John Furrier4
Blockchain will be as fundamental to digital infrastructure as TCP/IP was to the Internet. De-centralized & Distributed architectures will emerge in 2018 and become a lynchpin of application advanced models by 2020.
Subbu Allamaraju
False. Not as fundamental as TCP/IP.
John Furrier
@sallamar I'm True on this one. Lets debate :-) love this decentralized trend but I'm biased
Subbu Allamaraju
It may be nice building block for certain kinds of problems, but not as fundamental as TCP/IP. TCP/IP is like Oxygen for the Internet.
John Furrier
@rossrader said to me on my timeline:
"I’ve long said that blockchain is the first new piece of real internet infrastructure since http. Not quite true - things like WebRTC and much more - but this feels bigger somehow"
"I’ve long said that blockchain is the first new piece of real internet infrastructure since http. Not quite true - things like WebRTC and much more - but this feels bigger somehow"
John Furrier
@sallamar I don't think #blockchain is an abstraction ontop of the internet but part of the infra
Donald C. Klein
Still waiting to see broadly adopted use cases (beyond crypto) where distributed apps and shared ledger infrastructure trumps centralized app structures. But there are emerging signs: supply chain, media, gov records ...