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IFTF Blockchain Futures LabInstitute for the Future's Blockchain Futures Lab Author: Institute for the Future
Institute for the Future's Blockchain Futures Lab is a research initiative and a community for identifying the opportunities and limits of blockchain technologies and their social, economic, and political impacts on individuals, organizations, and communities over the coming decades. Language: en Genres: Technology Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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In Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Rushkoff examines the reasons why the digital economy – which was touted as a great democratizer – has left so many people behind, including even those within the tech industry. He lays out an alternate vision for a sustainable prosperity system he calls “digital distributism,” which makes use of the kind of peer-to-peer mechanisms that power Uber and Airbnb in a way that “optimizes the economy for the velocity of transactions between people rather than the accumulation of capital from people.” The role of blockchain technology to enable peer-to-peer transactional networks figures heavily in the brave new digital distributism world, says Rushkoff, because it allows individuals and small groups to route around the rent-seeking gatekeepers who corrupted the eco-system in the first place.
