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Technology & Choice podcast
by John Ferguson
Technology and Choice covers almost anything viewed through the lens created by the concepts of technology and choice.Your host, John Ferguson, also hosts the SAFE Crossroads podcast about the developing SAFE Network. Visit www.safecrossroads.net and technologyandchoice.com for additional blog posts and articles.-----------------------------------------------------------
Episodes
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TC 44, How Decentralized is the Wind? with Jim McCanney
We last talked with Jim McCanney back in March 2018 when he had recently been selected as one of five international finalists in the Water Abundance Xprize. In this episode we follow up to find out what happened. In addition to that we do a good coverage of the technologies he's developed to...
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TC 43, High-Tech, Low-Tech, Some-Tech, No-Tech
John and Robert probe questions regarding the level of technology appropriate to different situations, and we try to isolate some touchstones for selecting the right type, level and amount technology to employ. As fodder we talk a lot about Robert's different situations as simple farmer on the…
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TC 42, Writing Challenge Wrap-up, with Robert Worstell
Our regular guest/co-host, Robert Worstell, and I talk about the year-long project he just completed to train himself in fiction writing, and documenting the process for others who are interested in writing, especially professionally. We go over what he set out to do, what he did, his statistics,...
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TC 41, Economics - In Search of a Firm Foundation, with Bob Murphy
Is Economics an ideology or a technology, a science or a religion? Is there some foundational principle of Economics upon which everyone can agree? Why is the subject of Economics so contentious? We explore these and other questions with our guest, Bob Murphy. Bob is a bona fide professional...
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TC 40, Ayurveda Technology, with Vaidya Lokesh Rathuri
Ayurveda is a practice for maintaining and restoring health with origins dating back 10,000 years. It has been practiced consistently since. Might there be something to learn here? Might it offer choices for health and healing which are not available in the modes and institutions which most of us...
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TC 39, Technology and a Parallel Society, with Paul Rosenburg
Paul Rosenburg is a man of many interests and talents, with a lot of real-world technical experience. A principal author of fiberoptic installations standards and a founder of CryptoHippie (industrial grade internet privacy solutions), he is also the author of Freeman's Perspective, with both…
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TC 38, The Mid-Terms Through the Looking Glass
A rather historical event in the United States gives us an interesting opportunity to examine a bunch important dynamics through the lens (or "Looking Glass") of Technology and Choice as a tool. There may never have been a time, not only in the United States but the rest of the world, when we…
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TC 37, What is the Semantic Web? with Jonas Smedegaard
Semantics has to do with meaning. What if we could tie information together on the web my meaning, rather than by webpage? In this conversation we find out a bit about how this is beginning to be achieved, and how it is creating vast new horizons for how the internet will soon be used. Music…
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TC 36, Creator and Created, a Conversation
As the creator of something, do you give it life? As a fiction writer, does a story acquire a life of its own? As a software programmer, do you sometimes feel that what you're creating has something to teach you? Is your creation of any sort just something you do and have done with it, or do you...
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TC 35, Open Source, Debian and FreedomBox, with Jonas Smedegaard
Jonas Smedegaard has been part of the central team that maintains the Debian operating system for many years. Debian is a very important part of the open source ecosystem with a core team of about a thousand, with tens of thousands of contributors. Many other projects benefit from the work done…
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Technology & Choice #34, On Writing and Research, with Robert Wortell
My old friend and sometimes co-host, Robert Worstell, returns and we explore the topic of research, especially from the angle of learning how to write fiction, and writing in general. Over the years Robert has rolled up his sleeves and plunged into many subject areas to establish for himself what...
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TC 33, The Meritocracy Chronicle (Log 1, Entry 1)
The Meritocracy Chronicle will be a regularly recurring segment, dedicated to discussing and documenting the evolution of the game SFEOS and the principles of crowd founding. See links below for more details on both SFEOS and Crowd Founding. The term *meritocracy* can have a variety of…
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TC 32, A Case for EOS, with Chadrick Mahaffey
As promised in the last episode, Chadrick Mahaffey shares his presentation about EOS, the history behind it, the value proposition and why he is bullish on its mass adoption. This is far from an exhaustive and authoritative treatise. It maybe even leaves one with more questions than answers. But…
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TC 31, SFEOS - Game World, Real World, Life, with Chadrick Mahaffey
Chadrick Mahaffey and I introduce you to SFEOS, a project that he originated and is shepherding, that I and others are helping along. SFEOS is a lot of things at once: It's a game that is fun, that engages players in adventure and economics and social organization in the game universe. It's a...
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TC 30, Decentralizing Energy for Real (Plus a BIG Crypto Easter Egg), with Jim McCanney
**NOTE: There is an explosive Easter Egg of revelation in the body of this episode regarding cryptography. It is likely you haven't heard about it before, so keep hands on your bonnet.** "Alternative Energy" as we've known it has been a disaster for the most part. Everybody wants to "be green,"…
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TC 29, The Plumage of Choice
I start off this episode sharing a bit about why I'm doing this series on festivals in general and the One Love Festival in particular, and why it's important. Part of this is a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of abandoning existing systems and technologies prematurely, in an effort to use new...
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TC 28, Christopher Jackson, on Making Happenings Happen
Christopher Jackson has been making unique and special events happen for a long time and understands the components. We talk about what he's done, why he changed from being a promoter and producer of hip Hollywood parties attended by the likes of Hugh Hefner and his entourage, and others, to...
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TC 27, Lucien Vattel on the I AM Tech Stack
"I Am" is a technology stack that is evolving to incorporate high tech, to aide a process of personal and social improvement and connection. Our guest, Lucien Vattel, has years of experience in developing technologies to assist in learning and general education. His company (We Are) is partnering...
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TC 26, Reconnection - Ken Schwenker and the One Love Festival
Modern technology has enabled us to do so many things that were never possible in history. People move more, farther and faster than ever in history. The internet has allowed us to communicate and form relationships with others from almost anywhere. But the impulse for in-person connection with...
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TC 25, Exploring Value and Exchange with Adam B. Levine, or "Proof Of WHAT?"
It was an absolute pleasure to have a long talk with Adam B. Levine about the concept of Value, its core meaning, how we exchange with each other with Value in mind, and how new tools of cryptocurrencies and cryptographic tokens give us options that have never existed before--and, of course, some...
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TC 24, People and Projects at the Texas Bitcoin Conference (part 2)
Some more interesting folks at the recent Texas Bitcoin Conference shared some more very interesting projects and activities. This episode we explore: **Spectiv** -- Nick Ravanbakhsh **Grid +** -- Karl Kreder **Cryptoart** -- Troy Ferno **Cryptopods** -- Eric Hoffenbach **Decred** -- Marco...
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TC23, People and Projects at the Texas Bitcoin Conference (part 1)
I had some great talks with folks at the Texas Bitcoin Conference in late October. This episode: Paul Puey, CEO of Airbitz and the new Edge wallet, on taking the core concepts and success of Airbitz and taking it to a new level of reach and implementation, rebranding as Edge, and making it much...
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TC22, Eric Anderson (Eijah), on Stealing Fire
At the recent Texas Bitcoin Conference I had a chance to have a long talk with Eric Anderson (hacker-named "Eijah") about his new project, Promether. We cover his history, including a good delve into Demonsaw (a very effective, proven means of anonymous, secure and private communication and file...
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TC21, Joe Urgo on district0x
Our guest this episode is Joe Urgo, Co-Founder of district0x. district0x is an open source platform for the deployment of decentralized organizations, markets and limitless other means of organizational interactions, including the means to describe and execute governance models as agreed by the...
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TC 20, Decentralization and Biochemistry
In this fourth installment of The Hemp Corner, we set out to better understand the amazing biochemical relationship between the human species and the cannabis plant. To get very far we have to break out some understanding of biochemical interactions in general and how they influence the human...
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TC 19, Balancing Trust and Trustlessness
In wrapping up my discussion of Tezos with CTO Arthur Breitman, the theme of "Trust: where and how much to bestow it" is central enough to make it the theme of the episode, though we cover a lot of other aspects of Tezos and blockchain tech in general with a bit more technical depth than the last...
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TC 18, Tezos and Scalable Decentralized Governance
> >**Governance** - the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something -- Merriam-Webster.com Those wary of the complexity, inequities and corruption of govern-**ment** tend to also be wary of the idea of govern-**ance**. But there's no way around it: Governance (by the…
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TC 17, Decentralization and Agronomy
IN THIS EPISODE > **Agronomy** is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation. -- Wikipedia Co-host Michael Bright and I present the third in the Hemp Corner series. Those used to hearing mostly about internet and cryptocurrency tech may...
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TC 16, Will Work for Hemp
IN THIS EPISODE This is the second of what we're calling The Hemp Corner of Technology & Choice. After doing a high-altitude overview of hemp and cannabis in the first Hemp Corner, we thought it would be a good idea to work at straightening out all the scrambled thinking about cannabis and hemp...
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TC 15, Ryan X. Charles, Working to Give You Yours
IN THIS EPISODE The hope of Bitcoin enabling fast, frictionless micropayments is one of the promises of the technology that has excited us all. But it's been a long time coming and, especially in Bitcoin, it has seemed a long way off. Enter Ryan X. Charles and "Yours." Yours is a social media...
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TC 14 LBRY
IN THIS EPISODE Recently caught up to Jeremy Kauffman, Founder and CEO of LBRY, a protocol and platform for sharing digital content, with incentives for all. The first part of the show is a replay of an earlier interview form July 2016, because it's hard to improve on for a clear idea of how LBRY...
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TC13, The Tech of Hemp, Our Estranged Intimate
An "Intimate" is someone or something that is not quite Self, but does not have the feel of Other. IN THIS EPISODE We're very, very jazzed to be introducing a new series within the Technology and Choice podcast, dedicated to the technology and choices of Cannabis, a plant species which…
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TC 12, Influence Says It All
IN THIS EPISODE What is the most basic action in the universe? Influence. Technology is all about better directing influence, whether it be influence on the environment, the materials at hand, electronics, software, or people. And there is a lot of technology on the nature of influence and...
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TC 11, Storj, Shawn Wilkinson
Great talk with Shawn Wilkinson, CEO/CTO of Storj Labs, about the Storj network which is about to go live in a very big way in headon competition with Amazon Web Services and the like. Hey, AWS, et al, you will be absorbed. Resistance is futile. App developers, as well as anyone who has some…
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TC 10, Value Choice
#### In this Episode While visiting my friend and associate, Travis Remington, in his home in Utah, we recorded this conversation to give some background on where we are going with our specific business idea, but more broadly, we wanted to open-source our ideas (at least partially for now) on...
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TC09, Ernest Hancock
IN THIS EPISODE When I was at The Porcupine Freedom Festive in New Hampshire, I had the chance to sit down with Ernest Hancock of Freedom's Phoenix, along with the hosts of another podcast, Liberty Cafe. We had fun. Hope you enjoy it. MAGIC WORD Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your...
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TC08, Porcfest Potpourri
IN THIS EPISODE A few days at the Porcupine Freedom Festival in New Hampshire netted a load of wonderful connections, some very interesting insights and a few very relevant interviews, from the perspective of the technology and choice pair. First up in this episode is Sam Patterson, Chief…
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TC07, Some Loose Ends
IN THIS EPISODE This week Robert and John do a bit of house cleaning. A number of loose ends demanded attention, so we had a blast just batting them around. MAGIC WORD Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's listener award...
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TC06, Chadrick Mahaffey on Crowd Founding Principles
#### In this Episode Chadrick Mahaffey is a software developer and fan of the SAFE Network. For years he's been working to understand organization principles so as to evolve a way that people can "Labor in Freedom." In this interview, we go into the background of how he arrived at what he now…
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TC05, Scam Tech 101
IN THIS EPISODE Finally, Robert and John get to really start exploring scams. What is a scam? Why is it so important to understand the mechanics that make something a scam, or not? What does this all have to do with technology and choice? We dig in on a scam that Robert himself got snared by, and...
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TC04, A Talk with Paul Rosenburg
IN THIS EPISODE John and Robert have a great time with Paul Rosenburg, a true renaissance man and scholar, about technology and choice--past, present and future. Should we be optimistic, pessimistic, or simply mystic? You get to choose. MAGIC WORD Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your...
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TC03, The Resounding "Duh!"
IN THIS EPISODE Be sure to read and/or listen to the article "Technology and Choice (What's in a Name?) on the LTB front page. The title of this episode will make more sense once you've read the article or listened to this episode. We discuss the substance of that article from some different...
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Technology and Choice (What's In A Name?)
This is a reading by the author of the article: Technology and Choice (What's in a Name?) The article can be read at Letstalkbitcoin.com.
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TC02 Revenge of the Social Media Zombies
IN THIS EPISODE What's up with social media and what does it have to do with zombies? You'll just have to listen. MUSIC Music for this episode: *SafeProject,* an original piece composed and performed by Nicholas Koteskey of Two Faced Heroes LINKS Midwest Journal Press --...
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TC01 Virtual Reality
Welcome to the first episode of Technology and Choice, the podcast where we're likely to talk about almost anything, as long as it centers around these two concepts. In this episode, we introduce ourselves (John and Robert) and lay the groundwork for the ongoing podcast. Then we take up the…
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Technology and Choice covers almost anything viewed through the lens created by the concepts of technology and choice.Your host, John Ferguson, also hosts the SAFE Crossroads podcast about the developing SAFE Network. Visit www.safecrossroads.net and technologyandchoice.com for additional blog posts and articles.-----------------------------------------------------------
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