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We’re living in pretopia, the final crossroads. Both utopia and dystopia are possible futures for humanity, but neither is inevitable. Technology will bring us there, but technologies are not inherently good or bad. Their value is determined by the humans who design and use them, and the decisio…

NiMA Asghari, Anish Mohammed

  • Mar 13, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
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  • 59m AVG DURATION
  • 8 EPISODES


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DAOs that Can’t Be Evil - MetaCartel Ventures with Peter & Gabriel

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2020 76:20


Deep dive interview with @lex_node & @pet3rpan_ of @VENTURE_DAO & @Meta_Cartel --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pretopia/message

Nature that Can’t Be Owned - Ed Hesse & QJ Wang

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2020 45:24


Ed & QJ join Pretopia to tell us about Sovereign Nature DAO & Nature 2.0! ===================================== @snaturedao @edhesse79 @QJ_ECF on Twitter ===================================== Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI) is an interactive community of visionaries - developers, scientists, artists, and investors - who join forces in the interest of funding efforts towards sustainability. SNI is neither an investment fund nor a charity. It funds projects that explore and develop the technologies necessary to enable Nature 2.0. They could include research, prototyping, or artistic explorations. - source --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pretopia/message

Social Tech that Can’t Be Evil - Glen Weyl

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2019 46:13


Glen Weyl (@GlenWeyl on Twitter) uses ideas from political economy to develop social technology for widely-shared prosperity and social cooperation. These ideas have inspired a social movement, RadicalxChange, that convenes activists artists, entrepreneurs and researchers using market mechanisms to create a richer and more equal society. (Bio excerpt taken from: http://glenweyl.com/biography/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pretopia/message

Social Networks that Can’t Be Evil - Slava Balasanov

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2019 54:43


Programmer and musician, founder of 4real Digital Inc. & Relevant.community - decentralized curation protocols based on human values - @team_slava on Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pretopia/message

VCs that Can’t Be Evil - Elad Verbin

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2019 56:43


Elad (@verbine) is a computer scientist & VC based in Berlin investing in early-stage algo-tech: ML, blockchain, zero knowledge. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pretopia/message

Orgs that Can’t Be Evil - Luis Cuende

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2019 45:53


Luis Cuende (@licuende on Twitter) is a Spanish computer programmer, author, and blockchain entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Aragon and CEO of Aragon One. Career: In 2008 at age 12, Cuende started his first free software project, a Linux-based operating system. At just 15 years old, HackFwd named him “Best Underage European Programmer." At the age of 17, he was an advisor to Neelie Kroes, then the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda. In November 2015, he cofounded Stampery, which leverages the Bitcoin blockchain to generate an immutable record of existence, integrity and ownership of any data or communication. Cuende and his cofounders secured $600,000 in pre-seed funding, led by Draper Associates for the venture. In 2011, at age 16 he was awarded the top hacker award in his country of Europe. In January 2016, he was the youngest to be on the Forbes 30 under 30 category in technology. Bio taken from: https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/licuende/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pretopia/message

Tokens that Can’t Be Evil - Michael Zargham

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2019 76:17


Block.Science Founder, PhD @Penn AI/Decision Engineer, Complex Systems Research. Tweets about math, engineering, humans and society.  @mZargham on Twitter ########  You can support Pretopia by subscribing to Pzizz: Pzizz helps you quickly quiet your mind, fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed. It uses beautiful “dreamscapes” — a mix of music, voiceovers and sound effects designed using the latest clinical research — to help you sleep better at night or take power naps during the day. Available for iOS and Android. Pretopians can get a 25% discount using the code "PRETOPIA" on the Pzizz site. You can redeem by going to the buy page and using the code PRETOPIA, or tapping this link: https://pzizz.com/buy/?code=pretopia  Also, every week we will be giving away one free annual license and 50X 50% discount codes to the first 50 Pretopians who rate, rewiew, and share the podcast! Send us a screenshot or link to enter the weekly raffle: pretopiafm@gmail.com  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pretopia/message

AI that Can’t Be Evil - Trent McConaghy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2019 78:14


 Trent McConaghy  AI*blockchain. Founder @OceanProtocol -  @trentmc0 on Twitter    ######## You can support Pretopia by subscribing to Pzizz: Pzizz helps you quickly quiet your mind, fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed. It uses beautiful “dreamscapes” — a mix of music, voiceovers and sound effects designed using the latest clinical research — to help you sleep better at night or take power naps during the day. Available for iOS and Android. Pretopians can get a 25% discount using the code "PRETOPIA" on the Pzizz site. You can redeem by going to the buy page and using the code PRETOPIA, or tapping this link: https://pzizz.com/buy/?code=pretopia  Also, every week we will be giving away one free annual license and 50X 50% discount codes to the first 50 Pretopians who rate, rewiew, and share the podcast! Send us a screenshot or link to enter the weekly raffle: pretopiafm@gmail.com  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pretopia/message

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