A historical perspective on innovation and the “whitewashing” of the challenges, ridicule and resistance innovators face, from the perspective of bitcoin.
This talk was delivered on July 26th 2014 for the Detroit Maker Faire in Detroit, Michigan.
CORRECTION: At 7:11, I quote the mayor of Paris during the Paris World Fair in 1889, dismissing electricity. The problem is, Paris did not even have a mayor during this period! It is not clear who said this or if it was even said. It may have been said by the French prime minister Pierre Tirard, who attended the fair and was known for being a critic of the Eiffel Tower.
At 7:40, I quote an urban legend from IBM, but it was most likely a misunderstanding of what Thomas Watson said: http://freakonomics.com/2008/04/17/our-daily-bleg-did-ibm-really-see-a-world-market-for-about-five-computers/
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MASTERING BITCOIN, 2nd Edition: https://amzn.to/2xcdsY9
Translations of MASTERING BITCOIN: https://bitcoinbook.info/translations-of-mastering-bitcoin/
THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v1: https://amzn.to/2ykmXFs
THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v2: https://amzn.to/2IIG5BJ
Translations of THE INTERNET OF MONEY:
Spanish, ‘Internet del Dinero’ (v1) – https://amzn.to/2yoaTTq
French, ‘L’internet de l’argent’ (v1) – https://www.amazon.fr/Linternet-largent-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos/dp/2856083390
Russian, ‘Интернет денег’ (v1) – https://www.olbuss.ru/catalog/ekonomika-i-biznes/korporativnye-finansy-bankovskoe-delo/internet-deneg
Vietnamese, ‘Internet Của Tiền Tệ’ (v1) – https://alphabooks.vn/khi-tien-len-mang
MASTERING ETHEREUM (Q4): https://amzn.to/2xdxmlK
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