71. This thing drives itself
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Tech is down and crypto is up as rates rise in the US and UK. But 0.75% has different meanings on either side of the Atlantic in our market update.
Then this week we go deep on autonomous vehicles because suddenly everyone’s a critic. Triggered by a harmless TechCrunch article.
This Week in Crypto looks at Meta’s embrace of arweave for NFTs on Insta; and in NFTs we cover the Meebits MB1.1 relaunch, clarify which NFT projects survive, and make sense of Art Gobblers.
And FYI we’re going dark for a month, so stay warm.
Links we mentioned:
The article “It’s time to admit self-driving cars aren’t going to happen” by TechCrunch’s Darrell Etherington:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/27/self-driving-cars-arent-going-to-happen/amp/
Elon promising self driving “next year” supercut:
https://youtu.be/o7oZ-AQszEI
SunGod sunglasses:
https://www.sungod.co/?r=PPoVcICTbd
Instagram announces meaningful NFT marketplace:
https://twitter.com/Meta/status/1587929277864910849?s=20&t=jjrYpyRMNNyNgSUsrSdYZQ
The Meebits relaunch:
https://turnon.meebits.app/
Art Gobblers:
https://artgobblers.com/
Small Time Bets across TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Discord, merch and more:
https://linktr.ee/smalltimebets
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Jonathan and Douglas check in to see where their 2023 predictions landed; and then look ahead to very specific 2024 predictions covering tech, politics, markets and mashed peas.
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Published 12/18/23
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