This Car Can Display NFTs…and Emotions?
TL;DR
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Mercedes unveiled an idea automotive that has an ‘emotional’ AI assistant, and shows its proprietor’s NFT assortment.
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“What’re you even doing right here?? There’s no place for you beneath this roof!”
Was this:
A) Our response to seeing blockchain know-how on the Client Electronics Present (CES)?
OR
B) What we stated to our mother’s boyfriend, Greg, when he got here to Christmas dinner that one time after we have been 10?
Whether or not you answered A) or B), you’re right.
(Congrats!)
In the present day we’re going to focus in on level A), and have a look at blockchain tech’s newest product integration, featured at CES.
(Full disclaimer: this text shouldn’t be filed beneath “That is cool” as a lot appropriately “That is gimmicky”).
Right here’s what we’re on about:
Mercedes lately unveiled an idea automotive that has an ‘emotional’ AI assistant, and shows its proprietor’s NFT assortment.
And should you’re questioning “who is that this ‘emotive NFT automotive‘ for?” The reply is: nobody, actually (these sorts of idea vehicles nearly by no means go into manufacturing).
However we’re getting off subject…
Right here’s why there’s no place for blockchain tech at CES (at the least, because it presently stands):
Blockchain is predominantly an infrastructure know-how.
That means it ought to (ideally) function within the background, with out the tip shopper being aware of it.
The identical means that whenever you watch a present on Netflix, you’re not actively conscious that the video is being hosted/streamed from an Amazon Net Companies (AWS) server to your TV.
…so the place does blockchain ‘match’ within the current tech panorama?
Wherever the place digital worth is being exchanged, however hasn’t but been:
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Monetized
E.g. Accumulating/buying and selling digital objects inside a online game.OR
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Globally unified/standardized
E.g. Borderless, stateless, super-low price banking.
(Neither of which want a sales space at CES simply but).
