🔮Blockchain & trust; China unveiled; ergodicity; black holes, Gorbachev & pizza++ #231

Most of the great challenges we face can be expressed as failures of trust.

Exponential View

Azeem Azhar’s Weekly Wondermissive: Future, Tech & Society

Hi everyone,

I’m away for my summer holiday for the next couple of weeks. We always strive to make sure EV hits your inbox, so this week my friend Kevin Werbach has agreed to take the reins. 

Kevin is one of the smartest thinkers about tech I know. I first met him in the mid-90s when he was editing the venerated (paper) newsletter, Release 1.0. I’ve always learnt a lot from Kevin. He is one of those incredibly brilliant brains who always makes you feel enriched after a conversation. 

Kevin has put together the best book I have read on why blockchain matters: The Blockchain and The New Architecture of Trust. Several EV members will already have read this book, as part of our author’s preview programme (if you have, please share your thoughts in the comments below!). 

Hot off the heels of his excellent book, I’ve asked him to give us his exponential view.

Please take a moment to thank Kevin by commenting or asking ques…