Tautachrome

Merry Christmas to all our Tautachrome shareholders everywhere;
all seven to eight thousand of you worldwide!!

We are living in amazing times. The two richest men in the world, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, are both in the rocket business. Elon Musk says he is doing rockets because he wants to "make humanity multi-planetary" believing that not being multi-planetary dooms humanity to an eventual extinction event. Jeff Bezos says he is doing rockets so that millions of people can be living and "working in space for the benefit of Earth." Elon’s space vision is cosmic in time and space, and is measured in millions of years and stretches across the galaxy. Jeff’s vision is local in time and space, and measured in the here and now employing people to support activity on earth. Wow! What a difference in vision. Yet here they are, both at the top of the ladder of success, and both building rockets and speaking glowing words about how their rocket technologies will lift millions of people off the planet to conquer space. These are indeed amazing times.

For the foreseeable future however, the biggest activity on earth will be cyber-space, not outer space. Space technologies will not lift millions of people off the planet anytime soon although, following the lead of Elon’s low orbit Starlink satellites, space technologies will amplify the power of cyberspace for millions of people on earth. And despite Elon’s distaste for them, the Metaverse and AR glasses technologies will not be denied, and will become pervasive and globally used for buying and selling.

As I’ve written before, the good news is that Tautachrome is implementing its ARknet buying and selling Platform right now, based on already ubiquitous smartphones, with functionality that will port nicely over to AR glasses when they arrive, and with real world information that will serve to keep the evolving Metaverse synched with the real word.

The ARknet Platform allows consumers and businesses to use their smartphones to create and place what we call ARks, AR objects of their own. ARks can contain interactive images, videos and other creatives that belong to the owner. Using our own patented technology, the Platform automatically marks, NFTs and curates all the creatives on the Platform to make possible a marketable value for tall he creatives of all of its users.

This marketable value for all user creations, coupled with Platform established marketing of this value is the energizer of a whole new economy.

By itself, and before any useful Metaverse or AR glasses emerge, the ARknet Platform is being built to create a thriving AR economic complex aiming to create new wealth for its consumer users, as well as for its business users.

The Platform is being designed to support any business and all consumers. Our design aims to make buying and selling as simple and easy as possible catalyzing transactions with our own crypto currency, the XAR coin, and supporting other national and crypto currencies with an- on-Platform exchange.

Platform design and development has been a labor of love and devotion over several years with a steady stream of added functionality and new volunteer business and consumer users coming into the fold, week after week and month after month.

David LaMountain our COO has worked tirelessly to develop business and consumer users that can help us perfect and monetize the Platform. Jordan Gray, Founder and CIO of our technology provider Honeycomb Digital, has invested enormous energy to create the technical system that is able to achieve our vision. Both men have invested both their time and their money for years, building strong teams of providers in pursuit of our ambition to create the first thriving AR economic complex.

The new year 2022 promises to bring to fruition our work of the past years. We stand to be the bridge between the physical world we live in and the virtual worlds we will soon be immersed in. We are looking to bring great and global partners onto our team, partners that see what we are doing as their best way to play in this new future, and that can help us achieve it.

To those of you who are new to the Tautachrome team, welcome aboard! To those of you who have been with us a while, thank you! We are all on the right team doing the right thing.

Here is wishing you all Happy Holidays and a Prosperous and Happy New Year!

Dr. Jon N Leonard is the CEO of Tautachrome Inc. (OTC: TTCM)

ENRICHING USERS WITH XAR CRYPTO

The ARknet Platform is creating an integrated economic system, catalyzed by its own crypto currency, the XAR . 

We believe that using our own crypto currency is the most straightforward way to effectuate active commerce in the new arena of product and trade derived from the Platform’s economic exploitation of augmented reality -AR. 

Currency will be minted by the Platform and provided to users to incentivize user actions that build value. Users’ first step is getting on board with our crypto-wallet showing “up front” four things: XAR minted for signup, why XAR is important, how to spend it, and how to earn more. 

The Platform has been built to supply real economic value to its users at the get-go in the form of their ownership of their own personal information including their creative products. That’s a big deal. 

People’s personal information has significant value. But right now, all of this value is being extracted to enrich existing big tech platforms.

The Platform’s XAR ecosystem is designed to recover this value and flow it back to the consumer.

Part of a user’s personal information is the user’s creative stuff such as imagery, creative memes, posts, and combinations thereof. When Platform users create AR virtual objects -what we call ARks, they are creating a whole new world of creative information belonging to themselves. Imagery, creative memes and posts can now contain and can actually be AR objects. Any user can fill the sky with AR imagery announcing for instance a baby arrival that family and friends can enjoy in amazing ways. This generates new imagery, new memes and new posts, all built on AR, and all amounting to novel user creative information. 

Capturing for the users their own personal information is done using patented methods owned by the Platform. Users’ creative information is automatically and steganographically (meaning undetectably) marked for user ownership upon creation, with rights thereto stored in the Platform’s blockchain as NFTs . An in-platform marketplace, also being implemented, will expose this creative material to entrepreneurial activity by our business users as well as to businesses in the world at large. 

Other personal information such as friendship webs and shopping habits provide information that is of value to sellers of goods and services. This information will be used as in-Platform targeted advertising where the consumer invites what is presented by whom, and receives into their XAR wallet the benefit of ad revenues.

In addition, Platform users will be equipped to add specific value to the Platform and will be rewarded with XAR when they do.

Here’s an example. AR objects, the ARks produced by users, rely on the ability of the Platform to put the ARk into the environment where its creator needs it to be when it is seen by somebody else. This requires the Platform to recognize features in the environment to guide the placement of the ARk. In the general case, this is a very hard and presently poorly solved problem. But it is simplified with the help of users who act as eyeballs on the world, scouting and precisely locating distinct features that can then be recognized by the Platform. 

Platform users who act as feature scouts will get XAR rewards. The more scouts the better, and XAR earnings from scouting will be a wealth generator on its own. 

Because the entire XAR ecosystem resides inside the Platform, the economic utility of any in-Platform action, even a small one, can be measured in terms of its economic value within the overall ecosystem. This ability enables the Platform to rationalize the minting of incentives so as to maintain the value of the XAR against other currencies. 

2  An NFT is a token on a blockchain standing as an immutable record of the ownership of something. This immutability has recently lifted the trading of NFTs of digital imagery into a hot market. (The acronym NFT stands for “non fungible token,” the origin of which is insignificant, and therefore a topic for elsewhere.) 

Dr. Jon N Leonard is the CEO of Tautachrome Inc. (OTC: TTCM)

ENRICO FERMI MEETS THE METAVERSE

Where are the aliens? A New York times article six years ago regarding how easily the universe can spawn advanced civilizations, asked "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now."

The fact that nobody has come calling, is known as the Fermi Paradox, named after Nobel prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi who first asked the question in 1950. 

Fermi Paradox: Since we are certain there must be millions of alien civilizations, why can’t we find any trace of any of them? 

We generally believe evidence is overwhelming that thousands or millions of advanced civilizations must exist in our galaxy, and given even a few million years, any one of them could easily colonize the whole galaxy. Yet despite decades of enthusiast planetary scientists, geologists and anthropologist we find zero unequivocal evidence of visitors to our planet or to the solar system. And despite trying really hard, no trace of communications signaling has been detected in our galaxy.

Guesses for why this is so, are all over the place. I see three types:

1. Yes. They have colonized our galaxy and are already here, but they don’t want us to detect them. Why not? a.) Because we are mere worms in comparison to them, so why bother. Or b.) because we are food for them and they’re saving us for dessert. Or c.) because we are dangerous or stupid or both and they’re hiding to avoid us. Or d.) make up your own reason.

2. No. They have not colonized our galaxy because a.) it is technically too hard for reasons that are not yet apparent to us, or b) all advanced civilizations fall victim to some life-ending cataclysm.

3. Neither yes or no. Our premise that colonizing civilizations are common in the universe may be wrong for one or both of two reasons: a.) It may be really hard to find a star with all the Goldilocks zones lined up to support life that will endure long enough to host a thinking specie able to become an advanced civilization, and b.) it may be impossible for any advanced civilization to retain a long-lasting yen to spread itself through a galaxy. 

Of all the possible answers to the Fermi Paradox, for my money, 3b) is the most likely.

Here’s why. It seems very likely to me that any advanced civilization, would quickly find itself developing its version of our present progress towards a metaverse capability.

The metaverse capability poses a very real threat to the prospect of colonizing the galaxy and even to the concept of interstellar space travel at all.

The present metaverse conception, fully bloomed, promises a massively scaled and interoperable network of immersive worlds where unlimited numbers of people and businesses, altogether billions of them, continuously interact in a virtual metaverse economy with no limits and with a look and feel that is indistinguishable from reality. (Here is a “pop look” at the metaverse by Polish Youtuber Agon Hare: Hare’s take.)

For this reason, the metaverse whispers in our ear “You want a galactic civilization that extends to hundreds of millions of worlds throughout the Milky Way? Do it virtually! Come on in. Want to explore galactic worlds in infinite detail down to the last breath of some unearthly gas? Come on in. Visit black holes in perfect comfort? Come on in. Want to learn advanced mathematics, see the real physics of honest to goodness nine dimensional worlds, and learn the secrets of the universe? Come in, sit down and learn. Why would you ever want to go out and colonize anything anyway?”

The metaverse promises to replace space travel with something better: virtual space travel at hyper warp speeds in hyper comfort and safety.

Those promises could be real; it is possible that the answer to exploring the universe is virtual not physical. But that is no sure thing. It is just as possible that the metaverse economy is a trap that ends the civilization that creates it. 

Since we do not know that answer, we’d better not chance it. 

On the optimistic side, I’m persuaded that a thriving and long-lasting complementary economy could be the antidote for the tendency of a metaverse economy to be a black hole that eats us alive. 

For this reason, I like our ARknet Platform. The Platform is being designed as a stand-alone thriving real-world AR economy able to interface with the metaverse, handling the physical property transactions, escrows and transfers happening inside the metaverse as well as the AI systems that operate to make the metaverse reliable. Who knows? The ARknet Platform could be the control rods that keep the metaverse stable.

Fermi’s paradox deals with the survival of other civilizations, which is one thing. The question of the survival our own civilization is another thing. To me, that is what natters. 

Elon Musk may be right when he holds that it may be really hard for a thinking specie able to endure long enough to become a space faring civilization. This is answer 3a) to Fermi’s Paradox.

Like Mr. Musk, I believe we have the opportunity to become a space faring civilization. It is possible that in this universe, ours we will be the only civilization to actually do it. 

Dr. Jon N Leonard is the CEO of Tautachrome Inc. (OTC: TTCM)

THE BEAUTY OF THE ARKNET PLATFORM

The Metaverse and Augmented Reality both promise they’re coming to the party. And they both promise to change the world when they show up.

The coming Metaverse aims to be a colossal virtual version of the internet consisting of a massively scaled and interoperable network of immersive worlds where unlimited numbers of people and businesses, altogether billions of them, continuously interact. And AR promises a future where advanced AR glasses replace the computer screen entirely, letting people interact with the internet in true vision.

In this future, the Metaverse and AR glasses will be pervasive and global, with almost all buying and selling done via them.

I agree. They’re both on their way, and they are both world changers. 

But they are not here now. And the road from now to then is a mighty rough one with detour signs a-plenty along the way. 

As Dr. Ron Azuma AR director at Intel has told me, AR glasses have to solve very hard imaging problems that strain the limits of the psycho physics and the imaging physics of vision. And as Matthew Ball, architect of the Ball Metaverse Index points out, the Metaverse has to solve massive problems of standards, hardware, compute power, virtual platforms and more, involving hundreds of thousands of providers around the world. 

The good news is that Tautachrome is implementing its ARknet buying and selling Platform right now, based on already ubiquitous smartphones, with functionality that will port nicely over to AR glasses when they arrive, and with real world information that will serve to keep the evolving Metaverse synched with the real-word. 

The ARknet Platform allows consumers and businesses to use their smartphones to create and place AR objects of their own -such objects called ARks conveying the idea of a container of important things. ARks can contain interactive images, videos and other creatives that belong to the owner. The Platform automatically marks, NFTs and curates all the creatives on the Platform to make possible a marketable value for the creatives of all of its users. 

By itself, and before any useful Metaverse or AR glasses emerge, the Arknet Platform is being built to create a thriving AR economic complex aiming to create new wealth for its consumer users, as well as for its business users. 

This is no small feat. And it will make a heck of an on-ramp for the Metaverse and AR glasses of the future.

Dr. Jon N Leonard is the CEO of Tautachrome Inc. (OTC: TTCM)