Yo, technology.

What is it all about?

This is a shift of our lifetime, right?

These come along every 30, 40 years.

And when these shifts happen, you have the chance to build something that impacts life for every person on the planet.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

I'm your host, Danny Fortinney, West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times, and we have a double whammy for you today.

First up, we're going to dive into the roiling, frothy waters of NFTs. That's right. Non-fungible tokens, these digital assets, collectibles, whatever you want to call them, that have suddenly

become, you know, a thing.

Of course, the biggest NFT deal was the sale of a, for $69 million of a kind of digital collage by the artist people.

But that is just the tip of the iceberg.

There's a ton going on in this world.

And so to help decode what is happening, how this all got started, and where it's going next,

we have on Nikil Viswanathan, who is the co-founder of Alchemy, which you can think of as kind of like the operating system for the Ethereum blockchain,

which is kind of the technological rails upon which

every major NFT marketplace, every deal you've heard about, is happening. So whether that's the

$200,000 someone paid for a LeBron James highlight, to $7 million for a single Cryptopunk, which is kind of like a digital image of a

little blue alien guy smoking a pipe. It's 2021, everybody. Crazy times. And the kill will help

make sense of it all. And then after that, we're going to bring on Raj Chowdhury, who is a professor at the Harvard Business School.

And I want to bring him on to talk about the return to work.

He's been studying this work from anywhere idea for years before the pandemic struck.

And now his companies from Facebook to Uber are starting to open their offices again.

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