Bettina Warburg: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
בטינה ווארבורג: כיצד בלוקצ'יין יגרום לשינוי קיצוני של הכלכלה
Bettina Warburg is a blockchain researcher, entrepreneur and educator. A political scientist by training, she has a deep passion for the intersection of politics and technology. Full bio
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people's behavior for hundreds of years:
במשך מאות שנים;
that facilitate our trade,
technological institution
how we exchange value,
away from this talk,
is relatively new,
יחסית חדשה,
of a very human story,
to really explore the idea
about one another
"new institutional economics."
"הכלכלה המוסדית החדשה."
were really just formal rules
wheels to function,
over the course of human history.
במהלך ההיסטוריה האנושית.
hunter-gatherer economies,
כלכלות ציידים-מלקטים,
within our village structure.
all of our trade with violence
helped us manage our trade
and the complexity grew,
we put these same institutions online.
יצרנו את אותם המוסדות ברשת.
like Amazon, eBay, Alibaba,
כמו אמזון, איביי ועליבאבא,
that act as middlemen
to lower uncertainty
all kinds of value in society.
בסוגי ערך שונים באוכלוסיה
we can lower uncertainty
יכולים להפחית אי-ודאות
and economic institutions,
our governments,
באמצעות טכנולוגיה בלבד.
is a decentralized database
of assets and transactions
ומי סוחר במה.
through cryptography,
gets locked in blocks of data
ננעלת בבלוקים של נתונים
linked together and secured.
unforgeable record
לשינוי או לזיוף
across this network.
on every computer that uses the network.
to something like Wikipedia.
ביותר לויקיפדיה.
changing and being updated.
over time on Wikipedia,
השינויים הללו בויקיפדיה,
they're just a data infrastructure.
that stores words and images
המאחסנת מילים ותמונות
as an open infrastructure
the digital currency Bitcoin,
technical details to the blockchain,
נוספים בבלוקצ'יין,
that stores transactions in a network
and hard to tamper with.
to transform our economic systems
המערכות הכלכליות שלנו
of our everyday transactions,
like not knowing who we're dealing with,
חוסר הידיעה מול מי אנו סוחרים,
if things go wrong.
not knowing who we're dealing with.
חוסר ידיעה מול מי אנו סוחרים.
a used smartphone on eBay.
חכם משומש באיביי.
is look up who I'm buying from.
לבדוק ממי אני קונה.
or do they have no profile at all?
או שאין להם כלל פרופיל?
about our identities
about who we're dealing with.
לגבי אלה שאנו סוחרים עימם.
they're very fragmented.
to create an open, global platform
תשתית גלובלית פתוחה
about any individual
issued you an ID,
and are signed off on.
and the digital world
could lower uncertainty
להפחית חוסר בטחון
into our interactions.
that smartphone by mail.
אותו הטלפון החכם בדואר.
is the same one that arrives in the mail
הוא אכן זה שיגיע בדואר
for how it got to me.
for electronics like smartphones,
כמו טלפונים חכמים,
that we don't want tampered with.
בהם איננו רוצים זיופים
something complicated like a smartphone,
כמו טלפון חכם,
all of these different vendors
that go into making a product,
transparently a product evolve over time.
מוצר על ציר הזמן.
across nontrusting entities.
do not need to know each other
לא חייבים להכיר אחד את השני
the chain for themselves.
that has the same efficiency of a monopoly
בעל אותה יעילות של מונופול
that central authority.
all sorts of companies,
without trusting one another.
בלי לתת אמון אחד בשני.
we can have a lot more transparency.
שיכולה להיות לנו הרבה יותר שקיפות.
or token move on the blockchain,
או אסימון שלו זזים בבלוקצ'יין,
in terms of our visibility.
can lower our uncertainties about identity
עשויים להפחית את אי-הודאות לגבי זהויות
what we mean about transparency
like in a supply chain.
כמו בשרשרת אספקה.
נתקלים לעתים קרובות
and it's reneging.
that those contracts will bear out
you could think about escrow.
תוכלו לחשוב על הפקדה בנאמנות.
that all the conditions have been met.
of the most exciting ways
את אי-הוודאויות שלנו,
and their enforcement.
ואת האכיפה שלהם.
intervention to the edges,
from the real world to the blockchain.
מהעולם הפיזי לבלוקצ'יין.
floor Douglass North
that makes it work,
secure and verified,
our corporations,
all of that collective uncertainty
more and faster and more open.
ולסחור במהירות ובפתיחות רבות יותר
to get the impression
is the solution to everything,
that it's going to end world poverty,
עומד לשים קץ לעוני בעולם,
the counterfeit drug problem
is in its infancy,
a lot of experiments take place
all of the use cases
working on this,
start-ups and universities.
חברות הזנק ואוניברסיטאות.
that it's not just an economic evolution.
התפתחות כלכלית,
in computer science.
the technological capability
and physical assets,
we're used to using in society,
a lot of our uncertainties
preparing ourselves,
for the rate of adoption?
that's a really good question.
שזו שאלה באמת טובה.
and government route first,
blockchain is a complex technology.
בלוקצ'יין היא טכנולוגיה מורכבת.
how the internet works?
the same John Sculley idea
מול אותו רעיון של ג'ון סקאלי
invisible or beautiful,
או בלתי נראית,
neither of those things right now,
for either really early adopters
or smart contracts
of an enterprise or government.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bettina Warburg - Blockchain entrepreneur and researcherBettina Warburg is a blockchain researcher, entrepreneur and educator. A political scientist by training, she has a deep passion for the intersection of politics and technology.
Why you should listen
A graduate of both Georgetown and Oxford, Bettina Warburg started her career as a political scientist and public foresight researcher at a prominent Silicon Valley think tank. Today, she has taken her skills as a researcher and scientist and is applying them toward an entrepreneurial career by co-founding a venture studio business called Animal Ventures. There, she spends most of her time incubating new startup ideas, advising Fortune 500 clients, governments and universities in developing minimum viable products, and strategizing around blockchain, artificial intelligence, industrial internet of things and digital platforms.
Warburg is the executive producer of a Silicon Valley tech show called Tech on Politics, interviewing some of the world's most influential political operatives, entrepreneurs, government official, and the creators of some of the most exciting digital products on the market.
Warburg recently launched a new Blockchain education course called "The Basics of Blockchain." The hope is that this course will help spread the body of blockchain knowledge, inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs and get more people ready for the coming revolution.
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