Author: Peter Wicher
Con Artists Use Age-Old Scams On The Crypto Frontier
Part-1 in a four-part series on decentralized finance (DeFi) scams.
A Robotics Startup’s Manufacturing Design Win Journey
I love startups, robots, and the reality drama of chasing design wins.
Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Exponential Capability Meets Global Responsibility
Major corporations don’t want to do business with Putin.
Accelerating The Journey Into The Human Brain
The most fascinating worlds lie both cosmically distant and intimately close. The recently activated James Webb Space Telescope will reveal how galaxies are formed and peer back in time to when the….
iNFTs Will Usher in Zero Marginal Cost Digital Societies
Programmable, own-able, intelligent avatars will be used to simulate individuals and entire societies. Ultimately we will have zero-marginal-cost social policy experiments.
Get Past Global Warming: The Future Needs Global Cooling
25,000 people from 197 countries attended the just-concluded UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. Heads of state, Nobel laureates, and celebrities made solemn pronouncements. Corporate leaders….
Big Problems That Are Ripe For Startups To Solve
“What areas might a start-up have a better chance of succeeding in today, and in the foreseeable future?” I was asked that question this week on a panel for incoming….
IOHK’s Cardano Blockchain to Bolster Ethiopia’s Students’ Identities
A six-year-old nonprofit is showing that a small group of talented and dedicated people, leveraging exponentially growing technologies, can audaciously and realistically resolve to improve humanity’s future. IOHK, the Cardano blockchain….
NFTs’ Impact Can Reach Far Beyond Pricey Digital Art
Star Trek legend and blockchain advocate, William Shatner, made and sold a non-fungible token (NFT) of an X-Ray of his teeth. The entrepreneur known as MetaKovan paid $69.3million to the digital artist known….