Brian Keating is a Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it…
Category: Science/Tech
Chatter #252 – Kee Jefferys on Encryption, Privacy and Encrypted Messaging
Kee Jeffreys is the CTO of Session, a fork of Signal and an encrypted messaging app. Session is a private messaging app that protects your metadata, encrypts your communications, and makes sure your messaging activities leave no digital trail behind. In this conversation we covered encryption, privacy, encrypted messaging, their cryptocurrency Oxen, and…
Chatter #233 – Mark Solms – The Hidden Spring: A Journey To The Source Of Consciousness
Consciousness is one of the strangest parts of our universe. It’s a mind-bogglingly complicated and difficult topic to discuss seriously and almost impossible to measure, let alone define. Where on earth does consciousness come from? However, luckily for us Mark Solms amazing new book, The Hidden Spring: A Journey To The Source Of…
Chatter #226 – Der Gigi on Austria, Bitcoin, Digital ID’s and Authoritarianism
Austria is a country very close to my heart, so it has saddened me greatly to see what has become of such a wonderfully free place. It was my pleasure in this episode to get the time to speak to Austrian Bitcoin and privacy advocate Der Gigi – who has sadly left the…
Chatter #223- Dr Paulo Gerbaudo on GameStop, Digital Revolution, and the End Of Neoliberalism [Live]
Paolo Gerbaudo is a political sociologist and the director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), The Mask and the Flag (2017), and The Great Recoil (2021). HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding…
Chatter #225 – Steven Boykey Sidley & Simon Dingle: Beyond Bitcoin – DeFi and The End Of Banks
I’ve been having a lot of conversations with people about Bitcoin, DeFi, and other crypto-currencies and blockchain technology and about how they are going to change the world of finance. However, it wasn’t until I got the chance to read Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks by Steven Boykey Sidley…
