The Good Parts of our Future Tech Dystopia
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Robert and Garrison traveled through a portal to the future located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Now they're going to tell you what (good) things to expect from our techno overlords.
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| 0:00.0 | It could happen here. It being the future and here being to you. Um, this while last week, |
| 0:14.0 | when you hear this, but this week when we're recording this because we're recording this |
| 0:18.9 | in the past for you, Garrison Davis, uh, intrepid correspondent and myself, Garrison Davis's |
| 0:26.6 | boss went to CES, the consumer electronics show in 2023 in order to explore the future, uh, |
| 0:35.3 | and in keeping with our guide, both to the future, which we cover here and collapse because the |
| 0:41.9 | tech industry is falling apart. Um, I think this was a pretty interesting time to be at CES. I didn't |
| 0:47.0 | episode last week where I kind of talked to preliminary, uh, about some preliminaries. You |
| 0:52.2 | know, I went to an event called CES unveiled where some of the more prominent products were there, |
| 0:56.8 | but we've, we've since spent three days walking around the convention floor, probably around 30 |
| 1:02.2 | miles on foot, something like that. My legs and back are falling apart. Yeah. Yeah. We've turned |
| 1:07.3 | you into an old man. Um, but we have, we have learned what the future is going to be. Uh, and I am, |
| 1:14.4 | I boy, how do I'm excited to tell the folks what they can expect. Garrison, where do you, |
| 1:18.9 | where do you think we should start? Hmm. Let's start with some of the more collapsing type things, |
| 1:24.6 | revolving around crypto because crypto was kind of like the white elephant in the CES because |
| 1:31.8 | this is happening right after the FTX, uh, Fiasco. So it's, it's kind of, it's kind of a weird. |
| 1:39.1 | It was, uh, we saw it printed the word crypto and web 3.0 printed on more stuff that I heard |
| 1:45.2 | people talk about. Yeah. People weren't people were not talking about it the way I think they would |
| 1:49.7 | have been definitely definitely last CES, but even, even like a few months ago. |
| 1:53.8 | Mm hmm. And that was really interesting. Um, we did sit in at one crypto industry event where it |
| 2:01.0 | was a group of like French regulators. Yeah. Um, and French crypto business people talking about |
| 2:08.4 | what they felt like regulations were basically in the, in the wake of the FTX collapse, |
| 2:12.8 | what kind of regulations did they think would make crypto work? Yeah. And you might have caught more |
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