Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business
دون تابسكوت: كيف تغيّر سلسلة الكتل في عالم المال والأعمال؟
Don Tapscott, Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology in business and society. He has authored 16 books, including "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything," which has been translated into over 25 languages Full bio
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the greatest impact
لها الأثر الأعظم
of digital currencies like Bitcoin.
مثل البتكوين.
word in the world,
في العالم،
for every business, every society
مشروع تجاري ولكل مجتمع
we've had the internet of information.
كان لدينا إنترنت المعلومات.
or a PowerPoint file or something,
بصيغة بوربوينت أو أي شيء آخر،
الديموقراطية عليها.
that I don't still have the money --
أملك المال --
the "double-spend" problem
"الإنفاق المزدوج"
on big intermediaries --
الوسطاء الكبار --
credit card companies and so on --
وشركات بطاقات الإئتمان وهلم جرا --
all the business and transaction logic
الأعمال والمعاملات
identification of people,
and record keeping.
and increasingly are --
وبشكل متزايد --
الإتحادية الأمريكية،
from the global economy,
الإقتصاد العالمي،
who don't have enough money
المال الكافي
to go around the world,
واحدة حتى تطوف العالم،
the banking system across a city.
عبر مدينة.
to another country.
دولة أخرى فقط.
of the digital age asymmetrically:
نحو غير متماثل:
but we have growing social inequality.
اجتماعية متزايدة.
an internet of information,
إنترنت المعلومات،
distributed ledger
from money to music,
وحتى الموسيقى،
exchanged and managed,
وتبادلها، وإدارتها
a native medium for value?
industry crashed
named Satoshi Nakamoto
أو عدة أشخاص
a protocol for a digital cash
للأموال الرقمية
cryptocurrency called Bitcoin.
سميت بالبيتكوين.
to establish trust and do transactions
إرساء الثقة والقيام بمعاملات
set off a spark
يبدو بسيطاً شرارةًَ
or terrified or otherwise interested
أو مهتم بخلاف ذلك
to you if you're a speculator.
ما كنت مضارباً بالأسعار.
controlled by a nation-state.
is the underlying technology.
الكامنة فيها.
in human history,
الثقة ببعضهم البعض
not by some big institution,
بعض المؤسسات الضخمة،
to the technology,
How does this thing work?
to music and everything in between --
الموسيقى وكل ما يقع بينهما --
across a global ledger,
they're Bitcoin miners.
منقبي البتكوين.
at their fingertips --
than all of Google worldwide.
غوغل العالمية.
from the previous 10 minutes.
العشر دقائق السابقة.
trying to solve some tough problems.
بعض المشاكل الصعبة.
and to validate the block,
من صلاحية الكتلة،
blockchain, with Bitcoin.
أحد هذه الكتل
with the same money,
ولك بنفس العملة،
on that blockchain,
سلسلة الكتل تلك،
but across millions of computers,
الملايين من أجهزة الحاسوب،
levels of encryption,
computing resource in the world
that we have today.
نتعامل بها اليوم.
by a Canadian named Vitalik Buterin.
سلسلة كتل عملة الإيثيريوم.
has some extraordinary capabilities.
build smart contracts.
the management, performance
a bank account, too, in a sense --
حساب بنكي أيضاً، بمعنى --
to do everything
for the stock market
الأوراق المالية
are accountable to citizens.
this is going to bring,
سيجلبه هذا الأمر،
financial services.
المالية.
that does something really simple,
السخرية والتي تقوم بشيء بسيط حقاً،
of the financial services industry,
الخدمات المالية،
in the corner store,
a dozen companies,
ثنائي عبر عشرات الشركات،
of the people in this room,
financial industry,
is the same activity,
حول العالم،
is in a big upheaval about this,
ما يتعلق بهذا الأمر،
this technology for success?
لتحقيق النجاح؟
but not shared prosperity,
of all of the anger and extremism
in the world today,
to this problem of inequality?
لمشكلة عدم المساواة الإجتماعية هذه؟
is to redistribute wealth,
توزيع الثروة،
gets created in the first place
تكوين الثروة من الأساس
على تكوين الثروة،
fair compensation?
تعويضات عادلة؟
that this can be done.
يمكن بها فعل ذلك.
of the people in the world who have land
الذين يمتلكون أرضاً
some dictator comes to power,
دكتاتور ما سدت الحكم،
of paper that says you own your farm,
المزرعة تعود لك،
says my friend owns your farm."
صديقي يملك مزرعتك."
Latin American economist,
(هيرنادو دو سوتو)،
issue in the world
a valid title to your land,
are working with governments
and Lyft and so on
and create and share wealth.
وتقاسم الثروة.
precisely because they don't share.
أنهم لا يتقاسمون.
and they sell them.
being a $25 billion corporation,
أير بي إن بي هي 25 مليار دولار،
on a blockchain, we'll call it B-Airbnb,
كتل، سنسميه بي-أير بي إن بي،
by all of the people
database and all the criteria,
them find the right room,
الغرفة المناسبة،
with the contracting,
they're built into the system.
المبنية في النظام.
as a five-star room,
من فئة الخمس نجوم،
disruptors in Silicon Valley
المشترك في سيليكون فالي
from the developed world
to their families at home.
في الوطن.
and it's growing,
في تزايد،
to the Western Union office
to her mom in Manila.
في مانيلا.
ليصل إلى هناك؛
days to get there;
when it's going to arrive.
out of her week to do this.
a blockchain application called Abra.
كتل يدعى (أبرا)
she sent 300 bucks.
to her mom's mobile device
looked at her mobile device --
there's Abra "tellers" moving around.
"صراف" تابع ل (أبرا) يتحرك في الجوار.
that's a five-star teller,
gives her Filipino pesos,
بيزو فيليبينية،
of the digital age is data.
في العصر الرقمي.
جديدة من الأصول،
هذه الفكرة.
of digital crumbs behind us
into a mirror image of you,
الأصل منكم،
من ما كنتم تعلمون،
more about you than you do,
what you bought a year ago,
في العام الماضي،
or your exact location a year ago.
في العام الماضي.
the shred of information
to know who you are.
is sweeping up all of this data
protect our privacy,
of a free society.
of creators of content
for intellectual property is broken.
of the internet.
at the end of the whole food chain.
السلسلة الغذائية بأكملها.
25 years ago, you wrote a hit song,
كاتب أغاني، وكتبت أغنية ناجحة،
of around 45,000 dollars.
بحوالي 45,000 دولار.
you write a hit song,
جائزة غرامي،
on a blockchain ecosystem.
لسلسلة الكتل.
a smart contract surrounding it.
her intellectual property rights.
that flow into a digital account.
صغيرة تتدفق إلى حساب رقمي.
الخاص فذلك أمر مختلف،
in your movie, that's different,
محددة بالكامل.
That's different.
becomes a business.
marketing itself,
who don't get fair compensation,
تعويضات عادلة،
to make it rain on the blockchain.
في سلسلة الكتل.
prosperity, of course -- people do.
الرفاهية -- ولكن البشر يفعلون
هي، مرة أخرى،
has escaped from the bottle,
by an unknown person or persons
another kick at the can,
the economic power grid
القوة الإقتصادية
difficult problems,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Don Tapscott - Digital strategistDon Tapscott, Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology in business and society. He has authored 16 books, including "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything," which has been translated into over 25 languages
Why you should listen
A leading analyst of innovation and the impacts of technology, Don Tapscott has authored or co-authored 15 widely read books about various aspects of the reshaping of our society and economy. His work Wikinomics counts among the most influential business books of the last decade. His new book The Blockchain Revolution, co-authored with his son, Alex, discusses the blockchain, the distributed-database technology that's being deployed well beyond its original application as the public ledger behind Bitcoin. In the book, they analyze why blockchain technology will fundamentally change the internet -- how it works, how to use it and its promises and perils.
Tapscott is an adjunct professor of management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, a Senior Advisor at the World Economic Forum and an Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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