Presented in New Zealand, at BitcoinSouth 2015. In this talk, Andreas discusses the evolution of technology along a “grand arc”, from grandiosity, to… grandparents. He also looks at how bitcoin expresses money as a content type, changing the nature of payments into a form of generic communication.
The story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet. In 2002 Google began to scan millions of books in an effort to create a giant global library, containing every book in existence. They had an even greater purpose – to create a higher form of intelligence, something that HG Wells had predicted in his 1937 essay “World Brain”. But over half the books Google scanned were in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop Google, which climaxed in a New York courtroom in 2011. A film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet.
A new brain scan study has come up the surprising result that our brains are affected by Facebook in a way similar to the effect of highly addictive drugs, such as cocaine.
The study, conducted by Professor Ofir Turel of California State University, Fullerton, who has been working for several years on the possible negative effects of technology on our lives, monitored the brains of twenty people as they viewed images relating to the social media giant.
A lecture by Andreas M. Antonopoulos on bitcoin’s security as a payment mechanism, compared to credit cards. Recorded at the Melbourne Tech Center in Australia.
In this eye-opening talk, veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson shows how astroturf, or fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages.
Neil Sanders returns to continue his rant about social media. Do people behave differently on social media than they would person to person? Has the environment of social media been deliberately designed to encourage the sort of behaviour we see on social media? Is social media a very good way to both contain and monitor all forms of activism? (or should I say slacktivism). Are you a social media slacktivist? With social media becoming more and more popular, especially with the younger generations – have we sleep walked into the mouth of a social engineering monster being ran by the security services? – Neil Sanders gives his views and advice. It seemed that the internet was going to be an information revolution – which it undoubtedly has been for some, but is the internet being used by the majority for their own benefit or their own downfall?
Neil Sanders returns to the show to talk about social media. Most people’s internet use has changed over the last ten years with more and more time being spent using social media. Neil Sanders compares behavioural tendancies on social media sites with psychological experiments and mind adherence strategies explored in the 1960’s. He explains that the conditions created during a Facebook session are very similar. Neil doubts that this is an accident and explains that the types of behaviour people are corralled into exhibiting is both damaging and probably deliberate. Is your Facebook profile more popular than the real you? Then you might be in a continuous loop of reward seeking and narcissism resulting in smiling depression. Have you ever stopped to think who the hell REALLY set all this up and why?
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