State Change Podcast
1) State Chain #44 - A New Approach to Ending Slavery
Today, we look at the problem of modern slavery and how it intersects with wildlife conservation. This subject is brought to the fore by growing interest in using blockchain technologies to illuminate...Show More
2) State Change #43 - The Battle for your attention, Meher Roy, Simon de la Rouviere
Recalling State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, we discussed at length the value of attention. Today we take this subject to it’s maximum extend. Software engineer Simon de la Rouviere an...Show More
State Change #43 - The Battle for your attention, Meher Roy, Simon de la Rouviere
42:34 | May 23rd, 2017
3) State Change #42 The Use of Knowledge in Society, Jeffrey Tucker, Kirk Dameron, Stephen Macaskill
While today decentralization seems like a revelation, one thinker more than any other stands as its chief proponent. In 1945 Friedrich Hayek bucked the post war fashion of command-control thinking and...Show More
4) State Change #39 Technologies of Social Organization — Vinay Gupta, Joseph Lubin
Technology enables new forms of social organisation. That statement is itself a truism, but as we see technological development accelerate, our means of organising ourselves is constantly changing. ...Show More
State Change #39 Technologies of Social Organization — Vinay Gupta, Joseph Lubin
35:07 | May 4th, 2017
5) State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, Amanda Gutterman, Berit Anderson, Brett Horvath
The surprising outcome of the last US Presidential election brought attention to the effect fake news and social media manipulation can have on public thought. Today we are going to take a deep look a...Show More
6) State Change #41 Unpacking Digital Identity - Christian Lundkvist, Stephen Wilson
Today we compare in-depth the self-sovereign and federated models of identity. Why is our means of proving who we are important? Well, for one thing, relying on an authority which doesn’t have our bes...Show More
7) State Change #38 — Truffles in the Azure Marketplace
In brief: Ethereum developer framework Truffle offers a Swiss Army Knife of solutions to the blockchain application developer. Recently Truffle was added to the Azure marketplace, allowing the Microso...Show More
8) State Change #37 - State Channels Deep Dive with Ameen Soleimani
In Brief: Imagine the security of a blockchain transaction with the speed and low cost of a packet of information sent through traditional infrastructure. This is what state channels can offer any blo...Show More
9) State Change #36 - The uPort Developer Alpha & 2016 in Review
In Brief: Longtime applied cryptography guru and uPort developer Pelle Braendgaard announces the upcoming release of the uPort developer Alpha! Then we take a look at tokenless blockchains and examine...Show More
10) State Change #35 — Delivering Big: The Synechron Partnership
In Brief: ConsnenSys and enterprise software giant Synechron have joined forces to take the blockchain solution world by storm. Synechron is a global financial services software delivery firm. Seei...Show More