Ep. 51 - The British Blockchain & Frontier Technologies Association Launches
Release Date: 02/12/2019
S4 Ep. 4 - A Commissioner for Digital Money, A New Institution: Digital Pound Interview with Danny Kruger MP of Parliament's Treasury Select Committee
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At the close of the Bank of England's consultation on the Digital Pound Barry interviews Danny Kruger MP, of the UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committee, who oversee the project, discussed the deep implications of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on financial stability and liberty. While Danny expressed concerns about the potential negative effects, he acknowledged that he and his colleagues on the Treasury Select Committee were not experts on the topic and that there was a general perception that CBDCs were a natural evolution of the digital revolution. Barry and Danny discussed the...
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S4 Ep. 3 - Interview with Jasmine Birtles on d£ and CBDCs
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Summary Jasmine and Barry discussed the Bank of England's consultation on creating a digital pound. Jasmine expressed her concerns about central bank digital currencies, stating that they allow for too much control and monitoring by the government. Barry and Jasmine discussed the differences between cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies, with Jasmine expressing concerns about the centralized nature of CBDCs and the potential for government control over people's finances. They also talked about the impact of taxation on small businesses and the extractive nature of the economy....
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S4 Ep. 2 - Central Banks, CBDCs and the rise and rise of DeFi
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Barry talks to David Palmer, Blockchain Lead at Vodaphone & Jamiel Sheikh, Founder & CEO of Chainhaus - leading advisory, education, events & app studio about the rapid rise of DeFi and the advent of 'Central Bank Digital Currencies' in the week that the Bank of England announced its digital Pound project - closely following the digital Euro.
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S4 Ep. 1 - DeFi and 3D Democracy - The future landscape
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In this fascinating conversation with David Palmer, a visionary, who is also the blockchain lead for Vodafone, we range widely across digital transformation, including the fact that we're all increasingly cyborgs living in a digital, as well as physical environment.
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 6 - Fintech Tackling the Poverty Trap with Fairer Finance Hackathon Winners Finexos
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Fintech Tackling the Poverty Trap with Finexos' CEO/Founder Mark Fisher and Chair Steven Bone.
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 5 - Why There’s Still No End to Increasing Poverty & ‘Runaway Inequality’ and What We Can Do About it
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An interview with Les Leopold, author of ‘Runaway Inequality’ for the #CovidSpring series
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 4 - From Patients to Occupants: Turning the Health Service on Its Head
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In this episode we will be talking to another big-thinker: Andy Wilkins, founder of Vision4Health about the future of health and health services post Covid.
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 3 - This Time It Must Be Different
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Professor Ronald MacDonald is a Research Professor in Macroeconomics and International Finance in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. His previous positions at the University were Bonar Macfie Chair of Economics (2005-2006), and the Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy (2006-2015). He has consistently ranked in the top 1% of the IDEAS/RePec ranking of economists, and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to Economic Policy.
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 2 - Predatory Capitalism in Action
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Barry speaks with Rachel Neale from UK Mortgage Prisoners.
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 1 - An Introduction to Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring
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Welcome to the #CovidSpring series in which we look through the Covid winter, which we are now enduring, to the coming spring beyond the crisis and harness some of the world's finest minds to together think about what kind of world we want to create. What kind of world we want and need - in search of humane economics.
info_outlineWe are now launching the first Association globally, the first network globally, for frontier Technologies
But it's not just an Association for technologists at the Frontiers of AI, bots, robots, iot, autonomous vehicles, alternative reality, augmented reality, DLT and blockchain.
Nor is it just for geeks in all the other emergent area a fintech and other sectors, or even those who are expert in more established Technologies.
It goes wider than that because the Revolution we are now facing goes for wider than that.
We know that technology can change our entire world, environment, because it happened already numerous times - and including in living memory with the internet and the World Wide Web
This is accelerating is simply self-evident to anyone who's watching closely enough
I think it's fair to say that last time the web took our Breath Away and caught us on the hop - we were victims the hype cycle, the.com boom and bust. I
Irrational exuberance occasion by amazing technology followed by irrational disappointment because of the time it took for the dream to be realised
That dream has been realised in spades - and it threatens to become a nightmare.
It was Buckminster Fuller who taught us then we can choose to be Architects of or future rather than its victims.
This time we need not just conscious capitalism but as we rebuild our world we need to be conscious of the world that we are building
That world will be built on a backbone that we now understand and call variously blockchain or DLT. It will be made not just with those Technologies but also all of those other front here Technologies I mentioned earlier
But what kind of world will it be?
Who can tell us?
Well - no one can!