Sam Talks Technology

Sam Sethi and  Martin Bryant discussed the future of journalism, podcasting paywalls, subscriptions, libra payments and fakenews.

It's clear more and more newspapers are moving to paywalls to replace their dwindling ad-revenue. Is the freemium model dead? Will bloggers and podcasters follow suit as they look to monetise their content.

We also discussed the recent launch of Facebook News. Having failed with Instant Articles before, will Facebook News succeed or be just another tab on Facebook wall that no one reads. Facebook News joins a growing band of news aggregation portals recently launched including Apple News+ and Amazon News on their FireTV. We also discussed the challenge of fake news and if there was anyway to prevent it.

Sam Sethi talked with Daniel Snell about the many things we have in common. We have our love for rugby, wine, running marathons and Taekwondo (both being black belts).

We also have numerous mutual friends and estranged acquaintances but oddly we had never met before.

We talked about Daniel's work on diversity and inclusion over the past 15 years which was truly inspirational.

We also discussed why companies need to focus on the "diversity dividend" to remain competitive.

We didn’t talk about our difference in height!

Sam Sethi talked with Julien Genestoux about some of the current unhealthy business models that exist today, especially those that rely on advertising for monetisation i.e Facebook or act as gatekeepers for data distribution. i.e Apple

Julien talked about how Web 3.0 needs to evolve towards 'Decentralised Autonomous Organisations' and how blockchain, ethereum wallets, smart contracts and the unlock protocol can make this new business model a reality.

This was a great interview about the future of the web from a true pioneer. As Alvin Toffler said "The only way you can predict the future is to build it. ... " well that is exactly what Julien is doing.

All I can say is listen and learn because this is how the web will be built and function in less than a decade and forewarned is forearmed.