Blockchain Keys Unlock a Murky Metaverse - Alison McDowell, #437 by Guns and Butter published on 2021-12-04T05:20:40Z Blockchain Keys Unlock a Murky Metaverse: What You Don’t Know About Digital Twins Could Hurt You Blockchain is foundational to tracking assets from the material world into the digital world and necessary to make the metaverse happen; WEF’s planned Internet of Bodies; blockchain – liberation or incarceration; oversight and compliance; digital currencies programmable and controllable; blockchain less about money and more about identity management; national security and public health to enforce a blockchain identity; pandemic used to bring digital identity online; all of your data poured into a digital twin; a digital identifier linked to how you are able to move in the world; programs piloted through global aid systems; global finance defense sector coercion through technology; electronic government on blockchain; UN sustainable development goals on a planetary computing system; executive function research in children to focus on cognitive neuroscience to shape their minds to fit into a world of data analytics; children put on blockchain to earn digital capital; children tracked as commodities; attempt to digitally twin the world; cracking the code of life. Aired: October 6, 2021 Visit Guns and Butter at: www.gunsandbutter.org Subscribe to our newsletter at: eepurl.com/bmg4zf Genre Political Economy Comment by rbeck once again this is a god discusssion but the key point of blockchain and related technologies is missed... the issue is democracy where citizens are charged with oversight of complex technologies... no one can identfy the next hundred years of tech. development, but what we can do is upgrade democracy... offering absolute rights to sovreign citizens who oversight the public and private realms... 2022-05-20T08:33:11Z Comment by darylcampbell Also on another note Proof of Stake is another type of algorithm that is solving the speed problem, Cardano is built on this. So its not true to say that operating at scale is an unsolved problem or unknown entity. 2021-12-20T14:46:46Z Comment by darylcampbell Nice talk and I agree with a lot of it as a potential direction that blockchain can go. I disagree though with some of her understanding of the blockchain and cryptocurrency. For instance some of the crypto's are deflationary, you cannot inflate the supply so it reduces the nefarious actors. Another thing is anonymity is native to a lot of the blockchains like Monero, Cardano, Bitcoin...it takes another layer to be built and an opt-in approach from the user to attach your identity to it. So for these reasons you can see that blockchain is a valuable tool in the fight against corruption but if you flip it around it is also a tool that in the wrong hands could be used as a control and enslavement device. For me this conversation was all the bad and not the other possibilities. 2021-12-20T14:38:33Z