The New Distributed World Order - New Book Excerpt

rycharde (63)in #dlike • 7 years ago (edited)

"Distributed systems give power to the powerless and let the powerful take advantage of collaboration."

This link has an excerpt from Blockchain: The Next Everything by Stephen P. Williams, published by Scribner and available from today.

Well, I hope someone finds it useful; I don't know how the text was chosen but it just seems to ramble about fairly basic stuff. The author makes the widespread error of equating Metcalfe's (so-called) Law to human networks; this is not true, the calculation is about the potential connections needed by a network - nobody on Steem is following everybody! Williams also makes the high-school error of calling it "exponential" growth when it isn't - it's parabolic.

Maybe somewhere in the book there are some insights.

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