Welcome to the start of the next 100 episodes. In this inaugural episode of season 2, Tom and I discuss the context of how the practices and attitudes from 20th century history have led to this moment. These include the Cold War, advertising, debt, the internet and unsustainable, wasteful power concentration in an economic and political system known as corporatism.

We then get into how exactly information technology such as blockchain will decentralize and transform every aspect of society away from concentrated power toward interconnected innovation, empowerment, personalization and options. How it will enable ideas like universal basic income and disable the idea that a massive central authority is capable of making wise decisions and interventions on behalf of everyone.

How it can merge novel and meaningful experiences with a social fabric that complexly connects humanity to family, community, environment, creativity and self both physically and digitally. The idea of an ethical and intellectual framework known as technological humanism and the Matrix subplot about the defeat of cynicism and nihilism also find their ways into this longer than usual conversation.