From solar farms in Earth’s orbit, to “invisible e-waste” and the eerie sounds of a black hole.
Briar Prestidge
CEO & Founder | Award-Winning Doco Producer, Executive Branding, Publicist | Metaverse Advisor for INTERPOL | Futurist & Avatar Tech-Fashion Designer
?? AI has entered the group chat: This chatbot platform, which offers customizable AI companions, is now offering a group chat experience where users and their friends can chat with multiple AI characters at once.
?? This UK company plans to construct a 2km-long solar farm in space , with the goal of beaming energy back to Earth's surface.
?? A hope for humanity? A monkey transplanted with a genetically engineered pig kidney managed to live for over two years (758 days) , proving a potential breakthrough for xenotransplantation.
??? Dubai has launched a ChatGPT-style digital city concierge , dubbed ‘Dubai AI’, which will offer comprehensive information and services to all residents and visitors across the city.
???♂? Delete yourself: California lawmakers passed a bill known as the Delete Act that would allow consumers to have every data broker delete their personal information.
?? Listening to space: Astronomers are using a process called data sonification to interpret data collected from space into sounds that the human ear can interpret.
?? At the start of this month, and in a bold move against climate change, the EU has implemented a Europe-wide tax on carbon-intensive imported goods like cement, steel, and fertilizer.
?? Passwords are so 1995: Google is looking to make them obsolete by prompting users to create passkeys to unlock accounts and devices with a fingerprint, face scan, or pin number.
?? This year, International E-Waste Day will focus on 'invisible e-waste,’ items like unused cables, electronic toys, vaping devices, and other small consumer products that often go unnoticed by consumers.
?? Behold the world’s largest digital camera , the work of Chilean scientists. Its subject of choice? An entirely ‘invisible’ substance—dark matter.
??Believe in the block: JPMorgan has carried out its first live blockchain-based collateral settlement transaction , involving BlackRock and Barclays.
This week I’m curious about…
?? This Quote?
“We are smart enough to realize that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.”
?? This Conversation?
If humans become extinct, what would be the next species to evolve and take our place??
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??? This HYPERSCALE Podcast Guest?
"People who say 'Why should you live longer? That's not normal.' Go back a little bit. It was normal to die at 20 or 30, or 40 at best. So why is today's lifespan exactly right? That's obviously nonsense."
― Max More
Full episode here:?
?? This Book:?
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR, BRIAR PRESTIDGE:
Based between New York and Dubai, Briar Prestidge is a serial entrepreneur, CEO, trusted advisor and author.
Briar is the founder and CEO of Prestidge Group , a leading personal branding, PR and speaker relations agency managing HNWI, C-level executives, tech experts, celebrities, government officials and investors.
Her corporate power suit collection BRIAR PRESTIDGE - The Label is a premium label made from fine wool and cashmere. At the world’s first Metaverse Fashion Week, the Label dropped its spin-off NFT power suits for avatars on Decentraland.
Briar sits on the Advisory Board for Interpol as a Metaverse Advisor, the Advisory Board for the Metaverse Fashion Council, and serves as a Strategic Advisor for Imagin3 Studio, specialized in future-proofing organizations by preparing them for Web3.?
In 2022, she produced the documentary '48 Hours in the Metaverse,' where Briar travelled to 33 virtual worlds and interviewed 21 metaverse experts and VR build builders. She is currently producing a second documentary about transhumanism, life extensions and how humans will become ‘cyborgs.’?
Briar has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Emirates Woman, Grazia, The National, and Marie Claire (among others) in recognition of her work. LEARN MORE