Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money That We Understand to Money That Understands Us (Perspectives)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1907994653 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Historical scholars, technologists, monetary economists and policy makers will all find something in here to hold their attention, to reshape their view of history or technology, finance or policy." From the foreword by Andrew Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England and member of the Monetary Policy Committee. "David Birch brings out in rich and lucid detail the full historical journey money has been undertaking and the technological revolutions it has encountered en route
He is a media commentator on electronic business issues (having appeared on BBC television and radio, Sky and other channels around the world) and has been named by WIRED magazine as one of their global top 15 favourite sources of business and finance information.. David G.W. Described by The Telegraph as ‘one of the world’s leading experts on digital mone
An easy guide to Money, Past, Present and Future. Having heard David speak at many Fintech conferences and spoken to him directly over coffee as well as an occasional beer, this book is like a conversation with Dave. Intriguing, a wee bit snarky, very engaging and completely enlightening. The best part is I always come away smarter. Dave adroitly weaves the history of money and some politics and human behavior with where it melds to our identity and delivers a future state that is both exciting and scary. The book moves quic. Gunnar Peterson said From there he distills the key themes around what makes them useful such as use as a medium of exchange. A signature of Dave Birch's work is his ability to trace the contours of the impact from new technologies inside of an historical context. In this book he does a deep dive of what drove financial innovation for a wide variety of cultures across the centuries. From there he distills the key themes around what makes them useful such as use as a medium of exchange, and/or as means of deferred payment. Then he uses this lens to analyze new financial technologies like Blockchain,
This time though, money will be smart. With the arrival of smart cards, mobile phones and Bitcoin it has become easier than ever to create new forms of money. The newest technologies will take money back to its origins: a substitute for memory, a record of mutual debt obligations within multiple overlapping communities. Technology has transformed money from physical objects to intangible information. Perhaps technology will take us back to the future, a future that began back in 1971, when money became a claim backed by reputation rather than by physical commodities of any kind. The author shows that these phenomena are not only possible in the future, but already upon us. Cruci