Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business
唐.泰普史考特: 區塊鍊將如何改變金融與企業
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.
「區塊——鍊」。
word in the world,
for every business, every society
每個企業、社會、
we've had the internet of information.
or a PowerPoint file or something,
或者某樣東西給你時,
的確不是甚麼好事,
that I don't still have the money --
實際上我卻沒有這筆資產,
the "double-spend" problem
on big intermediaries --
仰賴大型的中間機構——
credit card companies and so on --
信用卡公司...等等,
建立信用關係。
all the business and transaction logic
各種商業行為及交易過程中,
identification of people,
and record keeping.
以及交易記錄的保存。
and increasingly are --
而且還有增加的趨勢——
from the global economy,
屏除在經濟活動之外,
who don't have enough money
to go around the world,
只要幾秒鐘的時間,
卻得要好幾天或幾個禮拜,
the banking system across a city.
轉到另一個城市,
to another country.
就要收取10~20%的費用。
of the digital age asymmetrically:
挪用數位化時代的無形資產:
but we have growing social inequality.
但社會的不公也跟著增加。
an internet of information,
distributed ledger
from money to music,
exchanged and managed,
就能完成儲存、移動、交易、交換、管理的動作,
a native medium for value?
天然媒介那該有多好?
industry crashed
named Satoshi Nakamoto
a protocol for a digital cash
cryptocurrency called Bitcoin.
加密電子貨幣上。
to establish trust and do transactions
就能建立信任、直接進行交易。
set off a spark
引起了很大的迴響,
or terrified or otherwise interested
價格會上上下下,
to you if you're a speculator.
它只是一種「加密電子貨幣」。
controlled by a nation-state.
所控制的實體貨幣,
is the underlying technology.
in human history,
not by some big institution,
不是由一些大型機構所發佈的,
to the technology,
How does this thing work?
它到底是怎麼運作的?
to music and everything in between --
這當中的所有東西——
across a global ledger,
they're Bitcoin miners.
他們是挖比特幣的礦工。
at their fingertips --
than all of Google worldwide.
還要快10到100倍。
from the previous 10 minutes.
trying to solve some tough problems.
and to validate the block,
blockchain, with Bitcoin.
先找到的人就會得一個比特幣。
with the same money,
同時付給兩個人,
on that blockchain,
歷史交易記錄,
but across millions of computers,
levels of encryption,
最高級的加密技術、
computing resource in the world
電腦系統還要嚴密。
that we have today.
by a Canadian named Vitalik Buterin.
Vitalik Buterin的加拿大人所建立的。
has some extraordinary capabilities.
build smart contracts.
建立智能合約。
the management, performance
a bank account, too, in a sense --
合約本身也像是個銀行帳戶——
to do everything
for the stock market
are accountable to citizens.
是需要為人民負責的。
this is going to bring,
區塊鍊將帶來甚麼樣的大改變,
financial services.
that does something really simple,
但它只會做一些簡單動作,
of the financial services industry,
in the corner store,
你在轉角的一家商店刷卡,
a dozen companies,
都還是1970年代的,
of the people in this room,
financial industry,
is the same activity,
is in a big upheaval about this,
this technology for success?
這項科技的其他應用。
but not shared prosperity,
但並不是共享的繁榮,
of all of the anger and extremism
憤怒者與極端主義者的心理,
充滿了保護主義、
in the world today,
to this problem of inequality?
來解決不公平的問題嗎?
is to redistribute wealth,
就是財富重新分配、
就分配好財富嗎?
gets created in the first place
fair compensation?
that this can be done.
of the people in the world who have land
世界上70%擁有土地的人,
some dictator comes to power,
有一天,一些獨裁者當權,他們說
of paper that says you own your farm,
證明你擁有這塊土地,
says my friend owns your farm."
你這塊地是我朋友的。」
Latin American economist,
拉丁美洲最偉大的經濟學家,
issue in the world
頭號問題,
a valid title to your land,
沒有合法的權利證明,
對抗這樣的事件,
are working with governments
and Lyft and so on
and create and share wealth.
precisely because they don't share.
是因為他們不分享。
and they sell them.
being a $25 billion corporation,
我們就叫他B-Airbnb公司好了,
on a blockchain, we'll call it B-Airbnb,
25億美金的Airbnb公司,那會如何呢?
by all of the people
database and all the criteria,
them find the right room,
幫他們找出他們想要的房間,
with the contracting,
區塊鍊就能幫忙處理付款流程。
they're built into the system.
as a five-star room,
disruptors in Silicon Valley
from the developed world
to their families at home.
匯回到家裡。
and it's growing,
而且還在持續成長,
to the Western Union office
to her mom in Manila.
days to get there;
when it's going to arrive.
out of her week to do this.
a blockchain application called Abra.
Abra的區塊鍊的App。
she sent 300 bucks.
to her mom's mobile device
透過任何中間機構。
looked at her mobile device --
there's Abra "tellers" moving around.
螢幕上有很多Abra的出納員跑來跑去。
that's a five-star teller,
gives her Filipino pesos,
直接給她菲律賓幣,
of the digital age is data.
最有價值的資產就是數據。
of digital crumbs behind us
into a mirror image of you,
會變成鏡中影像的你,
more about you than you do,
甚至比你還了解你自己,
what you bought a year ago,
你一年前買了甚麼,
or your exact location a year ago.
你在哪個地方。
並不是由你所持有的——
虛擬的你。
the shred of information
to know who you are.
is sweeping up all of this data
會把這些信息全部清空,
protect our privacy,
保護我們的隱私,
of a free society.
of creators of content
for intellectual property is broken.
of the internet.
at the end of the whole food chain.
幾乎是被遺棄的。
25 years ago, you wrote a hit song,
25年前,你寫了一首相當熱賣的歌,
of around 45,000 dollars.
you write a hit song,
on a blockchain ecosystem.
a smart contract surrounding it.
her intellectual property rights.
就能被保護起來。
that flow into a digital account.
in your movie, that's different,
那就不同了,
That's different.
becomes a business.
marketing itself,
它自己就會開始賺錢,
辨識系統下,有支付功能,
who don't get fair compensation,
to make it rain on the blockchain.
prosperity, of course -- people do.
是人創造的,
has escaped from the bottle,
by an unknown person or persons
被某些未知的人或團體召喚出來了,
another kick at the can,
再次嘗試去改善的機會,
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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