DigitalFutures.co – The Near Future of Digital Currency

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

People love plastic. Despite the advantages of digital currency, people still love their credit cards; secure and familiar in the old paradigm, the shift to digital currencies has been slow. And yet, it is inevitable that things will change.
Manie Eagar sees this change happening soon. "There's a great convergence taking place," he says. "Very very exciting new paradigms are starting to emerge."

"Tell me about this convergence," I say.
For years, Manie Eagar has worked in the financial sector—specifically big banks, like Barclays. As he explains The Great Convergence, I can tell I'm talking to an expert, and a thought leader.
"You may have heard of a project in Kenya called M-Pesa, where you can literally trade your airtime—or the minutes on your phone—for cash. And exchange it back again. So you literally have a little bank in your pocket."
Tune in to hear the rest of Manie Eagar's take on the near future of digital currency. Subscribe, review, and if you can, consider donating a few BitCoins to the cause. Every little bit helps.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.1	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. Today, my guest is Manny Eager of Digital Futures.com.
0:34.9	Mani, how you doing?
0:36.1	Very well, thanks yourself.
0:38.3	Thanks for having me.
0:40.0	Yeah, I'm glad you're here.
0:44.7	Would you give listeners a brief synopsis of what Digital Futures does?
0:51.1	Digital Futures is consulting, and we've done some software development in the past as well, which we currently in stealth mode producing something in the blockchain space.
0:58.5	Digital features really looks at the whole intersection between technology applications and
1:05.3	the user interface, especially at the large enterprise, even government level, but also at the personal
1:12.4	level where people can use these tools, obviously, for productivity, for communications,
1:18.6	to improve business processes, whatever the case might be. And of course, depending on context,
1:25.4	and the type of technology that is being deployed.
1:29.3	And we'll talk further, but there's a great convergence taking place between a range of technologies
1:34.7	which will explore in this discussion.
1:37.5	Very, very exciting new paradigms starting to emerge.
1:41.7	And that's really digital futures key focus area.
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