Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business
唐·泰普史考特: 区块链将如何改变金钱与贸易
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
of digital currencies like Bitcoin.
word in the world,
for every business, every society
每一个社会,每一个人,
we've had the internet of information.
我们迎来了互联网的信息时代。
or a PowerPoint file or something,
或一份PPT文件或者其他的时候,
that I don't still have the money --
the "double-spend" problem
“二次消费”问题
on big intermediaries --
credit card companies and so on --
信用卡公司等等,
all the business and transaction logic
各式各样的商业贸易
identification of people,
and record keeping.
and increasingly are --
from the global economy,
who don't have enough money
to go around the world,
the banking system across a city.
to another country.
of the digital age asymmetrically:
的福利变得不再平衡。
but we have growing social inequality.
但是我们的社会也日趋不平等。
an internet of information,
distributed ledger
分散式的账本,
from money to music,
从金钱到音乐,
exchanged and managed,
交易,交换和管理,
a native medium for value?
industry crashed
named Satoshi Nakamoto
a protocol for a digital cash
cryptocurrency called Bitcoin.
to establish trust and do transactions
建立信任并进行交易,
set off a spark
or terrified or otherwise interested
to you if you're a speculator.
controlled by a nation-state.
is the underlying technology.
in human history,
not by some big institution,
to the technology,
How does this thing work?
它的工作原理是什么?
to music and everything in between --
或是其他的产品,
across a global ledger,
they're Bitcoin miners.
他们是比特币矿工。
at their fingertips --
than all of Google worldwide.
from the previous 10 minutes.
trying to solve some tough problems.
尝试解决一些难题。
and to validate the block,
blockchain, with Bitcoin.
with the same money,
on that blockchain,
but across millions of computers,
levels of encryption,
computing resource in the world
that we have today.
by a Canadian named Vitalik Buterin.
(实际年龄应为22岁)
has some extraordinary capabilities.
build smart contracts.
the management, performance
工作情况和支付方式,
a bank account, too, in a sense --
to do everything
for the stock market
are accountable to citizens.
this is going to bring,
即将到来的突破性的改变,
financial services.
金融服务业。
that does something really simple,
工作却很简单,
of the financial services industry,
in the corner store,
a dozen companies,
of the people in this room,
一份交易说明诞生了。
financial industry,
is the same activity,
is in a big upheaval about this,
this technology for success?
but not shared prosperity,
但是没有共享繁荣,
of all of the anger and extremism
in the world today,
to this problem of inequality?
想出一些新的解决方案?
is to redistribute wealth,
财富的再分配,
gets created in the first place
fair compensation?
that this can be done.
of the people in the world who have land
some dictator comes to power,
当独裁者上台,
of paper that says you own your farm,
证明你拥有你的农场,
says my friend owns your farm."
我的朋友拥有你的农场。“
Latin American economist,
埃尔南多·德·索托,
issue in the world
a valid title to your land,
没有有效的所有权,
are working with governments
and Lyft and so on
and create and share wealth.
创造并共享财富。
precisely because they don't share.
是因为他们不共享。
and they sell them.
being a $25 billion corporation,
那家250亿美元的公司
on a blockchain, we'll call it B-Airbnb,
我们叫它B-Airbnb,
by all of the people
database and all the criteria,
them find the right room,
帮助他们找到合适的房间,
with the contracting,
解决支付问题,
they're built into the system.
as a five-star room,
disruptors in Silicon Valley
的破坏者将不复存在。
from the developed world
to their families at home.
and it's growing,
而且还在不断增加。
to the Western Union office
来到西联汇款公司
to her mom in Manila.
days to get there;
when it's going to arrive.
out of her week to do this.
检查是否到账。
a blockchain application called Abra.
名叫阿布拉的区块链应用。
she sent 300 bucks.
转出了300美元。
to her mom's mobile device
looked at her mobile device --
there's Abra "tellers" moving around.
阿布拉中有”出纳员“在循环滚动。
that's a five-star teller,
gives her Filipino pesos,
给了她菲律宾比索,
of the digital age is data.
最强大的资产就是数据。
of digital crumbs behind us
into a mirror image of you,
more about you than you do,
what you bought a year ago,
或者你一年前的准确位置。
or your exact location a year ago.
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.
末端获得一些残渣碎屑。
25 years ago, you wrote a hit song,
写出一首流行的歌曲,
of around 45,000 dollars.
you write a hit song,
写出一首流行的歌曲,
on a blockchain ecosystem.
区块链的生态系统上。
a smart contract surrounding it.
her intellectual property rights.
that flow into a digital account.
几分钱流入数字账户。
in your movie, that's different,
那就是另一回事了。
That's different.
那也是另一码事。
becomes a business.
marketing itself,
who don't get fair compensation,
to make it rain on the blockchain.
prosperity, of course -- people do.
而是由人创造。
has escaped from the bottle,
by an unknown person or persons
another kick at the can,
the economic power grid
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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