It is possible to measure the impact of these technologies on a group of people. More than a billion people in China are being exposed to the virus for the first time, 335 million people are watching Musk and 70 people died from the drugfentanil. There are lessons to be learned in each mess. It's time to read on.
It's night and there's made up money.
Imagine a world in which you can make up new types of money and other people will pay you to get some. What are they buying? Imagine if anentrepreneur created a private stock market to trade all the different types of token. Let's call it a "crypto currency exchange." You would make sure your token was safe and well regulated because the token has no value.
Sam Bankman-Fried, a twentysomething, started FTX Trading with the idea of checking every 30 seconds to see if anyone had enough money to cover their bets. Technology would make sure that there was complete transparency.
FTX was just an old-fashioned scam behind the faade. According to US investigators, Bankman-Fried took customers' money and used it to buy fancy houses, make political donations, and accumulate huge stakes inCryptocurrencies. The fall came down in November. According to John Ray, who was appointed to oversee the company, FTX's technology was not sophisticated.
The son of two law professors, Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas in December on multiple counts of conspiracy, fraud, and money-laundering.
If Wolf of Wall Street were about cryptocurrencies, we recommend that you watch the video.
Fentanyl became a deadly drug.
The Belgian doctor and chemist Paul Janssen created the strongest painkillers of his time. A molecule that was 100 times more potent but with a short duration was designed by him. Fentanyl would become the most widely used drug during surgery.
About two-thirds of all fatal drug overdoses in the US are caused by Fentanyl. It is the leading cause of death in Americans under 50 years old.
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