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

Future Technologies is 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.

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast and your host Juliet Lamar and joining us today is Seth Shapiro. He is the founder and

CEO at Alpha Network. Welcome Seth. Hi nice to see you. Nice to talk to you today.

Absolutely, we're so excited to have you on.

And I know you've had an exciting week. You just went off to Berlin, so we're going to have to touch

based on that about what you're doing over there. But first off, can you tell us a little bit of an overview about Alpha Network?

Yeah, I've been working in digital media in Hollywood, New York about 24 years

with a lot of the major networks and distributors and production companies

specifically in TV but also in other digital areas and

alpha networks is a new blockchain enabled streaming video service powered by Watson AI that will be

launching in Q2 of 2019.

Very cool. So I guess I'm still a little bit confused

about what it does. So it's blockchain technology and it's going to be working with things like online streaming video, Netflix.

Give us some case scenarios.

Well, there are a lot of genres that actually aren't covered by current content offerings.

And there's also, as you probably know, some holes in the current way that streaming video works,

for example, a very small percentage of people who do streaming video services can make a living doing it.

They're also significantly underrepresented genres, so there's a real opportunity we think through the

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