Social Contract Articles
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...
Why Canada Needs a New Social Contract for the Digital Economy
In his Toronto Star series, Don writes about the need for the creation of new institutions, models, and agreements in order to fundamentally address deep issues facing Canadian society, such as climate change, reconciliation, populism, and xenophobia. This is the new...
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...
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...
Creating a New Social Contract for the Digital Economy
Friends. At the end of Blockchain Revolution, Alex Tapscott and I call for the creation of a new social contract. Technology is breaking down our the agreements that grew from the industrial age – about employment, economic opportunity, public discourse, the...
The New Interdependence: Four Pillars of Society
The “networked” approaches to public value and new models of global problem solving are enabled in part by the evolution of global society and the growth of an interdependent world. The digital revolution changes the way we organize capability in society to innovate,...
The Rise of New Institutional Models and Architectures
Smart organizations are encouraging, rather than fighting, the heaving growth of massive online communities, many of which emerged from the fringes of the web to attract tens of millions of participants overnight. Even ardent competitors are collaborating on...
Technology Push for Change
Over the past 30 years, the digital revolution and specifically the Internet have evolved and grown in ways no one could have imagined. The Internet continues to fundamentally transform how business is conducted, how government operates and how individuals interact....
Demand Pull For Change
Throughout the twentieth century nation-states cooperated to build global institutions to facilitate joint action and address global problems. Many of these organizations were created in the aftermath of WWII. In 1944, 44 Allied nations gathered in Bretton Woods, New...