Zag To The Zig #15 :: Predictions, me-coin and fake media course
🦁 Dear Zag To The Ziggers. Why stop at wishing you the best for the year. Let’s make it happy-decade-wishes. So may the 20s be roaring once more. 🦁🦁
Random thought: I was born closer to the end of the 1920s than the beginning of the 2020s. Does that make me #OKBoomer?
In the Economy room this week…
Some very clear, understandable thoughts in this short (YouTube, 7 mins) talk from Nick Hanauer, an investor, entrepreneur and "unapologetic capitalist", who now states our commonly held views about economy are wrong.
"What makes us unique is not our competitiveness. All animals are competitive. It is our unmatched capacity to cooperate at scale.”
In the Prediction Kitchen
One of my favourite ‘tech' newsletters is Exponential View. Rather than curate stories, this week Azeem Azhar had a stab at lining up his predictions for the next decade. And sure thing: not so much tech. Holistic view from a broad tech thinker.
Design agency Fjord’s predictions also tap into the changing zeitgeist of re-alignment and challenging economic models. 2 trends in particular stood out for me for a design agency: from human-centered design to life-centered design (I’ve integrated something similar for a future blogpost) and also their take on Money Changers, where there is no mention of crypto at all. Interesting.
In the Tech Basement
I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of personal value, especially when I started understanding blockchain concepts like programmable money and tokenisation. Cue Roll, a platform to create your own social money. Soon I’ll be able to send you some $GRR. Cue jokes about yet another shitcoin? 💩🚀
In the Innovation room
Glyn Britton has the yearly habit of listing all the new products/services he found interesting. Worth a browse.
In the ethics corridor
Fairly impressed by the amount of content in this interactive course on how to spot fake media. Less impressed by the fact that it has been sponsored by Facebook.
The New York Times got access to 1 file, holding more than 50 billion sets of location data, sourced from mobile phones. They spent a few months on this interactive piece and yes, it did make me change some smartphone settings and delete a few apps.
🏁 End note: 1 thing I’ll be doing this week
I’ll be giving a webinar on blockchain basics for legal professionals. Would be great to get some of those professionals adding their insights onto concepts like proof-of-keys, smart contracts and tokenisation.