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The potential of blockchain

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Mike Schwartz |

TED@BCG Paris

• May 2016

"Every now and then, a truly stellar new technology emerges, and it always takes us to places we never imagined," says blockchain specialist Mike Schwartz. Like the combustion engine, the telephone and the Internet before it, blockchain promises to transform how human society functions. We're not there yet but if all goes as planned, blockchain may just underpin the first real revolution of the Information Age.

"Every now and then, a truly stellar new technology emerges, and it always takes us to places we never imagined," says blockchain specialist Mike Schwartz. Like the combustion engine, the telephone and the Internet before it, blockchain promises to transform how human society functions. We're not there yet but if all goes as planned, blockchain may just underpin the first real revolution of the Information Age.

About the speaker

Mike Schwartz

Mike Schwartz

Blockchain specialist

BCG's Mike Schwartz is a partner, managing director and global chairman of the Blockchain Technologies Lab at the Sydney office of BCG Digital Ventures, an investment and incubation firm dedicated to supporting some of the world’s most influential and innovative startups. Before starting at BCG in 2002, Schwartz founded Genos, an organization working to improve emotional intelligence assessments and development tools in workplaces.

About TED Institute

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