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#2. Peer-to-peer mobile networks coupled with low orbit satellite networks.
#3. Privacy-aware end to end encrypted apps.
#4. End of fiat currency. A new global electronic money.
#5. Personalised 3d-printed medicine.
#6. Full immersion BCI VR spaces
#7. By the end of the decade digitisation of public administration will make space for direct democracy and fast-paced public projects based on real-time electronic voting.
If yes, I think it won't matter at all. EU already have real-time electronic payments and mostly everyone uses contactless cards or appley/android pay.
I think the benefit of Libra, as peer-to-peer money is valuable for countries in Africa or other parts of the world where cash is king and unsafe (due to high crime rate).
And with the new fin-tech banks like Monzo, Starling or Revolut the banking apps are light years ahead of traditional banks.
https://github.com/ciocan/Blockchain-Files/blob/master/the-h...
You can have a bird's eye view of most common platforms on this infographic:
https://medium.com/world-of-blockchains/the-history-of-block...
When in fact top 10% richest helped much more people along the way than all average combined. And the consequence is being rich.
Instead of complaining about inequality (aka making the rich poorer), better to think about how to make the poor richer.
Nextjs provide out of the box server side rendering, routing, code splitting and all the new front-end stuff out of the box with just one command (no need to setup webpackj, babel, etc)
Graph.cool gets you backend as a service with grapgql. You can manage your db from their consle panel. You're not locked in to their service, you can install it on your cloud cluster too.
Nexus trilogy
The blockchain comes as the refactoring of this legacy system.
50%+1 voting process it is not optimal. A statistically significant number could be way down than half of population.
If voting process is convenient (meaning a tap away), secure, cheap and real time all the issues could be resolved much faster. Instead of decades could be months.
We are still in the stone age when it comes to policy and democracy.
There is more innovation to come to outpace the current proven technologies. In the last 18 months or so there is an explosion of new blockchain whitepapers, especially this one: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/red-belly-blockchain-to-proc...
Back then there was no option to remove it - the only option was to convert it to a page with the mention that all your friends will become page likes. Then you will lose all your content posted (statuses, pictures, messages, etc). It was written red on white as a warning prevention. They said it was not possible to revert back.
Id did that, and the next day I felt so good afterwards. No guilt or fear of missing stuff. There were other means to stay in contact with people.
Forward two years later I wanted facebook back because I moved to another country.
I searched if there is an option to recover an old profile, and it was (even before they explicitly said there is none, and all your data is lost). I got back all that I've posted, only friends I needed to add back manually.
Now I use news feed eradicator and I don't see anything. Also, I don't have that urge to scroll feeds anymore. Basically, I wanted only messenger, but back then there was no such option.