In the early days of October, 2022. I attended a Singular University executive training program with 40 or so cohorts. A highly instructive and effective workshop run by Tom Chi on the value of rapid prototyping triggered a thought which inspired this repository of ideas.

Through a series of very fortunate events, I had been given the spot in this conference a few weeks earlier. Admittedly, I was not very familiar with the executive training aspects of Singularity University, and held no preconceptions about any of the concepts of Exponential Thinking, or what I was going to get out of the 5 days in Mountain View, CA.

After getting acclimated to the program’s concepts and methods, I started to realize the value in my fellow cohorts and the opportunity to get some time thinking abstractly and with an open mindsite. I have been thinking about general frameworks to generate provable evidence of an event occuring for the last 5-10 years, and realized that the general approach to this could useful in order to fight disinformation, or at least some aspects of disinformation. The goal was to be able to prove a camera had been at the scene of some important event with extremely high certainty.

The conference affords attendees exceptional opportunities to discuss all categories of ideas, big and small. So, I set about to plant this idea with as many fellow attendees as possible. “I want to fight disinformation, by providing concrete provable evidence that someone who said they were there, actually was. And I want to be able to prove that a photo or movie of an event was also created at a location, time etc.” This is one of the ways that I would describe my idea.