Tech Frontiers Explained: Blockchain, Web3, and AI with Futurist Theo Priestley

In this episode, Jay Steinback, yWhales Founder & CEO, and Siva Avvaru, yWhales Solutions Managing Director, speak with Theo Priestley, futurist, international speaker, author, and authority on the future of business. Theo discusses the current state of the cryptocurrency market, its relationship with AI technology, and highlights the stability of Bitcoin and the positive impact of ETFs, particularly the one filed by BlackRock, on consumer confidence. He also emphasizes the increasing importance of AI development and its potential to revolutionize the market. Jay, Siva, and Theo also discuss why blockchain technology may be better suited for machine interpretation rather than human use. 

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About Guests:

Theo Priestley is a globally recognised and sought-after futurist and international speaker, author, and authority on the future of business, technology and society focusing on the convergence of emerging trends, including Web3, Spatial Computing and Artificial Intelligence. 

He is widely known and sought after for his forthright views on both the positive and the negative impacts of technology on society and currently works to inform political and business leaders of the risks and benefits of adoption.

 

Theo has been listed as a Top 100 global technology influencer and thought leader on Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/ AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Fintech multiple years in a row.

Priestley has worked with some of the biggest names in tech and business including SAP, Siemens, Bosch, Software AG, AON, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise - consulting, speaking for, and advising on strategic foresight, and emerging technologies. He has mentored for a number of startup accelerators including the HTC ViveX VR incubator and Alchemist, one of Silicon Valley's Top 10, and gives guest lectures at Universities. He has published more than 300 articles on topics including Web3, Artificial Intelligence, Space, Blockchain, Metaverse, and Mixed Reality, for Forbes, the European, WIRED, Huffington Post, and more. 

 

An energetic, informative, and polished speaker, he has engaged groups ranging from 20-2000 on emerging technology trends and their impact on society and business, and featured talks have taken place globally at conferences, corporate events, meetups, webinars, and innovation boot camps.

Timestamps: 

0:36 Jay’s intro

1:45 Theo’s intro

4:50 The promise of blockchain

16:05 Where we are in the Web3 adoption cycle

20:16 Adoption & standardization

28:36 The AI interruption

31:11 Regulating AI

40:30 Where we are in the LLM cycle

49:25 The confluence of tech

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