Music, Money & Tech - Issue #21

Studio 721 is a free tool for configuring, compiling, deploying, and verifying custom ERC 721 → NFT smart contracts. Studio 721 doesn’t host your assets or metadata; use your favorite hosting service and link it to your NFT via “Base URI”. Beta software; use at your own risk.

Technology is getting closer to realizing what once seemed like futuristic fantasies in the style of ‘Star Wars’, ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘The Jetsons’. Google is already working on the Starline project , a system for making video calls that project 3D holograms of people in real size.

The traditional 9–5 workday is poorly structured for high productivity. Perhaps when most work was physical labor, but not in the knowledge working world we now live in.

In March 2021, a work of art called Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for $69 million at Christie’s Auction House.