Blockchain Revolution Executive Breakfast Program - Vancouver

“The Tapscotts have written the book, literally, on how to survive and thrive in this next wave of technology-driven disruption. Likely to become one of the iconic books of our time.”

- Clay Christensen, Author, The Innovator’s Dilemma

According to Don Tapscott, bestselling author of Wikinomics, and blockchain expert Alex Tapscott, there is one form of technology that will have a greater impact on the world economy than self-driving cars, solar energy, or even artificial intelligence. It’s called the blockchain. Blockchain technology is a simple protocol that bypasses intermediaries and allows for anonymous and secure transactions that are permanently recorded on a public ledger. So why should you care about this? Blockchain is not only the technology that powers bitcoin, but is a protocol that holds the power to reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better. In BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World (May 10, 2016; Portfolio/Penguin Random House), the Tapscotts outline dozens of stories about blockchain initiatives that are creating a more prosperous world, and provide a preview of how this groundbreaking technology will dramatically shape our world far into the future. You’ll discover how blockchain technology can:

• Rewire the Financial System: Blockchain technology can radically reduce costs for banks, providing a boost to productivity and making it easier to offer products and services to a global clientele, and can also radically lower barriers for new entrants to create alternatives to the conventional banking industry.
• Encourage entrepreneurship: Blockchain can automate, streamline, and otherwise dramatically improve the three components of business building: formation, fund-raising, and sales.-
• Help artists and musicians to be fairly compensated: Blockchain removes the need for intermediaries such as record labels, agents and other third parties. In the music industry, for example, songwriters can take back control of how their music is played, remixed, and licensed, and choose how they are compensated.
• Protect Privacy: On the blockchain, participants can choose to maintain a degree of personal anonymity, controlling their data and identity and revealing only what is necessary to receive a service.
• Provide a real solution to economic inequality: Rather than focusing on the redistribution of wealth to help the global poor, we can “pre-distribute” wealth by democratizing the way it’s created in the first place. The use of the blockchain means that anyone with a flip phone can participate in the economy. Landowners’ rights can be protected and service aggregators like UBER can be replaced by distributed blockchain applications and a true sharing economy.

BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION is a brilliantly researched, highly readable, and utterly foundational book about the future of the modern economy. For more information, visit: www.blockchain-revolution.com

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