{"id":3764,"date":"2019-03-07T12:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticsalutsocial.atoom.space\/?post_type=noticia&p=3764"},"modified":"2021-07-21T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:40:16","slug":"blockchain-the-most-boring-revolution-in-history","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/ticsalutsocial.atoom.space\/en\/noticia\/blockchain-the-most-boring-revolution-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain: the most boring revolution in history?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since it was proposed ten years ago -it is not easy to separate the technology from its most famous application, bitcoin-, everyone\u2019s been speaking about blockchain, making it the latest technology to have raised great expectations. However, blockchain, seen as “the biggest revolution since the Internet”, has yet to revolutionize the world of trade, knowledge or communication, unlike its predecessor. Moreover: recently, and notwithstanding significant, well-established initiatives [1] which are pioneering in their application, public opinion is changing (maturing) with respect to the technology\u2019s expected impact.<\/p>\n

Some experts define blockchain as an “institutional technology”: a tool which is set to change the way in which agents are related or coordinated in an ecosystem. This new social agreement also depends on factors which are not strictly technical in nature, but rather legal, political, economic, and social. On a recent visit to Barcelona [2], Professor Jason Potts of the University of Melbourne, predicted that some “10,000 blockchains will dominate the world”. Will they do so based on geographical areas, markets or societies? One can speculate and make hypotheses as to the probable organizational design of these ecosystems, but one must remember that paradigms do not shift overnight. Individuals have a “digital mindset” and an “analogical heart” but the governance framework remains doubly analogue. Institutional disruption is, at the very least, unlikely.<\/p>\n

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Expected global business volume in the<\/em> blockchain<\/em> sector (Gartner, March 2017)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aside from a simple definition, one can easily overlook the social implications or the crypto-mathematical effects of blockchain technology (how will developments in computational capacity affect anonymization and security?). Faced with the latest technology to have emerged, we need to ensure that any expectations are not inversely proportional to public understanding and that we do not contribute to their ignorance, but instead we debate, discuss and evaluate it. If “justice which fails to understand the people isn\u2019t justice”, then the revolution that does not understand the people may not be a revolution either.<\/p>\n

A balance needs to be found between novelty and complexity, since a change involving people (and the institutions that represent them) needs time for it to be assimilated: nobody can deny, however, that sooner or later, change always ends up happening. For this reason, blockchain may be “the most boring revolution in history”[3].<\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0Blockchain and healthcare: the Estonian experience<\/a> (Taavi Einaste, Head <\/em>de\u00a0Digital Healthcare <\/em>a Nortal, f<\/em>ebrer 2018)<\/p>\n

[2] Expert seminar: The blockchain economy<\/a> (Seminari obert celebrat el 27 de febrer de 2019)<\/p>\n

[3] \u201cEl \u2018blockchain\u2019 ser\u00e0 la revoluci\u00f3 m\u00e9s avorrida de la nostra hist\u00f2ria<\/a>\u201d (Entrevista a Paul Brody al diari ARA, 3 de mar\u00e7 de 2019)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3760,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"etiqueta":[],"tipus":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-3764","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"imatge":3761,"autor":"Francesc L\u00f3pez Segui","textos_destacats":[{"texte":"Comment on an interview with Paul Brody in ARA newspaper"}]},"yoast_head":"\nBlockchain: the most boring revolution in history? - Fundaci\u00f3 TIC Salut i Social<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ticsalutsocial.atoom.space\/en\/noticia\/blockchain-the-most-boring-revolution-in-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blockchain: the most boring revolution in history? - Fundaci\u00f3 TIC Salut i Social\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since it was proposed ten years ago -it is not easy to separate the technology from its most famous application, bitcoin-, everyone\u2019s been speaking about blockchain, making it the latest technology to have raised great expectations. 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