THE TRUTH MACHINE

From the authors of the fascinating The Age of Cryptocurrency comes the definitive work on the Internet’s next big thing: the blockchain.Many of the ‘legacy systems’ once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task; big banks have grown more entrenched privacy exists only until the next hack and credit card fraud has become a fact of life. However there is a way past all this―a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionise our economy: the blockchain The Truth Machine Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data assets and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society’s faith in itself. They reveal the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain while highlighting the job losses assertion of special interests and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift. With a balanced perspective Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes―moving humanity forward not backward.