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Lightning Network is a network of payment forwarders layered on top of Bitcoin to enable small, fast micropayments with low fees.

Links/Resources:
- https://lightning.network/
- https://www.swanbitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-lightning-network/
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150301190111/http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf](https://web.archive.org/web/20150301190111/http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf)
- [https://lightning.network/lightning-network-technical-summary.pdf](https://lightning.network/lightning-network-technical-summary.pdf)
- [https://open.spotify.com/episode/1usKtNJonBszrq5lzad8eh?si=RvuAtKbjSqmyfT--FkNogg](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1usKtNJonBszrq5lzad8eh?si=RvuAtKbjSqmyfT--FkNogg) About routing
- [https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/when-sending-money-is-instant-and-free](https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/when-sending-money-is-instant-and-free)
- [https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/the-lightning-networks-next-big-use-case](https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/the-lightning-networks-next-big-use-case)
- [https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf](https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf)
- [https://1ml.com/](https://1ml.com/)
- [https://explorer.acinq.co/](https://explorer.acinq.co/)
- [https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network](https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network)
- [https://docs.lightning.engineering/](https://docs.lightning.engineering/)
- [https://twitter.com/kerooke](https://twitter.com/kerooke)
- [https://blog.coinbase.com/is-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-for-real-26e47029687f](https://blog.coinbase.com/is-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-for-real-26e47029687f)
- [https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html](https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html) (good summary on payment channels and how they compare to rollups, even though this is on ethereum network)
- [https://www.impervious.ai/](https://www.impervious.ai/)
- [https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-25/](https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-25/)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAyW4pdooA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAyW4pdooA)
- [https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network](https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network)

Show notes
- Patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11
- Flare routing: https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf
- The nature of the firm https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x

Chapters:

[00:02:21] What is Lightning Network?
[00:08:53] How does it work?
[00:18:51] Payments without Infrastructure
[00:25:34] Routing the Network
[00:36:00] Low value, High volume
[00:39:42] Micropayments for API metering
[00:43:09] Micropayments for Open Source
[00:49:12] Idea Accrediation Network
[01:01:20] Structuring Our Society 
[01:15:01] Micropayments Change Relationships of the Firm
[01:21:36] Taking a position

===== About “The Technium” =====

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. 

Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

WEBSITE: [https://technium.transistor.fm/](https://technium.transistor.fm/)
SPOTIFY: [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)
APPLE PODCASTS: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545)

Hypercore is a set of building blocks to build distributed peer-to-peer applications. It provides a variety of data structures, as well as a discovery mechanism to share data between peers. It is a suite of tools that are the Lego blocks to build peer-to-peer apps.

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:02:16] What is Hypercore?
[00:12:58] HyperDrive: A P2P File System
[00:17:45] IPFS vs Hypercore
[00:21:01] Bitfinex is using HyperBee
[00:23:20] A Web of Data vs. Web of Pages
[00:27:19] P2P Data Structures: Better Than P2P Files
[00:29:52] IOT: a perfect candidate for decentralization?
[00:34:30] P2P Databases for Civic Good
[00:39:41] P2P Databases for Scientific Good
[00:55:08] Impediments to adoption
[01:03:54] Is this too futuristic even for us?
[01:12:59] Outros

Resources:
[How the Hypercore Protocol Works](https://hypercore-protocol.org/protocol/)
[Hypercore Protocol](https://hypercore-protocol.org/)
[Dat Ecosystem](https://dat-ecosystem.org/)
[On Dat://](https://www.kickscondor.com/on-dat)
[What are the differences between IPFS and hyperdrive?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44859200/what-are-the-differences-between-ipfs-and-hyperdrive)
[why-hypercore/FAQ.md at master · tradle/why-hypercore](https://github.com/tradle/why-hypercore/blob/master/FAQ.md)
[Dripline: Taking the Mauve Pill: Exploring Alternatives to the Centralized Web](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-1/)
[Dripline: Finding friends and staying safe: comparing peer discoverability and security in p2p networks](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-3/)
[Dripline: Data Fast and Slow: Exploring Data Models and Mutability](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-2/)
[Thinking about Filesystems, Databases, and Hypercores](https://paulfrazee.medium.com/thinking-about-filesystems-databases-and-hypercores-85de9d52d5b0)
[Productizing P2P](https://paulfrazee.medium.com/productizing-p2p-bff5aed95f6a)
https://github.com/automerge/pushpin
https://github.com/kickscondor/duxtape

===== About “The Technium” =====

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. 

Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

Datomic is an immutable database that borrows ideas from functional programming. We discuss how an immutable database changes the architectural possibilities of web apps. 

Links/Resources: 
- [Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYfcyvSpEQ) 
- [Database as Values with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DKjEbdYos) 
- [Intro To Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcqYZZ9RDY) 
- [KotlinConf 2018 - Datomic: The Most Innovative DB You've Never Heard Of by August Lilleaas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicQvxdKvnc) 
- [Love Letter To Clojure: And A Datomic Experience Report - Gene Kim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbp3SEha38) - [Turning the database inside out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0) 
- [Datomic - a scalable, immutable database system by Marek Lipert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGrCsIiiTUs) 
- ["Real-World Datomic: An Experience Report" by Craig Andera (2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeFdAXZz30) 
- [https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/) 
- [https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/) 
- [https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/) 
- [Talking about Datomic, Datalog, GraphQL, APIs](https://www.notion.so/Datomic-52000e1e65d345509cbcde4681d5522f) 
- [What Datomic does to REST](https://web.archive.org/web/20210421110723/http://dustingetzcom.hyperfiddle.com/:what-datomic-does-to-rest/) - [Unofficial guide to Datomic Internals](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/) 
- [Datomic Documentation Overview](https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/overview/overview.html) 
- [The web after tomorrow](https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/) 
- [APIs are about policy](https://acko.net/blog/apis-are-about-policy/) 

Chapters: 
0:00 Intros 
[00:02:21] What is Datomic? 
[00:05:01] The Immutable Database 
[00:14:59] The N+1 Problem 
[00:20:59] Inference and Logical Programming 
[00:26:45] Database in the browser 
[00:39:24] Reducing the Impedence Mismatch 
[00:42:09] The Change in Perspective 
[00:51:14] Data as Social Artifact 

===== About “The Technium” =====

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.

Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

Urbit is an operating system for a global networked computer with a global filesystem. It has its own virtual machine, programming language, OS kernel, and identity layer. It dubs itself as “A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century.”

Links/Resources:
-  https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf
- https://developers.urbit.org/overview
-  https://developers.urbit.org/guides/core/hoon-school
- [https://vimeo.com/75312418
- http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html
-  https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion
- COMMENTARY
    - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438320
    - https://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/12/a-brief-introduction-to-urbit.html
    - https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
    - https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/#tldr
    - https://twitter.com/basileSportif/status/1544963208099909633
    - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:01:54] What is Urbit?
[00:06:30] The Functional Kernel Avro
[00:13:46] Application Network Ames
[00:18:07] Code Update Mechanism
[00:23:38] Hoon Lang and Nock VM
[00:33:56] Personal Computing through Digital Sovereignty
[00:38:53] A Personal Computing Experience You Own
[00:43:46] Cypherpunk Values
[00:45:32] A Computer as an Heirloom
[00:51:48] Philosophical Origins and Its Influence on Design
[01:01:09] Capitalism Softens Radical Ideas
[01:05:40] A computer you can't break
[01:12:48] A ghost in the shell for 100+ years
[01:17:05] What if the internet had identity and payments built in from the beginning?
[01:27:29] A Global ID
[01:30:37] A Digital Extension of the Self
[01:43:31] The Takeaway Despite the Roots

===== About “The Technium” =====

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. 

Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

Hyperfiddle is an app builder in Clojure/Clojurescript that uses a compiler to manage the network connections in the app for you. We discuss what makes code easy vs simple, arches for software, home-cooked apps, and the implications of a compiler for everything.

Links/Resources:
- [https://www.hyperfiddle.net/](https://www.hyperfiddle.net/)
- [https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc](https://www.notion.so/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc)
- [https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags](https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags)
    - [https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/UIs-are-streaming-DAGs-e181461681a8452bb9c7a9f10f507991](https://www.notion.so/UIs-are-streaming-DAGs-e181461681a8452bb9c7a9f10f507991)
- How hyperfiddle changed over time
    - [https://web.archive.org/web/20180217034740/http://www.hyperfiddle.net/](https://web.archive.org/web/20180217034740/http://www.hyperfiddle.net/)
- First video proof of Hyperfiddle's "distributed dataflow" architecture for server-streamed UI. "UI as an Expression” [https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1474050461745528839](https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1474050461745528839)
- [https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle-2020](https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle-2020)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6888V9YsObM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6888V9YsObM)

Show Notes:
- Have you tried rubbing a database on it? https://www.hytradboi.com/
- Self-adjusting Computations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6a5G5i4gQU
- Sloth ecosystems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU9Tn_Qkjb8
- Simple Made Easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
- Apps can be home-cooked meals https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
- Bundling and Unbundling https://reallifemag.com/bundling-and-unbundling/
- Alan Kays: STEPS http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf and the Niles Compiler https://github.com/damelang/nile https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/damelang/nile/socal.pdf

Chapters:

0:00 Intros
[00:02:05] What is Hyperfiddle?
[00:08:53] Managed Network through a Compiler
[00:15:49] Arches for Software
[00:19:21] Beyond Low Code
[00:26:39] Abstractions: Simple vs Easy
[00:29:14] Core of what's hard about apps
[00:33:16] The Eight Fallacies
[00:34:54] Home-cooked apps
[00:40:28] The Piped Piper Dream
[00:45:57] Reports for everyone!
[00:51:35] A compiler to help manage state?
[00:55:12] A Compiler for the Metaverse 
[01:01:44] Making Integration Smoother
[01:04:38] OG "bare metal"
[01:12:01] Hypertext as Application State
[01:20:03] Compilers do hard things all the time

===== About “The Technium” ===== 

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

WEBSITE: [https://technium.transistor.fm/](https://technium.transistor.fm/)
SPOTIFY: [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)
APPLE PODCASTS: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545)

Generative AI models are quickly reaching the point where their work is indistinguishable from that of humans. This include 3D models, voice, and other media types that were not previously possible to create without significant expertise

Resources
[Google's New AI: Flying Through Virtual Worlds! 🕊️](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Pf9lCFi4E)
[OpenAI Dall-E 2 - AI or Artist? Which is Better? 🧑‍🎨](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtkBIOK_28A)
[NVIDIA's New AI: Next Level Image Editing! 👌](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4jCvzey-4)
[NVIDIA's New AI Draws Images With The Speed of Thought! ⚡](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbid5rvCGos)
[https://gptcrush.com/](https://gptcrush.com/)
[Google's Imagen AI: Outrageously Good! 🤖](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyOW6fmkgrc)
[http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/](http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/)
[DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts](https://every.to/divinations/dall-e-2-and-the-origin-of-vibe-shifts)

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
3:42 The amazing progress
7:32 Dall-E 2 and Imagen
11:11 NERF for 3d Scene Generation
17:03 GauGan for Image Editing
18:42 Models can understand the world
21:45 Democratizing Content Creation
24:46 Content to fill the metaverse
28:58 AI = An Army of Interns
31:17 Will Human Skills Atrophy?
34:31 What is the role of humans in creation?
45:03 What is the value of art anymore?
52:43 NFTS, Artists, and "Vibes"
58:59 Feedback Loops and Memeification
1:09:03 Why isn't everyone losing their minds?!

===== About “The Technium” =====

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. 

Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

Zig is a system programming language without the ugliness of C. We discuss its compile time features, its strive towards simplicity, and the potential for resource-efficient software.

Links/Resources:
• https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak
• https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust/
• https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/
• https://ziglearn.org/

Chapters:

0:00 Intros
4:54 The Explicitness of Zig
12:16 Compile Time Programming
17:39 A Nice Build System that's Nice to You
19:59 Zig's Integration with C is that it's a C compiler
24:37 Compile time as Metaprogramming
26:23 Compile time for String Interpolation
28:33 Compile time for Queries
31:12 Maybe We'd Get Faster Programs!
33:55 Counter-forces to resource-efficient computing
41:16 System programmers as far as the eye can see
44:11 Zig as Pedagogy
45:48 Cross-compilation and DSL it to the Blockchain!
51:10 Proliferation of Zig Everywhere

===== About “The Technium” =====

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. 

Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====

WEBSITE: [https://technium.transistor.fm/](https://technium.transistor.fm/)
SPOTIFY: [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)
APPLE PODCASTS: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545)

Multimodal and multitask models are machine learning models that can generalize. Multimodal models can generalize to understand different types of input, for example images and text. Multitask models can generalize their knowledge by applying what they’ve learned about one task to solve another task.

Links/Resources:
 • MUM: https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-mum/
 • Gato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQJZHfAg18
 • MIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9kA8nSJdYw
 • Flamingo: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model
 • Flamingo explaining a funny photo: https://twitter.com/MelMitchell1/status/1522642194741538817
 • Is LaMDA Sentient?: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:33 Multimodal and Multitasks Models
6:50 Deepmind's Gato: The All-Rounder Athlete
14:43 Google's MUM: The Search Assistant
18:12 Deepmind's Multimodal Interactive Agent: The Domestic Helper
22:31 Deepmind's Flamingo: Reasoning about Pictures
26:45 Why are these mind-blowing?
31:20 Machine Learning has come a looooong way
35:21 Could Flamingo be the real JARVIS?
38:56 Could MIA assist the elderly? 
43:05 Multimodal AI for self driving cars
51:15 Multitask = A Shared Brain That Learns Everything
1:00:19 Could these models transcend human knowledge?
1:08:50 Breaking news: AI models are sentient
1:10:37 Is this just a local maximum or a path to AGI?
1:11:50 Outros

===== About “The Technium” =====
The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.
Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====
WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ 
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 
APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

Plan 9 is distributed operating system and it is designed to make a network of disparate computers function as a single system no matter where they are.

Links/Resources:
https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/papers/

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:49 What is Plan 9?
6:15 Unique Features
9:23 Everything is a File
16:53 Assembling a Distributed Computer
21:42 Powerful Abstractions Make Writing Powerful Programs Easy
29:01 Was Plan 9 The Original Kubernetes?
34:33 Can Principled Software Succeed in the Marketplace?
40:14 Running WebAssembly on Plan 9
44:16 Running An Intranet on a Distributed OS
45:38 Remote File Systems for Local-first Software
51:27 How do we get this future?

===== About “The Technium” =====
The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

===== Socials =====
WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

Matrix is a decentralized chat protocol that is end-to-end encrypted. It lets users communicate with each other using different clients and even
 run their own independent chat servers.

Links/Resources:
- https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction
- https://salibra.com/p/the-death-of-jabber-8ea395e82f5b- http://jabbermania.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-google-pulled-plug-on-public-jabber.html- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850832- https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp

- Beeper: https://www.beeper.com/
- Moxie's post on decentralization: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:23 What is Matrix?
3:58 A Brief History of Chat
11:51 Origins of Matrix
15:14 What attracted people to Matrix?
22:35 Motivation for Beeper
25:14 Bridges to other networks32:09 Separation between protocol and client38:42 Chat overload
43:19 Network Fragmentation
47:48 The Chat Future to Look Forward To
52:14 A Future of Specialized Clients
58:01 Chat bots and Chat tools
1:02:57 How do we get this future?

===== About “The Technium” =====
The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!

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