The Dark Side Of Decentralization — with Audrey Kurth Cronin

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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These days, there's enthusiastic talk about the possibilities of decentralized technologies, like cryptocurrencies and 3D printing. But decentralization is cast in a different light when we're talking about decentralized weaponry. This week on Your Undivided Attention, security expert Audrey Kurth Cronin guides us in an exploration of decentralized weaponry throughout history, how social media is a new decentralized weapon, and how to wisely navigate these threats.

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0:00.0	Is decentralization inherently a good thing?
0:04.3	It's a big trend now.
0:05.4	People are talking about Web 3, or having decentralized
0:08.6	social media platforms where you own your own data,
0:11.3	decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, or 3D printing,
0:15.5	where people can fabricate anything they want at home.
0:19.0	But if the world lived on Bitcoin,
0:21.9	then you can no longer sanction countries like Russia
0:24.2	when they invade sovereign nations.
0:26.1	And if you decentralize 3D printing,
0:28.1	then anyone can print their own weapons at home.
0:31.7	Decentralization takes on new meaning
0:33.9	when we're talking about decentralizing the capacity
0:36.9	for catastrophic destruction.
0:40.2	I'm Tristan Harris.
0:41.8	And this is your undivided attention,
0:44.4	the podcast from the Center for Human Technology.
0:47.5	Today on the show, we're going to explore the decentralization
0:51.0	of dangerous technologies throughout history
0:53.7	and how social media might be a new decentralized weapon.
0:58.5	Here to guide us in that exploration
1:00.1	is Audrey Kirth-Kronin, one of the world's leading experts
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