Don is a leading global authority on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology. His work profoundly examines the transformative power of the internet, introducing key concepts such as the 'digital divide' and the 'Net Generation.' His analyses of mass collaboration and a connected planet offer deep insights into the challenges and opportunities of our time.
An essential introduction and guide to navigating the next Internet revolution-everything from the metaverse and NFTs to DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity-from the co-author of the international bestseller Blockchain Revolution. The Web, and with it the Internet, are entering a new age.
Don Tapscott, one of the world’s great thinkers on the Internet, became Chancellor of his alma mater, Trent University, in 2013. Over the next 6 years, he spoke to students about all kinds of things—designing their lives, the value of a Liberal arts education, how to thrive in the digital age, how to be resilient. Those delightful speeches have been compiled in this book. It also includes articles in Harvard Business Review, the Globe and Mail , and other journals about his ground-breaking ideas on the impact of the blockchain on higher education, the dark side of the digital economy, and the challenge that awaits young people graduating from university.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in global supply chains, leading to significant loss of life and economic disruption. Manufacturers struggled to find new suppliers when Asian sources shut down, resulting in widespread shortages of essential goods. Blockchain technology offers a solution to mitigate such disruptions. This book features insights from leading experts on how blockchain, alongside innovations like additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, can tackle persistent issues that slow down and complicate the delivery of goods, particularly during crises. Current supply chains rely on a complex web of documents and intermediaries, obscuring the status and custody of goods. This lack of clarity can lead to consumer panic, as seen with toilet paper shortages during the pandemic. Blockchain, known as the Internet of Value, allows for digital peer-to-peer management and trading of assets, promising to revolutionize global commerce. It will enhance operations, logistics, procurement, transportation, customs, trade finance, manufacturing, and inventory management. The book outlines what leaders must do now to prepare for a decentralized future, offering valuable ideas for executives and entrepreneurs to engage with stakeholders and embrace the blockchain revolution.
MAJORLY EXPANDED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON CRYPTOASSETS, ICOs, SMART CONTRACTS, DIGITAL IDENTITY AND MORE The definitive book on how the technology behind bitcoin and cryptocurrency is changing the world. Blockchain is the ingeniously simple technology that powers Bitcoin. But it is much more than that, too. It is a public ledger to which everyone has access, but which no single person controls. It allows for companies and individuals to collaborate with an unprecedented degree of trust and transparency. It is cryptographically secure, but fundamentally open. And soon it will be everywhere. In Blockchain Revolution, Don and Alex Tapscott reveal how this game-changing technology will shape the future of the world economy, dramatically improving everything from healthcare records to online voting, and from insurance claims to artist royalty payments. Brilliantly researched and highly accessible, this is the essential text on the next major paradigm shift. Read it, or be left behind.
The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the future of the world economy has arrived, and it's not self-driving cars, solar energy, or artificial intelligence. It's called the blockchain. The first generation of the digital revolution brought us the Internet of information. The second generaƯtion-powered by blockchain technology-is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that can help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better. Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolutionƯary protocol that allows transa.
Rebooting Business and the World - International Edition
The global financial crisis of 2008 was a wake-up call for the world. But while many people were calling for updated regulations and even the breakup or nationalization of the big banks, it became clear to us that restoring long-term confidence in the financial services industry would require more than government intervention and new rules. The world needed a profoundly new approach to governing the global economy, including a new modus operandi for financial services based on business principles like transparency, integrity and collaboration. Evidence soon mounted that the crisis was spreading to other sectors. The Gulf Oil Spill, a sovereign debt crisis, the failure of world leaders to forge a meaningful agreement on climate change in Copenhagen. One event after another underscored the impotence of our conventional approaches to solving global problems. It seems that many of the institutions that have served us well for decades—even centuries—are frozen and unable to move forward. And yet, through all of the haze and the turmoil we see cause for genuine optimism. In every corner of the globe, a powerful new model of economic and social innovation is sweeping across all sectors—one where people with drive, passion and expertise take advantage of new Web-based tools to get more involved in making the world more prosperous, just and sustainable. And just as millions have contributed to Wikipedia—and thousands still make ongoing contributions to large-scale collaborations like Linux and the human genome project—we are convinced that there is now an historic opportunity to marshal human skill, ingenuity and intelligence on a mass scale to re-evaluate and re-position many of our institutions for the coming decades and for future generations. A follow-up to Wikinomics, the best-selling management book of 2007, our new book Macrowikinomics offers nothing less than a game plan for all of us to fix a broken world. Drawing on an entirely new set of original research conducted with countless collaborators in fields such as healthcare, science, education, energy, government and the media, we tell the stories of some of the world’s most dynamic innovators, from a global citizen’s movement working to reverse the tide of disruptive climate change to for-profit startups that are turning industries ranging from music to transportation on their head. We argue that collaborative innovation is not only transforming our economy but all of society and its many institutions. Now the onus is now on each of us to lead the transformation in our households, communities and workplaces. After all, the potential for new models of collaboration does not end with the production of software, media, entertainment and culture. Why not open source government, education, science, the production of energy, and even health care? As this book shows, these are not idle fantasies, but real opportunities that the new world of wikinomics makes possible.
Evaluates the ways in which the global marketplace has significantly changed in recent years, revealing how wikinomics philosophies can be applied to everything from government and finance to education and health care.
In 'Wikinomics' the authors showed how the Internet changed the way the very smartest business managers think about structures and strategies. Now, in 'MacroWikinomics', they demonstrate how this revolution in thinking can fix a broken world.
Translated into more than 20 languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, "Wikinomics" has become essential reading for business people everywhere as it explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites but at traditional companies.
This work demonstrates how readers can become part of a business web- a group of businesses that work towards a unified goal. Such webs are replacing the traditional business structure to create wealth.
