Exponential Wisdom

Episode 117: Blockchain Changing Business Models

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Peter and Dan discuss the foundational new technology blockchain and how it will ultimately disrupt every industry: from finance and real estate, to sports and e-commerce.

In this episode:

  • Peter talks about the many possible uses of blockchain technology: from creating sovereign identities for refugees, to blockchain serving as a more reliable record of a product’s supply chain movement and transaction lifecycle in e-commerce.
  • Dan talks about the potential of using blockchain in the future to protect intellectual property (IP). 
  • Peter discusses the ability of Web3 to provide not only information exchange, but value exchange. The convergence of AI, blockchain, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), AR/VR, sensors, and Web3 will create a new, multi-trillion-dollar economic ecosystem.  

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Episode 77: Eliminating Middlemen, When AI Replaces the Sales Agent

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Peter and Dan discuss the first-order implications of artificial intelligence. As technologies like AR/VR, AI and blockchain converge to disrupt traditional business models and processes, countless tasks will become far easier, reducing business costs and time expenditures.

 

In this episode:

  • Peter discusses the latest breakthroughs in augmented reality, validating his belief that AR will become ubiquitous by 2030.
  • Dan emphasizes the importance of skills training, and justifies why AI will transform the education industry.
  • Peter projects AI’s trajectory of becoming more and more knowledgeable. As data explodes in both quality and quantity, middlemen will no longer be needed in most industries.

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Episode 64: Privacy Is Dead

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Peter and Dan discuss the idea of privacy and how it is a recent human invention. A thousand years ago, people didn’t assume the level of privacy we enjoy today. Do we assume privacy is a right, when it never existed?

 

In this episode:

  • Peter discusses how wrongdoing becomes harder in a world without privacy. When everyone is watching, you’re more likely to think about the consequences of your planned actions. 

  • Dan believes blockchain will become ubiquitous because of public demand. He outlines a future business model in which companies that make money on someone’s personal information will pay users a small percentage of the profits their data earn.

  • Peter discusses a future scenario with an AI software shell that watches everything all the time. As owners of this technology, we will give it permission to watch us and collect every piece of data on us so that it can make decisions that improve our lives.


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Episode 54: Self-Sovereign Identity

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Peter and Dan discuss a powerful use of the Blockchain: a basis for exponentially expanding trust among individuals within a global society. This could help the millions of people born without national documentation, who are stuck in no man’s land without an official identity.

 

In this episode:

  • Dan and Peter discuss a fundamental new political idea in which individuals would have self-sovereignty, and why the blockchain is the best place to securely store identification.
  • Peter describes reinventing democracy: a future where you can choose what sovereign association of individuals to be part of. In this digital existence, the individual decides how to spend time, income and even political votes.
  • Peter outlines a few industries that will be completely disrupted — like real estate, the financial industry and politics — when you cut out the middleman.

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Episode 45: Dangerous Ideas

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Peter and Dan delve into a number of dangerous ideas, including changing government, healthcare, and education, and discuss how these opinions are less than a decade away.

 

In this episode:

  • Peter describes a world where the blockchain enables 100% trust among strangers, which will disrupt current governments and many industries.
  • Dan discusses why he is constantly renewing relationships with people younger and younger. One key to his goal of extreme longevity is “you feel the same age as the person you’re interacting with.”
  • Peter talks about his belief that we are rapidly heading towards the end of petroleum era and moving into an all-electric economy.

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