Distilled video-thread🧵of insights from different areas of the blockchain space, discussed at #tedtalks in recent years
Blockchain embedded into the fabric of the internet, is a novel software platform for innovation & democracy
This is about progress, not perfection
1/ @MatthewRoszak believes blockchain is one of the biggest inventions of our time. A novel software network platform for human innovation.
"lock your door, turn off your phone, and study this technology for a day"
2/ Kayvon Tehranian, @saturnial, distills context & future of NFTs - how embedding property rights into the code of digital portable assets will globalize ideas & creativity
"this represents a breakthrough innovation for any industry predicated on royalty payments"
3/ Again, @saturnial discusses how portable decentralized digital value can create radical new possibilities through the internet, with property rights baked in
"an internet where economic control rests in the hands of creators, not platforms"
4/ Laura Shin @laurashin on how our human digital assets will have financial value, through embedding smart contracts into digital services
"people will become the worker, the owner, and the shareholder"
5/ Cyrus James Khan @cyrusjameskhan boasts both the flow & clarity on how digital content generation could become frictionless
"every time an NFT gets resold, its' original author will earn his royalty, and this has been unprecedented in the digital world"
6/ Don Tapscott @dtapscott presents a case for the sharing economy could become peer-to-peer blockchain platforms, owned by the people
"the big sharing economy disruptors in Silicon Valley, could be disrupted, and this will be good for prosperity"
7/ Bettina Warburg @BWarburg on the evolution of society, how institutions have helped in lowering uncertainty
"for the first time we can lower uncertainty not just with political and economical institutions, but we can do it with technology alone"
8/ Chris Miess on how blockchain is a strong tool of democracy, and could have avoided suffering of his family
"to me, blockchain is about freedom"
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