width / 2, height / 2);
  a = 150; // Set the semi-major axis
  b = 100; // Set the semi-minor axis
  c = sqrt(a * a - b * b);
  planet = createVector(sun.x + c + a, sun.y);
}

function draw() {
  background(240);

  // Draw the sun at the focus point
  fill('orange');
  ellipse(sun.x, sun.y, 40, 40);

  // Calculate the position of the planet in the Keplerian orbit
  let x = sun.x + c + a * cos(angle);
  let y = sun.y + b * sin(angle);

  // Draw the planet
  fill('blue');
  ellipse(x, y, 20, 20);

  // Update the angle for the next frame
  angle += orbitSpeed;
}

And, there we have it. We didn’t even need to understand why the planet was accelerating, or if there was a bug in the code, just ask a question and it corrected itself.

I wanted to change the colours and layout a bit, so I asked it to do that too
left-align the scene, make the sun yellow, the background black and the planet blue
and then I thought it’d be fun if we made it interactive, so I asked
add a slider so I can change the value of G and ensure that the animation updates automatically if the value is changed. put the slider at the top in the middle
which it didn’t get right the first time (the slider moved but the planet speed didn’t change) so,
that isn’t updating the value of G in the animation
which fixed it, and then a final bit of fiddling
print the value of G on the screen as well. align the slider so it’s just above the animation
move it 200px left. Keep the value of G next to the slider
and so on, which resulted in the interactive example at the top of this page

And, lastly, for fans of Processing, simply asking it to
rewrite this in Processing
gave this working code

int sunX, sunY;
float a; // Semi-major axis
float b; // Semi-minor axis
float c; // Distance from the center to focus (c = sqrt(a^2 - b^2))
float angle = 0;
float orbitSpeed = 0.01;
float G = 0.5; // Gravitational constant

void setup() {
  size(800, 600);
  sunX = width / 4;
  sunY = height / 2;
  a = 150; // Set the semi-major axis
  b = 100; // Set the semi-minor axis
  c = sqrt(a * a - b * b);
}

void draw() {
  background(0); // Set background color to black

  // Draw the sun at the focus point
  fill(255, 255, 0); // Change sun color to yellow
  ellipse(sunX, sunY, 40, 40);

  // Calculate the position of the planet in the Keplerian orbit
  float x = sunX + c + a * cos(angle);
  float y = sunY + b * sin(angle);

  // Draw the planet
  fill(0, 0, 255); // Change planet color to blue
  ellipse(x, y, 20, 20);

  // Update the angle for the next frame based on the slider value
  angle += G * orbitSpeed; // Use G to modify orbit speed

  // Display the value of G next to the slider
  fill(255);
  textSize(20);
  text("Gravitational Constant (G): " + G, 20, 20);
}

// Event handler for the slider
void mouseReleased() {
  if (mouseX >= 20 && mouseX <= 320 && mouseY >= 40 && mouseY <= 60) {
    // Map the x-coordinate of the mouse to a value between 0 and 2 for G
    G = map(mouseX, 20, 320, 0, 2);
  }
}

Data governance — how to move fast and not break things

Gavin — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:40 +0000

I’ve been receiving a lot of calls from people asking how they can use data to ‘help’.

To help frame a potential response that isn’t just ‘we can build an app for that’ (that’s very rarely the answer), I’ve been trying to encourage people to first look at user needs and prior work. In times of ’emergency’ there’s a rush for people to want to ‘do something’— let’s harness that energy on useful things rather than squander it on ‘solutionising’?

Here’s a provocation process to ask how we can try and focus on what matters; that can unlock rapid-response from a frontline delivery team who can focus on solutions. At the same time, let’s also avoid just breaking things in the process, and give the frontline team (and the rest of us) the confidence that there is a process following them that will tidy up.

Questions to consider:

What problems are we really trying to solve — based on actual user needs?
How will data help these problems? (what data, what analysis, etc?)
Who should act to convene and lead: a sector, public body, both?
When are solutions needed and what might be our MVP intervention? (this may not need any data)
What single-issue could act as an exemplar?

[click to comment or edit] (or quick-link to this slide http://bit.ly/data-triage)

An evolution in process

Gavin — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 08:39:38 +0000

The above chart is an evolution of the work of Simon Wardley, which I’ve been following for many years. It feels like we’re in another phase-change based on the impact of the web and technology: of radically centralised+decentralised tensions, of systems that self-organise/self-actuate, where teams are spread as constellations, and where ‘open’ (for many varying definitions of the word) is a central forcing function of change.

“Innovators must deter competition to get some of the value they created”

This view has been at the heart of our industrial economic drive—I think most of my career has been anchored in trying to invert it.

In creating open businesses I’ve continuously sought to increase the number of connections, not the size of the moat: building federated systems not centralised fiefdoms, actively encouraging imitation and rapid evolution. In the long-term, I think the impact of being open is far more profound as a culture shift.

Moats draw their power to prevent imitation from one of four basic sources:

The state
We’ve created regulation that mandates ‘open’ systems, such as Open Banking. This is now in-force in the UK and in development in 20 countries. The impact, I think, will be both innovation and the radical erosion of ‘excess profit’ to make open markets operate the way they were intended.

Special know-how
The web removes this as a barrier pretty quickly. The cost of setting up, for example, a bank is now 1/10th to 1/100th what it used to be. Moore’s Law applies to business models not just technology.

Scale
Ditto scale. Cloud compute + web + mobile decimates the path to the customer faster and at greater scale than anything else we’ve invented.

System rigidity
Systems rigidity is a bug, not a feature. Startups route around rigidity faster than incumbents can hold a meeting. Note that rigidity is not the same thing as resilience or robustness.

And, with a startup lens: “Startups that aim to create value can’t have a moat when they begin, uncertainty is what protects them from competition until a proper moat can be built. Uncertainty becomes their moat.”

So, what next, moat-economy enthusiasts? How do these ideas evolve in a web-first society & economy?

My friend Peter commented:

“Innovation must be open and collaborative, value is created by societies not individuals, through innovation, because it is not an absolute, it is a differential, it is how we rescue wealth from the inevitable decay imposed by obsolescence and environmental “externalities”. Individuals who hoard end up sitting on a pile of worthless rubbish … and our society is geared up to pay them for the privilege – i.e. we pay for the decay of the wealth of others. That’s what being rich means in this unsustainable zero sum game.”

“Extreme sharing is a political act”

Gavin — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:24:52 +0000

What Alex has created in the Algorave movement is quite remarkable. He’s ‘cracked the code’ [literally] of how to transform coding into a live creative art form.

This is something I tried to write about in my [1993] Masters thesis — I went into a virtual reality context, trying to enable the construction of any form of codified instrument in a VR environment; exploring questions about what a performant interface might be if you had unlimited possibilities.

Alex has instead created something very useable, accessible and enables many thousands of people to explore and create a different way of writing.

Beyond creating the code, and helping build a diverse and open community, he’s touched on the fact that this is a response to a shifting cultural landscape: “if you share something it grows in value” // “extreme sharing is a political act”

Algorave embodies the principles of a different way of thinking.

In my corporate presentations, today, I talk about data “increasing in value the more it is connected” (rather than “being the new oil”). I suspect we are still at the beginning of this particular socioeconomic unpacking.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3396

[disclaimer: Alex is also a friend, former colleague, and was musician in residence at the Open Data Institute]

A quantum city?

Gavin — Sat, 12 May 2018 12:40:56 +0000

Light pipes for photons, in triangles and loops

(in the photo, the oblongs are loops of fibre to create delays and the lines all fibre optics)

About 18 months ago (thanks to Libby) I attended a discussion about some of the most advanced quantum computing research in the world.

At the time I thought this must have been how it felt when people first made electrical circuits: the excitement of being able to channel and control electrons, that we now take for granted, but this time with light.

It felt like magic to me that we could control photons within such a beautiful design and wondered, given we see electrical circuits as a visual equivalent to cities, how quantum computers might indicate the future of our city design?

I love Stanza’s work for this (and many) reasons.

“The age of privacy is over. Imagine walking out the door, and knowing every single action, movement, sound, micro movement, pulse, and thread of information is being tracked, monitored, stored, analyzed, interpreted, and logged. The world we will live in seems to be a much bigger brother than the Orwellian vision, it is the mother of big brother.”

What if Nature were not collective but distributive?

Nomos asks if “the Quantum City is, different from the Mechanical and the Dynamic City, not strictly rational” and posits another angle that is highly aligned with contemporary cultural development (from the co-op movement to distributed ledgers/blockchain)

Arida has mapped [2002] the evolution of world views from the Roman Empire to Quantum theory, and the close links between science and urban form. He looked at the way we can design and live in quantum cities, exploring methodologies that can frame quantum urbanism: this work continues on the website http://www.quantumcity.com “Urbanism Needs a Conceptual Revolution”.

In one example (of many), IAAC created its framing of the quantised city [video, 2012], blending data from IoT sensors, cloud computing and combining environmental and energy data as part of urban architecture.

CAAD has published [2015] ‘A Quantum City, Mastering the Generic’, self-described as “a love letter to the city and intellectual culture”, it introduces Orlando — neither an authoritarian functionary, nor a restless activist, nor a comfortable member of a bourgeoisie, but a citizen of the digital age, a Quantum Citizen. https://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch/blog/a-quantum-city-mastering-the-generic

It feels to me that there is a line of enquiry to use the subjectivity of art to question the objectivity of science, political dogma, urban design and notions of truth.

What are the visual loops that could be examined between the circuit designs of quantum computers, city architecture, building design and social constructs?

How does this interface with our notions of Data Infrastructure?

Is there something to learn from combining quantum computing, art, urban design and cultural uncertainty?

A Digital Commonwealth?

Gavin — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:10:20 +0000

At the 2015 CHOGM in Malta I suggested it would be prescient to consider the future of the Commonwealth through a digital lens. At the time, it felt as if the Commonwealth was at a tipping point and that the consideration of a ‘Digital Commonwealth’ might be a useful springboard.

Today, I am moderating a 60-person panel at the 2018 CHOGM Commonwealth Business Forum to discuss exactly this: is there a role for a Digital Commonwealth Initiative to encourage greater collaboration?

Update:

Notes from the session

nb. the session was vastly oversubscribed and we ended up with over 120 people in the room.

Background

As everything becomes data-driven, we must address how we best serve our citizens in a digital age and support cooperation that develops an equitable digital economy. A rules-based system can balance the benefits for everyone whereas the absence or failure of rules will lead to a deals-based system that will favour only the few.

Around the world, countries, cities and regions are struggling to keep up with the pace of technological change. It is a time where collaboration can catalyse the development of new, inclusive and open marketplaces. In parallel we must address issues of privacy and security.

Central to achieving this in a digital age is to have a framework that reduces transactional friction (legal, commercial, currency, language) and can rapidly unlock our potential. One which can increase the responsiveness of policy to innovation; increase transparency and accountability; rebuild trust through legitimate consensus and common regulation.

We must also invest in literacy, communication and policy to bring stakeholders together and address issues which will stifle development.

Data increases in value the more it is connected. Now is the time to build upon the work of open government initiatives around the world, of open data policies across countries, cities and business, of EU data protection legislation and of groundbreaking initiatives such as the UK’s Open Banking Standard—which is setting precedents for regulation, business models, digital products and consumer rights.

Data is now part of our global infrastructure. We need to connect our innovators to policy-makers, businesses to investors, states and cities to address our shared social, economic, environmental challenges.

Our question is how might we create a Digital Commonwealth Initiative to set targets for, convene and oversee delivery of a bold initiative that ensures that, as we look to the future of our connected society, one of its most successful free trade networks leads the way.

Can government stop losing its mind?

Gavin — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:48:19 +0000

On Wednesday 18 April, Nesta is hosting the launch of a new report prepared by Gavin Starks.

The report entitled ‘Can government stop losing its mind?’ looks at the many ways the government has organised its data and knowledge, and examines examples ranging from the Ministries of Defence and Justice to the BBC and ODI. It shows how research, policy design and tracking can be managed more effectively.

Registration will open at 17.30 with the event starting promptly at 18.00. The event will close at 19.00 followed by networking drinks until 20.00.

Are we about to do something useful?

Gavin — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:29:53 +0000

“Society is demanding that companies, both public and private,
serve a social purpose.”
Larry Fink, CEO, Blackrock (who manage $1.7 trillion of active funds)

“Not all of the attention has been favourable, which makes this moment all the more significant.
Mr. Fink’s words mark a profound shift in the way business relates to society – a shift long in the making,”,
Chris Houston, Where is the money going?

Is it really the case that this is seen as a “new demand” from society?

Perhaps I’m naive (or just cynical), but I don’t remember any point where everyone was happy with the way business worked (apart from the ultra-rich).

What is the “profound shift” he’s speaking of – that someone in power listened and has commented that ‘society’ matters?

Do you think there is a material difference between this now and, for example, when Al Gore and David Blood published their Sustainable Capitalism manifesto (7 years ago), or when the UK passed the Climate Act (10 years ago), or countless other statements from ‘important people’ over decades?

What, specifically, is the leverage point here?

the perception of power through the ability to steer capital?
the absence of political leadership?
fears that human capital is now overexposed and a risk to profit?
fears around globalisation and (many) risks leading to migration and war (and thus risk to profits)?

I’ve written about ‘purpose washing‘ before, and it feels to me that underlying this is a fundamental concern about risk to profit rather than just an ‘awakening’ to social purpose. It reminds me a little of Obama reframing ‘green energy’ as ‘energy security’ (which was genius, as well as being correct and a good idea for the US economy).

How can we best capture this energy and positive intent?
Is it something that we can bring people around, or will cynicism override and we’ll undermine goodwill with divisiveness?
Do ‘leaders’ really need to be given so much permission by someone in order to lead? If so, how do we help do more of that?
What are the realistic signals and evidence that the humans in industry could produce that would be believable or trusted by the people Larry is talking about?

(image credit)

DECODE – personal data & the public good

Gavin — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:40:46 +0000

I’ve joined the Advisory Board of DECODE, which is exploring tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good.

https://www.decodeproject.eu/

DECODE is a response to people’s concerns about a loss of control over their personal information on the internet. The ability to access, control and use personal data has become a means by which internet companies can drive profits.

The people who create much of this data have lost control over how it is used. This is a problem.

People have lost control of their data. This does not just mean the erosion of privacy and autonomy, it’s also bad for the security of people’s online identity
The huge quantities of data produced every day offers the potential for insights which could benefit all of society. With the data controlled by a handful of monopolies, this data is inaccessible to people and organisations who want to create solutions and services for public benefit
The monopolisation of data creates economic inefficiencies and inequalities. This threatens to undermine trust between citizens, public institutions, and companies, which is essential for a stable, sustainable and collaborative economy
The current digital ecosystem and Internet of Things (IoT) landscape is highly fragmented, with a multitude of non-interoperable vertical solutions, all offering their own set of devices, gateways and platforms, and means of data handling in data “silos”. This fragmentation makes data unmanageable and end users ultimately lose control over it.

SDG Hackathon in Davos

Gavin — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:46:16 +0000

I joined the judging panel at FutureHack, the first ever Hackathon to take place around Davos during the week of the World Economic Forum, as a call to action to hack for solutions for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

https://futurehack.io/

Supported by the Slovenian Government, the hackathon focused on Social Impact and Partnerships to demonstrate that blockchain projects can be compelling solutions for the United Nations SDGs for the future of humanity.

I’ll update with the results here when we have them.