Blockchain Articles
How to build the digital economic system of the Metaverse?
In this article from National Business Daily, Don is interviewed for his insight into the infrastructure running the metaverse - the blockchain - and the important ole of digital property rights in this next era of asset ownership and management. Read the full...
Introducing the Trivergence: Transformation driven by blockchain, AI and the IoT
In a feature for Cointelegraph, Don introduces the Trivergence, arguing that the combination of Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and blockchain is the foundation of the second era of the digital age. Read the full article:...
It’s 2030. Looking back, how did we get to a new contract for the digital age.
In a feature for Coindesk, Don speaks from the future to discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society, and how this incredible disruption to life as we know it will lead to a rewriting of our social contract - and the role that blockchain will...
What Blockchain Could Mean for your Health Data
In Harvard Business Review, Don and his son Alex discuss the concept of the digital identity, run on a blockchain, as a means to balance privacy and data accessibility as we grapple with big healthcare problems exposed by COVID-19. Read the full article here:...
5 Ways Blockchain Tech Can Help Us During This Pandemic
In their article for Coindesk, Don and Alex Tapscott introduce their report Blockchain Solutions in Pandemics and call for the integration of blockchain to manage healthcare records, just-in-time supply chains, rapid response registries for nurses, incentive models...
The Second Era of the Digital Age Will Bring Tremendous Opportunity to Toronto
Don, as guest editor of the business section of the Toronto Star, contributed a large feature this past March, and one of a dozen articles was this open letter to Toronto. In it he implores the city to invest in its technology sector, to rethink the city's current...
Blockchain Remains an Opportunity and Challenge for Investors
In this Globe and Mail article, Don highlights the progress certain companies have been making in the blockchain revolution, including Air Canada, IBM, and Shoppers Drug Mart, but that many companies are still facing the innovator's dilemma when it comes to...
Unleashing the Power of Blockchain in the Enterprise
In this MIT Sloan Management Review feature, Don and co-author Ricardo Viana Vargas discuss how the true value of enterprise-level blockchain can only be captured if leaders collaborate together to develop standards, processes, and industry-wide goals. Read the full...
We’re Living in an Era of Digital Feudalism. Here’s How to Take your Data and Identity Back
In this Quartz article, Don reviews the feudal nature of our relationship to data companies such as Google and Facebook, and prescribes blockchain as the tool that can return data ownership back to the individual that creates that data. This is self-sovereign...