Technological change is literally happening in real time before our eyes, and our received wisdom is having a hard time coming to grips with it.
For example, the premise of a lot of news stories striving to explain the fast moving world in which we find ourselves (like the nonetheless otherwise great article linked below from Forbes), is that the world will take the changes in its stride, more Bitcoin millionaires will be made, and then we will revert back to some kind of equilibrium where the industrial/economic/financial rules that enabled the economic growth of the 20th century will somehow reestablish themselves and all will once again be right with the world.
But as I have written (here: https://steemit.com/cryptotech/@drwom/what-if-the-future-arrived-and-we-didn-t-notice-well-most-of-us-didn-t-anyway) cryptotech is next-level stuff. The game is changing. It's our job (tell me I'm not in this alone!) to help vision a future where the tech innovations we are witnessing change the world for the better, not the worse.
Not everything is on the table for disruptive change - we will still need the institutions of democracy for example (i.e., the rule of law, the separation of powers, schools, universities and and vocational education and training providers etc.) to ensure that our societies retain the human capital needed to embrace new opportunities and look after the weak as well as the strong (can you tell I'm a proud 'bleeding-heart' leftie?). But the ways our economies function (trade, manufacturing, finance, and communications to name but a few sectors facing the creative disruption of cryptotech) will certainly be up for reinvention.
Anyway, check out the Forbes link here:
Cryptotech is quickly becoming a bit of an obsession for me, inspiring me creatively in a way I seriously didn't see coming. I'd be really happy to engage in the big ideas playing in the cryptotech background, and I'd love to engage with your ideas. To see where I'm coming from, check out my first Steem piece, 'What if the future arrived and we didn't notice'.
More to come.
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