CHAPTER 7

Looking to the Future

The impact of blockchain and cryptocurrency on our futures will be disruptive in ways we cannot yet imagine, and distributed ledgers will be disrupted in turn by other technologies. We can expect our workplaces and family lives to change, influenced by a whole range of emerging sectors from artificial intelligence to mixed realities and a connected world alongside decentralized applications. There are areas where we can already see the opportunity for blockchain to disrupt systems and change lives, but the challenges of implementation have pushed the dream a few years into the future. There are also threats on the horizon that developers are already addressing: one of the timeliest questions is around the sustainability ...

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