Dear crypto community and blockchain buddies across the globe…
WELCOME BACK to season 2 of Cryptonites, the no BS blockchain channel covering bitcoin, cryptocurrency and everything around FinTech. We are proud to present you with PART II of our TIMELESS interview with the one and only Don Tapscott. Don is one of the most influential living theorists around existentialism, business and society.
Don Tapscott inspired millions of people through his famous Blockchain Ted Talk and is an expert on all topics covering digital economies and decentralized autonomous organizations. Author of fifteen widely read books on technologies and new media including: Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World, Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology, Wikinomics, The Digital Economy and Blockchain Revolution. Don was also named the world’s most influential thinker by Thinkers 50.
Ladies and Gentleman, get ready to be inspired time and time again by watching this video and hearing his views on: The Future of Blockchain and its impact on corporations including the highly discussed facebook libra coin. Don opens up on what Mark Zuckerberg could do in terms of philanthropy and contributing even more to make the world a better place. In the Blockchain revolution, don stresses that the creation of a whole new economy will occur thanks to Blockchain, the rise of outsourcing and business ecosystems, and the need to address climate change.
So, grab your slippers, a warm cup of tea and be ready to get EDUTAINED!
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Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World:
Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology:
Wikinomics:
The Digital Economy:
Blockchain Revolution:
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01:15 The biggest use case of Blockchain is not money. It’s the foundation of a whole new economy
03:21 What it does to the firm and the corporation as the foundation of wealth creation
04:35 When writing “The digital economy” in 1994, I started wondering, what does the Internet do to the firm?
05:32 The work of Ronald Coase: “Why does the firm exist”
06:57 The rise of outsourcing and business ecosystems
08:11 I was thankful that the DAO came along…it showed people it was possible
10:00 Are we going back to a society where it becomes more peer to peer?
10:51 You don’t need all these hierarchies and intermediaries to do stuff that software can do
14:37 Moral Hazard: a management concept related to DAO
15:22 Could Blockchain eliminate moral hazard?
16:23 How do you feel about countries trying to ban Facebook’s Libra coin?
21:40 If I were Mark Zukerberg, and wanted to leave a real legacy, I would say the following one day
22:07 The new asset class of the digital age should be owned by consumers
24:49 The dark side of The Digital Economy
26:23 The need for a new social contract in society