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Today, we look at the problem of modern slavery and how it intersects with wildlife conservation. This subject is brought to the fore by growing interest in using blockchain technologies to illuminate the business processes which conceal the presence of slavery. Our guests are Brian Iselin, founder of SlaveFreeTrade.org, and Bubba Cook, Western and Central Pacific Tuna Programme Manager for the World Wildlife Fund. This episode was co-hosted and edited by Alexis Kenyon. Inevitably, some of this material will be disturbing. slavefreetrade.org wwf.org consensysmedia.net

Recalling State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, we discussed at length the value of attention. Today we take this subject to it’s maximum extend. Software engineer Simon de la Rouviere and biochemical engineer Meher Roy shed light on how the battle for our attention is the basis for the online economy. We see it in the business models of two of the biggest companies on earth — Facebook and Google. That ever present question of how blockchain will affect these dynamics hangs over the discourse. Simon envisions a post scarcity world in which the only remaining economy is the attention economy. Meher takes a more conservative position. Between these two perspectives we get a foundational understanding of the dynamics involved, and a view of how they might evolve. https://twitter.com/MeherRoy https://twitter.com/simondlr itunes.apple.com/podcast/state…d1088310627?mt=2 twitter.com/Statechange_ Statechange.net

While today decentralization seems like a revelation, one thinker more than any other stands as its chief proponent. In 1945 Friedrich Hayek bucked the post war fashion of command-control thinking and announced the futility of central economic or societal planning. His essay, The Use of Knowledge in Society, is a concise and accurate argument for the organizing principles of the internet, horizontal organizations, and blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Guests: Jeffrey Tucker: CLO of Liberty.me, Director of Digital Development at The Foundation for Economic Education https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker Stephen Macaskill: President, Blockchain Association of New Zealand, former CEO of Amagi Metals an e-commerce precious metals company. https://twitter.com/orderofstuff Kirk Dameron of ConsenSys, Adjunct Professor Regis University, VP of Operations, Altius Space Machines https://twitter.com/ConsenSysKirk https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/state-change/id1088310627?mt=2 https://twitter.com/Statechange_ Statechange.net

Today we compare in-depth the self-sovereign and federated models of identity. Why is our means of proving who we are important? Well, for one thing, relying on an authority which doesn’t have our best interests at heart to manage our identity is one of the many problems exploited by the decentralized propaganda machine described last episode. Our guests today are Christian Lundkvist, senior technologist at ConsenSys and Chief Architect and Researcher of the uPort self sovereign identity platform, and Steve Wilson, has spent 22 years researching identity, 14 of which has been independent. Steve currently leads the independent research business, Lockstep and is also working with Constellation Research where he studies blockchain technology. Christian Lundkvist: https://twitter.com/ChrisLundkvist Stephen Wilson: https://twitter.com/Steve_Lockstep https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/state-change/id1088310627?mt=2 https://twitter.com/Statechange_ Statechange.net