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The Blockchain Futures Lab at Institute for the Future is a research initiative and a community for identifying the opportunities and limits of blockchain technologies as well as their social, economic, and political impacts on individuals, organizations, and communities over the coming decades.

The program brings together the leading developers of blockchain tools and applications with organizations that seek to understand the implications of this highly disruptive technology—and perhaps also to create parts of the new ecosystem of infrastructures and markets that it will drive.

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Pourquoi les entreprises s'intéressent-elles tant à la blockchain en ce moment ?

Primavera De Filippi : Cela dépend des entreprises. Pour les banques, les premières à s'emparer du sujet, il s'agit d'une technologie disruptive, qui risque de remettre en cause leur légitimité, mais qui a aussi énormément de potentiel pour améliorer leurs services. Certaines opérations bancaires, par exemple, ne peuvent pas être exécutées par un seul employé, notamment lorsqu'il s'agit d'importantes sommes d'argent. Il faut la signature de deux ou trois personnes différentes au sein de la banque. Avec la blockchain, on peut encoder toutes ces règles de procédure. Il n'y a plus besoin d'une autorité pour vérifier qu'elles sont appliquées : si les critères sont remplis, l'opération est automatiquement validée. 

Des entreprises technologiques comme Samsung s'intéressent plutôt à la blockchain dans le cadre de l'Internet des objets (IoT). Elles veulent créer des dispositifs intelligents capables d'effectuer des échanges de valeur sur la blockchain, au lieu d'avoir simplement des appareils qui communiquent les uns avec les autres comme dans l'IoT traditionnel. Cela permet aussi de déléguer au dispositif la capacité de coordonner les échanges, sans avoir besoin de passer par un opérateur central qui va traiter toutes les informations et les renvoyer. Car lorsque nous serons dans un système où des trillions d'appareils communiqueront les uns avec les autres, aucun serveur central ne sera capable de gérer tous ces échanges.

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Discussions of blockchain often begin with bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that gained notoriety as much for its novelty as for the volatility of its valuation. In a fog of media reports driven by bitcoin’s associations with dubious use cases,1 the far-reaching potential of blockchain—the technology underpinning bitcoin—remained largely obscured. Yet, that is changing. Organizations throughout the public and private sectors have begun exploring ways that blockchain might profoundly transform some of their most basic operations, from the way they execute contracts and carry out transactions to the ways they engage customers and more.

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From 2008 to date, no other technology has been the subject of such fervent debate. Irrespective of your opinion, the rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies cannot be ignored. Today, there are a number of billion dollar businesses that accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. These include Dell, Reddit, Expedia, PayPal, and most recently, Microsoft.…

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My book Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy highlights the possibility that blockchains are a modernising information technology that extends well beyond digital cryptocurrencies, smart contrac…

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When you hear the word blockchain does it make your head spin? Wall Street analysts and fintech experts claim it could make traditional banking obsolete; Airbnb just acquired a team of blockchain experts; and the country of Estonia will use it to secure a million patient health records.

But what exactly is blockchain, and what are its implications for higher education?

Originally created as the underlying database for bitcoin (the peer-to-peer digital asset and payment system), blockchain’s technology is now being seen as valuable and purposeful beyond the financial sector. The advantages blockchain provides to store information on a secure, permanent, historical ledger that can be both public and private will change how edtech applications approach student data.

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Banks including J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup have successfully tested the record-keeping technology behind bitcoin on credit-default swaps, a move that could help it gain a foothold in mainstream finance.

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No central authority

Blockchain has been hailed by admirers as holding the revolutionary promise that the internet did two decades ago. Business figures from Microsoft’s Bill Gates to Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, have extolled its potential; on a trade mission to Asia in August, David Cameron, the UK prime minister, included a blockchain expert among his entourage.

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BTC’s cutting edge patent pending election system process uses the blockchain for an extra level of security not found in any other voting solution. Because blockchain-based records are time-stamped and signed, post-election fraud is rendered virtually impossible. The voting process begins with tried and true paper ballots. This removes any voter confusion about how to properly vote and ensures that from the onset there is an indisputable audit trail, as physical paper ballots remain the ultimate document of record.

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The blockchain is a revolution with endless applications. Let’s get ready for it!

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