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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...
How Blockchain Will Change Construction
In Harvard Business Review, Don and co-author Ricardo Viana Vargas discuss the value of blockchain in the construction industry, specifically as a way to run decentralized, transparent project management. Read the full article here:...
Understanding Coders
The following is a review of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, by Clive Thompson. The original, abridged version was published last week in the Globe & Mail. Digital technologies surround us, and we all know there are digital...
The Blockchain Future Don Tapscott Wants for his Grandchildren
In this IT World Canada feature, Don argues for the advent of a social contract to meet the digital and privacy needs of his grandchildren by the time they reach 18. He argues that this new age can be run on blockchain, which can fix democracy and free individuals...
Lisbon Has a Great Opportunity to be the Silicon Valley of the Second Era of the Internet
In an interview with Expresso, the flagship Portuguese newspaper, Don Tapscott states that the blockchain “is becoming the heart of the innovation economy.” It’s time for governments to take advantage of the opportunity and position their countries for growth.
It’s Time For Online Voting
In this piece on the New York Times, Alex Tapscott, my son, co-author, and co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute, talks about why we need electoral reform now, and how blockchain technology can help. Messing with polling stations is one of the most common...
Nordic Business Forum: Principles for Business Success in the Digital Age
On September 26th and 27th, 2018, NBForum 2018 put on a sold-out show for 7,500 people at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Center. In the very well received "NBF Hall of Fame Talk", he spoke to the audience about how they can win in the second era of the internet:
Understand Blockchain in Under 7 Minutes
Don Tapscott, in conversation with LLoyds Bank, explains simply how blockchain will transform every industry, in every part of the world. In this short video he provides advice on the specific steps you can take now and explains why this technology needs the attention...
Norway is the best country in the world to live in, according to the WEF
US president Donald Trump said last week that he wanted more of America’s immigrants to come from Norway, instead of “shithole countries” in Africa. When he comes to Davos this Friday, he will find out why that is not happening. According to World Economic Forum,...
Trump’s view of world ‘direct attack on spirit of co-operation’
Don Tapscott is chief executive of the Tapscott Group and the chancellor of Trent University. With his son Alex, he is the co-author of Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business and the World and the co-founder of the...