Blockchain Keys Unlock a Murky Metaverse - Alison McDowell, #437

Blockchain Keys Unlock a Murky Metaverse: What You Don’t Know About Digital Twins Could Hurt You Blockchain is foundational to tracking assets from the material world into the digital world and necessary to make the metaverse happen; WEF’s planned Internet of Bodies; blockchain – liberation or incarceration; oversight and compliance; digital currencies programmable and controllable; blockchain less about money and more about identity management; national security and public health to enforce a blockchain identity; pandemic used to bring digital identity online; all of your data poured into a digital twin; a digital identifier linked to how you are able to move in the world; programs piloted through global aid systems; global finance defense sector coercion through technology; electronic government on blockchain; UN sustainable development goals on a planetary computing system; executive function research in children to focus on cognitive neuroscience to shape their minds to fit into a world of data analytics; children put on blockchain to earn digital capital; children tracked as commodities; attempt to digitally twin the world; cracking the code of life. Aired: October 6, 2021 Visit Guns and Butter at: www.gunsandbutter.org Subscribe to our newsletter at: eepurl.com/bmg4zf