Rob Long Returns! Interplanetary File System, Digital Sovereignty & Sim City

Rob Long is a data engineer, amateur philosopher and crypto experimenter.  Rob Long met with Vance Crowe in studio for a discussion about the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), NFT's, the future of personal server storage, art and dreams.

Vance & Rob discuss Will Wright (creator of Sim City) Game Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdgQyq3hEPo

Rob Long's interview with Shaun Newman: https://www.shaunnewmanpodcast.com/podcast-1/episode/2b131638/episode-161-rob-long

Chapters:

3:16 Start
6:06 100 Books for life
10:39 Being Intellectually Offensive
12:29 What is IPFS?
19:22 Government Enforced Monopoly
22:51 Servers as a home appliance
28:26 NFTs
33:04 Being early on Bitcoin
43:40 The Trough of Disillusionment 
48:56 Engrossing Games
59:38 Why Write blogs on RSS?

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