Visions of Blockchain Magazine S01E04 | Page 27

Megaphone n ckchai o l b e y th bled b a n e s l s mode usines ) b (smart Crazy Laure Merlin How creative can we be with the Blockchain? What can we build that is both economically viable and of public/universal benefit? Decentralisation is not a new ideal, but the technical revolution of the Blockchain brings us much closer to actual, impacting im- plementations. As in all avant-gardes, there’s an exciting, bubbling gathering of idealists and opportunists, enthusiasts or activists, coming toge- ther around some shared values with different purposes. We’re seeing the onset of a shift from an internet of information, to an internet of value. Remembering how different was the pre- -internet world, what kind of decentralized world do we want to cocreate now?