We started the evening by first covering our official mission statement, I then gave a Martin Fowler inspired introduction to NoSQL and set the stage for our three domain-specialists. In order to entice the audience to participate during the Q&A sessions, we did a little experiment. We told everyone that with each question, we would add their name to a hat, and raffle of a rather swanky prize at the end of the evening. "How did that experiment go?" You may ask... Let's just say it's the first time we had to bring the questions to an end in order to get on to the next presentation.
The prize was a wifi-enabled 1TB hard-drive with media-playback functionality and was quite resentful when finally handing it over to the winner!
We are nearing an important epoch in economical evolution that has the potential to be forked forever! The financial institutions that we know and recognize today are standing at the edge of their own demise.
The spin-doctors have been getting rich at our expense, in-turn crafting an intricate concoction of bull-shit fabrication such as quantitative easing, which when fuelled by the never-ending pursuit of the American Dream has led to an accumulation of physical assets that derive their value (to the next schmuck) from the institutions that continue to suck us dry from our hard-earned cold and currently traceable cash... I've had enough and want to do something about it. Fortunately, for once, I'm most certainly not alone…
