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Blockchain Revolution
- Narrator
- John Chancer
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 5 July 2018
- Run Time
- 17 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Monetary economics, Online finance and investing, Information technology industries, Popular economics, Banking, Impact of science and technology on society, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Microeconomics, International economics, Banking law, Distributed ledger technology / blockchain, Distributed systems
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What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott, read by John Chancer.
'This book has had an enormous impact'
Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
'Spectacular. Mind-blowing in its expansiveness and profundity'
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
'Iconic'
Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma
Cryptocurrencies are changing the world. They grant everyday people the power to invest, disrupt the world order and contribute towards a better future.
Blockchain is the ingeniously simple technology that powers cryptos. It is a public ledger to which everyone has access, but which no single person or institution 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 it is everywhere.
In Blockchain Revolution, Don and Alex Tapscott reveal:
· how this game-changing technology is re-shaping the global economy
· how it is improving everything from healthcare records to online voting
· how people everywhere are using it to side-step institutional barriers and take control of their future
Brilliantly researched and highly accessible, this is the essential text on this major paradigm shift. Read it, or be left behind.
Critics Review
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What a spectacular book. Mind-blowing in its expansiveness and profundity. It makes me think we're at one of those times in technological, economic and social history where the sky is the limit
co-founder of Apple Computer and Chief Scientist at Prime Data
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The Tapscotts have written the book, literally, on how to survive and thrive in this next wave of technology-driven disruption. Likely to become one of the iconic books of our time
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and author of The Innovator's Dilemma
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Occasionally a book comes along that changes the global discourse. This is likely to be one of those books. Blockchains are at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution and the Tapscotts lucidly explain why and how to capture the opportunity and avoid dangers
founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum
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A carefully researched and beautifully written book. Blockchain Revolution argues that the 'Internet of value' will transform our lives. A must-read for our disruptive times
Global Managing Director at McKinsey & Company
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Don and Alex brilliantly illuminate the technology that could profoundly impact the way we manage issues of trust, security and privacy for years to come
Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
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The great missing element in the Internet has been a 'trust protocol', a way of knowing that a transaction is verified and authentic. Blockchain technology could provide a foundation for that. It's a revolutionary idea and this lucid book explains why
Author of Steve Jobs
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A masterpiece. Gracefully dissects the potential of blockchain technology to take on today's most pressing global challenges
Economist and President at the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru
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The blockchain is to trust as the Internet is to information. Like the original Internet, blockchain has potential to transform everything. Read this book and you will understand
Director of MIT Media Lab
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In this extraordinary journey to the frontiers of finance, the Tapscotts shed new light on the blockchain phenomenon and make a compelling case for why we all need to better understand its power and potential
President and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
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Deconstructs the promise and peril of the blockchain in a way that is at once accessible and erudite. Blockchain Revolution gives readers a privileged sneak peak at the future
Author of The Industries of the Future
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Details
- Author
- Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott
- Narrator
- John Chancer
- Duration
- 17 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 July 2018
- ISBN
- 9780241985649
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Monetary economics, Online finance and investing, Information technology industries, Popular economics, Banking, Impact of science and technology on society, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Microeconomics, International economics, Banking law, Distributed ledger technology / blockchain, Distributed systems
Synopsis
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott, read by John Chancer.THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON HOW THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY IS CHANGING THE WORLD. 'Blockchain Revolution is a highly readable introduction to a bamboozling but increasingly important field' - Guardian 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· how it will improve everything from healthcare records to online voting, and from insurance claims to artist royalty paymentsBrilliantly researched and highly accessible, this is the essential text on the next major paradigm shift. Read it, or be left behind. -----'This book has had an enormous impact on the evolution of blockchain in the world' Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft 'Spectacular. Mind-blowing in its expansiveness and profundity' Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple 'Iconic' Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma 'Occasionally a book comes along that changes the global discourse. This is likely to be one of those books.' Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum
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