xi.2. Summary
- In scaling society up from tribes and small groups, governments have had to confront the problem of enabling secure commerce and other interactions among strangers. The methods now may be very different, but the goal is still the same – a secure way of transactions.
- The complex world of big data and IoT is emerging. Blockchain will be an important part of our financial and technological digital future.
- The ‘blockchain’ technology behind Bitcoin could prove to be an ingredient of an entirely new world of technology, as big as the internet itself, a wave of innovation that drives the middleman out of much commerce and leaves us much more free to exchange goods and services with people all over the world without going through corporate intermediaries.
- It could radically decentralize society itself, getting rid of the need for banks, governments, even companies and politicians.