Bettina Warburg: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
Bettina Warburg: 区块链将如何彻底改变经济
Bettina Warburg is a blockchain researcher, entrepreneur and educator. A political scientist by training, she has a deep passion for the intersection of politics and technology. Full bio
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people's behavior for hundreds of years:
that facilitate our trade,
technological institution
how we exchange value,
away from this talk,
is relatively new,
of a very human story,
to really explore the idea
about one another
道格拉斯-诺斯。
"new institutional economics."
were really just formal rules
wheels to function,
over the course of human history.
一直扮演重要角色。
hunter-gatherer economies,
当我们还处于采集狩猎经济时代时,
within our village structure.
all of our trade with violence
helped us manage our trade
and the complexity grew,
我们在网上也建立了同样的机构。
we put these same institutions online.
like Amazon, eBay, Alibaba,
如亚马逊,易趣、阿里巴巴,
that act as middlemen
扮演了中间人的角色,
to lower uncertainty
并交换各种有价值的东西。
all kinds of value in society.
we can lower uncertainty
and economic institutions,
our governments,
is a decentralized database
of assets and transactions
through cryptography,
gets locked in blocks of data
linked together and secured.
unforgeable record
across this network.
都进行了备份。
on every computer that uses the network.
to something like Wikipedia.
应该像是维基百科。
changing and being updated.
over time on Wikipedia,
实时跟踪这些变化,
they're just a data infrastructure.
只是数据的基础架构。
that stores words and images
储存着文字和图片,
as an open infrastructure
the digital currency Bitcoin,
technical details to the blockchain,
that stores transactions in a network
存储着该网络的所有交易记录,
and hard to tamper with.
因此它非常安全,很难被篡改。
to transform our economic systems
不确定性问题,
of our everyday transactions,
我们不知在跟谁交易,
like not knowing who we're dealing with,
if things go wrong.
not knowing who we're dealing with.
a used smartphone on eBay.
is look up who I'm buying from.
or do they have no profile at all?
还是说根本没有他们的介绍?
about our identities
about who we're dealing with.
they're very fragmented.
to create an open, global platform
一个开放的、全球的平台,
about any individual
issued you an ID,
and are signed off on.
真实存在并且通过签字的。
and the digital world
could lower uncertainty
into our interactions.
that smartphone by mail.
is the same one that arrives in the mail
是否是同一个东西,
for how it got to me.
for electronics like smartphones,
that we don't want tampered with.
something complicated like a smartphone,
all of these different vendors
that go into making a product,
transparently a product evolve over time.
across nontrusting entities.
创建一个共享的事实。
do not need to know each other
不需要互相认识,
the chain for themselves.
that has the same efficiency of a monopoly
让它有跟垄断一样的效果,
that central authority.
all sorts of companies,
without trusting one another.
都可以使用这个相同的数据库,
we can have a lot more transparency.
我们对产品就有了更多的透明度。
在区块链上变动
or token move on the blockchain,
in terms of our visibility.
这是一个全新的世界。
can lower our uncertainties about identity
如何在身份认证方面降低不确定性
what we mean about transparency
like in a supply chain.
也是一个最难限制的“不确定性”是
and it's reneging.
that those contracts will bear out
you could think about escrow.
你可能会想到第三方托管。
所有合同条件都符合
that all the conditions have been met.
of the most exciting ways
and their enforcement.
通过机构来保证交易执行了,
intervention to the edges,
from the real world to the blockchain.
就不再受干扰。
floor Douglass North
that makes it work,
secure and verified,
our corporations,
all of that collective uncertainty
more and faster and more open.
to get the impression
is the solution to everything,
that it's going to end world poverty,
the counterfeit drug problem
is in its infancy,
a lot of experiments take place
all of the use cases
working on this,
start-ups and universities.
这不仅仅是一个经济方面的演变,
that it's not just an economic evolution.
in computer science.
the technological capability
and physical assets,
we're used to using in society,
a lot of our uncertainties
preparing ourselves,
for the rate of adoption?
that's a really good question.
and government route first,
blockchain is a complex technology.
how the internet works?
the same John Sculley idea
約翰.史考利(前苹果公司执行官)所说的情况,
invisible or beautiful,
neither of those things right now,
for either really early adopters
or smart contracts
of an enterprise or government.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bettina Warburg - Blockchain entrepreneur and researcherBettina Warburg is a blockchain researcher, entrepreneur and educator. A political scientist by training, she has a deep passion for the intersection of politics and technology.
Why you should listen
A graduate of both Georgetown and Oxford, Bettina Warburg started her career as a political scientist and public foresight researcher at a prominent Silicon Valley think tank. Today, she has taken her skills as a researcher and scientist and is applying them toward an entrepreneurial career by co-founding a venture studio business called Animal Ventures. There, she spends most of her time incubating new startup ideas, advising Fortune 500 clients, governments and universities in developing minimum viable products, and strategizing around blockchain, artificial intelligence, industrial internet of things and digital platforms.
Warburg is the executive producer of a Silicon Valley tech show called Tech on Politics, interviewing some of the world's most influential political operatives, entrepreneurs, government official, and the creators of some of the most exciting digital products on the market.
Warburg recently launched a new Blockchain education course called "The Basics of Blockchain." The hope is that this course will help spread the body of blockchain knowledge, inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs and get more people ready for the coming revolution.
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