A brief introduction of smart contracts and their relationship to NFTs.
Tokenization of Everything
Creators can own and control their own digital content via decentralized tokenization.
The first wave of urban robots is here
Back in 2017, Serve Robotics co-founder and CEO, Dr. Ali Kashani, saw a problem with how reliant we are on cars.
Not only do we move large items, like dining tables with cars, but we also move small items, like our dinner deliveries with cars. This system isn’t just incredibly inefficient, but it creates emissions, traffic, and unnecessary accidents. But could this problem could be solved with a small, cute robot?
To help reduce our reliance on cars, Ali created a fully-autonomous sidewalk bot that is used to deliver small items like our dinner deliveries. Serve’s goal is to take 5% of food deliveries off the road in the next five years. That would be about 100,000 vehicles just in the U.S.
The Metaverse: Future Or Farce? | Answers With Joe
We’ve heard a lot lately about the Metaverse; the next evolution of the internet which we will experience in fully immersive 3D virtual worlds as well as mixed and augmented reality on top of our own world. Facebook has zeroed in on this idea so much they changed their name to Meta to reflect it. So let’s look at the potential for this future, the promises that it holds… And the dystopian nightmare it could become if we get it wrong.
Tokenomics for Newbies
At a fundamental level, It tells us how many tokens are available for investors to purchase at this moment circulating supply, all coins that will ever come into existence which is max supply, and lastly total supply which includes coins that includes all coins minus the ones that haven’t been mined yet.
Tokenomics to be learned for newbies is especially important in the crypto-space due to its lack of regulation. Since there are no laws governing cryptocurrencies, tokenomics for newbies provides an opportunity for cryptocurrencies to be evaluated according to their real-life merit, not just how they are traded on exchanges.
For example, the main coin bitcoin has 19 million in circulating supply and a maximum supply 21 million which is great because that’s the beauty of bitcoin. Although 19 and 21 at least 3 million have been lost due to people not knowing passwords so it is more like 16 million and 18 million at a max supply tokenomics level deflationary over time since more people will lose keys and there can never be more that 21 max.
Fundamentally, for the most part, the less circulating supply there is compared to max supply the worse it is for the most part because it means that owners have more of the supply and if they wish to they can sell it which ultimate can crash the supply making it a pump and dump.
I asked GPT-3 to provide mediation and litigation advice
Some pros and cons related to querying OpenAI’s GPT-3 for legal advice.
What if quantum physics could eradicate illness? | Jim Al-Khalili for Big Think
Quantum biology examines quantum effects inside cells. This is a tricky field, as physicists are not comfortable working with messy biological systems, while biologists are not comfortable with complex (and seemingly irrelevant) particle physics equations.
But chemists, who straddle the space between physics and biology, know that biological molecules are part of the quantum world.
It is likely that there are quantum effects in several biological processes, such as those that generate mutations — which means that particle physics has played a role in the evolution of life on the planet.
Quantum Computers Are Coming … But Why Should You Care?
Quantum computers are the future of … everything.
They’ve been the stuff of science fiction for decades and promised by technology companies for almost as long. Although existing quantum computers can be computed on the fingers of one hand, their potential is absolutely massive. These powerful machines could help us discover more efficient carbon capture materials, make the most out of renewable energy or find the perfect formula for our next generation batteries. In other words, quantum computing could solve the most pressing issue of our time: climate change. So, when will quantum computers, with all their capabilities, begin to impact our real world? And will they really crack the code of our most puzzling enigma? Let’s see if we can come to a decision on this.
A Creator-Led Internet, Built on Blockchain | Adam Mosserri | TED
As digital assets like cryptocurrency and NFTs become more mainstream, design thinker and head of Instagram Adam Mosseri believes that creators are uniquely positioned to benefit. These blockchain-enabled technologies could remove the need for a “middleman” in the form of large social media platforms, allowing creators to more freely distribute their work and connect with their audiences. He explains how this new age of the internet will give way to “the greatest transfer of power from institutions to individuals in all time.”
Gary Vaynerchuk breaks down future of NFTs: It’s going to take time for them to penetrate mass scale
Gary Vaynerchuk, founder and creator of VeeFriends, joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to break down his outlook for the future of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs.