Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Steve Fisher
142 episodes
4 days ago
Emmanuel Daniel unpacks how digital finance prioritized monetization over true inclusion, then traces a larger shift from markets to networks where information compounds value. We test CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and ask whether debt has become the economy shaping tech, geopolitics, and personal wealth. • VC‑driven digital finance and unmet inclusion claims • Personalization versus centralization in money and platforms • The ice trade analogy for financial inefficiency • CBDCs st...
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Emmanuel Daniel unpacks how digital finance prioritized monetization over true inclusion, then traces a larger shift from markets to networks where information compounds value. We test CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and ask whether debt has become the economy shaping tech, geopolitics, and personal wealth. • VC‑driven digital finance and unmet inclusion claims • Personalization versus centralization in money and platforms • The ice trade analogy for financial inefficiency • CBDCs st...
Think Forward EP 140: Afro Rhythms, Storytelling and Breaking Through with Ahmed Best
Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
43 minutes
2 weeks ago
Think Forward EP 140: Afro Rhythms, Storytelling and Breaking Through with Ahmed Best
What if the people best equipped to shape tomorrow aren’t engineers first—but emotional athletes? Our guest, Ahmed Best—actor, educator, Afrofuturist, and the pioneering performer behind Jar Jar Binks—shows how art can lead technology, not chase it. From South Bronx summers where hip‑hop was born to conversations with George Lucas at Lucasfilm, Ahmed traces a life lived at the edge of invention and explains why trusting artists to drive the tools changed cinema—and could change the future. W...
Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Emmanuel Daniel unpacks how digital finance prioritized monetization over true inclusion, then traces a larger shift from markets to networks where information compounds value. We test CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and ask whether debt has become the economy shaping tech, geopolitics, and personal wealth. • VC‑driven digital finance and unmet inclusion claims • Personalization versus centralization in money and platforms • The ice trade analogy for financial inefficiency • CBDCs st...
