Futurist Friday with Daniel Sisson

Over the course of the summer of 2022, we released 12 interviews with futurists and forward thinkers in order to help our global audience of leaders become better visionaries for their organizations and be more prepared for our uncertain future. This is the final of the 12 interviews.

In this episode, Daniel Sisson joins the show. With an international business background, Daniel has spent his career in the San Francisco tech industry in a wide variety of roles for startup companies. He is a self-taught developer obsessed with virtual reality. the Metaverse. and the potential those technologies will present to the world.

In this interview, Daniel shares some of the newsletter sources he finds valuable for his research, he talks about political polarization in the United States and Europe, and he discusses the technologies he finds fascinating including virtual reality, the Metaverse, cryptocurrency and blockchain, artificial intelligence and robotics, and even space colonization. The interview concludes with what fills Daniel with optimism - the rise of the creator class and the attitudes of young people who are putting an emphasis on the “life” part of work/life balance.

“I’m very bullish on crypto and blockchain in the long run. I think probably 99% of the projects that exist today will fail or are B.S. That doesn’t mean the underlying concepts or technology are not going to be world changing. That final 1% will probably fundamentally alter society as we know it.” Daniel Sisson in “Futurist Friday with Daniel Sisson” talking about the current status and future possibilities of cryptocurrencies.

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