Insureblocks Blockchain & Smart Contracts In Insurance

Ep. 102 – Rise of the autonomous economic agents – insights from Fetch.ai

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Humayun Sheikh is the CEO & co-Founder of Fetch.ai. Fetch.ai is an 18 months old company that develops solutions around multi agent systems that utilises the principles of the technology behind blockchain. In this podcast we discuss Fetch.ai and how autonomous economic agents can transact and settle transactions autonomously in an economic manner to facilitate the exchange of insights and inferences without the sharing of data sets. ***Image taken on the 27th of February prior to social distancing***   What is blockchain? For Humayun, blockchain is just a record keeping mechanism that has the unique feature that enables people to interact with it in a decentralised manner without the need for a centralised entity to control it. Its other interesting feature is that you can exchange economic value on it which makes it a key differentiator from a centralised database.   Challenges of today’s suboptimal digital world In today’s digital world we use a lot of technology. Unfortunately, it is done in different