so inflect came out of cultural lens at
this technology movement I studied
culture anthropology so when I read the
etherion white Peter White paper I had a
different experience than you maybe
didn't walk away dreaming about Merkel
trees but instead about the future of
culture that this was going to catalyze
so inflect when we look at the history
of the web from a cultural lens sort of
break it down into three areas which is
probably different than your version of
web one and two and three but for me I
see the first era as about awareness so
you have things like chat rooms leading
the things like Facebook it's all about
communication leading to digital
identity mostly digital identity and 2d
so representations of the self and then
that leads to mobilizations so we have
things like Kickstarter things like uber
and we see capital property ideas
resources things that are moving around
in different ways and forming different
kinds of organizations and starts to
change a little bit the nature of work
work not for everyone obviously but a
possibility and then also something like
the Arab Spring so the Arab Spring is
interesting because you have revolutions
or protests that are popping up and for
the first time those movements they're
very specific to where they're occurring
but then they also can be connected on a
higher level is part of a larger
movement and so I think what we're
entering is a reorganization where
people are going to start to ground the
capabilities of the web into different
systems so a lot of people here today
like balance wave fund these are all
examples of flexible and dynamic and
cryptographic systems that are
going to enable organizations of the
future so I think what's important about
this is that we're envisioning the
culture that we want to build and then
extrapolating backwards with which to
design the technology so that we're
designing within context and not just
blindly creating things but actually
sort of trying to create a conversation
about what we want so I think when you
look at economic models from this
cultural perspective it's less about
being centralized and it's more about
moving from less or two more less
concentrated model models so those
little blurbs are like the ubers the
face looks the Amazons so they're more
concentrated in terms of capital
resources and then energetically in the
future we're moving to less concentrated
and entities so we're sort of looking at
communities that are already organized
this way and then we're designing
technology that enables these systems to
self-direct and evolve themselves in the
future and that looks like ephemeral
entities that evolve moment by moment
and so in this example we're seeing the
blockchain as the catalyst that is
lowering the activation energy to make
this possible I think that's important
to note because that means that it's
already occurring so the systems that
we're designing or just helping to
facilitate that shift and the blockchain
does that by reducing the overhead
required for trust building a collective
memory so something that we can assume
in terms of information reducing the
abstraction of value which is where I'll
get into how inflect is going to help
make that possible incorporating cycles
and a binding reputation fabric so in
order to get there and flex starts with
event management so events are important
i think events assert a lot about
identity so the fact that you bought a
ticket to come to this conference says a
lot more about your identity and your
reputation then
fact that you like something on a
Facebook post so they're already a place
where people are mobilized they're
already a place that requires a lot of
cooperation with which to make it happen
requires things like budget things like
ticketing they're also important because
they can bring people who into an
ecosystem of cryptographic identity so
by buying a ticket for something like a
conference you're now getting au port
wallet with which you can start to
access other daps and other services and
then that also leads to starting to
create community networks which I'll go
into a little bit more about what that
involves so the purpose of inflect is
catalyzing communities to form using a
shared reputation fabric and that's also
going to form the basis for a
cooperative economy at any moment so
Maureen's going to show you a demo of
inflect and after this but this is just
a screenshot of an initial page to
inflect an event in the future you'll be
able to do things like set things like
ticket capacity and set roles of
curation so setting tiers of invite
levels of people of how many people
certain people can invite setting
bounties for roles that need to get done
like security or ticketing check grand
et cetera this is your dashboard so at
the bottom you have different events
that you're part of inviting people
through the interface having shared docs
shared budget so balance will be
integrated into this to be able to
manage your event and then this is your
moment page so moments can be looking at
specific events it can be looking at
your relationships with people over time
and it can also allow you to have a way
to start to see how your relationship
with communities evolved over time so
where we're going is this isn't just for
actual events like Def Con but actually
any of these could be isolated moments
so we have everyone who
participates in the release of image and
keeps within the first hour of tiny
human that can be a community people
could participate in a crowd fund of a
farm share project farm share as a
community supported agriculture platform
on a theorem people who participate in
the in attending DEFCON 2 micro good and
Toronto declare war is in a parallel
universe I would be running that project
so why is this important because in
every moment a transaction can be
created within the perspective of that
community and the value can be
distributed transparently and fairly
reaching an inflection point for pop-up
X so any campaign or co-op a project
that requires a shared reputation fabric
or layer of trust so I think the back
feed presentation that you saw earlier
today is a good example of using a
shared protocol to make something like
this happen and then reflect as a way of
catalyzing people to forum with which to
make the protocol useful so this is kind
of where I see this going of you start
to pull in different communities from
different platforms like Cujo like foam
which is an open architecture platform
and the transactive Grid project which
will hear about tomorrow from farm share
and all of these communities can then
start to collaborate together and I
think what that leads to is there
starting to move around value without
the abstraction of money in certain
instances so other things that you can
see it being useful on creating like
friend surance networks a better search
that are dating or matching algorithms
granular privacy sharing creating
rewards for community contributors so if
you wanted to help manage Def Con to
being able to get discounts on tickets
and then maybe you use that reputation
for other events in the future loyalty
programs etc in order to make and select
possible inflect is really just sort of
a platform with which to allow all these
other great projects to come together so
you port
identity and reputation management being
able to have like a cryptographic form
of google docs in the future through
things like e-sign incorporating
boardroom so any of those communities in
any moment could instantiate a board to
make decisions the same thing for
balance and the same thing for wave
funds all of these things are either
already integrated or on the product in
the process of being integrated in
marion will tell you about that so
proposed funding model of inflect
possibly a crowd fund possibly having
paid membership model for being part of
the community and then using boardroom
to management manage it allocating funds
to developers things like search
algorithms things like services on top
and also because it's open source it's
also an open marketplace for developing
services that communities might like to
use such as loyalty rewards programs or
secondhand ticketing markets so this is
not to confuse you but just to sort of
try to ground this overall goal of
moving towards using communities to move
around value without abstraction of
money so this is a proposal for some
projects that we have going on in a
place called callicoon New York which is
at two hours outside of New York City so
from here we can organize a specific
community or set of intersecting
communities that's start to use the
blockchain to move around resources like
agriculture and energy creating a
collaborative space for education they
already have a set of spaces set up
there also for a co housing project
that's going to exist there and so I
think that as we begin to start to try
to map these projects in the real world
that they'll begin to inform the future
development of these platforms and then
this is just to acknowledge my own
personal web of contributors to this
project and also for the inflection so
thanks I'm going to turn it over
tomorrow
ok so I'm going I'm going to show you a
brief demo of what we can do now with
inflect so I've got a the Deaf coming
event created so oh yeah we can add
venues total capacity or start date we
could have we can have events that can
be J noble or can be invite only we can
set out the total budget at roles and
this is the dashboard so for example i
want to invite a person let's say let's
invite Stefan
and I want to make him an attendee and
yeah we we cannot also add expenses like
ticketing let's say
and that's it for the moment now I want
to tell you a few details about the
technical about the contract so we have
the database and in the logic completely
different because we we want to keep
adding features to it so let everybody
benefit from from the additions that
that we make so everybody can update the
new version or we we also have inflect
JS which job which is a JavaScript
library or an interface that that you
can use to add and retrieve information
from from in flex so you can easily
integrate it in your project or the code
will be open source and we're working
really hard to release it as soon as
possible