Trust is breaking down in our societies — trust not just in big institutions but also in the natural good of the common man.
Politicians, bankers, delivery men, our neighbors, our doctors, our children’s teachers are all suspect, are all now known to be capable of doing wrong — we’ve seen all the gritty details in case after case.
Code=Trust
The future of trust is code, lines upon lines of unchangeable computer programming that will dictate what we can or can not do.
Forget about negotiating with the lady at the DMV about your proof of residence, writing to your MP about net neutrality or trying to find someone to complain to at the supermarket because you got charged the wrong price for your frozen chicken breasts.
All of these services will be automated. There will be no one to complain to. You’ll be able to choose option A, option B or option C.
That’s it.
The One-Dollar Vending Machine
Bitcoin and self-checkout lanes are only barely the beginning.
Remember inserting one-dollar bills into vending machines, and the vending machines spitting the bills back out again, over and over again in an excruciating dance of techno-fail? Get ready for more of that.
Prepare for self-driving cars that you call without speaking to a dispatcher, that you pay for automatically. Prepare for stores entirely empty of workers. Prepare for restaurants without cooks or waiters. Prepare to control every aspect of your home, from the heating to the washing machine, with your smartphone.
Prepare to pass whole days, even in the most highly populated cities of the world, without talking to another human being.
It's a Trustless World
The world of 2017 runs on trust. The world of 2018 and beyond will rely on code. Are you ready?
I hope your Christmas or other holiday was wonderful and I wish you a happy and prosperous new year. Here we come, 2018, watch out!
It’s hard to see how much blockchain will change our lives.
I think living a life with anything recorded on code will have a lot of positives effects.
With this, the cyber security industry will also grow like crazy.
Perhaps in the future we will have IA hackers competing against IA antivirus.
And then, Skynet is born?
There will be systems that are trustless plus code-is-law. There will also be trustless plus code-is-interpreted. A human factor will be allowed, if you want it. It’ll be decided by all parties when you enter the contract.
Right, makes sense. I tend to oversimplify in some of these articles as they're written for a general audience and I want to make an impact.
I don't think it's an oversimplification. I think it's a correct assessment for the moment. If there was no innovation on the horizon, you're right on track. It's too bad it's months away, though. In the meantime, we just have these boring trustless systems to deal with.
I guess I'm just saying, there's hope.
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Awesome title it really drew me in. It's scary when you think about the future you describe, especially the part about going entire days without speaking to another human.
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If everything is automated and coded, whereby machines will be doing the work what then will be the usefulness of humans and we know that the machines might be touched or get faulty, so you can even trus the coded or computerised machine
Quite thought provoking. Love it!!
I completely agree with your analysis. Amazon has already kickstarted the world of code. Blockchain is definitely the next internet, the next base of survival for all content, market, the possibilities are endless.
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*cringe
that automated lady never knows what I am saying!
Looping around the menu system indefinitely that is a special kinda hell i dont want any part of