Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Future Tech Podcast.

I'm your host, Juliet Lamar, and we have with us today, Chris B, he is the founding director

at Cardstock Project. Chris, thank you so much for joining us.

Nice to be here.

So why don't you start us off with giving us an overview of the Cardstock project?

Yeah, the Carthack Project started out as an open source project, imagining a future where

software can work together for a person and not requiring you to bend yourself into different silos,

different tabs in your browser, different apps on your icon.

You are one person.

We want to create that very broad, assemble, and the capability for you to mix and match and stuff.

And the reason we call it card is because, you know, little pieces of card in your wallet or in your drawers, you own.

And you can kind of mix them and create whatever collage you want.

We like that in physical goods.

But in digital stuff, it's really hard to do it.

Sometimes we do it through embed codes and embedding things in your blog.

It doesn't really completely have that joy of shuffling things around

and the physical thing. And we want to create a version of that for tech, so it's as tactile,

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