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We’re living in pretopia, the final crossroads.

Both utopia and dystopia are possible futures for humanity, but neither is inevitable.

Technology will bring us there, but technologies are not inherently good or bad. Their value is determined by the humans who design and use them, and the decisions we make now as a species will set us on a path we may not be able to change.

Pretopia.FM is an open platform for discussing the enormous opportunities and existential risks that come with living in our delicately balanced age.

Pretopia NiMA Asghari, Anish Mohammed

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We’re living in pretopia, the final crossroads.

Both utopia and dystopia are possible futures for humanity, but neither is inevitable.

Technology will bring us there, but technologies are not inherently good or bad. Their value is determined by the humans who design and use them, and the decisions we make now as a species will set us on a path we may not be able to change.

Pretopia.FM is an open platform for discussing the enormous opportunities and existential risks that come with living in our delicately balanced age.

    DAOs that Can’t Be Evil - MetaCartel Ventures with Peter & Gabriel

    DAOs that Can’t Be Evil - MetaCartel Ventures with Peter & Gabriel

    Deep dive interview with @lex_node & @pet3rpan_ of @VENTURE_DAO & @Meta_Cartel

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    • 1 hr 16 min
    Nature that Can’t Be Owned - Ed Hesse & QJ Wang

    Nature that Can’t Be Owned - Ed Hesse & QJ Wang

    Ed & QJ join Pretopia to tell us about Sovereign Nature DAO & Nature 2.0! 

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    @snaturedao @edhesse79 @QJ_ECF on Twitter 

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    Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI) is an interactive community of visionaries - developers, scientists, artists, and investors - who join forces in the interest of funding efforts towards sustainability. SNI is neither an investment fund nor a charity. It funds projects that explore and develop the technologies necessary to enable Nature 2.0. They could include research, prototyping, or artistic explorations. - source


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    • 45 min
    Social Tech that Can’t Be Evil - Glen Weyl

    Social Tech that Can’t Be Evil - Glen Weyl

    Glen Weyl (@GlenWeyl on Twitter) uses ideas from political economy to develop social technology for widely-shared prosperity and social cooperation. These ideas have inspired a social movement, RadicalxChange, that convenes activists artists, entrepreneurs and researchers using market mechanisms to create a richer and more equal society. (Bio excerpt taken from: http://glenweyl.com/biography/)

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    • 46 min
    Social Networks that Can’t Be Evil - Slava Balasanov

    Social Networks that Can’t Be Evil - Slava Balasanov

    Programmer and musician, founder of 4real Digital Inc. & Relevant.community - decentralized curation protocols based on human values - @team_slava on Twitter

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    • 54 min
    VCs that Can’t Be Evil - Elad Verbin

    VCs that Can’t Be Evil - Elad Verbin

    Elad (@verbine) is a computer scientist & VC based in Berlin investing in early-stage algo-tech: ML, blockchain, zero knowledge.

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    • 56 min
    Orgs that Can’t Be Evil - Luis Cuende

    Orgs that Can’t Be Evil - Luis Cuende

    Luis Cuende (@licuende on Twitter) is a Spanish computer programmer, author, and blockchain entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Aragon and CEO of Aragon One.

    Career:
    In 2008 at age 12, Cuende started his first free software project, a Linux-based operating system. At just 15 years old, HackFwd named him “Best Underage European Programmer."
    At the age of 17, he was an advisor to Neelie Kroes, then the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda.
    In November 2015, he cofounded Stampery, which leverages the Bitcoin blockchain to generate an immutable record of existence, integrity and ownership of any data or communication. Cuende and his cofounders secured $600,000 in pre-seed funding, led by Draper Associates for the venture.
    In 2011, at age 16 he was awarded the top hacker award in his country of Europe. In January 2016, he was the youngest to be on the Forbes 30 under 30 category in technology. Bio taken from:
    https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/licuende/

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    • 45 min

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