WABE business and tech reporter Emil Moffatt has recently taken on a new challenge in the medium of audio journalism. He launched a podcast last month called “Tech Cast.” It goes behind the story of the latest technology trends to help us understand how the information relates to our everyday lives. “City Lights” senior producer Kim Drobes recently met up with Moffatt to discuss the intersections of art and technology, especially the subject of NFTs, the focus of the latest episode of “Tech Cast.”
“It stands for non-fungible token, and we’ve heard a lot of people describe this as a digital certificate of authenticity if you will,” said Moffatt. “A lot of the early adoption has actually been in the art world, be it visual arts or music, and when you think about those two things, they’re kind of hard to commodify in the digital space because they can easily be replicated.” As an example, Moffatt evoked the days of Napster and how the advent of online file-sharing in the late ’90s completely changed the way we consume digital music.
“We see it with digital photographs that are easily copied and pasted and re-posted sometimes on the web, without permission or credit,” he added. “So this image or song is a tangible thing, and something that you can see and hear, and artists are minting NFTs … and they’re being sold through these online marketplaces.”
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