We kick the decade off with an irreverent look at the last month of news. Kicking off with YouTube’s Christmas crypto purge, shifting into New Year Drone displays, and taking a hard brake alongside Craig Wright’s 2019 Bitcoin predictions.
The economy is fine, quantitative easing is just a bit of light entertainment, and China is building self-sustaining cities in the middle of Africa… All is well.
Nevertheless, drone deliveries are becoming a thing, an autonomous fighter jet is undergoing trials, and Segway are creating the dystopian utopia we’ve all been dreaming of.
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Show Links
- [Intro] The Assassination of Soleimani: What You Need to Know
- [Intro] Roger Ver on Bitcoin vs War
- Elevation — Drone Documentary
- Bitcoin Times — Edition 2
- YouTube’s Crypto Xmas Purge
- Google’s Censorship Of Cryptocurrencies Goes Way Beyond YouTube
- Christmas Gift: Shenzhen Stock Exchange Launches Index of 50 Blockchain Firms
- Singapore Made NYE Virtual Clock With Drones
- Shanghai Pre-recorded NYE Drones
- CNBC: “Goldman Sachs is saying the economy is nearly recession-proof”
- Central banks to unleash billions as QE is rebooted
- Clarke & Dawe — Quantitative Easing
- China Is Building Enormous Self-Sustaining Chinese Cities All Over The African Continent
- The FOMO Show on China’s Belt & Road [Skip to 34m 7s]
- China Confirms Birth of Third Gene-edited Baby
- Deus Ex: The Visionary Game That Predicted the Future
- Google Adds Interpreter Mode for Real-Time Translations to Assistant on Phones
- U.S. Commercial Drone Deliveries Will Finally Be a Thing in 2020
- Elevation — Drone Documentary
- Boeing’s Autonomous Fighter Jet Will Fly Over the Australian Outback
- Okhotnik (“Hunter”) — Russia’s Autonomous Heavy Strike Drone
- Autonomous Ship Mayflower — Set to Sail in Sept?
- Segway’s New “Personal Transporter Pod” Looks Familiar
Show Segments
0:00 Intro: Soleimani, Iran, Bitcoin
1:56 Welcome!
2:45 Disclaimer
3:11 What We’ve Been Up To
8:54 Privacy & Security + Bitcoin Basics
9:19 YouTube’s Christmas Purge
14:17 Shenzen Stock Exchange Launch Blockchain Index
15:43 Drones Becoming Big Part of NYE Fireworks
17:20 Dr Wrong? Jan 1st Craig Wright Update
20:29 Bitcoin Halving
23:13 CNBC: Goldman Say US Economy is Nearly Recession-Proof
24:21 Quantitative Easing Strikes Back
28:11 China Is Building Enormous Cities All Over Africa
35:17 China Confirms 3rd GM Baby Born
38:54 Google Launch Interpreter — Real-time Language Translation
40:54 Commercial Drone Deliveries – Heading for Mainstream?
44:19 Autonomous Boeing Fighter Jet Beta Testing in Australia
47:48 Autonomous Ship Mayflower — Set to Sail in Sept?
50:08 Segway’s New Wall-E-inspired Chair-Transport-Thing
55:44 Wrap Up
57:00 Outtakes
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