Author: GW Alger

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Copyright Protection, Smart Contracts, Digital Scarcity, And NFTs. Blockchain For Publishing

Blockchain technology offers exciting opportunities for authors and the publishing industry.

In this interview, Simon-Pierre Marion and I discuss copyright protection, smart contracts, estate management and faster, more transparent payments, as well as how digital scarcity could expand the revenue potential in the digital supply chain. Plus, I add some extra commentary on NFTs since they are in the news a lot at the moment.

Simon-Pierre Marion is the CEO and founder of Scenarex, a Canadian company that builds blockchain publishing solutions. Their site, bookchain.ca, enables authors and publishers to publish on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Breakthrough Liquid Metal Battery Can Power a Clean Grid

Batteries are probably the most important single technology of the next 10 years. Everything for cars and planes will need them, even homes and the power grid. But there’s no one size fits all solution, instead we’ll need various batteries with different strengths if we want to fully transition to a future of clean energy. Are Liquid Metal Batteries the revolution we’ve been waiting for?

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Snowden: Bitcoin needs better privacy

Recently Snowden was awarded the Thomas Szasz Award from the Center for Independent Thought, which was presented to him by my boss John Stossel. During the call I was able to ask Snowden about Bitcoin and the need for anonymous digital payments.

Bitcoin played an important role in the 2013 Snowden leaks: the servers that Snowden used to transfer information to journalists were paid for using bitcoin, because he didn’t want those records connected to his name.

Snowden explained to me that Bitcoin is superior to credit cards, because it’s at least pseudonymous. But steps need to be taken to add privacy.

He once tweeted: “Bitcoin is great, but “if it’s not private, it’s not safe,”” and he said that Zcash’s privacy tech makes it the most interesting Bitcoin alternative.

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How the NFT Market Is Going To Change in the Next 5 Years

With the increasing popularity of the adoption of NFTs and blockchain technology, the industry is going to progress rapidly and things will change faster than we anticipate. Regulation may occur, new implementations will be used and certain creators will prosper in what seems like a long time to many, but in reality, will be fee very short and move fast.

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Architecture All Access: Quantum Computing | Intel Technology

Quantum Computing has the potential to change our lives and far exceed the capabilities of today’s supercomputers. Join James Clarke, Director of Quantum Computing at Intel Labs, as he runs through the basics of quantum mechanics, what components make up a quantum computer, when we’ll achieve quantum practicality, and more.

During his 20 years at Intel James Clarke has been a process engineer, led advanced interconnect research, and launched Intel’s Quantum Computing efforts with a focus on leveraging our in-house transistor process and manufacturing capabilities to create scalable qubit arrays. He’s co-authored over 50 papers and holds multiple patents.

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What happens after the Singularity – Artificial Intelligence

https://youtu.be/S-8uy0HEAH8

Singularity is a future era where technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to civilization. In singularity, AI has the knowledge of everything that every successive generation has learned and so there’s this rapid exponential growth in capabilities and knowledge that is almost unfathomable. It’s a total paradigm shift. 

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