🔮 DAO research; Laser fusion; climate migration; clean hydrogen & vegan eggs ++ #336

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

What is the Exponential Age, and how will the gap between our industrial-era institutions and exponentially growing technology platforms define the coming decades? These are some of the questions I tackle in my book Exponential (The Exponential Age in the US & Canada). Pre-order today.

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A milestone for open research

🧬 For the first time, IP was transferred and funded on a blockchain as an NFT, and is now owned by a decentralised autonomous organisation. According to Paul Kohlhaas, in an informative Twitter thread. (h/t EV member Dave Goldblatt). This event represents full legal IP rights and data access control for biotech research and data. This feels like a milestone. It unlocks the risk involved in the research and development of IP via a DAO by distributing that risk and spreading the inc…