{"product_id":"the-truth-machine-the-blockchain-and-the-future-of-everything-9781250304179","title":"The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViews differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future. --Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, Former Treasury Secretary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of \u003c\/i\u003eThe Age of Cryptocurrency\u003ci\u003e, comes the definitive work on the Internet's Next Big Thing: The Blockchain.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBig banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many of the \"legacy systems\" once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task. Yet there is a way past all this--a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize vast swaths of our economy: the blockchain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society's faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Casey and Vigna expose the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we've relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them. \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Machine\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift. With the same balanced perspective they brought to \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Cryptocurrency\u003c\/i\u003e, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes--moving humanity forward, not backward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250304179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648742420636,"sku":"9781250304179","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_cd058ccc-ca4e-4176-8687-c9b9c319b8c1.jpg?v=1603870905","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-truth-machine-the-blockchain-and-the-future-of-everything-9781250304179","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}