Comments on: The Digital World in 2030: What Place for Europe? by Richard Straub https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/the-digital-world-in-2030-what-place-for-europe-richard-straub/ Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:27:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 By: abhishek kumar https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/the-digital-world-in-2030-what-place-for-europe-richard-straub/#comment-30827 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:27:55 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=668#comment-30827 This article envisaged a great deals about things in digital domain that start taking shape in optimal level because of continuous innovations on digital technology.but , these developments start to pose serious challenges on innate characteristics of human, be in privacy front, communication front, social front and left vulnerable for various reasons. I,by no means, criticize the developments and innovations in digital field but feel it would be pioneer in next human digital civilization if all stakeholders strive hard to balance its various aspects.

]]> By: Alexander Hirner https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/the-digital-world-in-2030-what-place-for-europe-richard-straub/#comment-29818 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:51:46 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=668#comment-29818 Pragmatic and balanced outlook. I hear the calling for a new innovation driven renaissance for old Europe (and this encompasses institutions, demographics and thinking). People are starved from new opportunities. If incentives to achieve something in life, to have outstanding social status, to surpass others in certain fields are absent, the whole machinery of human development comes to a halt. You can still have that in China and other regions in the world, but even there, social mobility is already fainting.

Traditional R&D, statistics and economics based policy setting, national state democracy won’t suffice. In fact, they produce the exact outcomes we are struggling with. This is how I see the article of Richard. It conveys one scenario how we might escape the historically evident cycle of advanced civilization followed by its demise.

In this scenario, the (digitally) empowered entrepreneur has to overcome certain roadblocks. And this is exactly what I want to bring about. There is a new movement and tech based on distributed consensus and digitally assured contract execution. The most promising project herein is Ethereum (www.ethereum.org). It allows everyone to enter a contract of whatever kind and trust its execution with minimal fees. Hence, (a) helps the internet to become a lawful place, (b) sourcing of expert know-how from around the world is a breeze, (c) failure proven and extractive banking cartels are disintermediated. Knock-on effects on the civil society include an efficient implementation of so called web of trust, i.e. identities backed by reputation.

What we need are new contestable spaces of opportunity, a new wild west, a new industrial revolution. I invite everyone who wants to know more and help towards adoption of this low entry barrier paradigm to drop me a line. In certain aspects, it will be wildly fruitful to partner with policy makers. Eventually, first mover countries shall host the new Silicon Valley.

And to address the physical proximity aspect, several local meetups are arranged world wide. I’m heading the Vienna Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Ethereum-Vienna/).

]]> By: Mebs Loghdey https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/the-digital-world-in-2030-what-place-for-europe-richard-straub/#comment-29615 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:28:50 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=668#comment-29615 Great post Richard. It fits very well with the concept of polycentric leadership (socio-techno-eco) where leaders are able think at the right level of scale to develop hardware and software solutions with equal confidence. These leaders will need to be “emPowered by code, creativity and context” the triple helix of innovation – coincidently the title of a new book I am co-authoring.

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