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Un/Chain Democracy - Blockchain, Crypto, NFTs

Panel

“Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.” Donna Haraway, The Cyborg Manifesto

One might look at blockchain based technologies from the perspective of potentials, only. A panacea. Others see problems in it. Maybe even so-called wicked problems, that have the tendency to create new problems while solving one issue. But maybe that’s the nature of grand challenges, they ask us to embrace complexity.

In this session we the stage to an open inquiry into many more than the two sides of the coin of blockchain technology, crypto currencies and more of the developments in Web3, NFTs and the like.

With critical perspectives from technology philosophy, Jürgen Geuter aka tante, in conversation with the promotion of the many chances the blockchain may provide, Max Hartmann from Blockchance and practical insights into thin lines of application of blockchain based technologies in globally operating developmental initiatives, Geraldine de Bastion, Global Innovation Gatherings – hosted by Christoph Weiss aka Operator Burstup.