Don Tapscott - Platform Revolution: Blockchain Technology as the Operating System of the Digital Age

ADVANCE PRAISE

Don and crew deliver another fascinating and authoritative collection of the different ways blockchain and distributed ledger technology couldno, make that willremake the systems of the world. Look beyond the hype and rags-to-riches-to-rags stories: this is about evolving the concept of Internet services away from the Amazons and Ubers and toward cooperative networks owned and run by their users and stakeholders. This book will make you optimistic about the future all over again.

Brian Behlendorf, General Manager, Blockchain, Healthcare, and Identity, The Linux Foundation

Great insight. Not only are platforms essential services, they are living entities that require care. Feed them, nurture them, and give them a social purpose in an active community. Recommended reading. Ones digital transformation should not be a skyscraper built in Venice.

Ibrahim J. Gedeon, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, TELUS Corporation

Decentralization and democratization of our global platforms is a perennial battle worth fighting for. We lost much of that battle with the Web, but we have another chance with blockchain-based platforms. In this new book, Don Tapscott provides the vision and the leadership, and expert contributors provide realistic roadmaps on how to get there.

Mary C. Lacity, PhD, Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence, University of Arkansas

Blockchain Revolution was a trailblazer, introducing the key concepts and principles behind the technology. Platform Revolution is an amazing next chapter. It sets the scene for a paradigm shift in which blockchain serves as an open and neutral ledger for everything, enabling transparency, trust, and mass collaboration. Very good insights to position your enterprise for this next phase in the revolution.

Ian I. Putter, Head, Distributed Ledger Technology/Blockchain, Standard Bank Group

Decentralized, immutable, trusted, efficient. Blockchain will transform how platforms operate today and will usher in a new era of value exchange. Platform Revolution cleverly explores how blockchain can deliver value and accelerate digital transformation across multiple industries.

Debbie Gamble, Chief Officer, Innovation Labs and New Ventures, Interac Corp.

Secured, multi-cloud data networks open to all trusted participants are transforming how people work together in all industries. Platform Revolution eloquently explains the three pillar innovationsAI, blockchain, and the Internet of Thingsthat will be foundational to the next wave of innovation in the global economy. The game changers who have already embraced these emerging technologies have positioned themselves to thrive in this new era of radical transparency.

Raj Rao, IBM General Manager, IBM Blockchain Ecosystems and TradeLens

A great map of the blockchain space and its quest to revolutionize the Internet, from currency to infrastructure to IoT. Bringing trust to the Web will unlock new superpowers were only just beginning to explore.

Molly Mackinlay, Project Lead, InterPlanetary File System

Don Tapscott has brought together the finest minds in the industry on the convergence of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. With these innovations, we can build a future that benefits and empowers every single individual in the world, not just a select few. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to understand how technology and decentralization can help solve todays complex problems.

Pradeep Goel, Chief Executive Officer, Solve.Care

The future will be built on blockchain. Blockchain technologies can comprehensively revolutionize business processes, improve the quality of data, realize self-operation and self-management, offer greater cost efficiency, and provide security guarantees with its features such as enhanced security, immutability, and distributed ledgers.

Adam Cai, Chief Executive Officer, VirgoCX Inc.

Don Tapscott provides readers with a glimpse of the power of blockchain technologies in the global economy. Platform Revolution looks at blockchains impact on the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data, and it underscores the importance of post-quantum cryptography. The future is clearly programmable, but we must be prepared.

Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Polygon

Tapscott takes us on a journey to discover how blockchain already is changing, and will change in the future, the world as we know it forever.

David Atkinson, Commercial Director Executive Team, Holochain

BLOCKCHAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE ENTERPRISE SERIES

C-Suite Revolution: How Blockchain Technology Is Changing
Enterprise Leadership
Edited with a foreword by Don Tapscott

Digital Asset Revolution: How Blockchain Is Decentralizing
Finance and the Management of Value
Edited with a foreword by Alex Tapscott

Financial Services Revolution: How Blockchain Is Transforming Money,
Markets, and Banking
Edited with a preface by Alex Tapscott

Platform Revolution: Blockchain Technology as the Operating System
of the Digital Age
Edited with a preface by Don Tapscott

Supply Chain Revolution: How Blockchain Technology Is Transforming
the Global Flow of Assets
Edited with a foreword by Don Tapscott

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