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DigitalFutures.co – The Near Future of Digital Currency

People love plastic. Despite the advantages of digital currency, people still love their credit cards; secure and familiar in the old paradigm, the shift to digital currencies has been slow. And yet, it is inevitable that things will change.

Manie Eagar sees this change happening soon. “There’s a great convergence taking place,” he says.

“Very very exciting new paradigms are starting to emerge.

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“Tell me about this convergence,” I say.

For years, Manie Eagar has worked in the financial sector—specifically big banks, like Barclays. As he explains The Great Convergence, I can tell I’m talking to an expert, and a thought leader.

“You may have heard of a project in Kenya called M-Pesa, where you can literally trade your airtime—or the minutes on your phone—for cash. And exchange it back again. So you literally have a little bank in your pocket.”

Tune in to hear the rest of Manie Eagar’s take on the near future of digital currency. Subscribe, review, and if you can, consider donating a few BitCoins to the cause. Every little bit helps.

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June 8, 2017

Can New Tech Reduce Crime? With Robert Muggah of Igarape Institute

Statistics show that crime, especially violent crime, is hyper concentrated within certain times, places and people.

Just look at these stats:

90-95 % of homicides take place in less than 2% of the street addresses in any area.

Half of all crimes occur within the same 10 hours of every week.

5% or less of the population in any given area is responsible for 90% of crime that happens there.

Is there a way to leverage this data to prevent crime?

Robert Muggah thinks so.

Listen in to hear him explain how technology is revolutionizing the world’s policing systems.

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll learn from the show:

How one technology reduced police response time in Brazil from 14 days after a crime had taken place to 20 minutes after it was reported
What hot spot policing is and why it’s important
What the controversial “hotlist algorithm” is and the ethical questions it’s raising

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June 7, 2017

Justyna Zander – Cars that Drive Themselves

To paraphrase the sci-fi writer William Gibson, “The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.” The fact is, the technology for self-driving cars exists today. So why doesn’t everyone have one?

“Cost,” says Justyna Zander. For the past 12 years, Zander has been working on self-driving cars in various capacities, at various companies. As Zander explains, just because a technology exists, doesn’t mean it can be mass-produced at high volumes. Before technology can become ubiquitous, it has to be economical.
But there’s also the question of how you define “self-driving.”

Technically, when you activate cruise control in your car, you’re delegating a certain task to automation. By degrees—even by small degrees—self-driving cars are already on our roads. Today. So the better question is, “To what degree are cars already self-driving?” The answer varies, explains Zander. Complete automation is still mostly theoretical, especially in busy, complex urban environments.

Tune in to hear Justyna Zander’s full take on the issue, including the role NVIDIA might play. Subscribe, review, and if you like what we’re doing, consider donating a few BitCoins to the cause. Every little bit helps us continue producing and sharing great content with listeners like you.

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June 7, 2017

RealWear – Wearable Computers

RealWear, as the name might suggest, is a wearables company. “Wearable whats?” you may be wondering. Well, wearable computers. Their flagship product is a wearable Android tablet—essentially a mobile computer you wear on your head.

“Won’t that look weird?” I wonder aloud.

RealWear CEO Andy Lowery explains.

“First start with Google Glass.” Viz. Google Glass, the glasses with the heads-up display floating in front of one of your eyes. “You start there. But our device is very different from Google Glass in that it’s much more rugged.

” Water-proof, dust-proof, with a much larger battery, RealWear is a cyborgish augmentation you can really take anywhere.

It’s bigger. It weighs more. It has a wide VGA display. So instead of being mounted on glasses, like Google Glass, it’s attached to a hard hat, or ball cap. But the added size and weight lets it do more: “anything that you could run on an Android tablet that you’d typically be holding in your hand, and driving with your fingers.”

Hit play to learn more about RealWear’s innovative wearable technology. Subscribe, review, and if you like what we’re doing at Future Tech, donate a BitCoin or two. Every little bit helps.

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June 7, 2017

Could Genetic Engineering Cure Cancer? With Wilson Wong

What if was possible to turn your body’s cells into mini computers and then program them to kill cancer?

According to synthetic biologist, Wilson Wong, it’s not only a very real possibility, but it could be the future of immunotherapy.

Here’s a few things you’ll hear about in this episode:

The technique doctors are now using to hack T-cells and achieve 90% remission in Lymphoma patients
How researchers have successfully turned cells into computer circuits and how that could impact the future of medicine.
The magical enzyme that makes computing with cells possible

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June 6, 2017

Factom – Securing Data with Bitcoin

As you may already know, Bitcoin requires an ever increasing amount of proof of work, as more and more computers are working on the problem of securing the BitCoin BlockChain.

Extremely-difficult-to-compute hashes take up a huge amount of computing power in the BitCoin ledger, making them some of the most secure data structures in the world. “And yet,” says Paul Snow of FactomTM, “despite the massive amount of security that the coin has, the ledger itself is only one megabyte every ten minutes.”

To secure data, FactomTM was started up in Austin TX. They’ve been live with the FactomTM protocol since September 2015.

Paul Snow explains how it works.

“The idea of FactomTM is to provide a general purpose data-layer secured by the Bitcoin BlockChain… Basically, the data-layer exists to prove the data integrity of information that’s being exchanged via various applications.” People who run the protocol are rewarded every month with FactomTM tokens. This incentive keeps the program running. The tokens also function as an anti-spam mechanism, “to prevent people from just throwing trash into the data-layer.

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To hear more about how FactomTM is operating in the BitCoin space, hit play. And be sure to subscribe, review, and donate BitCoins if you’re able. Every little bit helps as we endeavor to produce and share quality content.

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June 6, 2017

Timothy Draper – A Bird’s Eye View of Bitcoin

Let’s start with the most salacious bit of news. Legend has it that Timothy Draper once won 33,000 Bitcoins in one fell swoop.

This, from the auction of the Silk Road proceeds.

Draper looked at that, and realized that Bitcoin had an extraordinary future; that Bitcoin could be an easy-to-use, trusted third party untied to any necessarily self-interested national government.

“And I knew that… I’d been investing in Bitcoin companies for a number of years before that auction came up,” says Draper. He continues, saying: “It’s a really positive thing for the world.” Despite its underground status, for Draper, the joke is that nowadays, it’s much easier to catch illegal activity in Bitcoins that in any other currency. For Draper, the BlockChain is that clear… that honest.

“There’s a thrill in owning Bitcoin,” rejoins host Richard Jacobs.

Tune in for the rest of Timothy Draper’s wide-angle, bird’s-eye view on the present and future of Bitcoin. As always, be sure to subscribe and review, and if you can, donate a Bitcoin or two. Every little bit helps.

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June 6, 2017

How Augmented Reality Upgrades Your 2D Computer Screen Into A 3D Workspace and Much More With Jodi Medich of Singularity University

Imagine you’re sitting at a perfectly organized desk. All your important papers are arranged in front of you in the order that you need them.

When you want reference material you simply remove a book from your alphabetically systemized bookcase.

Nothing is out of place. Your work flows smoothly as you transition from one task to the next, and at the end of the day, you don’t have to put anything away.

You simply take off your augmented reality glasses, and the computer that houses your virtual office puts everything back in its place.

That’s the vision for just one of the projects that Jodi Medich of Singularity University is working on now.

Here’s a few other things she talks about in this episode:

The role cognitive ergonomics and spacial memory have in developing new AR/VR
The conceptual AR technology that plans to revolutionize our classrooms and other learning environments
Why the future of computing should focus on creating super humans instead of super machines

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June 5, 2017

Barry Spielman – Staying Safe on the DarkWEB

In today’s world, cybersecurity’s at the top of everyone’s mind. But the DarkWeb seems beneath everyone’s attention. Why should most companies care about the DarkWeb when they’re doing business normally and legitimately, “above-ground,” so to speak? “Why do they care?” asks host Richard Jaobs.

Barry Spielman of Sixgill answers. “To a very large degree, our solution is meant for those who understand or are beginning to understand the importance of the DarkWeb.

” Since its inception, the Darkweb has become a mammoth black market. From weapons to drugs, you can buy just about anything.

And much of the trade that happens? It happens very professionally, under the supervision of administrators, with Escrow security, and so on.

In short, you can no longer talk about normal and legitimate business without also talking about the DarkWeb.

Hit play to learn more about how Sixgill protects businesses from DarkWEB threats. Be sure to click to subscribe to and review the FutureTech podcast. And if you like what you’re hearing, share a BitCoin or two. Every little bit helps.

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June 5, 2017

Omni Foundation – Bonds in BlockChain

On the day of the interview, Patrick Dugan had been having a good day. He’d been coding, and had gotten up some momentum. Everything was clicking. It was one of those days. But Dugan is much more than just a coder. Last year, serving on the board of Omni Foundation, he managed to enable product launches and increase annualized return.

As host Richard Jacobs says, Patrick is a “man of many endeavors and talents.”

Within the Omni Foundation, Patrick’s main venture is called “BlockChain Yield.” BlockChain Yield is a way to issue bonds over BlockChain using the omnilayer protocol. “It is using the Bitcoin BlockChain as a ledger to manager operations and track control of assets,” says Dugan.

To pull this off, Dugan had to go out of the country. “I searched all over the world for a regulatory body that would be potentially friendly to this kind of business and wouldn’t have such a high barrier to entry… Ultimately, we settled on applying under the Central Bank of Armenia.

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Hit play to hear the rest of Patrick Dugan’s story. Remember to review and subscribe, and if you can, donate a BitCoin or two. Every little bit helps.

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June 5, 2017

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