Join host Mark Pesce as he discusses how cryptocurrencies blended with computer code create powerful ‘smart contracts’ - money that can think for itself - and act on its own!

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Join host Mark Pesce as he explores the explosive growth of ‘initial coin offerings’ offers an opportunity to evaluate them, looking for a sweet spot of product design & market.

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Host Mark Pesce explains how blockchains can revolutionise agribusiness, insurance, computer security, even academic credentialing -- touching most parts of our lives.

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The world’s gone bananas for Bitcoin. Why do folks treat it like money? Host Mark Pesce explores the clever way Bitcoin employs consensus to create value.

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In an easy-to-understand example with host Mark Pesce, learn how blockchains keep the books balanced - and lay the foundation for a revolution in finance.

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Futurist Mark Pesce explains how cryptocurrencies work, why Facebook and China are rolling out their own that will change money forever.

The Next Billion Seconds presents Cryptonomics

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Returning guest Rob Tercek shows how software turned newspaper into web pages - vaporising business models that kept us well informed

 

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In our world, you flip a coin and it comes up either heads or tails. But in the spooky quantum world – that’s everything from a single atom all the way up to a small virus – that coin can come up both heads AND tails, depending on how you read it. So which is it? Heads? Tails? Both? Neither?

 

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Is daily augmented reality closer than we think? 

Back in July 2016, 'Pokémon Go' opened the doors to the brave new world of augmented reality - an 'overnight success' fifty years in the making. With companies like Magic Leap and Facebook working hard to create augmented reality ‘spectacles’, the next billion seconds will see us put our smartphones down and placing the screen over our eyes instead. But who will be controlling our new, 'improved' reality? 

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Why is it so hard to tear ourselves away from Facebook’s feed? What is it feeding us that makes it so addictive? The power of artificial intelligence combined with the eternal surveillance of the smartphone made a monster out of Zuck’s social network - but has it divided us more than it united us? How are people using this social network to spread fake news? How is fake news being weaponised to change the way we vote? All of these questions - and much more - are answered in our special two-part episode, “The Last Days of Reality”

 

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