Join Joshua Dávila for a discussion on harnessing blockchain technology to rebuild our economic and social systems towards a more equitable future.
Dávila has been working in the European blockchain space for the past five years and has been anonymously moonlighting as the one behind The Blockchain Socialist blog and podcast. While crypto is often considered synonymous with unbridled capitalism, Dávila’s book Blockchain Radicals shows instead how the technology can and has been used for more radical purposes, beyond individual profit and towards collective autonomy.
FUTURES Podcast has partnered with SPACE4 and Housmans Bookshop to present a series of live events about the impact of capitalism on digital technology.
Speakers
Joshua Dávila
Joshua Dávila has been working in the blockchain space for the past five years in Europe and has been anonymously moonlighting as the one behind The Blockchain Socialist blog and podcast. He is also the co-director of the upcoming documentary Crypto Futures which explores the alternative economic imaginaries of the crypto ecosystem that the mainstream media doesn’t cover.
Moderated by
Luke Robert Mason
Luke Robert Mason is a futures theorist who studies the technological developments that will alter what it means to be human. He is the host of the FUTURES Podcast where he explores the topics of artificial intelligence, human enhancement, space travel and virtual reality. Throughout his career, he has interviewed hundreds of the world’s most influential thinkers on their visions for the future. These insights have informed his collaborations with innovators in the fields of advanced science, emerging technology, and the arts; and have provided him with a unique perspective on the world of tomorrow. He is currently an ESRC-funded postgraduate student at the University of Warwick where he is studying towards a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on the public perception of humanoid robots.
Featured Book
Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft and scams. The problem is real, but it isn’t a new one. Capitalism has ruined crypto, but that shouldn’t be the end of it.
Blockchain Radicals shows us how this has happened, and how to fix crypto in a way that is understandable for those who have never owned a cryptocurrency as well as those who are building their own decentralised applications. Covering everything from how Bitcoin saved WikiLeaks to decentralised finance, worker cooperatives, the environmental impact of
Bitcoin and NFTs, and the crypto commons, it shows how these new tools can be used to challenge capitalism and build a better world for all of us.
While crypto is often thought of as being synonymous with unbridled capitalism, Blockchain Radicals shows instead how the technology can and has been used for more radical purposes, beyond individual profit and towards collective autonomy.
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About the SPACE4 (Venue)
SPACE4 is part of Outlandish, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. They are interested in tech for good, progressive economics, and social change. They provide co-working, meeting, and event space, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists.
About Housmans Bookshop
Housmans is the longest continuous-running radical bookshop in Britain, established in 1945 and based in London’s Kings Cross since 1959. They specialise in books, magazines, and periodicals of radical interest and progressive politics, such as feminism, pacifism, Black politics, LGBTQIA+ politics, environmental justice and anarchism.
Ticket Information
The £5 charge for this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. Tickets are free for journalists and members of the press. Contact info@futurespodcast.net for more information.