Wassim Alsindi

Presentation

Digital currencies and artificial intelligence are two key fields of technology that are radically shaping how we trade and share things online, how do they intersect and what is necessary in order to understand their impact and governance? Technologist, writer and editor, Wassim Alsindi shares their views on the role that ‘digital translators’ play in bridging expert and lay views.

Biography

Wassim Alsindi is the founder and creative director of the 0xSalon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and he co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems Journal and Conference Series. Wassim has curated arts festivals, led a sculptural engineering laboratory and published experimental music, satirical theatre, fiction, games, poetry, and speculative scripture. Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast supramolecular photophysics from the University of Nottingham.

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Date of publication

Sat 13 Jan 2024