Topic: Blockchain technology for social good? - page 3. (Read 499 times)

I read a while back that blockchain technology is very helpful to everyday people in some African countries. People who sell vegetables in small shops can use it to easily order fresh supplies. They just need to use their mobiles. It's helping them to make a success of their small businesses. I also read that refugees in different countries find blockchain helpful in integrating into new societies. It's great that the technology can help people to do well and overcome disadvantages.

Blockchain potentially can benefit every single individual by allowing oneself to use his/her own personal information (instead of giving it away for free) in order to get profit, primarily award creators of the value and significantly cut down transaction fees. Not to mention it can definitely help fighting corruption and bureaucracy. Although it is still rather controversial and the final result depends on who's gonna put their hands on this technology first...

Unfortunately I don't think crypto will break the existing situation of the rich being rich and the poor being poor. its only my opinion but I fear that although we need to move towards trust-less, immutable ledgers. As this technology matures and combines with other forms of technology AI / Deep Learning we will see lot of middle class jobs accountants, office clerks, project managers, lawyers (smart legally binding contracts will replace them) logistic specialists, will all disappear. The ruling class will be the people who have the financial power and clout to integrate such systems and this will bring an even bigger divide between the rich and the poor. I think there will be a dark future in the implementation of blockchain. Unfortunately.

I agree, society should know more about crypto world and blockchain tech. would be interesting if blockchain tech can be used on daily usage. many benefits for the social networks.
i think it will happens. someday.

the problem is that you will get more than enough so called "good guys" or "good people" that want to do "good" while "controlling the financial system" and marketing for trust.

the issue then will be how efficient are they? and they will be to many

regards

Interesting on the banned books, I wasn't aware of this. No doubt that this disrupting technology will make a change. But to counter you, do you think that crypto is really breaking the system of Rich always being rich and Poor always being poor? If so, how?

Appreciate your response and thinking!

I have already planted trees and bought beehives in Africa, besides the donations I´ve done with use of block chain tech, and I love the fact that the using of funds is very transparent, I know that the money arrives at site and is not turned into paychecks or commercials on the way.
Besides the transparency and global possibilities that comes with an open ledger, block chain also offers an way to escape inflation in FIAT currencies and store value in BTC which is fantastic in days like these.

The possibility to store information, like a vote, could be applied to a society already and make cheating in voting procedures impossible. I also, like many others think that society will become more "fair" if there is no 3rd parties that can decide if our funds should be confiscated or if we should be allowed to transfer them.

New individuals that lack banking account could access Steemit from a mobile device and earn some money or join airdrops as well, it is intended to reach further then our useless banking system. There will be huge social impact in the future, we will use block chain to ID our selves, store medical data, social media will run on it, making fake news and adds a past thing. We will have access to the medical info, ID and funds where ever we go and no one will be able to steal it or corrupt it, block chain is the future!

Peace

In my case, I would like to have an application of blockchain the medical field.  Imagine that there is an electronic library of data regarding patients around the world and our medical practitioners and researchers will contribute and access it, then we can predict the trend of so many diseases and make a cure for those diseases.

My personal opinion is in the long term, blockchain technology has far reaching implications and ultimately enslave us to an immutable decentralised ledger, which also destroys sovereignty of nations if we go down the route of a world decentralised currency. I think immutable information maintains the status quo of the rich always being rich and the poor always being poor and the blockchain facilitates a way to snapshot that monetary construct in a way which we can never take back. Just think of how we forced the kings to sign the Magna Carta, this won't be possible once we have people in power with technology which is immutable. BTW I'm a Ted Kaczynski supporter who believes he was ahead of his time. It's just his methods of how he went about his actions hurt a lot of people. There is a reason why books like The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul are banned books, or put you on a government watchlist if you purchase them on Amazon.

If we agree that society needs development/improvement in many ways. And we agree that technology is an unavoidable part of the future.

Then how do you see blockchain/decentralization improve life for human beings and society?

I'm curious to hear opinions here. I have my opinions and I work for several projects, but I want to keep my question pure and simple and see what comes up!

Let's build towards a better world