3a) The Future of Popular Music?

3a) Here’s a free business idea for you: Start a universal registry of NFT music owners’ names, preserved for eternity on blockchain, but updated with each change of ownership—and give free shares to record labels and star musicians who sign up as participants. The musicians and labels still retain all their intellectual property rights, but you’ve given them some sizzle to sell along with their stakes. And each of them receives partial ownership in the registry business for free, just by joining—so their participation is a no-brainer. It’s like the “name a star” registry, but with the kinds of stars that really matter.

Not only is the NFT owner recognized on this proposed blockchain, but the entire lineage, including every previous owner—traced back to original seller (or recording artist)—is preserved as well. Now Jeff Bezos can point proudly to an entire family tree tracing his ownership in Kind of Blue back to Miles Davis himself. That’s an NFT proposition to make billionaires salivate like Pavlovian poodles in a belfry. 

Ted Gioia – Would You Buy Shares in Your Favorite Musician?

5a) Daily Zen

 

5a1a) "The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic." 

Arthur C. Clarke on the future, BBC Horizons 1964

5a1b) The issue at its core is that bosses hiring people “full-time” often do so, as dramatic as it sounds, to capture their soul. Within the hours of 9 to 5 (but let’s be real, it’s more than that), they expect to own the time, attention and energy of that person. The nebulous badge of “full-time” brings with it a level of ownership of the person - they cannot go elsewhere, what they create is yours, on some level they are yours, because you have deigned them worthy of a salary and benefits and whatever other crumbs you pass their way. In return, you expect them to dedicate their existence to you - on levels of dramatic ranging from “I need to see you in the office” to “I want to make sure I can text you at 10PM and badger you about some shit that bothers me.”

Ed Z – The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses' Brains

5a1c) "Um...I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow...

5a1c) It is both baffling and banal that Clarke's prediction has not fully been realized due to social memes that appeared during the Industrial Revolution. But before we head too far down the path of humans frustrating foibles, here are some additional areas of nascent technology that imagine greater. What will the next five decades look like?

5a2) All the World's Data in DNA | Dina Zielinski | TEDxVienna

5a3) Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics