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Speaker 2: What technologies do you think people are kind of sleeping
Speaker 2: on right now that will potentially change the world in
Speaker 2: the next five to ten years.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're sleeping on them, but I
Speaker 3: think people are hesitant with AI back to the first
Speaker 3: part of our conversation, like, I think people or hesitant
Speaker 3: because they're afraid of it replacing their work or what
Speaker 3: they're trying to build. And I think that mindset is
Speaker 3: going to end up doing that in fact, and if
Speaker 3: again if you instead see it as a foundation that
Speaker 3: we can stand on and that it's something that enables
Speaker 3: you to do even more with less and it gives
Speaker 3: you time back, then it's a tool like anything else.
Speaker 3: And I think that's I think that's the scary thing
Speaker 3: right now, and I think people are letting the fear
Speaker 3: keep them from experimenting with it and keep them from
Speaker 3: just trying it and having more of a closed mind.
Speaker 3: So I think it's really important with any new technology
Speaker 3: to try it for yourself. Don't trust what you read
Speaker 3: from others, don't trust other opinions on it, form your
Speaker 3: own opinion on your experience, and you have to dive
Speaker 3: into it and trust yourself to learn from that experience.
Speaker 3: It might be challenging, it might be frustrating, Well who cares.
Speaker 3: You're going to learn no matter what, and you could
Speaker 3: you'll build that learning into into something else that will
Speaker 3: be useful for yourself, for your business. There's a there's
Speaker 3: a mantra within the bitcoin certcles which is don't trust verify,
Speaker 3: And what that really means is like, let your experience
Speaker 3: be the guide of everything. Make your own decisions, form
Speaker 3: your own opinions, because you're going to get thousands of
Speaker 3: other ones from other people, but the one true one
Speaker 3: is what you what resonates with you after you experience
Speaker 3: it yourself, and these tools are available to you, and
Speaker 3: you know you'll be able to understand like if if
Speaker 3: they actually enable you, or how they diminish you in
Speaker 3: any way, and you can overcome them. It's a decision. Jack.
Speaker 2: You've been an advocate obviously for bigcoin, but you've talked
Speaker 2: around as to topic of decentralization, and over the past
Speaker 2: ten years we've seen more institutions come into the space
Speaker 2: more and more. I wonder, you know, a few years
Speaker 2: ago Web three was the big talk.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on.
Speaker 2: Decentralization now and how far away are we or how
Speaker 2: soon will we see it come to fruition from your
Speaker 2: early talks.
Speaker 3: Well, first, like with any of these technologies like Web three, AI, Bitcoin,
Speaker 3: like all these things that we're talking about, Web two,
Speaker 3: like whatever it was in the past, there's always going
Speaker 3: to be this like massive hype cycle, and it's going
Speaker 3: to be easy to get into that sect and into
Speaker 3: that hype without really understanding the fundamentals. So again this
Speaker 3: goes back to like touching ground and experiencing yourself, does
Speaker 3: this actually bring value to you? Or is someone trying
Speaker 3: to sell you something that's just repackaged but the same thing.
Speaker 3: And I saw a lot of Web three ultimately as
Speaker 3: repackaging of the same thing. And what I mean by
Speaker 3: that is like I saw a lot of vcs who
Speaker 3: were using it as a way to rebrand something that
Speaker 3: already existed or was still somewhat centralized and wasn't really
Speaker 3: solving the problem. And it was it was just frustrating. See,
Speaker 3: but I realized that with every technology, technology, every new
Speaker 3: technology that really comes up, always has a hype cycle.
Speaker 3: So it's really up to you all and to us
Speaker 3: to like understand, like again, does this actually give me
Speaker 3: time back? Does this actually add value to what I'm doing?
Speaker 3: Does it add value to my customers or not? And
Speaker 3: if it doesn't, it's okay to ignore it because it'll
Speaker 3: go away or it'll settle into something that does. I
Speaker 3: would say that the early Internet, for those of you
Speaker 3: who were on it, it was amazing. It was like
Speaker 3: you know, this wild wild West of like frontier of
Speaker 3: like everything was new and everything was decentralized. There was Usenet,
Speaker 3: there was IRC, there was go, there was a web,
Speaker 3: there were no centralizing forces, and then all of that
Speaker 3: disappeared in like five years because of a few companies
Speaker 3: building something that was convenient to people, which was like,
Speaker 3: how do I find things on the Internet? And you
Speaker 3: had Alta Vista and you had Deja News, and you
Speaker 3: had Google, and you had Facebook and you had Twitter.
Speaker 3: These centralized the discovery mechanism of the Internet, so you
Speaker 3: went to one place to find all this incredible content.
Speaker 3: But the problem was the content lived on the services
Speaker 3: as well, so you had the discovery and the creation
Speaker 3: and also the API all owned by one company, and
Speaker 3: that to me is wrong. It's wrong for the company
Speaker 3: because it puts a ton of pressure on them and
Speaker 3: it's wrong for the customer because the company actually owned
Speaker 3: your data and they owned your identity. And you've all
Speaker 3: experienced this if you're trying to move your data to
Speaker 3: another thing or you have to resign up or whatnot.
Speaker 3: That's not how things should exist. So now we find
Speaker 3: we finally have technology to enable data portability and moving
Speaker 3: your identity around with it without a company owning it.
Speaker 3: But it's not accessible right now, it's not well designed,
Speaker 3: but it's just work and it's an opportunity for some
Speaker 3: businesses as well for those of you who are still
Speaker 3: looking for some opportunities. It's a way to you know,
Speaker 3: it's something that needs to be figured out more so
Speaker 3: I'd say we're still pretty early with it, but at
Speaker 3: the same time, there's never been more energy around it.
Speaker 3: And the thing that worries me the most is the
Speaker 3: most centralized of these services that we become more dependent
Speaker 3: upon is AI. We have five or six companies that
Speaker 3: are building very centralized services that are you go to,
Speaker 3: you sign up to, you pay for, and the CEOs
Speaker 3: that these companies can change the intelligences, they can change
Speaker 3: the algorithms, they can literally decide based on a question
Speaker 3: you have, how it's going to answer. And you've seen
Speaker 3: this play out obviously in oppress. Thankfully we have open
Speaker 3: source models, and thankfully we have people who are pushing
Speaker 3: that more and more, and like we have again a
Speaker 3: third horse in the race, which is completely open and
Speaker 3: owned by the people. But we need to desire it,
Speaker 3: we need to want it, and we need to ultimately
Speaker 3: use it to not become dependent upon five companies or
Speaker 3: just one company for this really important technology, which is
Speaker 3: effectively intelligence. We've seen it with social media, We've seen
Speaker 3: it with intelligence, We've seen it with with a number
Speaker 3: of other things on the internet discovery. Now we need
Speaker 3: to make sure that, like all these things can be
Speaker 3: open source and they can be decentralized and and really
Speaker 3: usable by any business earners.
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