Paranoia & Love: What Pushes Tech? A Discussion With Prof. Reichental

We had a fascinating one-hour-long conversation with professor Reichental, talking about what makes a piece of technology great, how to survive when you have too many things you want to do, and who should promote blockchain and crypto projects.

Only the Paranoid SurviveOur discussion on technology started even before the first question of the interview, as we talked about the messenger we used for our call and how the dynamics of all these Skypes, WhatsApps, Zooms and others influence our lives.

I'm more passionate and more energized by technology than ever before.

What is necessary for a technology to be successful, and for a company to always be on the avantgarde of the tech development?

What can be done to enable technology to be successful at that level is: to be paranoid and to be constantly scanning and reacting to the nature of the global marketplace and the emergence of disruptive technology.

Best time for technologies vs. best technologies of all timeOkay, and so we learned that it is the best time to be a technologist But how can we know that we have the best technologies around?

What we're gonna see now in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is not only new technologies that are bigger in their impact and are adopted faster, but they are going to converge in ways that the outcomes are very hard to see.

How technologies are moving the world forward, and who is moving themThe biggest technological interests Reichental is working on right now are artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain.

Do the leverages for technologies change during time? Who is and who should be the biggest actor on the market nowadays in order to push technology to the mass adoption?

Who is pushing blockchain development, and why it is different from crypto?Reichental is specific about the distinction between blockchain and crypto: First, being "a platform technology that can be used in almost every domain," the other being, "For the most part it is a unit of money or unit of value and has specific implications as a consequence of that." But do the actors who run these shows differ?