Peter Wicher

Avid mountain biker, cook, and creative business thinker. I use my experiences as a tech executive, educator, and technologist to help leaders perceive tech's exponential growth, and its impacts.

I GPT-4’d With Abraham Lincoln. He Has a Solid Twitter Game Members Public

Steve Jobs wanted to talk with Aristotle. GPT-4 shows a path to a near future when we will be able to converse with history's pivotal figures.

Peter Wicher
Peter Wicher
ChatGPT

The Beginning of the End of Our Stone Age Members Public

Digital technologies keep changing faster, but we’re still the same humans, nestled in today’s context, thinking incrementally and not stressing our imagination muscles hard enough.

Peter Wicher
Peter Wicher
Innovation
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Con Artists Use Age-Old Scams On The Crypto Frontier: Part-4 Members Public

Blockchains’ have vast potential to solve critical problems in property ownership, academic records, materials sourcing, and even personal identity. As with core technologies like the steam engine and the internet in their early days, we have yet to imagine the full extent of blockchain’s benefits.

Peter Wicher
Peter Wicher
Cryptocurrency

Big Problems That Are Ripe For Startups To Solve Members Public

If you want to make a billion dollars, figure out how to help a billion people. Even in the middle of the greatest pandemic in 100 years, global venture funding is smashing previous records, including $288B invested in the first six months of 2021.

Peter Wicher
Peter Wicher
Startups

A Robotics Startup’s Manufacturing Design Win Journey Members Public

There are 370,000 manufacturing companies in the United States today. That is more manufacturing companies in the US alone than Apple employees globally.

Peter Wicher
Peter Wicher
Robots
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IOHK’s Cardano Blockchain to Bolster Ethiopian Students’ Identities Members Public

Identity is a pressing global challenge. The World Bank estimated that 1 billion people do not have any official proof of identity. Even in developed countries, your identity is often based on perishable paper artifacts like birth certificates.

Peter Wicher
Peter Wicher
Blockchain

Age-Old Cons Live Again on The Cryptocurrency Frontier Part 3: Pump-And-Dump Members Public

Cryptocurrencies are largely unregulated: crypto pump-and-dumps are legal. Combine thousands of thinly traded tokens, millions of Marks believing it’s possible to score an instant crypto fortune, 24/7 media coverage, and what do you get?

Peter Wicher
Peter Wicher
Cryptocurrency
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Age-Old Cons Live Again on The Cryptocurrency Frontier Part 2: Rug Pulls Members Public

Most crypto grifts are classic cons remodeled to match 21st-century tech. We humans have been trying to get over each other for most of our existence, and these schemes have long, successful histories.

Peter Wicher
Peter Wicher
Cryptocurrency