Blockchain Revolution

DESIGNING THE FUTURE

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Our conversation with Ann Cavoukian inspired us to follow up on Germany’s “Never
again” promise. We came across the words of German federal president Joachim
Gauck on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism, victims of
Hitler’s regime. “Our moral obligations cannot be fulfilled solely at the level of
remembrance. There also exists within us a deep and abiding certainty that
remembrance bestows a mission on us. That mission tells us to protect and preserve
humanity. It tells us to protect and preserve the rights of every human being.”
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he alluding to genocide in Syria, Iraq, Darfur, Srebrenica, Rwanda, and Cambodia,
after the German people had vowed, “Never again”?
We believe that blockchain technology could be an important tool for protecting
and preserving humanity and the rights of every human being, a means of
communicating the truth, distributing prosperity, and—as the network rejects the
fraudulent transactions—of rejecting those early cancerous cells from a society that
can grow into the unthinkable.
Admittedly, a bold statement. Read on and judge for yourself.
From a more parochial and practical perspective, these seven principles can serve
as a guide to designing the next generation of high-performance and innovative
companies, organizations, and institutions. If we design for integrity, power, value,
privacy, security, rights, and inclusion, then we will be redesigning our economy and
social institutions to be worthy of trust. We now turn our attention to how this could
roll out and what you should consider doing.

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